Suddenly we can't seem to get race out of the news. Congressman Paul Ryan's tour around America's
cities, trying to get a handle on America's persistent problems with poverty,
turns into a racial incident, as a member of the Congressional Black Caucus
calls remarks he made in a radio interview "a thinly veiled racial attack
that cannot be tolerated."
A simpleton law-breaking rancher in Nevada,
egged on by reporters, says stupid things about black Americans, and suddenly
he becomes a national figure with serious views about race. And then a sleazy billionaire octogenarian, owner of the Los Angeles Clippers
basketball team, with a long history of racially charged remarks, some of which
having resulted in lawsuits,
becomes front-page news when his equally sleazy young black Latina mistress
records a private spat between them in which he makes tasteless comments about
blacks that later is made public.
Isn’t race supposed to be behind us? Hasn’t America
elected, twice, a black man as its president?.....To Read More……
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