By putting out a speech which requires nuance, which requires focus, which requires a couple of readings, which requires conversations at the dinner table, he stepped out of the news cycle and the sound bite sortof tenure of our election, to say something very brave, which is that we need a national conversation about race in this country.
Snow says race and ethnic issues are topics many candidates avoid as asortof political third rail, but particularly in New Hampshire, where commentators and analysts often talk about how the state is overwhelmingly white.