The problem is you can't have an honest discussion of race in this country because of kneejerking liberal panderers and race hustlers.
Every time there's a conflict between a white person and a person of any other race it's always "racism".
Want to talk about the current sociological problems of the black family? You're a racist.
Dislike the policies of the current President? You're a racist.
Advocate for welfare reform? You're a racist.
Demand stricter controls on immigration? You're a racist.
Tougher criminal laws? Racist.
Stopping reverse discrimination? Racist
Voter I.D.s? Racist.
Racist.
Racist.
Racist.
People can't even talk about problems within their own race. Look at how a Bill Cosby or Jesse Lee Peterson is treated by the smarmy white Easter Corridor liberals when they dare step off the plantation long enough to demand some introspection on the part of American blacks regarding their problems. They're "Oreos", "Steppin Fetchits", "Uncle Toms", "self-loathing", or "sold out to the white power structure". Carnival sideshow barkers with megaphones like Al Sharpton or Cynthia McKinney, however, are granted oracle status. This brought to us, of course, by the group who always knows what our "best interests are". What's it called again, when one expects all persons of a particular race to think and speak and act in the same way?
The dogeared racism card has been played so frequently that the word barely carries any meaning anymore. It's the liberals' way of shouting down someone against whom they have no other valid argument. No one wants to be thought of as racist, so liberals hope the epithet will have a chilling effect on their opponents' speech. That or get them tangled up in a defense of themselves to the point that the original argument has been bypassed.
Liberals have also done a disservice to minorities through overuse of the word because it has desensitized Americans to real and valid claims of racism. Like The Boy Who Cried Wolf, they have made so many false accusations of racism that real ones are looked upon with more suspicion than what they may deserve, or discarded altogether as just more Leftist blathering.
And Cali_Democrat, "Billy Bob who drives a pickup and sports a Confederate flag" is probably ten times more likely to stop and help an elderly black woman broken down on the side of a road, or throw some money in the hat when his black co-worker's house burns, or charge headlong over to his black neighbor's house responding to yells of distress, than all you Prius-driving, Save-The-Whales-sticker-sporting, Leftist-blog-pontificating assholes at DU put together. You talk a good game, but you are racist to the core.
