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JAMES TARANTO: Diversi-Tea Training: The AP discovers dissent isn?t racist after all. ?Oreos,? ?

By Glenn Reynolds

JAMES TARANTO: Diversi-Tea Training: The AP discovers dissent isn’t racist after all.

“Oreos,” “Uncle Toms,” “spook at the door”: it turns out people are “lobbing” racial slurs! When Johnson speaks of the assumption that “the Republican Party is for whites and the Democratic Party is for blacks,” does anyone doubt the accuracy of his perception?

It is Democrats, not Republicans, who hold this race-based assumption. And it doesn’t actually go both ways. No white American today suffers the indignity of being labeled a “traitor” to his race; the supposedly liberal assumption is that blacks, and only blacks, are expected to think a certain way because of the color of their skin.

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Full post as published by Instapundit.com on April 07, 2010 (boomark / email).