I have no faith – -never did – in the idea that Obama will bring Americans together into a joyful union where race does not matter. However, I’m becoming convinced that within a few years, there’s a 50-50 chance that “racism” will cease to matter. Here’s some evidence:
Democrats see race factor for Barack Obama foes
Eight months into Barack Obama’s presidency, as criticism of his administration seems to reach new levels of volume and intensity each week, the whispers among some of his allies are growing louder: That those who loathe the nation’s first African-American president, and especially those who would deny his citizenship, are driven at least in part by racism.
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“We think all of it is!” exclaimed Gwen Dawkins, a Democratic activist from Michigan and retired state employee when asked to what degree the fervent opposition to Obama was driven by his skin color.
Black Publishers Cry Racism Over Wilson Outburst, Join Boycott of South Carolina
A group of black newspaper publishers on Friday charged Republican Rep. Joe Wilson with racism for yelling, “You lie,” at President Obama during his nationally televised address to a joint session of Congress.
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“As African-American newspaper publishers we stand in solidarity with the NAACP and fully support the economic boycott of South Carolina,” NNPA Chairman Danny J. Bakewell Sr. said. “Rep. Wilson’s remarks were racist, disrespectful, and a disingenuous violation — not only of President Obama — but to the institution of the presidency and only solidified our position and the importance in not spending black dollars where black people are not respected.”
Obama as The Joker: Racial Fear’s Ugly Face
So why the anonymity? Perhaps because the poster is ultimately a racially charged image. By using the “urban” makeup of the Heath Ledger Joker, instead of the urbane makeup of the Jack Nicholson character, the poster connects Obama to something many of his detractors fear but can’t openly discuss. He is black and he is identified with the inner city, a source of political instability in the 1960s and ’70s, and a lingering bogeyman in political consciousness despite falling crime rates.
And so on. The New Conventional Wisdom is that all opposition to Obama and his policies is due to “racism.” Over the last thirty years or so, the accusation of “you’re a racist!” has worked like Kryptonite against rational discourse. The moment someone like Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson accuses someone of being a racist, that someone needs to go into full-bore grovelmode.
But the accusation is now being tossed around so commonly, and over such patently stupid ideas as the Joker poster or “You lie!” that the accusation will soon enough lose whatever meaning it once had. So instead of the current practice of responding to “You’re a racist!” with a long list of reasons why you’re really not, followed by meaningless but time consuming acts of contrition… it may soon be responded to with “so what?”
So Obama’s zealous followers could end up ending “racism” in this country. Just not in the way they’d hoped.
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MLK Jr had a dream of a color blind America. And Democrats have spent the last 40 odd years trying to crush that dream. And hince we come to Quinn’s 1st Law,”Liberalism/leftism always generates the exact opposite of its stated intent.”.
Their intent is to continue using racism for their political and personal gain, and they are stripping racism of its power to grant them political and personal gain. All the while exposing themselves to more and more people.
Barri will see the end of racism, alongside the end of his political career.
FYI:
Racist Attacks on Obama Growing More Heated | Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center
“Racist Attacks on Obama Growing More Heated
by Mark Potok on February 20, 2008
With the selection of Barack Obama as the first black Democratic nominee for president seeming more possible by the day, racists and white supremacists are posting increasingly ugly and even threatening remarks on the Internet…
obama.jpeg“OBAMA WILL DIE, KKK FOREVER,” concludes a Feb. 15 post… talk like that is rare and extremely careful… concerned that their comments are being monitored by law enforcement…”
http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2008/02/20/racist-attacks-on-obama-growing-more-heated/
“YouTube – Obama Death Threats… Pastor Steve Anderson”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzDOip09ErE
Barack Obama faces 30 death threats a day… Telegraph
“… and is being protected by an increasingly over-stretched and under-resourced Secret Service”
By Toby Harnden in Washington
Published: 8:34PM BST 03 Aug 2009
“… the rate of threats against the president has increased 400 per cent from the 3,000 a year or so under President George W. Bush…
The Secret Service has increasingly cut corners after it was absorbed by the new Homeland Security Department under Mr Bush…”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/5967942/Barack-Obama-faces-30-death-threats-a-day-stretching-US-Secret-Service.html
> Racist Attacks on Obama Growing More Heated
And racist attacks *by* Obama supporters are growing more heated. The end result of the constant bleating of “racism” whenever someone voices opposition will be to make “racism” a meaningless word with minimal impact. The *actual* racists, who are generally on the political left (let’s face it, you can’t have your white/black/hispanic/whatever-only utopia without a big-ass government), will be thrilled by that, as it will make them more mainstream and less “out there.”
I’m a little more pessimistic about that. Racism is real, even if it doesn’t happen nearly as frequently as the liberal left would like us to believe. I’m just worried that if they keep screaming “Racism” when that is clearly not the case, then when a real serious incident of racism does occur, they’ll have alienated everybody would would once have been willing to listen to them.
>I’m just worried that if they keep screaming “Racism” when that is clearly not the case, then when a real serious incident of racism does occur, they’ll have alienated everybody would would once have been willing to listen to them.
I *was* going to mention “the boy who cried wolf” analogy, but hell, people would scream that *that* was racist.
Obama can help stop this madness and racial accusations. BUT HE WILL NOT. Not because he is an African American.
Why ? Because he is just another corrupt racial politician himself and he will do what he can to milk whatever concieved advantage he can. Research and see how Carter is an anti-semite but he critizes others – another corrupt, racist, and hypocritical politician.
I am fed up of being considered a racist because I disagree with Obama or Jeremiah Wright or Jesse Jackson or Rev. Sharpton. I also disagreed with Bill Clinton and John Kerry – because their idealogy is the same as Obama.
Clean the House and those running in the Senate in 2010. Take back our country!!!
The reason that society is incapable of addressing the racial issue is because we view it from the wrong perspective. We talk all around the fundamental, underlying reasons for racism, and make it an emotional issue. How does one expect to cure the cancer without focusing on the cancerous cells? Focusing on the symptoms is an ineffective mechanism to employ. Consider this.
[…] I posted a little over two years ago that I thought that Obama’s term in office might bring about the end of racism in this country… not by making America a colorblind land of kumbaya, but by his supporters so overusing the term that it would cease to have any impact. And I think we’re well on the road. Like “The Boy Who Cried Wolf,” Obama’s lackeys are so overusing race baiting that I believe – or at least I hope – most people are getting bored with their bullcrap. Posted by admin at 3:26 pm […]
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