Every single day, someone of prominence on the left, a politician, a cable news host,

an entertainment figure, accuses someone on the right of being a racist. Here are typical examples.

MSNBC host Chris Matthews said this,

The age of Jim Crow managed to find a new habitat in the 21st century Republican Party.

Comedian Seth Myers told his late-night audience that Republicans traffic in open racism.

Tennessee State Representative London Lamar, a black woman, announced that the entire state of

Tennessee is racist, period. This was just after she was elected in Tennessee. The left

calling the right racist isn't new. It's been going on for decades. Republican President Richard

Nixon, Ronald Reagan, George Herbert Walker Bush, his son George W. Bush, were all accused of

being racist. And of course, from the left's perspective, racist is essentially Donald Trump's

middle name. To call someone a racist is a very serious charge. A racist is a person who believes

that one race is inherently superior or inferior to another. It's not intelligence, character,

or values that determine an individual's worth. It's his or her skin color. To say that racism

is foolish and stupid, not to mention evil, is to understate the case. But according to most

Democrats, Republicans are that stupid and that evil. So let's examine some conservative policies

to see if they are indeed racist. If they are, then the left has a valid complaint. And if they're

not, then the left is lying. The longstanding conservative opposition to affirmative action

is a good place to start. It was Democratic President John F. Kennedy, who in 1961 first to use

the term affirmative action. But affirmative action in the way we think of it now wasn't implemented

until 1970 during the administration of a Republican president, Richard Nixon. The theory was that

because of historical discrimination, blacks were at a competitive disadvantage to other races

and ethnicities. To erase that disadvantage, standards that most blacks presumably couldn't

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