Excellent analysis on the racism facing tea partiers

Over at NRO, as usual. How on earth, given the popular disagreement with this health care bill, can these people continue to complain that racism is defining the argument? How, given the circumstances that we are in? Just defending ourselves and our country is tantamount to racism to these folks. How sick is that.

Continued use of the “cry racism” tactic — despite its diminishing effectiveness — is partially the result of groups like the CBC having long since lost their reason for being. The battles that the CBC ostensibly was organized to fight have largely been won. All of the major civil rights legislation that can be passed has been passed. The nation has elected a black president, black CEOs run some of the largest corporations in America, perhaps the most celebrated neurosurgeon in the world is black, some of the most popular and powerful media personalities are black, we’ve had two black secretaries of state in the past ten years, etc. — and yet the CBC would have us believe that majority opposition to an unconstitutional, galactically expensive health-care plan must necessarily be motivated by racism.