It had to come out sooner or later. Today's Espn NBA page (which I check out four or five times a day like a schmoe) has this as a headline "RACE CARD COMES OUT."
I guess I should've known. Before I played ball today someone asked me how I thought the case would go down. I have NO IDEA. I believe the evidence is suspect, and under other circumstances the case would've been thrown out...I don't know what is going to happen. Too many moving parts. We've got a wealthy man against a middle-class woman....a black man against a white woman...a rural resident v. an urban(e) one. Running the permutations in my head makes me dizzy.
What I do know is that the entire concept of a "race card" is based on a shibboleth. I wish that term, and horse-race centered discussions about political campaigns would go the way of the Brontosaurus. To act as if race doesn't play a role in this case explicitly and implicitly is to believe that up is down, red is green. I suspect I'll be bringing this up again.