Today on Uncommon Knowledge, the fifth and final segment of my interview with Shelby Steele, author of A Bound Man: Why We Are Excited About Obama and Why He Can’t Win.

The Barack Obama phenomenon is about white America. It’s not about Barack Obama and it’s not about black America. There is this need, this driving hunger, to somehow get this race thing resolved, to redeem the country, to get beyond it. That’s [the] phenomenon.