That is so 90's.
An amusing crack, but actually the hard core Left began playing the race card in a major way by the late 1920s, when they found out that the idea of a Proletarian revolution was simply not going to fly in most of the advanced countries. "Race" became their more effective metaphor for the egalitarian class-warfare that went back to the French Revolution.
What is sad about this gesture against the monster Marxist, Mugabe, is that Bush apparently justified it in part on the basis that he is endangering "Democracy." In point of fact, Mugabe is a product of "Democracy." He is an excellent example of how "Democracy" actually works in multi ethnic Third World States. It almost always ends very ugly, very fast. (See Democracy In The Third World.)
The United States and Britain finally strangled what was once the Rhodesian bastion of civilization; and bear moral responsibility for what is now in place. That needs to be noted, before the same misguided policy is applied again.
William Flax