Same Old, Same Old

Sylvester Brown, Jr., a longtime African-American columnist for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, is underwhelmed by Claire McCaskill's protestations of support for the black community.

In the end, the conversation about race and politics went as I expected. She sounded sincere, but I didn't hear anything that made me too hopeful about political and economic progress for local blacks.

Well, she'll always have New Orleans.