I’d also like to point out that what Blair doesn’t include is what Charles bolded in the original article:

Harris-Lacewell said such expressions of distrust toward whites will not hurt Obama in the Democratic presidential primaries, which are dominated by liberal voters.

“To win the Democratic nomination, he’s got to get a part of the progressive, anti-war, white folks,” she said. “And those white folks tend to be suspicious of any black person who wouldn’t be suspicious of white people.”

That quote hurts my brain, and I think ‘wow’ is a good response to it.