I mean did Geraldine feel that demoralized (as she should have) from being
called a racist that she now has to take up for clueless white people who think
Obama is playing the race card, and are worried about "reverse racism" because
she thinks it's going to vindicate her?

Apparently so.

The
Race Card

I'm not saying the race card doesn't exist. Because it
does.

It's nothing more than an ad hominem argument when a person is on
the side of a losing battle, and even though there's absolutely no legitimacy to
the claim of racism whatsoever, it's used so they can slither their way out
alive.

But let's get it straight in saying that when people usually say
someone is "playing the race card", that when the majority of pundits use that
term, it's simply done because they can't see or won't admit to the real and
legitimate part that racism has and still plays in our society; that many times
it's people's own racism, indifference to racism, or simply a defense mechanism
(because it's too hard to look at themselves) that makes them use that term in
the first place.

It's an easy bandwagon for people to jump onto, and one
that Ferraro seems intent on fueling.

The fact that she wants to be
talking for the people who think Obama has been playing the race card throughout
the campaign, and are frightened because no one's "calling him on it" is just
mind-boggling, because Obama has every right to talk about race and racism in
this country and how it can also affect his bid to be the Democratic candidate
and President of the United States.

Just look at the white only club,
good or bad, that has taken office, or the history of racism and equality
for some that has permeated our nation, or simply a recent Washington Post article about the racism that his street
teams have encountered.

Saying that Obama is playing the race card is
like saying Sharon Stone really had something important to say when she said
maybe it was karma that killed all the innocent people in China during the recent earthquake.

It's
just fucked up.

I've heard that before

Ferraro
also claims she and her new found supporters aren't racist but they just have
"racial resentment", and that their fears of "reverse racism" are justified
because Obama said "Our Time Has Come" and because essentially they're white and
he's black, and because white people can't open up their mouths without being
labeled a racist.

Are you kidding me?

Racial resentment
is just a nice white way of trying to cover up being a racist.

Being
afraid of Obama without any justification simply because he's black and they're
white is like trying to justify the lynchings of black men because they dared to
look at a white woman.

You can't.

It's rhetoric like this that
also gives power to the notion that if a person of color is prejudice against
someone who's white (wrong as this is), that this in some way is the same as the
systematic racism that's been going on for hundreds of years
when clearly the two aren't even close, even though we like to throw around the
term "reverse racism" as if they were; in effect minimizing institutionalized
racism.

At the same time, Ferraro tries to lump the segment of the
white community who's educated themselves about race, and who aren't afraid to
have real and courageous conversations about something like white
privilege and who work to help end racism in this country, into the same boat as
the people she's speaking for and supporting, even though each are at opposite
ends of the racial awareness spectrum.

Put it all together and it's the same
type of fear and hate mongering and obfuscation of truth that has been going on
for years, and that's been the foundation for every piece of oppressive
legislation against people of color since our inception as a country.

Did
Geraldine think people really wouldn't notice that?