Larry Elder: The race card has lost its punch

"Where was the Rev. Jesse Jackson, who once blamed racism for the Democratic Party's failure to select him as a vice presidential running mate? Where was the Rev. Al Sharpton, who demanded the firing of talk-show host Don Imus for making jokes about a black female basketball team? Where was the NAACP (which 'deplored' Beck's statement but failed to even request an apology), whose chairman, Julian Bond, once vowed to pursue 'the new racists' and whose Philadelphia branch marched on behalf of black quarterback Michael Vick, convicted of operating an illegal dog-fighting ring? Where was the Congressional Black Caucus, many of whose members attributed racism to the government's response following Hurricane Katrina?"