Block that Race Card

Here is a superb column from Kathleen Parker.  Those of us who are not black but disagree with the President have been called racists and now there is an argument among blacks about whether they must still support blacks no matter the merits.

Thursday, Oct. 20, 2011

Block that race card

By Kathleen Parker - Washington Post Writers Group

http://www.thestate.com/2011/10/20/2015952/parker-block-that-race-card.html#ixzz1bLefAPat

Parker points out that some black radio and TV personalities are now saying things that would ruin a white man [and have].  But my favorite thought was this one:  “…the notion that blacks can’t criticize each other on the merits undermines the argument that race shouldn’t matter in evaluating performance.”