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I think the Democratic wing of the Party has happily excelled at exploiting race and racial tensions for decades, Spag-hetti, using it to silence criticism and to cow opposition. The Republican wing of the party has been willing to eagerly benefit from the inevitable backlash, mainly 'whites', but runs for the hills in panic at the first whispered charge of 'racism'. That is, I think, why Dems have so eagerly relied on it as the Great Silencer. I do not think there are many voters who are any longer going to fall for that hustle simply because there are so many examples of races other than 'white' who have made it in America, and who hold high-powered positions of power in politics, society, and business. Your milage may vary.:-)
Yours,
Issodhos

Interesting article on that by Joe Fitzgerald in today's Herald.

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/columnists/view/20220818liberals_exploitingblacks_is_tired_trend/

Black history hasn’t taught us much, or so it seems when we see it continually reduced to a self-serving prop by those who regard it as a tool for advancement.

Joe Biden telling a Virginia crowd of blacks that GOP policies are “gonna put y’all back in chains” is just any echo of shameless exploitations we’ve all heard before.

It’s Ted Kennedy suggesting, “Robert Bork’s America is a land in which ... blacks would sit at segregated lunch counters.”

How could this late liberal lion exploit those Americans who were martyred at those counters for something much greater than a cheap punch line?

It’s John Kerry telling the congregation at Roxbury’s Twelfth Baptist Church that “a vote for Bill Weld is a vote for Jesse Helms,” as if his Republican opponent was a kindred spirit to the KKK.

Did he not realize how monstrous that allegation was, or did he simply not care?

It’s Chuck Turner, ejected from the Boston City Council for accepting a bribe, railing how “African-Americans were brought to this country as slaves, (and) we were whipped and lashed and hung.”

In that pathetic attempt to divert attention from his own corruption, he cheapened the blood those ancestors shed by using it to wash his dirty hands.

It’s Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., arrested for mouthing off to a Cambridge cop, saying he planned to donate the handcuffs used to shackle him to the Smithsonian Institute’s museum of black history, as if he had personally challenged Bull Connor.

No one should be allowed to refer to the Peculiar Institution that existed in the past when discussing the present or their own particular inadequacies. It does nothing but cheapen the sufferings of the past while seeking to suffer the sins of the Fathers unto later generations. The only "racism" in existence today is the rabid discrimination against and demonizing of White, Christian men of means.

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Yes, indeed, Issodhos, you and I should agree with Irked, above!!
Obviously, racism is no longer a problem in the United States, and no one would even notice the hue of a person's skin if the Democrats were not constantly drawing our attention to it !!

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I think Jesse Helms was perhaps the monster....
WIKI-Jesse Helms
Make of it what you will, but Helms stood for pretty much everything the KKK stands for. But that doesn't make him a racist by any means.
For what it's worth Bill Weld had his own problems with Jesse Helms:
Wiki-Bill Weld So I'd say the statement wasn't "monstrous, it was just plain silly.

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It is amazing how all the monsters turn out at election season !!

Did that answer your question, Spag-hette?
Yours,
Issodhos

It saddens me when some claim that any mention of race is racist, when in fact racism is a deep strain in American politics. It is hidden nowadays by all sorts of deflections and rationalizations, not the least of which is the most racist of all -- that there is no racism in Amerika.

There is no human being who does not notice differences among the appearances of each human being. To claim that one either does not notice the differences or that when noticed there is absolutely no difference in how one thinks at the instant of noticing is either hopelessly deluded or dishonest.

I think this is a good example of ignoratio elechi, Hoskins. No one has made any such claim, nor is noticing differences in skin color or features a part of the definition of racism. Now, back to the topic?
Yours,
Issodhos

Exactly what I mean. Thanks for the illustration.