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After reporting revealed that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas had failed to disclose gifts and travel he’d received from GOP megadonor Harlan Crow, Democrats were quick to criticize the Justice for a breach of ethics. According to a recent poll, the majority of Americans disapproved of Thomas’ failure to disclose the free trips. However, according to that same poll, his popularity has increased among Republicans since the scandal.
And now, as Straight Arrow News contributor Ruben Navarrette explains, Republicans are using the race card against Democrats.
Both parties are full of crap. And far from having all the answers, neither one of them even really understands the questions.
One area where Republicans are especially full of crap is anything having to do with race, diversity, and multiculturalism, Black people, Brown people. These are some of their least favorite things.
For instance, take this racism thing. For the entire time that I’ve kept my eye on Republicans, over the last four decades, Republicans have brushed aside accusations of prejudice and racism, especially ones leveled against them or white people in general. That’s their role. By the way, Republicans, white people, aren’t they really one and the same at this point?
My point is that Republicans have always been in denial about the existence of racism and eager to change the subject to something, anything, less sensitive.
Sensitive — now, there’s a familiar word. For years, whenever a person of color would accuse a Republican or even the whole Republican Party of a racial slight, the most common response was those three magical words. Conservatives would say, “Get over it.” That’s what they said. They would accuse the victims of racism of being too sensitive. “Toughen up,” they said. The implication was that racism was dead, a relic of the past, yesterday’s news. Well, have you heard the news? According to Republicans themselves, racism is back.
