The Cosby Doctrine and the Eugene Genovese Effect

Matthew Yglesias suggests (like I been sayin') that if the Right wants to embrace black conservatism's conclusions (self-sufficiency for the black community, benign neglect on the part of whites), it really ought to grant its most important premise, that in spite of all of our best efforts America remains "a fundamentally racist society" in subtle but pervasive ways — exactly the kind of upside-down Eugene Genovese Effect that I can get behind.