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A friend of a friend of a friend wrote this well written article on his blog that I think speaks to so much of what is posted here on CD and other sites. If you really read it and get the point, I think that we can move past some of the racial innuendo about Pres. Obama and the racial profiling thing.
"Reflect if not for a moment. It was not that long ago when this country was in love with itself. Folks were crying. They were happy. Enemies were provisionally cast aside as mutable roadblocks to progress. The world watched. The world took note. It celebrated with us with the same vigor. Barack Obama’s election to the most powerful position on the planet was sui generis."
What is posted here most of the time isn't about race, it's about ideologues bashing other ideologues. If and when Obama actually fails for the first time will your friend of a friend of a friend actually admit it and blame him or will they play the race card? Racism is passe its all about classism now anyways.
It's as if some black people think that lying about/hating/degradation/mud slinging on a president by the other side did not exist until Obama came around, and even then, it only came around because he's this bi-racial (supposedly, but obviously not, post-racial) president with a funny name.
The real question is --- why do you expect Obama to be treated any differently than his predecssors? Obama brings new and fresh controversies due to his background, but it's not as if he's subject to more hatred or less hatred by the other side .... where was everyone in the 90s with the Clintons? Even GW for the past three or so years? If anything, Obama gets a pass on a lot of gaffes because nobody wants to be the racist that *GASP* criticizes the post-racial One.
All of a sudden..he is black..when it suits him..when he was running..you couldn't mention race, now thats all you hear..I'm not surprised at all..no credibility once more for the libs...
A friend of a friend of a friend wrote this well written article on his blog that I think speaks to so much of what is posted here on CD and other sites. If you really read it and get the point, I think that we can move past some of the racial innuendo about Pres. Obama and the racial profiling thing.
"Reflect if not for a moment. It was not that long ago when this country was in love with itself. Folks were crying. They were happy. Enemies were provisionally cast aside as mutable roadblocks to progress. The world watched. The world took note. It celebrated with us with the same vigor. Barack Obama’s election to the most powerful position on the planet was sui generis."
I don't care from which perspective someone writes about the President, it doesn't change the fact that he's doing a lousy job right now focusing on national healthcare, bailing out banks and brokerages, the auto industry, and getting ready to open the floodgates for amnesty.
The fact that I didn't vote for him doesn't change the reality that he's president right now.
And when it comes down to the bottom line, all I really care about is how this country is managed, and he's not doing such a fantastic job right now. Period.
The article makes a lot of valid points, but I think it would be better if this (and similar articles) at least acknowledged the significant number of white people who do their damnedest to self-search and obliterate racism in themselves and who do speak up against it when racism raises its head in jokes or in conversation when only white people are present. And it IS a significant number.
Of course it's the negative that's going to be focused on--if not for the bad, there would be no reason for these types of articles. But it's getting tiresome when you've done your best all your white life to approach the world with the knowledge and the message that racism is just plain stupid and then read article after article after article about how ALL the white people are racist. And black speakers and writers never seem to get that "White America" is an extremely offensive term, as if all Caucasians in this country are of one mind and manner.
This article seems to embrace some sort of concept that there is a way the non-racist white people can somehow control the racist ones ways of thinking or that we are responsible for what racists do and say. That just doesn't make any sense.
Yes, black people bear the brunt of racism in this country and it must truly suck. Sometimes we white people can see it (as in the case of our NJ State Troopers) and sometimes we can't unless it's pointed out to us, just as non-handicapped people don't count how many steps are in front of a building.
But, like the thousands of white abolitionists who kept writing and speaking and helping slaves escape in the decades before the civil war, and like the white people who supported the civil rights movement so that the 12% of our population who needed those rights would be heard, and the white people who ignored the idiotic remarks of some of their neighbors and relatives and elected Barack Obama because we didn't think his skin tone was a problem, we are the ones who are going to help chip away at these racist incidents and institutionalized mindsets. Don't give us reason not to, please.
This isn't about race. I'm constantly amazed at those who continue to tout themselves as open minded and all inclusive and post racial are the ones who keep throwing the race car at anyone who disagrees with the President's IDEOLOGY. His color is irrevelant. It's his policies that SUCK! People are losing their jobs, their homes, and are making really tough choices right now. They don't give flip about color. Move on already!
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