Was the election of Barack Obama racist?

The stupid race card is overused to distract from Obama's incompetence.




While President Obama has touted himself as a post-racial president, he has built a record demonstrating precisely the opposite. Is it Obama's bitterness, or is the incessant playing of the race card by him and many of his supporters merely calculated political exploitation -- or both?



Let's look at a non-exhaustive list of examples since Obama took office.



--Feb. 18, 2009: Obama's attorney general, Eric Holder, accused the nation of being a nation of cowards on race.



--April 2009: NewsBusters reported that at the behest of the National Association of Black Owned Broadcasters, Democratic Federal Communications Commission Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein demanded a government inquiry into how the electronic Portable People Meter (used to measure radio ratings and which experts believe to be a far more reliable measure than the previous system) collects data. Obama's FCC indeed ordered an inquiry in the name of "diversity" because under the modern system, hip-hop ratings had declined and conservative talk ratings had increased.



--May 2009: White House press secretary Robert Gibbs warned critics of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor to measure their words carefully, implying they were race-based.



--May 2009: The Obama-Holder Justice Department dismissed a case against New Black Panther Party members for voter intimidation, even though it had already won the case. Former Justice lawyer J. Christian Adams said that the NAACP lobbied Obama to have the case dismissed and that the case was dismissed based on the Justice Department's outrageous policy of not prosecuting such cases against blacks when they involve white victims.



--July 2009: Not having heard all the facts, Obama accused Cambridge, Mass., police of "acting stupidly" in arresting a friend of his, Harvard professor Henry Gates, for disorderly conduct, dangling race as a motive for the arrest.



--August 2009: The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights raised constitutional questions about the Obama administration's giving preferential treatment to minority students for scholarships and favoring medical schools that have records of sending graduates to areas with inadequate health care services.



--September 2009: A video surfaced of Obama's "green jobs czar," Van Jones, saying, "You've never seen a Columbine done by a black child." It's "suburbanite white kids" who do it.



--September 2009: Obama's FCC "diversity czar," Mark Lloyd, was seen on video saying, "There are few things, I think, more frightening in the American mind than dark-skinned black men." He also said, by the way, that the Fairness Doctrine wasn't enough to restore fairness to broadcasting. In 2005, Lloyd had complained that white Americans owned and controlled 98 percent of all federal broadcast licenses. Lloyd suggested at one point that white media executives should "step down" in favor of minorities.



--September 2009: Politico reported that in a speech to the Congressional Black Caucus, Obama "opened with a fiery civil rights talk, ticking off racial disparities, calling for greater enforcement of civil rights laws and saying that the new White House Office of Urban affairs is working to address inequality." He also compared Obamacare to the civil rights struggle.



--October 2009: The Obama-Holder Justice Department overruled a decision by the city of Kinston, N.C., to do away with party affiliation of candidates in local elections, saying that equal rights for black voters cannot be achieved without the Democratic Party.



--February 2010: After Obama had twice insulted Las Vegas and discouraged tourism there, Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman strongly criticized him, which led Obama supporters to accuse Goodman of racism.



--March 2010: The Obama administration filed a brief supporting racial preferences in university admissions.



--March 2010: Rep. John Lewis alleged that tea party protesters hurled racial slurs, but videos of the alleged incident did not corroborate it, making many believe the charges were fabricated.



--March 2010 -- The Rev. Jeremiah Wright said tea party opposition to Obamacare was based on hatred for "people of color." New York Times columnist Frank Rich made similar allegations.



--April 2010: WorldNetDaily reported that Gerry Hudson, executive vice president of the Service Employees International Union, said white American workers are "so f---ing rabidly racist" their sentiments can be used to scare blacks into supporting comprehensive immigration reform.



--April 2010: The Washington Examiner reported that a reporter asked a black protester whether he was "uncomfortable" as part of the tea party.



--Then there's the administration's playing the race card against Arizona's non-racial-profiling law, Obama's suggesting al-Qaida is racist, Obama's saying Israel is suspicious of him because of his middle name -- as opposed to his horrendous policies toward it -- and the NAACP's calling the tea party racist and then denying it.



It turns out that others are noticing this above-described phenomenon, as well, as a recent Washington Post-ABC News poll revealed that fewer and fewer people believe Obama's presidency has advanced racial relations -- 4 in 10, compared with 6 in 10 when he was inaugurated.



This is a very sad turn of events in this nation.



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You just don't get it. On this thread, YOU are the one who keeps bringing up race, and blaming unrelated people for using it, like you are, and attributing it to Obama. That is what is racist. YOU! In addition, most of those comments by people OTHER than Obama, are true and backed by research, like the fear of a dark skinned man. They've done studies and found it to be absolutely the truth. I know and have seen black men driving down the highway, doing 65, when they pass a white woman doing 60, and she looked over at two black men in the front seat (I was in the back) and LOCKED the door! Have you ever heard of anything that silly, but it goes on every day. So it is not overused, you are just tired of hearing about it because you do not know or care to know the truth!

Obama's presidency has done exactly what it was supposed to do. Make reasonable people examine their own racism. It just hasn't reached those of you who refuse to understand racism and how you play into it. You won't get how racist you are, from inside your head. You are not qualified to do so. Read Crucible of Race by Dr. Joel Williamson, if you really want to begin to understand how it works. Stop looking at it from the same angle all the time and try and new angle. Your thinking is limited, but you believe it is not.

To make it simpler for you, if you can refer to a person like say Mila Kunis as dark skinned, and that makes sense to you, you are racist. People, as in human beings, come in colors ranging from blue black to paper white. But so many white people only mean the range that white people come in when they refer to such descriptions, which is the only way that saying that she is "dark skinned" which she is often referred to as such. The racist problem with that, is it presumes that "people" means WHITE people and their color ranges, not all people. Which by omission means that Black or dark people, don't even count in the same category as people. That is racist!

Till you get that, clearly, Obama is probably going to stay president! It is time for the world to look at their ignorance, and change. You think he was talking about political change with that slogan? Think again. God has stepped into this arena and put him in a situation that will force people to pay attention to their own deep rooted prejudices and hatreds. Got very little to do with Obama. Wake up man! Wake up! This is a nation of cowards on the race issue, so cowardly that they can't even see it for what it is, and they keep screaming that somehow, everyone else is offending them! You think you are sick of hearing it? You can take it to the bank that every time I hear some white person, and that's all I've ever heard do that, refer to a Mila type as dark skinned, I want to slap them, but have held my thoughts, usually for years, mostly because that kind of ignorance is also thin skinned, and ALWAYS figures out how to be offended, like you're doing.

I believe we got the only one who could have made it to office, meaning black president, and that it is and was absolutely essential that he made it to office for two reasons. First, to put a mirror up in white people's faces, and all the rest of us to watch and comprehend, to let sane white people begin to recognize how truly racist so many systems and systems of thoughts are in this country, and this world. I don't believe that many could have seen it without the reflection because the practices have been so heavily engrained into every day life. I am encouraged by those who do see it more clearly now, because they have abandoned many of those practices, and are fighting to make sure they don't happen again, based upon race. Just the racists responses to him, have made decent people look at their own racism and distance themselves from the practices. Secondly, he had to win because the world is changing, and whites, who make of 1/4th of the world's population, WILL NOT be in power in another 100 years, and racism will not be the method used to maintain that power, and rather than it being a shock to whites AND/OR the rest of the world's population, a mixed race man in that office is essential for the transition, and easing into a different state of mind. What he does, politically, is far less important. They are all following a script of sorts, but he will lessen the revolution, much like changing the presidency in South Africa did in ending the damage of Apartheid, because had there not been that change, white were about to be massacred there, as 3/4ths of the population was sick and tired of being abused and destroyed by 1/4th of the population. It was an indicator, a pre-cursor of the times we are in now. 3/4ths of the worlds population is sick of 1/4th of the population beating them down into the ground, taking all their resources and destroying them in order to have power. Believe it. Obama is the ONLY choice for this transition period. He is not destroying America. He is saving white lives, and those who would destroy them before allowing this insane, and now self destructive to even the oppressor, oppression to continue. If you don't get that, that's okay, God does. That is why no matter what, Obama will win. It is time for that change. And though he is likely to do a lot wrong, the damage control for the big picture is still better than what I suspect Romney will do, because he is the KING of the oppressive systems that must be stopped, if we are all to live. You'd better hope he wins, because this is a whole lot bigger than you apparently thing, and that ain't "slick talk" just reality. Romney will incite riots. Obama is more workable, but agreed, should be watched, as they all should, and not just given carte blanche.