Don't attribute this to "desperation," my friends; it is simply who and what Democrats are. Sharks swim, eat, poop, and make little sharks; Democrats wage anti-white racism. They'd be doing it if they were ten points up in the polls or ten points down. It's simply what they do:
Campaign materials aimed at getting out the black vote are featuring references to lynchings, Jim Crow-era signs, racial unrest — and, as of last weekend, the Ku Klux Klan.
Conservatives view the tactic with disgust. They argue that such race-baiting is condescending and assumes black voters are concerned solely with racism and not, for example, economic and foreign policy concerns.
“Democratic race-baiting is the ugly face of political desperation in 2014,” said a Sunday headline on the conservative website RedState.
On “Fox News Sunday,” host Chris Wallace asked Senator Benjamin L. Cardin, Maryland Democrat, “Senator, aren’t Democrats playing the race card and playing it from the bottom of the deck?”
Well sure, Chris. But don't land on Senator Cardin with both feet (even though his campaign smeared a black Republican - former Lieutenant-Governor Michael Steele - as "Simple Sambo" to get him that Senate seat); as Darla Dawald reminds us, he, like all contemporary Dems, was instructed under LBJ's antebellum learning tree:
“I’ll have those niggers voting Democratic for the next two hundred years.” — Lyndon B. Johnson to two governors on Air Force One
“These Negroes, they’re getting pretty uppity these days and that’s a problem for us since they’ve got something now they never had before, the political pull to back up their uppityness. Now we’ve got to do something about this, we’ve got to give them a little something, just enough to quiet them down, not enough to make a difference.” — LBJ
And yet it was Senator Barry Goldwater's scrupulously constitutional but politically disastrous vote against the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that got all Republicans branded as "racists" for the ensuing half century. And now we have the most "uppity Negro" of all time ruling the country with an iron fist and flogging us with that same propaganda whip. We do live in "interesting" times, don't we?
The flier does not mention candidates. On its website, the group says that it was envisioned to “hold no ties to any particular political party and would be open to persons of all races with a vision for a ‘New South.’”
In Arkansas, a racially charged mailer shows photos from this year’s rioting in Ferguson, Missouri, and says, “Republicans are targeting our kids, silencing our voices and even trying to impeach our president.”
The Ferguson unrest was touched off by the shooting death of an unarmed black teenager by a police officer.
In Georgia, a mailer from the state Democratic Party shows photos of children from Ferguson holding signs that say, “Don’t Shoot,” and warns, “If you want to prevent another Ferguson … Vote.”
Most of the racially charged fliers, mailers and ads have cropped up in the past few weeks as Democrats’ hold on several tight Senate races appears to be slipping. The party is expected to lose a number of Senate seats, which could shift control to Republicans.
I neglected to mention one other reason why Democrats always "play the race card" - because it always works. Or at least it always used to when it was used sparingly and strategically as the propaganda weapon of mass destruction that it was. It's been beaten so completely to death after the past six years that it is semantically indistinguishable from a universal hand gesture....
....and more and more Americans are seeing the race card for precisely the extended middle finger it really is. Even black Americans.
As Captain Kirk once counseled his "charming Negress" (a line from another Star Trek TOS episode - "The Savage Curtain" - for the record) of a communications officer, "Too much of anything, Lieutenant Uhura, even love, isn't necessarily a good thing."
A wise man, Captain Kirk. Even if he was pasty white.
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