The cluelessness of white people

I sometimes listen to the Dan Patrick Show podcast, and generally like it alright as those things go, but man should they steer clear of talking about race. Because they fuck it up.

For example, today he and his buddies were talking about the Michael Jackson tribute or whatever it as that was on TV yesterday and they decided to take issue with Magic Johnson thanking Michael Jackson for "all the doors he had opened."

DP and the crew just didn't get it. Was Magic somehow positing that Michael Jackson's world wide fame made it possible for an African American to sell jerseys overseas? What could be the connection? They were flummoxed.

Here's a clue. Michael Jackson was the first African American artist whose videos were allowed on MTV. Billie Jean was the first one, and his record label had to threaten to pull videos from its white artists in order to get MTV to rescind the all white policy that it had followed during its first two years of existence.

Adding: For the record, I'm a cracker. I apologize to my white brothers and sisters for my lack of cluelessness on this point, and understand that us white folk should only talk about race when we have an opportunity to point out how much it doesn't matter.