When in doubt—use race card. they use it because it works. It shuts up all opposition and it works like a charm. But, what happens when the evil dragon of racism comes back to life, really? what happens when over use makes these charges worthless? It can happen. What happens when being a racist is seen as a positive—as it once was? If some star or diva joined the KKK how many young people would follow them? Antisemitism is coming out from under the Nazi rock—how long until anti-black ideas surface? Obama is a good example—a poster child of ineptitude. I fear he may well have undone the good work of Martin Luther King and those who died for civil rights.
And the elephant (figuratively — and not meant to stand for the GOP) in the room is that racial parochialism is not a “white” ill. It is a human ill. Whites today tend to get slammed more about it, but you can have the nastiest black, red, and yellow racists too. Reasoning, and ridicule where reasoning fails, is about the only way to address such folly.
While King himself had a number of foibles (he was a troublesome horndog, and in later years he leaned uncomfortably to nanny government philosophies), at least on paper he did dedicate himself to the ideal of racial equality. And for those words, whether borrowed or original, he does deserve kudos for voicing them and meaning it.
Racial parochialism is difficult to pull free of. That’s why I say “rednecks” come in many colors. (And in some accounts of the origin of the “redneck,” such as union miners in the early 1900s when treatment of workers was truly inhumane and unions had a valid role, the symbol, typically a red bandanna, was shared by men of all races.)