Is racism really still an issue in America?  It seems so obviously so by just watching the comments of both private citizens and elected politicians as they are commenting on things as common and benign as the President making a speech to and about school children and the importance of education.  What we are being reminded of through these public statements is that this president is black and in a very subtle, despicable way.

Statements about his patriotism, his authenticity of birth, his political intentions are all subtle ways of inflecting something there, something amiss or just not right.  What is it about him that is different, hmmm?  Oh I have it now, he is black!  That is what it is, he is a black man that has been perhaps influenced by Islamic religion, he lived overseas as a child, he... well he is a black and everyone knows, good God to beware of the black man!   

The Governor of Texas, Rick Perry has said about the upcoming Presidential speech to school kids that he disagreed with some conservative groups and individuals that want to keep their children out of school.  But he inferred that somehow the White House (the President) was to blame for not letting parents and school officials know what he was planning on saying to these children.  The inference is clear here and the Governor is complicit in his support of that inference.  It is a despicable way for supposedly educated elected officials to get what they want.  Of course racism has not intellectual or any other boundaries, but it is despicable non the less.

It is that simple and true, when it comes down to brass tacks the Republican platform is to support big business profits and let the individual fend for themselves.  No matter how it is spun that is the bottom line.  It doesn't take a genius to see it throughout recent political history but there are legions that rationalize and through dissonance make themselves believe otherwise, to their own detriment!

After years of proving that tax cuts to the wealthy, little or no regulation, trickle-down economics doesn't work (look what it brought us to, the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression) they still won't acknowledge it!  Look at the recent vote for House bill, H.R.4173.  Not a single Republican voted for the bill.  A bill that contains regulatory constraints on financial companies.  Ohhhh, that would be so bad to make the richest people, the richest companies in the world have more ethical restraint, be bound by laws that protect the public from their predatory and reckless practices.  That would be bad, wouldn't it Republicans and those that rationalize the truth.