It's not surprising that you wouldn't see that side of me on television, but in real life I find the world to be quite a funny place.

Did I say that the President's entire job is image management? Of course not.

Aspiring black leaders are often asked to transcend race, even though no one ever asked, say, Hillary Clinton to transcend gender. This is a precarious race straddle that most members of the breakthrough generation seem to reject. Even the most well meaning white Obama supporters seem to take deep satisfaction in this idea. Obama, they insisted, could be raceless, a reasurringly optimistic view of America's deepest burden that ignores countless peices of evidence to the contrary.

Don't count out other amazing programming like Frontline. You will still find more hours of in-depth news programming, investigative journalism and analysis on PBS than on any other outlet.

If you take the conflicts we are used to dealing with, race over the years in America, and you combine that with the desire or aspiration to political power or taking power from other people, which is what politics is all about, you end up with a lot more friction than you would normally see with just straight-ahead politics.

I'm not in love. I'm not out of love. I'm just trying to find some version of the truth.

Discrimination at any level sends a harmful message to youth, gay or straight alike, and that discrimination has no place in Scouting.