Mar. 14, Feature - The resignation of former member of Congress and Vice Presidential candidate Geraldine Farraro is just the latest to be embroiled in a controversy for using words that some found racist. Bill Clinton was accused of using racially igniting terms during the South Carolina primary in January.

Ferraro said Barack Obama's success is because he is black. She said the Obama campaign's rapid response is once again using the color of his skin.

Here she is on NBC:

"I personally think this is the last time the Obama campaign is gonna be able to play this type of race card because I think that's what it is."

Ferarro resigned from the Clinton campaign. But the impact of the comments are still unknown. Was it a Clinton campaign tactic or the sole opinion of Ferraro?

Election Unspun Producer Karen Miller asked Ernest Wiggins Associate Professor of Media Ethics as the University of South Carolina about the words and the people behind them.

"What the .. message was, is that he is unqualified, unprepared and is simply the recipient of what could be described as some kind of affirmative action. He has only gotten this far because he is black."

"Now all the buttons that are being pushed with that, in the black community, is constantly having to.. work hard to prove ourselves worthy, that we did not get where we are because of our color."

Democrat Barack Obama has been able to capture wins in predominantly white states - Kansas, Iowa, and Idaho to name a few. But in Mississippi, according to exit polls, voters chose along racial lines, 90 percent of black supporting Obama and less than a quarter of Whites. The statistics have been part of the conversation, but difficult issues of race and racism have not.

Scholar and Activist Dr. Ron Daniels says "I have looked for from Obama is to define ways and means of uplifting this question with out being accused of…. raising racial grievances," from the pundits.

Daniels warns against a hope that racial inequality would simply dissipate with an Obama Presidency. "People have to be clear that an Obama election does not mean the underlying structure of institutional racism does not disappear."

Daniels says Obama's discussion of poverty doesn't always represent:

"the reality is there is a certain disproportionality here and America needs to grow up and face that reality. I'm not sure America is ready to face that reality and there's a danger that in Barack Obama people will feel a certain comfort level that people don't really have to face these hard questions."