Race-Card Fraud

Race-Card Fraud
                            There is not  now, nor has there ever been, anything post-racial about Barack  Obama.

Credit-card fraud is a serious  problem. But race-card fraud is an  even bigger problem.    

Playing the race card takes many forms.  Judge Charles Pickering, a  federal judge in Mississippi who defended the  civil rights of blacks for years and defied the Ku  Klux Klan back when  that was dangerous, was depicted as a racist when  he was nominated for a  federal appellate judgeship.

No one even mistakenly thought he  was a racist. The point was simply  to discredit him for political  reasons — and it worked.

This year’s target is the Tea Party.  When  leading Democrats, led by a smirking Nancy Pelosi, made their   triumphant walk on Capitol Hill to celebrate their passage of a bill in   defiance of public opinion, Tea Party members on the scene proteste

All  this was captured on camera and the scene was played on  television.  What was not captured on any of the cameras and other recording devices  on the scene was  anybody using racist language, as has been charged by  those playing the  race card.

When you realize how many media  people were there, and how many  ordinary citizens carry around recording  devices of one sort or  another, it is remarkable — indeed,  unbelievable — that racist remarks  were made and yet were not captured  by anybody.

The latest attack on the Tea Party movement, by Ben  Jealous of the  NAACP, has once again played the race card. Like the  proverbial lawyer  who knows his case is weak, he shouts louder.

This  is not the first time that an organization with an honorable  and  historic mission has eventually degenerated into a tawdry racket.  But  that an organization like the NAACP, after years of fighting  against  genuine racism, should now be playing the game of race-card  fraud is  especially painful to see.