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Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 27, 2011 27 Comments

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...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 20, 2011 27 Comments

This is the latest in a series on the use of the race card for political gain: A couple of weeks before the 2008 election, in one of my first blog posts, I wrote: The suppression of legitimate political expression through false accusations of racism by the Obama...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 06, 2011 28 Comments

This is the latest in a series on the use of the race card for political gain: It never ends. The attempt to turn disagreement with the policies of the Obama administration into a racial issue. In the past weeks, as there was a dispute over raising the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 30, 2011 31 Comments

This is the latest in a serieson the use of the race card for political gain: Democrats in South Carolina are angry (h/t Instapundit) that Gov. Nikki Haley checked the box "white" on a voter registration card a decade ago: The South Carolina Democratic Party tried Thursday...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 15, 2011 20 Comments

We've seen how concern over saggy pants has become an alleged dog-whistle, or something, for racism, or something, in airport security. Now the town of Collinsville, Illinois, has taken it a step further, and is outlawing saggy-pants (h/t reader Mitch): The City Council in the southwestern Illinois...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 05, 2011 39 Comments

Democrats must be in trouble if The Daily Beast is running a headline White Supremacist Stampede, with this opening line: Add to the growing list of candidates considering a bid for the GOP presidential nomination in 2012 America’s most famous white-power advocate: David Duke. Ah yes, the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 29, 2011 5 Comments

.... " I like to say that for the black community, nothing will change until we learn to love our children more than we love the Democratic party.” Some thoughts from the speaker here, and others here and here....

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 08, 2011 12 Comments

This does not fit the narrative, so we heard very little from the national media about anti-Black racism among Mexican gangs until this federal indictment was unveiled (h/t @GabrielMalor):A Latino gang conspired to rid a Southern California city of its black residents through intimidation, threats...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 04, 2011 10 Comments

This is the latest in a series on the use of the race card for political gain:This week we bring together two distinct concepts.  Chris Matthews and Naomi Campbell.Chris Matthews has been featured here before for his prowess in playing the race card.This week Matthews...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 30, 2011 7 Comments

I previously posted about the lawsuit by Widener Law School Professor Lawrence Connell.  Widener is seeking to terminate Connell after Connell used a hypothetical example in his criminal law class of the Widener Dean being attacked, and a small number of students alleged that Connell made racist...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 28, 2011 7 Comments

This is the latest in a series on the use of the race card for political gain:Think Progress  is reeling from being punked by the Navy Seal Anchor Baby hoax.  But Think Progress needs to earn its keep, so it soldiers on.Think Progress continues its the never-ending quest...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 21, 2011 12 Comments

This is the latest in a series on the use of the race card for political gain:I previously wrote about accusations by Princeton Professor Cornel West that Obama was racist. Against blacks.Now West lays into Obama again.  It speaks for itself, and is causing all...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 17, 2011 12 Comments

Cythia Tucker once accused Michael Steele, then Chair of the Republican National Committee, of being an "affirmative action hire gone bad," and almost no one from civil rights organizations, liberal social justice groups, or the "left" objected.  Because Cynthia Tucker was a prominent liberal columnist who is black,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 14, 2011 10 Comments

This is the latest in a series on the use of the race card for political gain:You owe me.No really, you do.  I had not realized how much you owed me until I saw this call for solidarity among minorities.What's my claim to minority status?...

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