Hillary Charges Racism

Washington I have a rule or two about the topic of race. Possibly I could extend it to three or four rules. The first rule is that in a dialogue about politics, current events, horticulture, haute cuisine, you name it, the first person to introduce the question of race is probably a racist. If that person belabors the point, he or she is definitely a racist intent on exploiting the issue for personal gain. Finally, if he or she is obsessive on the matter, his or her racism has become pathological. There is no known cure for such creatures. Think of Al Sharpton discussing haute cuisine without reference to race relations. I suggest it is quite unthinkable. By this standard Hillary Rodham Clinton is definitely, at least by contemporary standards, a racist. Just last week America was enjoying a perfectly normal presidential contest with Donald Trump calling Hillary “crooked,” and Hillary questioning his temperament and the color of his hair — highly misandrist charges if you ask me. Then, of a sudden, what does Hillary come up with? She charges Donald with “racism,” and the whole mainstream media (MSM) reverberates with her charges. The New York Times has even found traces of racial bigotry in Donald’s early business career, and his childhood and out there on the playground! Frankly, the Times’ stories sounded like Donald Trump was raised in apartheid South Africa rather than Queens, New York. Then Hillary charged him with courting the Ku Klux Klan, and her running mate dutifully observed that Donald embraced “Ku Klux Klan values,” though Donald bathes regularly and even uses deodorant. Every presidential election year about this time the Democratic Party trots out the Ku Klux Klan as a major supporter of the Republican candidate. In fact, the Democrats make the Klan out to be a major player in American politics, though they in their snowy white burkinis usually poll very poorly among the general electorate. Nonetheless, the Democrats’ quadrennial outbursts are somethi...