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There IS a reason to introduce race!!! If this guy is the first black to have a serious candidacy, then it IS a factor!! That doesn't mean it's "playing the race card."

I'm shocked at how many FReepers don't understand the phrase.

"Playing the race card" DOESN'T mean bringing up race.

I can't believe the ignorance.

If you want to be a dupe for Obama, go for it...I sure I'm not the only person who thought about RFK...or MLK. The unstated point of course (to go along with the "ready" slam), is that if someone doesn't agree with you, they will kill you...and if you're a black man, whitey is gonna git you, keep you in your place.

This isn't a complicated read at all, straightforward political communication analysis. I think it's well done, if despicable. It's a mixture of Kennedyesque themes, I suspect it's been polled also, aimed at guilty white liberals and blacks who might also vote for Hillary...because he's not "black enough." That's not my words, that's Sharpton.

If you bought it, that's what they wanted. Some of us are more sophisticated consumers of political messages.

There IS a reason to introduce race!!! If this guy is the first black to have a serious candidacy, then it IS a factor!! That doesn't mean it's "playing the race card."

What you seem to be missing is that Michelle was DISMISSING the additional threat of his candidacy BECAUSE we white people are so likely to be trying to kill him anyway.