Although racism certainly exists in this country, it has become blessedly rare and marginalized. Some of the best evidence you can find for that is Barack Obama's election as President. Only in a country as colorblind as America could a black man easily win the Presidency when 75% of the votes were cast by white Americans.

Despite that fact, the cries of racism have become ever louder and more omnipresent since Barack Obama has been elected. Perhaps none of us should be surprised by that fact. After all, the racial grievance industry in this country still has bills to pay, the people who use racism as an excuse to explain their failures still need a scapegoat, and Democrats now have a ready-made excuse for every problem: "The President is black and so the people who don't agree with him must be racists!"

This is creating a self-defeating cycle for the Left. The more Obama fails, the more the Left shouts racism -- but, the more the Left shouts racism, the less effective it is. We've now already gotten to the point where playing the race card is starting to backfire or perhaps worse yet from the perspective of the people who rely on it so heavily, it is producing no reaction at all. Of course, it's no wonder that's the case when on a regular basis, people are crying "racism" over things like:

1) The Obama Joker Flyers:

"So why the anonymity? Perhaps because the poster is ultimately a racially charged image. By using the "urban" makeup of the Heath Ledger Joker, instead of the urbane makeup of the Jack Nicholson character, the poster connects Obama to something many of his detractors fear but can't openly discuss. He is black and he is identified with the inner city, a source of political instability in the 1960s and '70s, and a lingering bogeyman in political consciousness despite falling crime rates." -- Philip Kennicott at the Washington Post

So, Joker make-up is now identified with "urban," which is connected with "political instability in the 1960s and '70s" except when Jack Nicholson is tied into it and then...aww, I give up. Reading this sort of nonsense tells you why so many people just roll their eyes when someone cries "racism" these days.

2) Tea Parties:

On Thursday's "Countdown" MSNBC's Keith Olbermann and his guest Janeane Garofalo defamed fellow citizens who attended the prior day's tea parties with the same vitriolic contempt.

Garofalo actually called party-goers "a bunch of teabagging rednecks," adding "this is about hating a black man in the White House. This is racism straight up." -- Newsbusters

Remember when all we heard from the Left was "Dissent is patriotism?" Now, the very same people are essentially saying, "Dissent is racism." Continued...