Race Card Fraud
by Thomas Sowell
There is not now, nor has there ever been, anything post-racial about Barack Obama. When he leaves office, he will leave this country more racially polarized than ever before
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, celebrating their passage of a bill in defiance of public opinion, Tea Party members on the scene protested.
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Thomas Sowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institute and author of “The Housing Boom and Bust.”