McCain Campaign Says Obama Is Playing the ‘Race Card’

McCain Campaign Says Obama Is Playing the ‘Race Card’

this is not a card
that either man has to play

for one is was played for him
when he came out of his mother's womb
with dark skin
for the other
it was been laid in the patchwork of a shameful
divisive history

and the more recent turns of the card
a fight against MLK in Arizona
Bill Clinton's rantings in South Carolina
Jesse Jackson's (un?)intentional whispers
and millions of people who admit
they will never vote for a black man
have taken the card out of both men's deck

it just that they now agree
that each of them see
the elephant in the room

What Else Jesse Jackson Said on That FNC Tape

What Else Jesse Jackson Said on That FNC Tape

yes it is
a double standard
as it always has been

ugliness turned on its side
to be used as code
as one of those words that means
whatever the user intends it to mean

and at some point
perhaps not in my lifetime
it will be buried in the etymological graveyard
a relic of history and hatred

but for now it still breathes
a parasite that eats its hosts
from the inside out