[From article]
After New York Police Commissioner Bill Bratton chose a black man to replace another black man as his deputy, a reporter asked Mayor de Blasio if the replacement “had to be a person of color.”
“No,” the mayor claimed.
That’s not a little white lie. This is a case where whites need not apply.
Across the land, racially charged disputes are grabbing headlines. Broad swaths of life, including school admissions, crime statistics, income and poverty levels, hiring and firing, are seen increasingly through the prism of skin color and ethnicity.
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Desperate to hold onto power, some Democratic candidates spent election season trying to scare black voters to polls.
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At the bottom of the barrel was the scurrilous comment by Harlem’s Rep. Charlie Rangel that some in the GOP “believe that slavery isn’t over.”
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he appointed and has supported Attorney General Eric Holder, who took office by calling the country a “nation of cowards” on race.
That was provocative enough, but Holder routinely injects racial charges into political and legal issues, as if nothing has changed in 50 years. He sent a small army of FBI agents to Ferguson and declared the police force guilty of bias, even before an investigation.
http://nypost.com/2014/11/09/
Playing racial games
By Michael Goodwin
November 9, 2014 | 6:16am
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