Racism coming to a head?

A day of reckoning could be at hand soon, as the tenor of the health care debate and all things against President Obama begin to build up over time. Some time next year, could we may be in for an explosion of race-based attacks and/or out and out race riots? There is a lot of tension brewing below the surface, and as was seen by Sotomayor's nomination process. There is a lot of anger and fear on the part of ultra-Conservatives as expressed by Joe Wilson's outburst.

I'm not saying that this will actually happen, but something has to give. The explosiveness of the health care debate is ridiculous. Nothing like this happened when we were debating Social Security reform during the Bush Administration, or the Medicare Drug Benefit bill. Heck, there was no matching animus during the Patriot Act reconsideration the last year of the Bush Administration.

I just have this feeling that the cork is about to be popped, and all the underlying racism will explode into the open, with just as equal of a violent reaction.