[TheRealThing]

This topic goes to show that we can't have a discussion about race without being partisan about it. It has NOTHING to do with politics, nothing at all.

We'll have to be satisfied with agreeing to disagree on this one my friend. Members of the black caucus singe the hair off Republicans as a matter of course. My intent here was only to point out that race IS being politicized at the federal level. I believe no member of Congress or the executive branch should ever dare to disparage either party but, without getting into all the examples and such, generally speaking the line of rationale being parroted by ALL Democrats, is that they care about minorities and Republicans do not. All campaigns and most speeches propagated by Dems are filled with exactly that kind of rhetorical nonsense. I have heard it over and over ad-nauseum. At any rate, IMO the responsibility for the growing racial unrest can reasonably be laid at the feet of politicians who have politicized equal rights issues in order to get elected. The resultant narrative has thusly breathed life into an idea, creating a national impression among minorities that they have been exploited by rich white Republicans.

I have heard Democrats charge that Republicans want to disenfranchise poor black folks of their right to vote many times in the past but, most notably in the following two firebrand disputes. First was the presidential election between Al Gore and George W. as it applied to the events in Florida. You remember all the bru-ha-ha? And in present day we have the Dems making the same charge as it applies to adequate voter ID cards. Nobody is trying to disenfranchise black folks of their votes despite the ballyhooed distortions of the left.

Today we saw the US Senate disenfranchise the entire nation of their vote and due representation if you ask me. Senate Dems who hold the edge right now in the that chamber, voted to change the rules from 60 votes down to a simple majority. Thus, Harry Reid will continue to ignore everything (legislation) coming up out of the House, thereby denying hundreds of millions of folks who sent Republican candidates to the hill to represent their interests. The simple majority of US Democratic Senators, having seen the handwriting on the wall, will rule until 2014. When, they will very likely be swept out in the same manner Dems were swept out of the House in 2010.

FWIW, I agree that it should never be partisan.