How do you pay off a maxed out race card?

Jonah Goldberg talks about payment coming due on the race card.  Even the Uber-Liberal Daily show makes fun of the maxed out race card.  It seems that the race card is no longer buying blacks the absolution it once did from guilty white Liberals and Moderates.  At the Conservative store, it was accepted at a deep discount, but it did buy you sulky silence.

How did this happen?  Was it "void during a black presidency?"  

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Not really.  Not when the MFM trumpeted the trumped-up story of racist cat-calls during the rally in Washington.  Not when opposition to Obama's initiatives is labelled "racist" by Liberals of all skin colors.

Goldberg has it right; it just melted down from over-use.  The race card had a credit limit and Country America has called for payment.

The question is, how do you pay off the race card?  One of the things that the race card bought was government programs to make up for racial discrimination in the past.  But it turns out that these programs, while it has helped make a small segment of the black population rich, has had the opposite effect on a much larger portion. 

It turns out that a maxed out race card may - just may - help the black community recover.  To do that it has to go back to the beginning of the 20th Century when blacks had to either follow the philosophy of Booker T. Washington or W.E.B duBois.  Having chosen duBois and created the "Talented Tenth" approach to racial and economic equality the black community has now reached the inevitable end-point of that strategy.  The Congressional Black Caucus represents the culmination of the "Talented Tenth."  Like all members of any ruling class, it has found that power is itself a goal.  It brings wealth, fame and - in the case of the Congressional Black Caucus - a seat at the table set by the Democrats.  they can deliver the black vote that is vital to Democrats winning virtually any election.  But while the race card has delivered for the "Talented Tenth" it has done so on the backs of the 90% whose votes have been sold and whose life has been blighted to keep the "Talented Tenth" in power.

What is to be done?  We don't have to go back to political inferiority; that battle has been fought and won.  But we should go back to read the thoughts of Booker T. Washington and see what he has to say about hard work, getting ahead and finding economic advancement and independence.  A century after the debate began, and the focus shifted from the economic to the political is it any wonder that the black community is economically dependent of government jobs and government hand-outs?  The race card bought that, but now the bill is due and the debtor is bankrupt.