Via Will Bunch at Attytood, something David Gergen said last night that Hillary should be saying:

GERGEN: And it also raises the question in my judgment of whether she shouldn’t say, you know, if you want to vote against him because he’s black, I don’t want your vote. I don’t want to win that way. This has no place in this primary.

COOPER: Do you see her saying that?

GERGEN: Well, she has been a champion — she’s been a champion of civil rights for a long, long time. She and her husband both have I think well-earned reputations in the civil rights front. She’s never had redneck votes before in her life.

I see no reason why she couldn’t take the high road here in the closing days of his campaign and try to take this on and take on the Reverend Wright issue to say, “Look, I campaigned with this fellow for 15 months. I know a lot of you people don’t think he shares your values that somehow Barack thinks like Reverend Wright. Not true. I know him. I have been with him. And race should come out of this.”

I think she could do a lot by taking a high road.

Absolutely, and it would be of immense benefit for her to do so (and not just for her own legacy, as Bunch suggests).

The Democratic Party under Obama is a post-racial party - or needs to be. In other words, if there are going to be those who vote against a candidate specifically because he or she is black - let them vote Republican. Let there be no place, no place at all, in the Democratic Party for this.

Hillary should say, very explicitly, that the Democratic Party is absolutely predicated upon a belief that it’s all about the content of a person’s character, not the color of his skin. I don’t suspect for a moment that you can erase racism in this country, but the Democratic Party should be committed to that ideal - and so should its major candidates.