...I just can't understand why in the middle of the 21st century. In a presidential election why these damn people have to be playing the race card, as if it really matters
when we have way more important issues like the insane bush's war, immigration, social security, healthcare, public education, etc.
It seems so stupid to me to think that blacj and white is still an issue.
What the heck is wrong with people? Physiologically and biologically all of us are equals. The difference is based upon how educated a person is, and that is an individual matter and not a racial matter.
They keep talking about this BS in the campaign, yet nobody talks about how to help native americans who are the ones whose land was stolen. They think that with reservation and casinos tax-free they are doing a lot of good. They don't think the poor level of education, health, other services within the reservations.

TLW

Race will always be an issue...Always

DI agree with the race thing...and to have a person running for president state that ppl in small towns have guns and practice religon because they feel ignored by the gov't is so out of line I could not believe it, even from a politician. Not only play the race card, but play the "elitist" card also.

You forgot issue #1 - The ECONOMY

you are right

Sad as it is, the race thing has been apart of the human experience a lot longer the 21 century has been here.

At least we are heading in the right direction, lets acknowledge the grace within that fact and pray for it to keeping going in that direction. Remembered humans can regress at any time.

They play the race card because racism is alive and well all over the world and will never die because so many ignorant,idiotic people will not let it.

Lindyy says:

Unfortunately, racism has been in existence from at least the time Jesus walked this earth.

i.e.,the story of the Good Samaritan:

"......But the lawyer latches on to the second part of the reply about one's neighbor. Exactly where does his responsibility fall? Does it have limits? Luke is clear that the lawyer has not understood the thrust of Jesus' reply, for he notes that the lawyer is seeking to justify himself by his next question. The question Who is my neighbor? is really an attempt to limit who one's neighbor might be. In ancient culture, as today, such limits might have run along ethnic lines. There was a category of "nonneighbor," and the lawyer is seeking Jesus' endorsement of that concept. In contemporary terms, any of various forms of racism may underlie the scribe's question: there are neighbors, "my folk," and then there are the rest, "them." Perhaps the lawyer could appeal to a text like Leviticus 19:16 for support: my concern is for "my people."

Jesus' reply not only challenges the premise but brings a shocking surprise: each of us is to be a neighbor and realize that neighbors can come from surprising places. Jesus' words reflect Leviticus 19:33-34: even "sojourners" deserve love. In addition, the ethic of Hosea 6:6 seems reflected here.

The original impact of the parable of the good Samaritan is generally lost today. After centuries of good biblical public relations, our understanding of a Samaritan as a positive figure is almost a cultural given. But in the original setting, to a Jewish scribe a Samaritan would have been the exact opposite, a notorious "bad guy" and traitor (see discussion on 9:51-56 above). That is an important emotive element to remember as we proceed through this parable. The hero is a bad guy. Culturally he is the last person we would expect to be hailed as an exemplary neighbor.

In fact, the parable turns the whole question around. The lawyer asks who his neighbor is in the hope that some people are not. Jesus replies, "Just be a neighbor whenever you are needed, and realize that neighbors can come from surprising places."

The above excerpt taken from BibleGateway.com "Commentaries."

Will racism ever end? Doubt it.

Lindyy

Agreed - until people start not caring about race. Not likely in my lifetime, unfortunately.