Conversation on race

Do we really not need a national conversation on race, as Bill Kristol recommends?

Let´s not, and say we did? Since Obama hold his brillant speech last Tuesday, there have been countless assaults by people like Sean Hannity etc. on the candidate and that tells me something very different. Have Jerry Falwell or Pat Robertson ever put a Presidential candidate in that kind of trouble? And where have the stories about John Hagee been lately?