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Conservative Commentary
by Ed
Donath
September 2, 2011 |
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The price of race card poker.  subscribe via RSS
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In a follow-up to
race-baiting anti-Tea Party rhetoric by Maxine
Waters, Frederica Wilson and the amen choir of
Congressional Black Caucus members, Rep. Andre
Carson
(D-IN)
raised the price of race card poker yet again
earlier this week saying that some in Congress would “love to see us as
second-class citizens” and “some of
them in Congress right now of this tea party
movement would love to see you and me hanging on
a tree.”
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You
don't have to be a poker champ to know that the race card has
been removed from the deck and dealt to the hand of the player
on your left --
a known cheat.
Sure, it helps
Lefty having a Black dealer who allows him to play the race card
early and often, but even when a White dealer ran the game and
he took the initiative to include everyone at his table, the
cheater would attack the dealer's invitees of color for being in
collusion with the White house -- almost always referred to as
"the plantation" any time Blacks were being referenced.
 If Abraham, Martin
and John came out of the clouds today and said "There were a
great many white folks with R's after their names who helped
advance our causes." the cheater would say
"We knew all along that
conservatives -- especially those racist Tea Partiers -- have
been paying homage to this trio only to bolster sales for Dion
DiMucci's evil corporatist record company."
If African-American
clergy all preached on the same theme next Sunday -- that the
term hanging on a tree refers to the supreme sacrifice of
Jesus Christ, author of the Golden Rule...and that demonizing
innocent people by using such offensive, inflammatory rhetoric
is the antithesis of what Jesus taught -- the cheater would
chastise Christians for attempting to deny free speech to Muslims,
Black Muslims, at that.
In the hierarchy of
poker players one who bluffs his way to winning a huge pot by
taking a lousy hand and playing it for all it's worth is the
king of the hill. A close second is the player who sees
through a bluffer, calls him and rakes in the bluffer's chips for
himself.
Cheaters -- including
dealers who cheat and/or enable cheaters -- are at the bottom
of the poker players' food chain and are reviled by all. So much so that in a
bygone era card cheats were shot on the spot or, perhaps, hung
from a tree after the game.
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