In South Carolina Politics, All The Media Sees Is Race

Either these media know-it-alls don’t know their history or they do and assume we’re all stupid.

In a break from the state’s racist legacy, South Carolina Republicans overwhelmingly chose Nikki Haley, an Indian American woman, to run for governor and convincingly nominated Tim Scott, who could become the former Confederate stronghold’s first black GOP congressman in more than a century.

— Los Angeles Times, June 23, 2010

Or…

The Republican Party stepped away from its long and uncomfortable history of racial and ethnic politics in South Carolina on Tuesday, nominating an Indian American woman for governor and an African American man for the House.

— Washington Post, June 23, 2010

As we are talking the monkey-see-monkey-do media, the L.A. Times and the Washington Post aren’t the only ones with perpetual race on the brain. And if memory serves, the people people perpetrating racism in the south were the Klan-creating Democrats. Surely, the all-knowing media would know that….

Then again, if Joe Biden couldn’t find Haley at a 7-11, maybe it’s a new day after all.