Am I really the first person to link to this story in the Corner? CBS’ Survivor to segregate contestants by race. Here’s a prediction: the first time a white contestant makes a statement of racial pride that isn’t couched in an ironic white-men-can’t-jump tone will be villified and CBS will laugh all the way to the bank.

Update: From a reader:
A note about this “Survivor” story: It’s obvious that the majority of people commenting on it haven’t watched the show recently, if at all (not that that’s necessarily a flaw).Lest year’s big “twist” was to divide the group into four tribes (by age and gender), rather than the standard two that had been the case since the beginning of the show. Guess how long the four tribes lasted. That’s right, all the way into the second episode before they reshuffled them back to the traditional two.The same will happen here. But hey, they’ll have been talked about for the first time in however-many seasons, and that premiere may not win the night, but it’ll slaughter last season’s numbers.

Me: I plead guilty. I haven’t watched in a couple years. But this only reinforces my view that this is a grand metaphor about…something.