The Dirty Little Secret
James Taranto pinpoints the emerging issue of the day (and Trent Lott is merely in a supporting role) by quoting The Weekly Standard's Noemie Emery, then asking:
Could it be that the cycle is playing itself out again, with the Democrats as the minority party hobbled by racial politics? For all the talk of Republicans' "coded" racial appeals, it is actually Democrats who play the race card with abandon. The 2000 presidential campaign, for instance, saw a pro-Democratic ad that sought to blame George W. Bush for the racist murder of James Byrd--even though, in Bush's Texas, the killers were sentenced to death.Merely the most high-profile example there. Democrats do more than play the race card - they live it, and one must wonder just how much of it is simply political opportunism and how much is really a racist view intended to keep the black population as undereducated and impoverished - and beholden to them and the Congressional Black Caucus - as possible. If you don't believe so, ask the Democrats where all their black Senators, Governors, and Presidential candiates are. That would be a little too close to letting the house slave tell the massa what to think.
