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So by now, you have almost certainly heard or read about the biggest political controversy of the week. The spark? Twenty-five words uttered by former President Jimmy Carter during a broad interview with NBC's Brian Williams: "I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man."

Oh boy.

How could a retired politician, wondered many commentators, be — well, so impolitic — in expressing deep concern about the character of the most vocal, the most vitriolic critics of the first person of color to lead the White House? To many others, like myself, Carter was largely stating the disturbingly obvious.

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