Has crying "racism" become the new version of crying "wolf"? Kwame Kilpatrick, the African-American mayor of Detroit, says he's the victim of media "lynching" after a sex-scandal. Geraldine Ferraro, the first woman nominated for vice president, says she's the victim of character assassination, after she was accused of using "racist" language to describe Barack Obama. We look at how race becomes political, and the dangers of playing the race card.
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Politics and Playing the "Race Card"
Listen Thursday, Mar. 13, 2008 at 1:30 p.m.
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Guests
Michelle Bernard
President, Independent Women's Voice
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Freelance journalist; author "The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons, and an Unlikely Road to Manhood" (forthcoming) (Spiegel & Grau)
Richard Thompson Ford
Professor of Law, Stanford Law School; author "The Race Card: How Bluffing About Bias Makes Race Relations Worse" (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
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