Tom Brokaw says, "Take this, rednecks."

So respected newsman Tom Brokaw is commenting on the Obama presidency - not sure if this was after the inauguration or when - this week, and he says this:

BROKAW: I just want to say one thing. Eh, having been in the South in the sixties and Los Angeles and Watts and northern urban areas, umm, uh, when we were evolving as a country. I'm thinking of all the bigots and the rednecks and all the people that I met along the way, and I'm saying to them, "Take this."

Interesting. "Take this, you rednecks and bigots". Is that what the election of Barack Obama was all about to Tom Brokaw? I thought it was about CHANGE and NO MORE and HOPE - not vengeance? First, Robert Reich tells President Obama that white, male construction workers should be left out of Obama's construction stimulus package and now Brokaw anoints himself the conscious of America?

That's reverse discrimination. It's wrong. Just as wrong as the way blacks were treated in the U.S. for hundreds of years. But one doesn't make the other right. That's like blaming all whites for the plight of the black man; it's the same as me getting mugged by a black man and me saying, "I hate all blacks." Isn't it? It is. Does anyone honestly believe that our president wants a stream of consciousness running through America that's akin to "this Presidency is the black man's vengeance on the white man?"

I hope not. For all our sakes.