One of the most popular liberal reactions to the finding that George Zimmerman was not guilty is to posit the question of how the case would have been treated differently if Trayvon Martin were white.
The question always is answered by the author that the shooting of a white person by a...
There was a concerted effort at the start of this case to frame the shooting as the result of racial profiling, and to use that narrative to pressure prosecutors to file the case after the police had refused to charge Zimmerman finding his claim of self-defense plausible.
From...
The race issue in the George Zimmerman shooting of Trayvon Martin has been pushed early and often.
We’ve covered the false accusations that Zimmerman called Trayvon Martin a “coon” on the initi...
I don’t think we’ve ever invited Bob Shrum to the card game.
After reading this, you’ll probably wish I never had.
In mid-May Shrum wrote at The Daily Beast, The Obama Scandals Are Desperate Measures by the GOP (emphasis added):
Conservatives are back at it again because the GOP lacks any coherent program other than cutting...
I’ve been accumulating these links, but there has been so much race-card playing, I haven’t had time to post the videos below.
Given it’s a slow news holiday weekend, now seems as good a time as any to post them:
Chris Matthews — Only Whites can be racist:
Julian Bond — Okay for IRS to...
Chris Matthews loves to hate on the Tea Party and “right-wing” for supposed racism and other isms and phobias.
Matthews claims to be opposing hate but exposes his own hate by inventing a reality which exists mostly in his own mind.
His ability to see racism is legendary… in his own mind:
Which is...
No one cares about the skin color of the Boston Marathon Bombers except to push back against people like David Sirota of Salon.com who infamously hoped that a “white American” was responsible, and others in the media and left-blogosphere who were hoping that another Timothy McVeigh-looking person was the perp.
I’m sure the victims don’t care about...
A follow up to last night’s post, Salon.com ghoulishly race baits #BostonMarathon bombing with “white privilege” rant.
James Taranto observes,
The Privilege of Not Belonging
A theory of white racism against whites.
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Thus today’s insight:
To be white in America is to have the privilege of being able to define one’s political identity in...
The number of topics in which an attempt to have a discussion of opposing viewpoints is shut down by a fusillade of taunts of “bigot” seems to be multiplying.
On the gay marriage issue, the
Dr. Ben Carson has been called a “Political Mandingo” and Uncle Tom on the pages of Daily Kos and elsewhere, and Republicans’ “black friend” by Touré Neblett,
Now Ta-Nehisi Coates, who usually writes at The Atlantic, has a guest Op-Ed at The New York Times which perniciously speaks of Dr. Carson as wearing a...
The first ever Part II of a Saturday Night Card Game, following up on tonight’s Saturday Night Card Game.
I believe it’s become some sort of Syndrome.
This really is getting out of control.
Harriet and Charlotte write in WaPo, White men have much to discuss about mass shootings (emphasis added):
Imagine if...
Touré Neblett has built his career with the worst race card baiting, directed at conservatives and the Tea Party in general, and black conservatives in particular.
Now Touré is targeting Dr. Ben Carson.
It’s a shame that someone with the accomplishments of Dr. Carson even needs to respond to people like Touré. But...
Chuck Todd went a little overboard when he asked a series of questions at the Obama-Netanyahu press conference.
Worse yet, the questions were not softballs for Obama to hit out of the park:
He even caught flak from the big guy (no, not Chris Christie):
The mockery of Todd’s performance gave rise to the ...
His wisdom and qualifications are at the top of the list.
The fact that his nomination will reveal the vile underbelly of the Democratic Party race-card machine is an added bonus.
From Nolan Finley in The Detroit News, Detroit native Carson could break barriers in Senate race (emphasis added):
Dr. Ben Carson is a Black History month staple....
And now I rise to the defense of one Christopher James Christie:
George W. Bush nicknamed him “Big Boy.”
This dust-up is so stupid and pathetic it makes my head hurt.
You see, when you call a black man a “boy” it’s a racial pejorative. When you merely use the term “boy” as an...
The video below correctly was termed “cringe-worthy” by Noah Rothman at Mediaite.
The cringe-worthy part starts around the 2:30 mark when Melissa Harris-Perry asks the panel for their best race jokes. (An edited down version is at Newsbusters ...
