Preposterous, but clever.

It's a shrewd maneuver on the part of white racists. Or so it seems to me. Recent scientific polls indicate that increasing numbers of whites think discrimination against whites has become as big a problem as discrimination against blacks and other minorities. That goes for 62 percent of whites who identified as Tea Party members, 56 percent of white Republicans and 53 percent of white independents. Only 30 percent of white Democrats agreed with that statement. Yes, whites are now portraying themslves as the victims. Implying that it's time for blacks to stop complaining. And that as a society we have to do more to stop discrimination against whites. Sounds a little bit like white plantation owners griping about being discriminated against because they were being denied the right to have slaves. And to make a profit in the American capitalist system. As if whites have a right to exploit the black population. Clever. Clever. Clever. Conservative whites are even accusing Barack Obama of being a racist. But I see it as just another way to deflect charges of racism against whites. A new tact. To keep racism rampant in America. A way to stop progress in race relations. The real perpetrators of racism are now claiming to be the victims. It's preposterous. But effective. In a sense, some white Americans are learning to define bad as good and good as bad. In order to preserve our racist ways, our inbred racist society. Anyway, the poll was conducted by Project Implicit, a virtual laboratory maintained by Harvard, the University of Washington and the University of Virginia. Online tests were designed to detect hidden racial biases. --Jim Broede