Posted on 06/27/2013 10:56:59 AM PDT by Kaslin
Will the Left ever stop playing the race card?
Not in my lifetime, it won't.
The Obama Left in this country acts like we're still living in 1960, when racism was legally, socially and morally sanctioned across the South and elsewhere.
Here's a newsflash, folks. It's 2013. Racism is not extinct and never will be as long as human beings walk the Earth. But despite President Obama's constant efforts to persuade his low-information constituencies otherwise, examples of overt or institutionalized racism are harder to find in America today than a rotary pay phone or a Studebaker.
Of course, this reality doesn't matter a bit to the Obama Left. It still sees racism everywhere it looks -- and it looks for it everywhere.
Why? Because the left knows playing the race card is guaranteed to get them votes and saturated coverage from the friendly liberal media.
Sadly, dealing the race card works. It doesn't matter if the issue involves racist words uttered years ago by Food Network star Paula Deen or the latest U.S. Supreme Court decision.
Deen is the latest celebrity who's been slapped with the race card. The 66-year-old product of the Jim Crow South, whose food and restaurant empire reportedly made her $17 million in 2012, is taking a serious financial hit not for something racist she blurted on her TV show, and not for anything she had been secretly recorded saying in private.
Deen's been sacked by the Food Network and dumped by one of her biggest sponsors simply because she was honest and admitted in a deposition in a discrimination suit that she had used the N-word privately in her past.
The N-word was once heard in every corner of white America. We're a better country because it's so rarely heard today -- unless you listen to rap or watch bad Quentin Tarantino movies.
If merely ever speaking the N-word in your lifetime is cause for losing your job today, then kiss half of Congress and the news media goodbye.
Crying racism works -- President Obama knows this political truth like he knows the back nine at Andrews Air Force Base. He immediately slapped the race card down on the table Tuesday when he heard about the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to gut a key part of the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
The act was needed 48 years ago. That's when Democrats in Southern states were using dirty tactics to deny black citizens the vote and Congress decided the best way to prevent it was to make states get federal approval to change their voting laws.
But now the voting rights law is obsolete. Black voters are not being denied the vote because of their race, but that reality didn't enter into the president's cynical political calculus.
Before MSNBC's Obama echo chamber could decry the high court's 5-4 decision, he pronounced he was "deeply disappointed" and called on Congress to pass a new law to fix a problem that he knows no longer exists.
Please, BO, spare us the BS.
You were "deeply disappointed"? No you weren't. You were playing your racial card game. I challenge you to show us one instance in one state where the federal voting rights law is still needed.
You can't, Mr. President. So put your race card away. Put it back where it belongs -- at the bottom of your deck.
It’s not just the “n” word. How many people can say they never told a gay joke or a Polish joke or made a derogatory comment about Jews or Catholics or gays or Southerners or Chinese or any other group? Practically no one, and that includes most people in the media and most of the people who are demanding Paula Deen’s head on a platter (no pun intended).
Some animals are more equal than others.
(Oh, so now you’re calling black people ‘animals’, aren’t you Gator?)
You’ll be called “racist” if you even make a non-supportive observation of “black culture”,
even though it is the most destructive culture with the most negative outcomes of any prominent culture in America.
The shyster, BHO, deals from the bottom of the deck.
The race card is to the Left what guns are to Hollywood. They’d both be out of business without them. Hypocrisy rules!
The left wants a permanent, unhappy underclass that they can tap for votes. If the underclass becomes successful, they are no good for votes.
Keep telling them they are oppressed. Make them permanent victims of their own self-inflicted pathologies. Teach them to blame their failure on Whitey.
Absent the sarcasm tag, I must consider that a profoundly ignorant and inflammatory question.
Racism is alive and thriving. It finds its modern-day home the same place it has always been:
The democrat Party.
that would mean the race-baiting indutry would have to greatly downsize, as private groups,college profs, and the tawanas of the world, would be let go to pursue other opportunities.
there’s money in being racismists. and also being racists of color.
You are also called a racist if you didn’t vote for that arrogant pos occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Never mind that you never voted for a democrat, regardless of color and never will
Heck yeah racism is alive and well in the USA. Don’t you know there are neighborhoods where just being a certain ethnicity puts you at extreme risk of violence?
Evidently, “creepy ass cracker” isn’t racial. Not at all, just a term often used in the teenage black culture. I learned that from watching the Zimmerman trial today.
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