KyCardinalFan wrote:I think JG is talking about people who play the "race card" because their is a "conflict" between two races that is simply a conflict and not about race. Many have discussed how crying race for every issue doesn't help highlight the issues that actually are racist. People, ingeneral, become numb to the argument because it is overused.
Leonard Pitts had a good article about that during one of the national "scandals" in the last couple of years which I'll try to find.
I know that's what he's getting at, and I agree it's an issue. I just don't know how harmful of issue it is. Usually, it's more harmful to black people (too many people crying wolf) than it is white people (getting fired, jailed, etc.).
I do think it's quite silly when a little slip on the radio causes a firing (like the guy who accidently said "coon", when it was quite obvious he wasn't being racist). But in the grand scheme of things, I think it pales in comparison to hearing people on the radio state categorically that they cannot vote for a black man, or two white guys plotting to kill Obama (as well as 88 other blacks).
