And the Oscar for false racism accusations goes to…

Everybody’s making false accusations of racism lately.

That might be the only defense for LA City Council president Marqueece Harris-Dawson claiming, falsely, that he was pulled over by cops for being black.

As The California Post has reported, Harris-Dawson was pulled over for a moving violation in a school zone — just like anyone else would be.

He even apparently tried to get out of the ticket.

It seems everyone needs a victim story in politics nowadays — but Harris-Dawson’s is all melodrama.

The Los Angeles Police Protective League even said Harris-Dawson deserves an Oscar for his performance.

If so, he will have to beat out a crowded field of nominees.

Xavier Becerra claims that the University of Southern California and ABC-7 are racist for excluding him and other “candidates of color” from a gubernatorial debate next week. 

The organizers of the debate used criteria such as polling data and fundraising success to determine who would qualify.

Becerra, a former state attorney general and Cabinet secretary, is consistently polling in the low single digits. So is former LA mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, and school superintendent Tony Thurmond. 

And so is former state controller Betty Yee, even though she did well among delegates at the recent state Democratic Party convention.

One can argue that more candidates should have been included, especially since the race is so close, and it is still so early. 

But racism? 

We’re talking about a college campus and a media organization, probably the two most politically correct institutions imaginable.

And how’s Gavin Newsom’s recent claim of racism doing?

When Medicare boss Dr. Oz showed up in L.A. and said there was widespread fraud in the hospice industry, which happens to be overrepresented in an Armenian part of town, the outgoing governor filed a civil rights complaint.

But as The California Post has reported, Van Nuys Boulevard is home to 137 hospices, among 500 that operate in the area.

Shockingly, 89 of them are located in the same building — on paper.

Many of these are making millions off the state — but don’t appear to exist.

It’s not racist to expose fraud and corruption — though it’s hardly the preserve of one particular community.

Sadly, when it comes to cheating California taxpayers, fraud is an equal-opportunity enterprise.

But claiming “racism” just covers up bad behavior that hurts vulnerable Californians the most.

It’s mostly just an act — and it’s not entertaining voters anymore.