Note this is tagged "Race and Identity" rather than "Politics" where it belongs. That's where Rich Lowry put it.

The congressman in question is the infamous Rep. William Jefferson, the Louisiana Democrat who was discovered by the FBI to be keeping $90,000 in hard cash in his freezer along with his ice cream and TV dinners.

Ordinarily it would be unremarkable that a congressman stinking of bribery would earn such a rebuke. But Jefferson is black. So his allies naturally turn to the race card to defend him, even if it means playing it against Pelosi, about whom many critical things can be said — but not that she’s a racist.

They did not turn to the race card to defend him. They turned to the procedural card to defend him. And Mr. Lowry turned to the race card to attack the Democratic party.

tsk, tsk.