Does the race card work? There can be no doubt that it is played an awful lot these days. In fact, in the age of the Obama, one could be forgiven for thinking that the left had discarded every other card in their deck.
But is it effective in its aim to cow those critical of a socialist policy that vacillates almost daily between comically inept and extremely dangerous?
Once, certainly, the charge of racist was something to be feared. And those so accused knew they were for the pyre -- even as they frantically pleaded their innocence before self-appointed witchfinders general.
But now? Just think of the reaction the last time a liberal talking head played the card. Was there fear? Or, instead, outright derision?
And do not make the mistake of thinking that such a response is the province of only the conservative commentariat. Such sentiment is widely shared amongst everyday people, a significant percentage of whom voted for Obama the first time around.
Racism is about many things, but it isn’t about race. To understand the uses of race in American liberalism requires understanding its place in the political culture. When American liberals speak of race, they aren’t speaking in the genetic sense; what they are doing is clumsily piggybacking class onto race and adding one dubious construct to another.
The placement of racial politics at the center of liberal advocacy coincided with a growing national prosperity that seemed to be on the way to making class warfare of the old kind irrelevant. Previous liberal civil rights activity had been a subset of class, but class now became a subset of race. And both were a means of liberal self-definition as the people concerned with the plight of the downtrodden.
Class warfare was not really about the poor, it was about using a permanent social problem as a means of recreating the social order and gaining permanent political power. Race is just class dressed up in the same old class warfare clothes so that there is nearly no distinction between the two. Reformers gain power by attacking the failures of the system and positioning a social problem as an open sore that must be healed. But it isn’t healing that they have in mind.
It time to start laughing at what Democrats say and walk on by them. They are just repeating the same old song and dance. They can’t even come up with new material.
Reverend Al Sharpton doesn’t preach Jesus. He preaches how to be a race card abuser.
You have to wonder about these race card abuser. Representative Donna Edwards is one of them.
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When are they going to take Attorney General Eric Holder Race Card away from him. He is abusing his privilege. Plus he did it on MLK day. Shame on him.
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Do you ever wonder how these race card abusers can live with themselves? Jesse Jackson is a Reverend and pulls the race card falsely at times. It really makes one wonder.
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Michael Moore is a race card abuser. Video explains why. You would think with the millions this man has he would at least be making the minimum payment required on the card. Yet he hasn’t.
NAACP president Benjamin Todd Jealous
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Public Enemy #1 is the media according to Wild Bill
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NOTE: Has anyone called Washington Post “race” card company? The Washington Post is becoming an abuser of the race card.
1) Issa needs not just impeach this dude for “Operation Fast And Furious” but take away his race card. Eric Holder is overdrawn on his race card.
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USAG Eric Holder Reminds ‘Nation of Cowards’ of Their Flaws
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2) This is the same Governor that said congressional elections should be suspended until legislators decide on a long-term budget and deficit plan. Now it appears that Governor Perdue and her staff have some secret insider-trading of government data and has attempted to manipulate for political advantage.
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NC Gov. Perdue’s staffers create data-sharing scandal