International House of Horrors: The race card...

I wondered when race when finally become a factor in the US Democratic Party race for nomination. With one of the front runners being a black American, Sen Barack Obama, and the other a white American, Sen Hillary Clinton, I figured it was only a matter of time.

Sadly, my prediction has come true.

In the heated political world of sound bites and spin doctors, those who try to foment dissent found their opening in remarks by Sen Clinton about the 1964 Civil Rights legislation. A remark that while historically correct is not the popularly held view. Who seized upon this difference and escalated it to "an issue" is unclear, but the result has been to divide a black constituency in the US that needs, now more than ever, to have a single clear voice. And instead we are listening to other voices that are trying to make us less than we could be.

What we can be.

Together.

- Farmer Ted