Elsewhere in the NR ummah today, Thomas Sowell’s column on Obama and Gates:

For “community organizers” as well, racial resentments are a stock in trade. President Obama’s background as a community organizer has received far too little attention, though it should have been a high-alert warning that this was no post-racial figure.
What does a community organizer do? What he does not do is organize a community. What he organizes are the resentments and paranoia within a community, directing those feelings against other communities, from whom either benefits or revenge are to be gotten, using whatever rhetoric or tactics will accomplish that purpose.

That’s a good point. As much as Reverend Sharpton or anybody else, “community organizing” is not about ending grievances, but about institutionalizing them in perpetuity.