Professor Tricia Rose and Ben Mankiewicz discuss the role race is already playing in the 2012 general election. They debate whether accusations like Mitt Romney’s “Obama isn’t working” strategy and Michele Bachmann’s “waving a tar baby” comment are “just dim” statements or covert racism.
Rose says, “There’s a constant, subtle indirect use of various racial stereotypes…It’s absurd to think that this not part of a coordinated Republican effort.”
