{"id":4399,"date":"2010-07-20T15:41:06","date_gmt":"2010-07-20T19:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/?p=4399"},"modified":"2010-07-20T15:42:10","modified_gmt":"2010-07-20T19:42:10","slug":"race-card-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/2010\/07\/20\/race-card-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"Race Card Fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Thomas Sowell<\/p>\n<p><em>There is not now, nor has there ever been, anything post-racial about Barack Obama.  When he leaves office, he will leave this country more racially polarized than ever before<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Credit card fraud is a serious problem. But race card fraud is an even bigger problem.<\/p>\n<p>Playing the race card takes many forms. Judge Charles Pickering, a federal judge in Mississippi who defended the civil rights of blacks for years and defied the Ku Klux Klan back when that was dangerous, was depicted as a racist when he was nominated for a federal appellate judgeship.<\/p>\n<p>No one even mistakenly thought he was a racist. The point was simply to discredit him for political reasons &#8212; and it worked.<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s target is the Tea Party. When leading Democrats, led by a smirking Nancy Pelosi, made their triumphant walk on Capitol Hill, celebrating their passage of a bill in defiance of public opinion, Tea Party members on the scene protested.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/townhall.com\/columnists\/ThomasSowell\/2010\/07\/20\/race_card_fraud\/page\/full\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<br \/>\n<em>Thomas Sowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institute and author of &#8220;The Housing Boom and Bust.&#8221; <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Thomas Sowell There is not now, nor has there ever been, anything post-racial about Barack Obama. When he leaves office, he will leave this country more racially polarized than ever before Credit card fraud is a serious problem. But race card fraud is an even bigger problem. Playing the race card takes many forms. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinions","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4399"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4402,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4399\/revisions\/4402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}