I don’t know Oakland Tribune columnist Tammerlin Drummond and, frankly, had never heard of her before stumbling onto her writing on the Romenesko site at Poynter Online.
However, her piece in last Wednesday’s paper is one of the most cogent and spot-on pieces on the gulf between how blacks and whites are seen in this country, and why the election of the first black president will only further discussion about racism and discrimination, not end it.
There’s nothing to be gained from beating up on Bristol Palin and Levi Johnston. They deserve to live their lives and raise their baby outside the prying eyes of the public. But their story shines an important light on the attitudes of many Americans on the smaller issue of teen pregnancies and the broader concept of how people of different ethnicities live.
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