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Horse Race Or An Honest Dialogue On Race
Relations In America?
Donna Brazile 5/1/2008
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No one should be surprised that the Rev. Jeremiah Wright's controversial media blitz reignited a racial firestorm. At a time when sound bites and YouTube define political reality, Wright's emergence from the shadows he cast on Sen. Barack Obama's candidacy gave the front-runner's detractors what they needed most: ammunition before the Indiana and North Carolina primaries.

And they are firing their fusillade without thinking of either the short- or long-term damage to their own candidacies or to race relations in America. Talk about circular firing squads! It's time to -- how should I mildly put it? -- move on or agree to have an honest conversation about race relations in America today.

To Obama's opponents and those carrying the dirty water, it's all about winning, not governing or leading a diverse, multiethnic and multicultural society. Our strength has always come from our ability to unite as one people, one indivisible nation. Especially in hard economic times and when our nation is at war, let's not fake it: It's time we all give credence to our country's motto: e pluribus unum -- out of many, one.

With a wink and a nod, Obama's detractors and political opponents use code words such as "electability" to drive home the most divisive of
messages: Obama's 20-year association with what some in the media world label as a "radical" pastor is now new fodder to make him a "drag on the Democratic ticket" or an easy target for the Republicans. Pick your weapons carefully.

This comes on the heels of the right and newly emerging "liberal" hate machines in on the chorus that Obama is a modern-day version of McGovern, Dukakis, Gore and Kerry -- an elitist out-of-touch liberal -- code translation: gutless and Godless -- out of the mainstream and clearly not ready to become our nation's commander-in-chief.

Obama's burden was placed on him the day he first entered to pray at the United Trinity Church of Christ. And any explanation for why he stayed for so long will not end the shameful exploitation of race in this presidential campaign or in American politics. Race remains the most explosive, corrosive and exploitive subject in American life. Just once, can we have a healthy dialogue and conversation?

As someone who was once accused by some of the same vitriolic and controversial figures like Wright of playing the race card, all I would ever gain from this type of introspection is to come clean and ask others to listen and respect each other for their feelings on the subject.
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