link Fareed Zakaria on Donald Trump and coded racism – Global Public Square – CNN.com Blogs.
Racism again. What else? When there is no other platform upon which to defend a position, use the default racism one. This allegorical platform will soon collapse with the weight of all the idiots jumping on board. I suspect most people roll their eyes at the suggestion of racism whenever there is an allegation of misdeed by a non white person. With the passage of time and overuse, this accusation loses any bite, much like calling someone a bastard. Unless of course, they are.
Apart from being desperate, it’s inane and dreadfully unoriginal. Ironically, the fact that this accusation can only be levelled against whites and not the other way around is in itself racist. Typically, when there are no other arguments available to support the actions of a “person of color”, the race card is played like some universal get out of jail free card. This notion was on grotesque display some 15 years ago during the infamous O.J. Simpson circus, er trial. Despite all the evidence to the contrary, O.J. was absolved of the murders he was accused of principally because of accusations of racism.
In the recent U.S. elections, charming members of a social club known as The New Black Panthers, whose members just happen to be all black, wearing paramilitary garb and wielding night sticks, were posted at voting stations in the hopes of helping people out who hadn’t decided on how to vote. In looking at the case, the Attorney General decided that there were no coercive threats implied by these plucky young men and certainly no racism. In the case of Arizona attempting to control the amount of illegal immigrants in that state with simple rules that ID’s must be shown were met with howls of, you guessed it, racism. In the case of the on going tragic comedy which is airport security, the entire travelling public is subject to Mexican prison-like search procedures to protect against allegations of racism by avoiding targeting young men of Muslim appearance. The fact that all aircraft terrorism has been perpetrated by young men of Muslim appearance is as Al Gore would call it, an inconvenient truth. This brings up the old joke about the statistic that 2 out of 3 people in the world are Chinese. In our crowd, that could be Bill, Frank or Sui Chow, but we suspect that it’s Bill.
Getting back to Zakaria on CNN or Credibility Not Necessary, rather than bleating about racism, he should be thankful that someone brings up the simple idea that there should be full disclosure from a man who is supposed to be the President of all the people. The fact that there’s any mystery at all regarding the President’s past, his education and his friends should concern everyone, whatever his race. Typically, if someone has to resort to a racism accusation to quell any criticism, the argument they are pushing is probably lost. It’s like the ‘dog ate my homework’ excuse in school. It’s the hail Mary of excuses. It’s the height of conceit for Zakaria and others to ascribe any criticisms of the President’s shortcomings to race alone. It’s possible he’s just plain vanilla incompetent.