I made this argument recently on a liberal blog where I comment – that the repeated charges of racism directed against anyone who dares dissent from Obamunism is stripping the charge of “racism” of any meaning or impact.

John Hawkins does an even better job of making the case than I did in this column.

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.

Hawkins provides some great examples of the false claims of racism put forth by liberals.

But I’ll take his argument a step farther. If the charge of racism continues to be hurled needlessly, then the day is rapidly coming when actual racism will be mainstreamed. By defining racism down, they will make actual racism appear less heinous than it actually is. I’m not arguing that lynchings and cross-burnings will become publicly acceptable, but the garden variety acts of racism will. After all, if calling Obama a socialist is defined as the equivalent of calling him a racial slur, why not just drop the racial slur and be done with it – because the slur now has no racial meaning.