With tourists flooding into DC for next week's inauguration of Barack Obama, thousands of people are expected to skip out on work. Thousands of black people.

According to this amazing Associated Press piece, the nation's lazy, lazy black people seem to think the Inauguration is a holiday, for them. The idea of white people (or maybe Asians?) also skipping work to go to the Inaugural, or even to stay home and watch it on TV and get wasted, isn't mentioned. Here are just some random forehead-slapping excerpts:

• "People across the country may notice the absence of their black colleagues and classmates on Inauguration Day, as many who won't be traveling to Washington gather at homes, restaurants and churches, huddle around TVs and watch the historic swearing in from afar."