This is the latest in a series on the use of the race card for political gain:
There is a curious argument used to paint the Tea Party movement and conservatives as racist.
The argument goes that since slave owners and segregationists invoked states rights, and since the Tea Party movement and conservatives invoke states rights, therefore the Tea Party movement and conservatives are racist.
Of course, there is no logic to this construct. Just because one use of the 10th Amendment was for racist purposes does not mean that all other invocations of the 10th Amendment are racist. Unless of course the 10th Amendment and our federalist structure itself is racist.
Nonetheless, it is a theme the Jesse Jacksons of the world push day in and day out in order to play the race card in favor of Democrats, in this case having a crowd repeat “big government is us by another name.”
Jackson repeated the theme days ago at an event honoring the civil rights movement:
Jesse Jackson said Thursday that the Tea Party’s tenets are reminiscent of state’s rights philosophies used in decades past to oppose federally mandated integration.”The Tea Party is not new,” Jackson said at a luncheon honoring civil rights pioneers on Thursday. “It’s just a new name for an old game.”
It never seems to grow old, although Jackson’s political influence has. He’s become a caricature of himself, as the world has passed him by. But he hasn’t given up. He’s keeping his race card hopes alive.
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