Is he just trolling me? Maybe i shouldn't provide a link:

Today's GOP is not racist, as Harry Belafonte alleged about the tea party, but it is deeply troubled -- about the expansion of government, about immigration, about secularism, about the mainstreaming of what used to be the avant-garde. People with conventional views must repress a gag reflex when considering the mayor-elect of New York -- a white man married to a black woman and with two biracial children. (Should I mention that Bill de Blasio's wife, Chirlane McCray, used to be a lesbian?) This family represents the cultural changes that have enveloped parts -- but not all -- of America. To cultural conservatives, this doesn't look like their country at all.

Here's a tip: when you have to "repress a gag reflex" when looking at a biracial couple, that's not "conventional". I think "racist" covers that pretty well. Also? John Cage was avant-garde; being married to someone outside your ethnicity in 2013 is not.

Please note this post is about Richard Cohen. I have no idea if Iowa primary voters actually are repressing any gag reflexes about de Blasio. I'm not even really sure what the heck de Blasio has to do with an article comparing Chris Christie with Ted Cruz. And i guess to 72 year old Richard Cohen, a lot of things seem avant-garde. Like the internet, which might have told him that the things he learned in school about slavery 60 years ago might not have been entirely accurate. And this isn't really even about Richard Cohen per se, it's about why the Washington Post continues to allow him to be their prominent "liberal" columnist.

Although i guess in the age of the internet, him being in that prominent position wouldn't be all that important if i would stop letting him troll me.

Taking this back to comics, I was surprised to see in articles commenting on this that the majority of people didn't approve of interracial marriage until the '90's. It puts some perspective on the Vision and Scarlet Witch as a metaphor for interracial marriage, even in the '80's.
(P.S. You said that you thought the issue of interracial marriage in Englehart's Captain Marvel issues seemed outdated. Do you feel the same way now?)

Good points, Michael. But yeah, i still stand by what i wrote on the Captain Marvel entry; i just think Richard Cohen is outdated too. ;-)