Reply #8: There is no such thing as a race card that can be played to the advantage of minorities

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The very notion that blacks have some magical "race card" that they can play to give themselves an advantage in an election is a false notion, and it is a false notion that is rooted in racist stereotypes. The fact is that black candidates have always had a disadvantage in national electoral politics, if there really were a race card we would have already seen many black Presidents and our house, senate, governors, and state houses would be filled with blacks. But instead politics is still dominated by whites, apparently the existence of this "race card" is a lie.

But racists in this society love to talk about the race card. They love to talk about blacks using the race card, while they cheer on people like Geraldine Ferraro who claim that Obama got where he is only because he is black. They cheer on people like Hillary Clinton who tries to tie Obama to Louis Farrakahn. They cheer on on people who attack black churches, and claim those black churches are racist against whites. They cheer people who pass photos of Obama dressed in traditional African garb, and in doing so try to spread the notion that someone who respects African traditions does not belong in the White House. And yet the people who engage in these types of attacks are never accused of playing the race card, they are more than willing to accuse a black person who points out the real racism that exists in our society of playing the race card, but when the campaign of a white candidate stokes racial fears they don't get the same charges of playing the race card.

Let's face the very term "race card" is racist terminology that is used almost exclusively against blacks. There is no race card, and there sure as hell is no race memo.