“That’s right,” writes the Con Man, “Skip Gates and Spike Lee are white, at least in part, and they never even knew it. Their minds are blown by the news: you can see the shock on their faces. Is that a game-changer for them? Well, maybe. In “Ending the Slavery Blame-Game,” an op-ed piece just penned for The New York Times, Gates calls upon Obama to re-frame the reparations debate with the acknowledgment of African complicity in the slave trade. The President can do so, according to the Harvard professor and TV host, ‘thanks to an unlikely confluence of history and genetics.’ Would Gates have made such a claim before his genetic awakening? Maybe. But now we can’t help read his piece on slavery without seeing him as both a European writing about Africa and an African-American writing about Europe. Blaming blacks for slavery? From the evidence, his mind got blown and he will never look at the world the same way again.”