Liberal Racism

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Most observers of American politics will expect the Democratic Party to have arrived at a post-racial modernity. After all, it is the party that espouses equality and racial justice, the party that attracts the vast majority of the African American vote. But, if it has done nothing else, the 2008 race for the Democratic Party's Presidential nomination has proven that bigotry is alive and well within the party that claims liberal moorings. And that bigotry flows from the top. Former President Bill Clinton, campaigning for his wife, Senator Hillary Clinton, described her rival, Senator Barack Obama's drive to clinch the nomination as a "fairy tale", a term with loaded meaning for blacks. Having been the Governor of the southern state of Arkansas, Bill Clinton would have been well aware of that. Clinton didn't stop there at obliquely race-baiting Obama. As Obama comfortably triumphed in the crucial South Carolina Democratic primary,....