Considering the historic circumstances, it might be a little unfair to blast Texas Governor Rick Perry for owning a hunting ground named ‘Niggerhead.’ But let’s think about this. Barack Obama has been blamed for even knowing William Ayers, and he’s been tarred by association with the Muslim faith of his grandparents. The right wants us to assume negative things about the president because he’s from Chicago, because he was a community organizer, because he spent part of his life in Indonesia.
What they are trying to tell is that the president’s background means that there is something wrong with him. I can use the same logic to say that there is something wrong with Rick Perry.
His culture doesn’t see anything all that wrong with hunting for niggerheads.
I’m willing to give him a pass on that the moment he’s willing to give the president a pass on being radically out of touch with the American mainstream.