Another Race Speech?

Juan Williams thinks Obama should make another race speech. I have a certain amount of respect for Juan Williams. I saw him wipe the floor with Lani Guinier at a debate at Yale Law School about reparations for slavery. I admire what he's done to popularize the story of the civil rights movement. And he's certainly entitled to his opinion about race relations in America.

But what Williams is doing here is projecting his own views about race onto someone else simply because the someone else happens to be the most prominent African-American in the world (except Kobe Bryant and Michael Jackson, but you know what I mean...) This has nothing remotely to do with Obama's political best interest, or Reverend Wright, or the election; it is a pathetic plea for Obama to intervene in the public debate over race relations and award 'victory' to Williams and Bill Cosby, as if it were a cabinet appointment or something. Williams is like a petty and manipulative child who is always asking adults to sort out his problems for him.

On the one hand, what's wrong with asking? On the other hand, this is truly pathetic.