Liberal Blacks Who Don't Love Obama Suffer from 'Tavis Smiley Syndrome

April 25th, 2010 7:31 AM
Ardent black Obama supporters don't like PBS talk show host Tavis Smiley's argument that Obama is failing to provide enough government support for blacks "catching hell" (try Washington Post editorial writer Jonathan Capehart). On Saturday, a Post book review by Kim McLarin of the new Obama-campaign novel by Pearl Cleage takes the Smiley-hate into fiction: She even (I think) coins a term that I…