Racial attacks’ motives hurt real race issues

There are people who do not recognize the force, and the potential outcome, behind the racial animosity stemming from the election of the first non-white male to the highest office in the land.

I call them racial deniers. They need to be stigmatized with similar contempt as Holocaust deniers.

Unfortunately, African-Americans (including President Obama) do not enjoy the same power as American Jews, so virtually all claims of racially motivated attacks can be derided by conservatives who play the race card to deny that race has anything to do with attacks, not only on President Barack Obama but upon his wife.

Even though those on the left ONLY decry racially motivated attacks, and accept non-racially motivated attacks, the right still makes the claim that the left sees ALL attacks on Obama as racially motivated.

By repeating this big lie, they deviously diminish the obviously racist attacks.

Thomas Sass

Iowa City