Video: Sharpton disappointed in Jackson, makes same basic point as Hasselbeck

From yesterday’s Early Show, a few hours before Whoopi concluded that asking for a pan-racial moratorium on the N-bomb was evidence of white insensitivity towards blacks. Skip ahead to halfway through to find Sharpton making the same argument as Hasselbeck, albeit towards a different goal. She wants cultural common ground, he wants clean hands when challenging white racism. Hence the mistake in Elisabeth’s approach with Goldberg. She’s trying to relate to her in integrationist terms instead of via the currency of identity politics. My advice? Invite Sharpton on the show and have him pitch Whoopi on the idea that eschewing the N-word is now a hallmark of “authenticity.” I bet she’ll drop it post haste.