The constant attacks on Rev Wright showed media racism.  The whole long debate early on about whether Obama was black enough showed racism.  The talk about whether Obama was ready to be president (when he spent more time in elected office than Hillary, when he was president of the Harvard Law Review) showed racism. The white male journalists are always going to be tougher on a black man than a white woman, because these men are married to white women, their mothers, daughters and sisters are white women. They love white women.