I am going to apologize in advance here because this is selfish rant. I lost a (black) friend who made this exact same point right after Stewart's show and it offended me then and still offends me know. I say it's selfish because, as the author points out, as a white male nobody cares if I am offended and I don't think they should. My feelings aren't really important here.

But, I don't think it is all helpful to refer to "White People" as if they are some monolithic group. In fact, I think you are doing your cause a huge disservice by doing so. I understand there is a point being made but there has to be a better way of getting it across.

edit: I linked above to an interview with Ta-Nehisi Coates, a writer I really like, but I still find some of this troubling. A quote:

I think in about five to 10 years the amount of sheer racism that Barack and Michelle and their children had to deal with will become evident. I think the fact that roughly half of a major political party believed he was either from Kenya or Muslim or needed to show his birth certificate will be seen as crazy. And not just crazy, but evidence of racism.

We think that now. The fact that he thinks people are going to need 10 years to realize that is odd to me. White people think this is crazy right now. It's been talked about frequently. I find it frustrating that he doesn't notice that.