Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, noted actor and occasional basketball player, has a blog for the LA Times. I found myself agreeing with him on his latest post on race and 2008:

Barack Obama is my choice for president. I’ve already explained why in previous blogs. But if Obama isn’t elected, it would be hard to blame racism. Republicans aren’t going to vote for him, not because he’s black, but because, even worse, he’s a Democrat.

And then reality hits…

But there are many obstacles this New Era will have to face. A sagging economy. War abroad. Faltering education.
And, worse of all, the movie Horton Hears a Who.
This isn’t a review of the movie, it’s a review of how Hollywood sometimes contributes to the divisiveness within the country. Ironically, Horton Hears a Who has done more damage to our society than the recent slate of politically motivated movies about the war in Iraq (Rendition, Stop-Loss, Lambs for Lions, Redacted, In the Valley of Elah, etc.) has done good. For one thing, more people saw Horton than saw all the other movies combined.

It’s too long to post the whole thing, but Kareem thinks the movie Horton is sexist and, in his own words:

Well, if our society is willing to tolerate any form of social injustice and discrimination toward any single group, then they have created a breeding ground for injustice throughout society. If we allow sexism, ageism, homophobia, religious intolerance, than racism can only flourish as well.