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'''Reverse Racism''' is an accusation of racism where no racism exists. It is a unique and deliberate focus on race in an attempt to discredit others as racist while the accusers maintain a false claim of being neutral to racial issues. Most users of this term are unapologetic about racial bias, refering to groups, whether guilty or innocent, as oppressors that need to be exposed. It is subtle in its use Reverse racism is considered hate speech and affects all races and religious groups.
'''Reverse Racism''' is an accusation of racism where no racism exists. It is a unique and deliberate focus on race in an attempt to discredit others as racist while the accusers maintain a false claim of being neutral to racial issues. Most users of this term are unapologetic about racial bias, refering to groups, whether guilty or innocent, as oppressors that need to be exposed. It is subtle in its use, reverse racism is considered hate speech and affects all races and religious groups, even gender.
==2008 Democratic Primaries==
==2008 Presidential elections==
==2008 Presidential elections==
*In a statement Obama repeated three times, he said what George Bush and John McCain are "going to try to do is make you scared of me. You know, he’s not patriotic enough. He’s got a funny name. You know, he doesn’t look like all those other presidents on those dollar bills." Neither has done any such thing, of course. McCain has distanced himself from attacks with the remotest hint of racial undertones.<ref>[http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZjI2NzFlYzZmNDRiNzkyNzU1YzJiZWZhYmFlNmJkYmQ= Obama’s Racism Card] NationalReviewOnline, August 1, 2008</ref> McCain's campaign made a small ad with Obama on the hundred dollar bill a month prior to the quote. <ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDTJDv4hevU John McCain's Youtube Account]</ref>
*In a statement Obama repeated three times, he said what George Bush and John McCain are "going to try to do is make you scared of me. You know, he’s not patriotic enough. He’s got a funny name. You know, he doesn’t look like all those other presidents on those dollar bills." Neither has done any such thing, of course. McCain has distanced himself from attacks with the remotest hint of racial undertones.<ref>[http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZjI2NzFlYzZmNDRiNzkyNzU1YzJiZWZhYmFlNmJkYmQ= Obama’s Racism Card] NationalReviewOnline, August 1, 2008</ref> McCain's campaign made a small ad with Obama on the hundred dollar bill a month prior to the quote. <ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDTJDv4hevU John McCain's Youtube Account]</ref>
*In an editorial titled McCain unleashes the 'kooks', ''"Are we witnessing the re-emergence of the far right as a power in American politics? Has John McCain, inadvertently perhaps, become the midwife of a new movement built around [[fear]], [[xenophobia]], racism and [[anger]]?"'' Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne Jr. <ref>[http://www.ohio.com/editorial/commentary/30993754.html McCain unleashes the 'kooks'] Washington Post, October 15, 2008</ref>
==Republican African-Americans==
==Republican African-Americans==