Right Wing Plays Race Card

Oh boy!

This morning's headlines are full of the NAACP resolution opposing the Tea Party. "Obama plays Race Card" says one headline. FOX and the right wing "foaming at the mouth" club are having a field day

But wait!

Obama had nothing to do with the NAACP resolution, not a thing, nada! Obama is President of the United States, not the NAACP. Maybe the linkage of the resolution to Obama is because Obama is a black man. This would really beg the question of exactly who is playing the race card?

On the side however, the NAACP is right on target as far as the Tea Party movement goes. The Tea Party is permeated with a deep semi-conscious racism (I say semi-conscious because the racist attitudes are so embedded in the Tea Party outlook that they are not recognized for what they are). You can see this with the Tea Party's anti-immigrant hate rhetoric, its demonization of the poor and unemployed, and you can see the racism big-time by just reading the signs at a Tea Party rally.

For what it is worth, I've heard the N-word used more in the last six months than I have in the preceding 20 years; I'm not exaggerating. The Tea Party has raised racist attitudes to the mainstream of the political dialogue