A TOUCHY SUBJECT.

Race is a touchy subject in American politics, and any person running for the highest office in the land, the United States presidency, must know where to step and be very careful with the people he or she associates with.

Particularly, places that patronized only one type of race, have bad vibrations surrounding them, and going close to them will always be misconstrued as being a mistake.

The worst thing for any politician is to have the race issue directed at him or her. Everyone is prejudiced against the persons finding themselves in a situation, where they are targeted with racial connections in any negative way.

That is what seems to be happening in Gov. Rick Perry's campaign, for leasing a place that has, or had, an undertone name involving race. It will be a bit of sad news for him and his family, that it has been discovered that they have rented, or even spent time in a spot under such a derogatory name.

From everybody's perspective, it will be characteristic to rent a place and knowing its title before hand; and the title must not be "Niggerhead," or whatever answer that results from it will be taken with a grain of salt.

Presently, the reaction has been "subdued - even from the White House," and not many of Perry's own co-contestants in the Republican Party presidential nomination contest are making detailed remarks about the controversy.

Except businessman Herman Cain, who previously assailed the connection between his rival and the name, as it implies, as being negative and insensitive on Perry's part. He Cain is also running for the Republican nod for the presidency.

However, later on he "dialed back his earlier criticism of Perry.", according to reports. "I really don't care about that word. They painted over it," Cain had said.

White House press secretary Jay Carney also has said, “All I would say is the name is clearly offensive,”

Others like Rep. Ron Paul, who is also a candidate for the party's nomination, comments that there are better thing to discuss, and left it at that. Just as well as CNN Contributor Donna Brazile, who preferred to make a similar comment, that more important issues are at stake.

" "Michael Steele, the former chairman of the Republican National Committee, told Time Magazine he found the situation “very troubling on some many levels, for so many reasons.” " (CNN report), which makes the situation rather very serious.

Yet, it is Rev. Al Sharpton, president of the National Action Network, who really takes Gov. Perry to task, by saying, “Mr. Perry should immediately fully explain how his family rented from a place named after such an obvious racist term or he should withdrawal from the race." (Washington Post).

In other words, the Texas Governor has assented to the nasty name before renting the property bearing it; and it must therefore be agreeable that he and his family had done it not mistakenly, but rather on purpose.

Last but not least is a GOP strategist Alex Castellanos, who is suggesting that, "Perry's ties to the property may become a political millstone around his neck, should he win the nomination and face off against the nation's first African- American president."

It may seem that the Governor is in hot water, to say the least; but to many Americans, nothing sinister, as dropping out, must happen to him, until further claims have come from other people asserting that he has demonstrated in the past, in any way, shape or form, that he has any type of racist feelings.

Renting a place alone cannot brand a person as such and such; yet, if the governor has any unsavory inclinations toward another race, they will, in some fashion or form, come out during the campaign.

However, that does not mean people are supposed to hold off Rev. Sharpton and others, who are interested in knowing all the facts about the Texas Governor's renting or leasing habits before it is too late.