White Dreaming

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White should be a thing of beauty, like the late spring blizzard which has frosted trees and cabins and homes in heavy coats of white.

But white, as we have seen more and more of late, can be a thing to distort and corrupt and contaminate, too.

The Clintons play it while protestin’ too much, but we ain’t buyin’ it.

But it’s emerging elsewhere, too. North Carolina Republicans are using it to attack statewide candidates.

We have, we admit, very low expectations of standards of decency from Faux News during and after Chris Wallace interviews Barack Obama Sunday morning. Tell me again, is Chris’ daddy Mike? Or George Corley? Guess we’ll learn soon.

And then there’s the corpulent hillbilly heroin junkie, leading the refrain, “Dreamin’ of Riots in Denver….” Theme song of the White Citizens Council, "White Christmas" is, in his corrupted version.

They're all playin' from the same deck, just hidin' in different suits in the vast White Wing Conspiracy. Exactly what Obama's been sayin' about the same ol' same ol' we're being offered by two of the presidential candidates this year: More of the same or if you can't beat 'em become just like 'em.

But this isn't something to toy with and tell yourself you can fix it later. Not for Clinton, not for McCain. What does each of them tell their community, their children? What does each of them tell the person in the mirror?

White. It's the same ol' race card. Will it win again?

Only if we let it.