We are still experiencing some liberal derangement syndrome over the resignation of "green jobs czar" Van Jones. It wasn't hard to predict that the whole mess would end up being about race. Mary Mitchell of the Chicago-Sun Times offers this:
"Ironically, Beck isn't looking for evidence of corruption or malfeasance. He's apparently hunting for rhetoric that would scare the bejeebies out of white folks, many of whom have never had a conversation with a black person ...
"The Beck attack is the same strategy that right-wing conservative radio and TV hosts used during the Obama campaign.
"After finding video of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright using harsh language to describe race relations in this country, the hosts at Fox News had a field day.
"Jones is being sacrificed in the same way the Rev. Wright was sacrificed.
"Ironically, Beck, who had the gall to call the president of the United States a racist, is using the race card to alarm whites.
"African Americans aren't the ones who are crying because Obama has a platform to talk to all of America's children about doing well in school.
"And African Americans aren't losing sleep at night worrying that radicals have taken over the White House.
"Although the Obama administration has bent over backward trying to gain the acceptance of distrustful whites, so far it isn't happening.
"Beck and people like him can't seem to accept that John McCain lost the election and a black man and the people of his choosing are running the country.
"Given the critical battle under way over health care, Jones did the right thing.
"But let's stop pretending that the fierce opposition from the right isn't racism.
It is."
Just hold on folks .. you're going to see more and more of this. As Obama's popularity dips .. .and more and more people begin to doubt the wisdom of his plans for massive government expansion and retribution toward the private sector, the Obama defenders are going to run to the refuge of race. After all, they have years of practice here. Whenever someone who happens to be black encounters opposition to a policy idea ... those who disagree are charged with racism. It's childish, moronic and inevitable. Get used to it. It will become standard fare with Obama.
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