HERE’S YR SPARK: Ha ha ha, fuckin’ Politico: “In a report sure to spark a national conversation on race, an AP-Yahoo News study reported Saturday morning that white prejudice could be a significant enough factor to sunder Barack Obama’s bid to be the first black president of the United States.” Yeah yeah yeah, all white people hate all black people because of welfare, whatever. But we have been laughing for ten consecutive minutes at that opener: “In a report sure to spark a national conversation on race…” So awesome. Why is it that when you have a conversation about race, it has to be “national”? Is every citizen required to telephone a stranger from another state, just to talk about race? UPDATE: Oh man, we just now read the full original story, and this is an instant classic from Ron Fournier’s New Associated Press. Highlights below. MORE »