Taking the {Race} Bait

The closer we get to the election, the more desperate the Dems become. And desperate times deserve desperate measures. They're already preparing conspiracy stories about why they will be victims on election day. 

So, they pulled out an old standard--the race card they hold in their back pockets for just such a moment of desperation. We're hearing it from all directions, sometimes subtle, sometimes not.

We've all seen Joe Biden telling a predominantly black audience (in a faux Southern dialect) that Romney and Ryan were "gonna put y'all back in chains!"

And Michelle Obama cites the Emancipation Proclamation in a plea to blacks. The implication being exactly the same as the Biden statement--that if you don't vote for our candidate, you black folks will lose your constitutional rights.

Then there's Joseph Lowry takes it up a notch at a rally in Augusta, GA:

“If Obama was white, there would be no question on who was going to win,” Lowery said.

Let's be clear: slavery was awful. We're all glad that it's no longer part of our lives. And involuntary segregation was awful too. No one's suggesting that we return to either. I personally find any implication that such is the intent offensive.

So, why does it keep happening? Because, as my friends have heard me say ad nauseum: behavior that gets rewarded, gets repeated. Liberal leaders cast the bait, and they snag their audiences, hook, line and sinker. They know that regardless of how illogical it is or how intelligent the audience, it's hard not to get emotional about the topics of slavery and segregation.

Just as union leaders must encourage tension between labor and management, civil rights leaders must maintain racial tension to justify their existence. I can't remember the last time I heard a conservative encourage racial division. Think about it.

But from the left, it's a tried and true strategy. If all else fails, cry racism. No one will argue, because if they do, they're just proving that they're racist, right? With political correctness run amuck, you can't fight it, right?

Come on, people. Just as women should be smarter than to get sucked in by silly binders comments, surely you understand that people really don't like Obama's policies...just like they didn't like Jimmy Carter's policies. 

It's not the color of his skin; it's the content--or lack thereof--of his character.