There was an assertion made that before Obama, race wasn't an issue in the United States. Comments are welcome.

SLIDESHOW: Race issues before Obama

• ID51 2012/04/18 13:34:36
  

  I believe that Obama has played up the race card - and not just his own race, but in favor of other ethnicities - against white. Race has always been an issue - everywhere, but there didn't seem to be as much division in American anymore. Since Obama took office, that's changed, and not for the better.

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• POWERSHAKER 2012/04/18 05:25:20
  

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  Obama has played the race card a lot. He has divided this country like no other President before him. It's very tragic indeed.

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• rustyshackelford 2012/04/18 05:14:43
• CREW grand 2012/04/18 04:58:44
  

  +1

  The assertion was no doubt made by some conservative idiot.
  
  Don

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• Ambassador II 2012/04/18 04:01:37
  

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  Race has always been "an issue" in the United States, and elsewhere, everywhere else. If you are old enough to recall the 1960s you would know the question you pose is just a fiction, without any meaning. In the past couple of decades, however, white folks and red necks have felt secure as there were no minorities particularly threatening to their imagined status. Then, out of the wings came Barack Obama and upset the plantation security. Now, what to do, what to do, tell some lies, make some stupid allegations, call on "God" to save you, them black folk is here.

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