New York Governour David Paterson thumbs through the entire deck until he finds the race card.  So he can play it. 

Gov. Paterson said Friday he knows the reason behind the “crescendo” of calls for him not to seek re-election next year: it’s because he’s black.

Speaking on a morning radio show hosted by Daily News columnist Errol Louis, an angry Paterson blamed the white-dominated media for pushing him to step aside next year.

“The whole idea is to get me not to run in the primary,” he said. Paterson complained there are not enough “black” media outlets to counteract the push.

And he suggested that Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, the country’s only other African-American governor, also is under fire because of his race.

“We’re not in the post-racial period,” Paterson said.

“The reality is the next victim on the list, and you can see it coming, is President Barack Obama, who did nothing more than trying to reform a health care system.”

I supposed it never occurred to the Governour that the calls for his resignation might be due to the fact that he’s an idiotic, incompetent buffoon who has managed to drive the Empire State into the hole even faster than any of his predecessors ever could? 

Of course not.  It’s all, only, solely because he’s a black guy, and the “white media” is picking on him.

Here’s a hint to the intelligence-impaired out there – we’re never going to enter a “post-racial” period so long as blacks continue to blame everything that goes wrong for them on “racism.”  Especially when the things that are going wrong for them are the result of poor decisions and incompetency on their own part.  And guess what?  You’ll know that we’re in a post-racial period when white people can criticise black people freely and not be accused of racism.    You know that you are NOT – as Governour Paterson correctly stated – in a post-racial period when incompetent racists accuse other people of racism as a means of averting the electoral consequences of their own policy failures.

In a post-racial period, people will look at the content of a person’s charactre and the actions that they do, and make judgments based on that.  Which is what conservatives and Republicans basically want. 

You’ll never enter a post-racial period so long as the very first thing people think of in each and every situation is the race of the people involved, and how they can play the race card to your own political advantage.  That’s what Democrats and Leftists do. 

And I might as well say this now to get the ball rolling, since we’re going to have to get the meme firmly established by Nov. 2012 – beating a black man in an election is not racist.