Via Shark-Fu:

CNN Political Ticker. Bill Clinton: Obama camp ‘played the race card on me

The former president had been asked whether his remarks comparing Obama’s strong showing in South Carolina to that of Jesse Jackson in 1988 had been a mistake given their impact on his wife Hillary Clinton’s campaign. “No, I think that they played the race card on me,” said Clinton, “and we now know from memos from the campaign and everything that they planned to do it all along.”

I suppose you’re feeling a tad emboldened by your buddy, that paragon of the War on Folks of Color for Profit ™ , Bob Johnson. Allow me to clue you in to something: anyone with a brain knows that he’s a fool. You should also know that folks are getting tired of the “black folks are voting for Obama because he’s black” meme. You see, we are actually capable of more complex thoughts than “That one look like me! Me votey!”

That said, get the hell outta here with this race card bullshit. The fact is that YOU tried (and are still trying) to portray Barack Obama as the “black candidate,” and therefore not the American (no-hyphen) candidate. That you got called out on it is your own damn fault. That you pissed off a substantial black electorate that was willing to give Sen. Clinton a chance is YOUR OWN damn fault.

Now, I yield the floor to Shark-Fu:

I do not have a race card.

I was not issued one at birth with instructions on how and when to play it.

When I call a person out for an ig’nant race-baiting comment that action is not ‘playing the race card’…it’s calling a person out for an ig’nant race-baiting comment.

If that person is uncomfortable with that shit a bitch suggests that they get in touch with their inner asshole, because this bitch has had enough of motherfuckers whining and keening about that mythical race card every time they get corrected for deliberate verbal malfunctions designed to rouse prejudices they themselves have spent a lifetime concealing behind a mask of tolerance.

Thank you, Shark-Fu. That was very well said.

Shark-Fu’s got the quote of the day as well:

I am the wage that should be equal…the privacy that ought to be honored…the violence that will not be tolerated…the hair you’d better not touch…the reality that debunks the stereotype…the fierceness that keeps ig’nant motherfuckers awake at night…the anger that will not be ignored and the worthiness that will not be denied.