Race-Card Fraud – Thomas Sowell

July 20, 2010 06:14


There is not now, nor has there ever been, anything post-racial about Barack Obama. Credit-card fraud is a serious problem. But race-card fraud is an even bigger problem.

Thomas Sowell at NRO

Credit-card fraud is a serious problem. But race-card fraud is an even bigger problem.

Playing the race card takes many forms. Judge Charles Pickering, a federal judge in Mississippi who defended the civil rights of blacks for years and defied the Ku Klux Klan back when that was dangerous, was depicted as a racist when he was nominated for a federal appellate judgeship.

No one even mistakenly thought he was a racist. The point was simply to discredit him for political reasons — and it worked.

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