CNN reduces potential Senate appointee to "black woman."

Glenn Greenwald calls CNN out on their subtle racism.

CNN.com has an article today reporting that newly elected New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine is considering appointing State Sen. Nia Gill to fill the U.S. Senate seat which
Corzine vacated when he ran for Governor. The only thing CNN seems interested in
with this story is the fact that Gill is a black woman.

Beginning with the fact that the headline of the article is identical to the headline which the Ku Klux Klan would use when alerting its membership to this story -- "Black Woman May be Appointed to Senate" -- the article seems strangely obsessed with stripping Gill of all of her attributes other than her race (and, to a lesser extent, her gender).