Bait and switch

So, a leftist group posted some video maliciously edited to make the mostly white Tea Party appear racist. That was followed quickly by a righty blogger posting some video maliciously edited to make a black Agricultrue Department employee appear racist. All the race-baiters are represented now, and the expected camps are saying the predictable things about the usual suspects. The Anchoress has about as good a take on the whole thing as anybody, mainly that race in this country is a complicated and still touchy issue, and all people who causually toss around the racism charge do is reveal their "own tawdry cynicism."

There is absolutely nothing simple about the matter of race in America; there is a ways to go before content of character will finally overcome color of skin. But I am not sure if further progress toward a truly color-blind society can be made until the manufactured cry of “raaaaacism”