Desperate to hold onto power, some Democratic candidates spent election season trying to scare black voters to polls. They claimed shootings like the one in Ferguson and the 2012 Trayvon Martin case in Florida would become common if Republicans prevailed. At the bottom of the barrel was the scurrilous comment by Harlem’s Rep. Charlie Rangel that some in the GOP “believe that slavery isn’t over.” So it goes six years after America elected the first black president. That history-making moment was supposed to usher in an era of peace in the melting pot. But that’s not what happened. Instead, a strong plurality of people believe race relations actually are growing worse under President Obama. In a time of stark political polarization, that agreement stands out as a rare piece of common ground among whites, black and Latinos. nypost/2014/11/09/playing-racial-games/
Posted on: Sun, 09 Nov 2014 23:47:57 +0000
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