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The tired race card

“Just as white Southern Democrats once used cynical manipulations — poll taxes, grandfather clauses, literacy tests — to get around the 15th Amendment,” Reed writes, “so modern-day Republicans have deployed blacks to undermine black interests.”

That’s it exactly. Indeed, that’s what the Tea Party was always about: undermining black interests.

When Herman Cain — another inconveniently black man — was the overwhelming preference among Tea Party activists for the Republican presidential nomination, a historian writing in the New York Times suggested that Cain could be seen as proof the legacy of the Ku Klux Klan lives on.

You know you’ve been pounding a square peg into a round hole for too long when you find yourself insinuating that a black man from Georgia represents the KKK tradition in contemporary politics.

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I saw Stacy Dash, a black actress, who came out in support of Romney, getting trashed online yesterday. Someone actually accused her of being a race traitor.

Blake on December 21, 2012 at 1:24 PM

Disgusting

MoreLiberty on December 21, 2012 at 1:24 PM

Dems and the Race Card. That is some weapons grade stupid right there.

teacherman on December 21, 2012 at 1:24 PM

I have a dream, that one day, race-hustlers will be seen for what they are — self-interested racial demagogues, who prey on the ignorance, pain, and hatred of others to satisfy what they see as their own interests, but which in reality is a complete misunderstanding of what is good and valuable in life, the brotherhood of man, that all men are created equal.

Paul-Cincy on December 21, 2012 at 1:26 PM

It works because schools and the pop culture call conservative values racist and teach how oppressed minorities are. Also white liberals have guilt about living in their segregated communities.

Mormontheman on December 21, 2012 at 1:26 PM

Account overdrawn.

CurtZHP on December 21, 2012 at 1:28 PM

to undermine black interests

What are “black interests”? Aren’t they the same as everyone else?

darwin on December 21, 2012 at 1:29 PM

Moral inversion on steroids.

Ward Cleaver on December 21, 2012 at 1:30 PM

Newspeak and doublespeak have taken over political discourse and our kids are being dumbed down to the point where they can’t even discern truth from propaganda.

Fallon on December 21, 2012 at 1:32 PM

http://www.ocregister.com/opinion/racial-381179-black-obama.html

a capella on December 21, 2012 at 1:29 PM

Dialog from “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner” (1967) with Sidney Poitier:
Dad, you’re my father. I’m your son; I love you. I always have and I always will. But you think of yourself as a colored man. I think of myself… as a man.

45 years later, and we have an op ed like Reed’s.

Paul-Cincy on December 21, 2012 at 1:36 PM

The Klan has always been a Democrat creation.

John the Libertarian on December 21, 2012 at 1:37 PM

From Mr. Goldberg’s fine article:

Toward the end of the presidential campaign, various liberal pundits — a great many of them born after the signing of the Civil Rights Act — thought it a brilliant and damning indictment to note that Mitt Romney ran strong in states that once constituted the Confederacy. When Barack Obama won, Jon Stewart conceded that at least Romney won “most of the Confederacy.”

You know what’s funny about that? We’ve had nine presidential elections since 1980, and Obama did better in the Confederacy in his two runs than five of the six other Democratic nominees. Obama carried three southern states in ’08 (FL, NC, VA) and two in ’12 (FL and VA). Contrast that with the other guys. Carter in 1980 lost all the South except his home state. Mondale, Dukakis, Kerry, and Gore were totally shut out in the South. Only Clinton did marginally better than Obama in Dixie, winning four states both his elections. But instead of dwelling on Obama doing far better in the South than Carter or Gore–two white guys from south of the Mason-Dixon Line–the Dems and the press dwell on what Obama DIDN’T achieve in the South. No, he wouldn’t be President if only the southern states could vote. But if only southern states could vote, we’d have had a GOP chief executive elected every year since 1976.

radjah shelduck on December 21, 2012 at 1:43 PM

http://www.ocregister.com/opinion/racial-381179-black-obama.html

a capella on December 21, 2012 at 1:29 PM

From the article:

The president himself urged Latinos to “punish our enemies.” He weighed in unnecessarily during the Henry Louis Gates and Trayvon Martin affairs in ways that only added to the racial tensions.

People are just people. But they can turn into veritable monsters when — as a great American once warned — they look to the color of our skin rather than the content of our character.

Thank you, VDH, for saying it.

Paul-Cincy on December 21, 2012 at 1:44 PM