wait, what? melissa harris-lacewell-perry is a great black public intellectual?

what the fuck?  if this dipshit is right, then we are all beyond fucked, the white, the black, the brown and the blue people, too.  what makes her a great public intellectual?  because she is on msnbc fluffing obama's failures?  because she teaches at one of our numerous expensive and non-selective private universities?  because she's an african-american woman?  what's next, imani gandy is going to be hailed as the finest political mind of the 21st century?  sweet jesus mother fucking christ, can't we do better than this bullshit?  we're doomed.