Instead of waxing indignant, instead of banishing me from my own land, you might have had resort to one of the following inquiries:
1. You might have read my about page-but you did not
2. You might've made private inquiry by private mail-but you did not.
3. You might've made a courteous public inquiry of the meaning of my reply-but you did not.
Instead of presuming racism on my part, you might have made some modicum of effort to find the true meaning of the phrase, "all politics in America is not local but ultimately racial." If you had inquired, you would have learned that I have been advancing this maxim on these threads for some years. You would have learned that it applies not just to race but to gender and religion as well. You would have learned that it is laid down in opposition to those who play the race card. And you might have concluded that the maximum obviously appropriates poetic license to make the point.
Most importantl, you would have learned that the meaning of the phrase is not intended to be racist but to be a prophylactic to that odious practice.
While I do not concede my right to be as racist as I choose, I'm afraid you have not caught me out, maybe I had just not got around to being racist or maybe I'm not racist after all. So, in fact, it is not I but you who ought to think about how race plays in America because by your hypersensitivity, born of ignorance, you just proved out the maxim.
