The race-mongering never stops.  John Conyers avoided my by no means exhaustive list of the most egregious plays of the race card in 2009, but he’ll certainly be in the 2010 edition:

Fox has obtained a letter that Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) wrote to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton asking that she demote Rajiv Shah, the Director of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).

It’s rare for a lawmaker to write to a cabinet secretary and demand specific action on a personnel matter.

In the letter, Conyers says that he was “alarmed and chagrined” to learn that Shah did not bring any African American staff to a meeting of the Congressional Black Caucus on Wednesday to discuss Haiti.

…“This is so serious an error in judgment that it warrants his immediate demotion to a subordinate position at AID,” Conyers wrote, noting that there was “under-representation of minorities in key positions at the State Department.”

How post-racial of him.

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