What would a day be without yet another example of the left-wing reliance on racism as their main campaign message to defend President Obama.   In todays’ installment we have MSNBC race professional Melissa Harris Perry saying if you point out 47% of Americans do not pay federal income taxes ‘That’s Racist’, and when you say “crime” you really mean “Black People”.    Got that?
(RealClearPolitics) MSNBC race relations commentator extraordinare Melissa Harris Perry explains it is racist when Michele Bachmann points out only 53% of Americans pay federal income tax and says we all need to pay.
“What that is meant to imply is that there is a whole group that is dependent,” Harris Perry analyzed.

Harris Perry says that 53% talk is just codeword for the “2011 version of the welfare queen.”
Harris Perry also has this interesting theory that some words appear less overtly racialized because those words have been effectively racialized. For example, according to Harris Perry, when someone says “crime” they really mean black people.

Perry, as well as being an expert on race, is a columnist for The Nation.  (watch video)