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It's not until someone starts whining about how O is an "affirmative action" president, or that he practices "reverse discrimination" or the like that I think their disagreement has racial overtones.
While I can understand being suspicious of the "affirmative action president" comment, I don't see how a person saying they feel Obama is racist makes them a racist. They may simply be misunderstanding some of our president's intentions. Questioning whether or not someone else is racist does not automatically make you a racist yourself. Also, why are we using the term "reverse racism" It's simply racism. It doesn't matter who it is aimed at. Using the word "reverse" implies that a person of color who displays racist tendencies is only doing so to combat the "real" racism from others. It's just racism people, there is nothing reversed about it, and there are racist people of all ethnic backgrounds. White people do not own that corner of the market.
That being said, I personally have never felt Obama was a racist.
At least he does a relatively fair job of sounding intelligent and appearing unbiased. Most posters here aren't so good at it (especially the ones on the right).
While I can understand being suspicious of the "affirmative action president" comment, I don't see how a person saying they feel Obama is racist makes them a racist. They may simply be misunderstanding some of our president's intentions. Questioning whether or not someone else is racist does not automatically make you a racist yourself. Also, why are we using the term "reverse racism" It's simply racism. It doesn't matter who it is aimed at. Using the word "reverse" implies that a person of color who displays racist tendencies is only doing so to combat the "real" racism from others. It's just racism people, there is nothing reversed about it, and there are racist people of all ethnic backgrounds. White people do not own that corner of the market.
That being said, I personally have never felt Obama was a racist.
It seems to me that the people that I know personally who are supposedly concerned about "reverse discrimination", etc, are racists. The rest of my friends/relatives/acquaintences aren't looking for racial overtones in every thing Obama does.
mr obama has many enemies skin tone is a minor issue.
DOD is a huge issue. they want people in office that support them so does AMA.
so same battle as clinton, 2 biggest kids on the block are ready to fight him.
I suspect there are specific posters that are racist in their motivations, but I don't think anyone extrapolates that to say that "all who oppose Obama are racist".
I think you're extrapolating from contextual situations to genralities that do not exist.
At least he does a relatively fair job of sounding intelligent and appearing unbiased. Most posters here aren't so good at it (especially the ones on the right).
What? So, people who fight against racism are racist??? That makes no sense.
It's the people who are FOR affirm-action and quotas that are the professional racists, some of them studied the law and got PhDs in the stuff to push it (um, like Obama and Sotomayor did).
The people I know personally, who are so concerned with "reverse discrimination" every time a minority gets into a grad school, or even college, or gets a job that they didn't get, etc, ARE RACISTS. I am talking about people I know personally. There is no evidence that Obama got anything by AA. I don't know about Sotomayor.
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