Playing the Race Card is LIke Playing Strip Poker

During President Obama's health care speech to congress, Joe Wilson, congressman from South Carolina, yelled, "You lie." Maureen Dowd, a political columnist, wrote the following about Wilson's proclamation. "Joe Wilson yelled, 'You lie!' at a president who didn't. But, there or not, what I heard was an unspoken word in the air: you lie, boy!" Dowd is speaking of racism, a Southern politician referring to a black president as "boy."

Jimmy Carter recently weighed in on the issue, stating his belief that attacks referencing Obama "as an animal or as a reincarnation of Adolf Hitler" are racially motivated. Carter says that certain opponents of Obama who "are guilty of that kind of personal attack against Obama have been influenced to a major degree by a belief that he should not be president because he happens to be African-American." Carter unfortunately backed off his statement. Nevertheless, we should consider whether Carter's and Dowd's statements are true and whether there are racist feelings in America based on unspoken, and sometimes unacknowledged, feelings that many harbor against blacks.

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