Right Turn Playing the racism card
Posted: September 20, 2009 at 5:13 a.m.
When Barack Obama was elected president of the United States, some suggested that race played a factor in his success. People "wanted" to elect a black man president because of our history of slavery and the denial of civil rights for so many years to African-Americans. It is never "racism" to vote for someone because he is black. It is only racism to oppose the policies of a black Democrat.
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Opinion, Pages 15 on 09/20/2009
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