While you may be impressed with my research abilities (you assume that I don't know basic history and must research it) I cannot say the same for yours.

The significance of Reagan's kickoff speech wasn't that 3 civil rights workers were murdered there. That would be bad enough. But in doing so, Reagan did not mention the slain workers and instead, expressed his support for states rights, understood as code for Southern states to turn back the clock on racial policy without having the Feds breathing down their necks.

Claiming that KKK Grand Wizard, David Duke's unsuccessful senatorial campaign (which garnered 60% of the white Louisiana electorate) is too far in the past to be significant??? It wasn't that long ago. Are you suggesting that there has been significant racial progress since the 90s that disqualifies things that happened then as being relevant?

Barak Obama is running for president and the entire story is that he's not white. Simultaneously, you have Mitt Romney, a Mormon, running for president. It wasn't long ago that the official doctrine of Mormons was that black people were inferior, blatant white supremacy.

Try to imagine any black man being a part of an organization that had an analogous doctrine and even being considered for prez? Hell, he never would have made it within a hundred miles of the Senate, no less the presidency. If that isn't race guiding politics, nothing is.

The background music of Barry Bonds impending eclipse of the Babe Ruth's homerun record was the president talking about baseball steroid use in the State of the Union address.(???) What was that besides using race to manipulate the white population for political gain?