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My Tea Party lawn sign means I'm officially a Racist!

Or so I'm told by my oh so Politically Correct neighbor. Upon seeing it her first question was, "where is your Confederate flag?" And she then reminded me that "some of your best friends are 'persons of color'." Well, yes, yes they are. And some of them also believe in individual liberty and freedom. You know, freedom to make your own choices without asking a bureaucrat for permission first.

I shouldn't be surprised. Because to a liberal, not wanting the government to control every aspect of my life is such a foreign concept and so downright scary that it evokes in their minds the most viscerally revolting reaction they know — the specter of Raaaaaacism! Throw in a black president, and presto!, oppostion to his policies must be racist!

And thus they don't have to actually think about what opposing this socialist / progressive government really means. It's enough for them to pigeonhole me into the "racist" category and thereby dismiss anything I say as the rantings of a deranged hatemonger.

Because you see, a president who grew up at the knee of Jeremiah Wright and spends his days palling around with Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson and Van Jones wouldn't know actual racism if it rose up and bit him in the ass.

I"m certainly not the first guy to observe that crying "racist" has officially lost all meaning. It's been thrown at Stacy McCain more times than he can count although anyone with a brain can tell it's complete bunk.

The Race Card is a convenient trope for weak minds. It obviates them of the need to engage in actual thought or consider that reasonable people might (gasp!) disagree with them. Curiously though, it's only "racist" to criticize liberal blacks Persons of Color. Pick on Michael Steele all you want! He's a Rethuglican! Parodies of Condoleezza Rice are funny, caricatures of Michelle Obama are off limits.

So, For The Record (because I wouldn't want any Persons of Color to get the wrong idea here) I will not be flying a Confederate flag in front of my house.

It looks much better draped above the fireplace anyway.

UPDATE 14 Apr 2010 21:07:
Uh, oh, I've made a very serious mistake!

And Bob Belvedere rightly calls me on it.

I really had thought there were 6. Please Bob, don't shun me for my failure to grasp the fundamental rules of right wing grammatical constructions. I just got back from Disney World and my brain is fried. Can you find it in your heart to give a fellow a break?

That Jersey Shore crack really hurt dude. You know Snookie's not my type.

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