Bobby Jindal and Racial Stereotypes
Boosters of Bobby Jindal's presidential prospects have suggested to me--correctly, I think--that his racial background could be less of a hurdle for white voters than Barack Obama's was because, as a South Asian American, Jindal would be perceived as a "model minority." Where racially nervous whites might look at Obama and think of some scary African American they saw on "The Wire," they'd look at Jindal and think of that nice young internist who took care ... Full Story »
Posted by Kristin Gorski
Bill Bradley was an unexciting speaker. Bobby Jindal came across as a lost ditto-head. Projecting him into a distant future race for president ignores the 40 years it might take him to grow into the job.