Much is being made over the “changing face” of the Sunday morning political talk shows. As in more faces of color. As in meaningful, mainstream diversity.
Indeed, it’s encouraging to see black visages that belong to someone other than Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and Cornel West. Voices, such as those belonging to Gwen Ifill, Juan Williams and Bill Cosby, that are representative of something other than the African American grievance crowd. And it could get better yet. Think Thomas Sowell, Jesse Lee Peterson and, what the hell, Tampa Bay’s own Joe Brown and Bill Maxwell.