Adam Serwer and Jennifer Rubin are still arguing about the New Black Panther Party controversy. In the latest round, Serwer complains about "the feverish alternate universe of racial resentment in which some conservatives seem to reside": It's not just that they casually accuse the president and the attorney general of being "allies" with a black hate group, it's the implication that there was some political benefit to this relationship, as though the black community as a whole is somehow deeply moved by the NBPP's racial hatred, and the narrowing of the case represents a kind of quid pro quo. We're supposed to believe that without the racist rhetoric of the New Black Panther Party, black people would never have been motivated to go to the polls for Barack Obama?]]>