Can Obama Play the Race Card?

To acknowledge racism in ourselves is a strength, not a weakness - for it exists in all of us: black, white, brown, yellow. Fear of those different from ourselves is part of our human condition and, if I were an anthropologist, I would probably understand it as a survival instinct. To bridge the divide this causes requires honest appreciation of the impulse, before useful compensating actions can be devised. Denial of its existence is non-productive. I wish Obama could occasionally acknowledge the racial component, and simply point out that it will be dealt with as we can, without getting bogged down over intent, extent, existence etc. My druthers would not last long in the DC coliseum, so I give him slack in this [as with all I wish he could do], but not to address racism head on, misses a golden opportunity afforded by electing a black man as President.