By Rick Moran November 4, 2018
Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue is in trouble for uttering a "racist" colloquialism. Or maybe he didn't say anything wrong. Or maybe, his political oppopents decided that saying the Florida governor's race is so "cottonpickin' important" constitutes an egregious breach of racial etiquette, for which he should be cast into the outer darkness.
Poor Sonny. He's fallen victim to "racism creep" - the modern day phenomenon where the definition of "racism" bobs and weaves like Muhammed Ali, eventually ensnaring anyone that the racialists believe deserves to be laid low in the public mind.
Oooh. Is that "racist" to mention the greatest heavyweight boxer in history who happens to be black?? So sorry...............
For 8 years under America's first black president, the terms "racist" and "racism" lost their enormous power to shame, to injure, to humiliate by sheer overuse. What used to be words intended to shock morphed into just another line of political attack. Applying the epithet "racist" to someone whose only transgression was disagreeing with a black president had the unintended effect of inuring the American people to the power of the word itself.................To Read More
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