Race disgrace from the liberterrain...
"Donald Trump Fires Back at David Letterman for Calling Him a Racist" – Huffington Post headline, May 2, 2011.
Can we please stop playing the race card?
Yes, racism still exists in America, and it’s appropriate to call a racist a racist when he or she actually is one.
But this game of preemptively shutting down all political discussion by slapping the race card in someone’s face is getting both boring and embarrassing.
Calling someone a racist for merely disagreeing with something relating to Barrack Obama is lazy at best and just plain stupid at worst.
First, it’s blatantly inaccurate. Barack Obama is the son of a black father and a white mother. That means anyone slapping the race card on you for disagreeing with him is playing with half a deck. to be accurate, he would have to call you a "Half Racist," a charge that would show him up as the halfwit that he is.
Second, playing the race card is so Twentieth Century. Only doddering old political geezers like Jimmy Carter and Jesse Jackson and long-in-the-tooth sideline liberals like Letterman still play the race card.
They’ve been doing it so long they just don’t know any better.
It’s like your senile old grandfather calling you "hippy" or "toker."
We can forgive cranky old people and aging race-baiters with a shrug or a snicker or an eye roll and a politely muttered "Yeah, right" before getting on with our lives.
Contemporaries who still try to play the old worn out race game at embarrassingly inappropriate times should be firmly but gently chastised for their childish behavior.
All they’re really doing is just showing off their liberal creds to each other like birds puffing up their breast colors to attract attention.
When a libertarian points out that Obama is a statist and one of his worshippers responds by calling you "racist!" you should just smirk, shake your head in annoyance and say "Fail."
If he tries to respond say "Epic fail" and walk away.
Of course the poor race-player may be a politico-geek, unaware of the online meaning of the word, but then that’s pretty much the point. Don’t go all defensive over false accusations; let the Race Case go all defensive.
But be careful. "Fail" is rapidly becoming a cliché too.
"Fail" is so last Tuesday.
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