Fear of a black president

[driveby]

I voted for him, but only for the white half ...........

 

[xotoxi]

I'm not sure why that picture is considered a FAIL.

Anytime I get one into the bowl I consider it a SUCCESS!

 

[xotoxi]

I voted for him, but only for the white half ...........

Biden?

 

[LibocalypseNow]

It's a like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde scenario with the Leftist nutters. They only seem to want to talk about the African American (Mr. Hyde) half of Barack Obama. They always exclude his White (Dr. Jekyll) half from the conversation. The man is both black & white. It's time for the Leftist nutters to accept this and stop all the Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde race-baiting stuff. If you're going to talk about this President then you have to accept that he is both black & white. End of story.

 

[Againsheila]

It's a like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde scenario with the Leftist nutters. They only seem to want to talk about the African American (Mr. Hyde) half of Barack Obama. They always exclude his White (Dr. Jekyll) half from the conversation. The man is both black & white. It's time for the Leftist nutters to accept this and stop all the Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde race-baiting stuff. If you're going to talk about this President then you have to accept that he is both black & white. End of story.

Why? He doesn't accept his white 1/2, why should his followers?

 

[Zoom-boing]

“But these folks shouting at the President won’t blame Bush, in large part because Bush is a white man. Obama is black, blacks are inferior and can’t do anything right, so in their thinking, he is to blame for it,” Poussaint said.


Has Fear of a Black President Driven Some White People Crazy? | The Defenders Online | A Civil Rights Blog

This mentality (the bolded) is perpetuated by many blacks and as long as they see themselves as 'less' or 'victims' they will continue to see racism where it doesn't exist. Don't misunderstand . . . there are still those, both blacks and whites, who are and will be racists. But the majority? Nope. If that were true Obama wouldn't have won.

Have to laugh as race, once again, is brought up by the left. What a fail.

 

[LibocalypseNow]

When in doubt??...Play that Race Card baby!

 

[Some Guy]

I'd like to see how any liberal would explain how Obama, a black president, got elected in this wildly racist nation of ours. I mean, there's no way any white people could've voted for him? You know, white people being racists and all.

It's just like anything in the news. One person or a small group of people do something out of the ordinary, it garners attention because it's out of ordinary. Racism definitely exists but not nearly as much as some people would have you believe, as evidenced by Obama's election into the highest office. So, let's leave it alone already.

 

[Rinata]

Except for several others, the majority of posts responding to this thread have been from people that Maureen Dowd calls "the loco fringe".

I’ve been loath to admit that the shrieking lunacy of the summer — the frantic efforts to paint our first black president as the Other, a foreigner, socialist, fascist, Marxist, racist, Commie, Nazi; a cad who would snuff old people; a snake who would indoctrinate kids — had much to do with race.

I tended to agree with some Obama advisers that Democratic presidents typically have provoked a frothing response from paranoids — from Father Coughlin against F.D.R. to Joe McCarthy against Truman to the John Birchers against J.F.K. and the vast right-wing conspiracy against Bill Clinton.

But Wilson’s shocking disrespect for the office of the president — no Democrat ever shouted “liar” at W. when he was hawking a fake case for war in Iraq — convinced me: Some people just can’t believe a black man is president and will never accept it.
Barry Obama of the post-’60s Hawaiian ’hood did not live through the major racial struggles in American history. Maybe he had a problem relating to his white basketball coach or catching a cab in New York, but he never got beaten up for being black.

Now he’s at the center of a period of racial turbulence sparked by his ascension. Even if he and the coterie of white male advisers around him don’t choose to openly acknowledge it, this president is the ultimate civil rights figure — a black man whose legitimacy is constantly challenged by a loco fringe.
For two centuries, the South has feared a takeover by blacks or the feds. In Obama, they have both.

The state that fired the first shot of the Civil War has now given us this: Senator Jim DeMint exhorted conservatives to “break” the president by upending his health care plan. Rusty DePass, a G.O.P. activist, said that a gorilla that escaped from a zoo was “just one of Michelle’s ancestors.” Lovelorn Mark Sanford tried to refuse the president’s stimulus money. And now Joe Wilson.

“A good many people in South Carolina really reject the notion that we’re part of the union,” said Don Fowler, the former Democratic Party chief who teaches politics at the University of South Carolina. He observed that when slavery was destroyed by outside forces and segregation was undone by civil rights leaders and Congress, it bred xenophobia.


http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/13/opinion/13dowd.html

Why did I choose to address this today?? Because I'm sick of you people hiding behind your racism and pretending it is everything but what it is. A black man has no business being our president, in your eyes. Tough. Grow up and deal with it.

 

[Gadawg73]

An attorney I work for is black and gay and he is against Obama's POLICIES.
Too much going on there.
The left and right are so hung up on "I disagree with their policies so they are a very bad person".
But the fact does remain that MANY have a problem with a black President. To ignore that is absurd.
The absurd death panel, born in Kenya, he is a Muslim accusations that go on and on and on and on and on and on.
This mentality has spread to the churches as well.
Sad state of affairs when preachers get up in church and condemn a President.

 

[driveby]

I voted for him, but only for the white half ...........

Biden?

Isn't he the real brains behind this operation ? ........

 

[Some Guy]

Why did I choose to address this today?? Because I'm sick of you people hiding behind your racism and pretending it is everything but what it is. A black man has no business being our president, in your eyes. Tough. Grow up and deal with it.

I've had plenty of black friends throughout my childhood and even today. I've never looked at Obama as some crazy black man, just a crazy liberal who's policies aren't good for America, same as Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid.

So, fuck you for calling me a racist.

 

[xsited1]

Whether people admit it or not, it exists and is going to be a big problem for this country. There are so many articles on this topic. I like this one by Alvin F. Poussaint, M.D., of Harvard Medical School. Here is some of what he said:

These days, the political climate has renewed the sense of urgency around the question of extreme racism as a form of mental illness. The red-faced freak-outs by many of the whites who turned up at Town Hall meetings around the nation through August, Poussaint said, are indications that conscious and subconscious racist beliefs among some whites have found a ready repository in the form of the 44th President.

“It is not rational, but they see America as ‘their country,’ which translates in their minds that this President is not legitimate,” Poussaint explained. “If they are unemployed, if they are struggling to keep their families together, they will blame Obama instead of Bush, even though it is obvious that the Bush Administration was actually in charge when the economy went bad.

“But these folks shouting at the President won’t blame Bush, in large part because Bush is a white man. Obama is black, blacks are inferior and can’t do anything right, so in their thinking, he is to blame for it,” Poussaint said.

Misplaced anxiety and anger over lost jobs, or diminished finances or perceived threats to one’s safety by a political changing of the guard, appear to be exacerbating in those who previously managed to keep racist opinions or beliefs in check, Poussaint said. And when we decline to accurately identify this misplaced animosity as racism, or to write it off merely as “partisan politics,” it is not just foolhardy, it is potentially dangerous, Poussaint said.

With an eye focused perhaps on the increasing volatility of “partisan politics,” President Obama said recently that he doesn’t think that racism is the main instigator of the anti-health care reform protests. But Poussaint says that now is not the time to be in denial about the potential harm that extreme racism can visit upon the American body politic.

“President Obama has been subjected to more death threats than any president in history,” Poussaint said. “Gun sales went way up after his election, and they continue to climb. You had an elected Congressman [Rep. Joe Wilson, a South Carolina Republican] calling the President a liar in the middle of a formal speech! Since when has anything like that ever happened? And you actually have other elected officials defend the Congressman who acted out so disrespectfully against the president,” Poussaint said. Not in the case of Wilson’s outburst, but in general, “after a point, this sort of thing can become delusional thinking,” Poussaint told TheDefendersOnline. “And the danger grows once the individual reaches the point where they think the only way to solve the perceived ‘problem” is to kill the person they believe is causing it.”

With a black man leading the U.S. for the first time in history, we have to be unafraid to ask hard questions in this regard: Are whites who rail against President Obama driven crazy by racism? And might they be considered dangerous?

Has Fear of a Black President Driven Some White People Crazy? | The Defenders Online | A Civil Rights Blog

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[Some Guy]

An attorney I work for is black and gay and he is against Obama's POLICIES.
Too much going on there.
The left and right are so hung up on "I disagree with their policies so they are a very bad person".
But the fact does remain that MANY have a problem with a black President. To ignore that is absurd.
The absurd death panel, born in Kenya, he is a Muslim accusations that go on and on and on and on and on and on.
This mentality has spread to the churches as well.
Sad state of affairs when preachers get up in church and condemn a President.

...and there's some black people out there that have a problem with white people altogether. So what? These kinda of people are the minority, they just get attention on the news because the news reports stuff that's controversial or out of the ordinary.

 

[RadiomanATL]

So all opposition by white people to Obama is racist.

Go find a new song. This old saw is tired worn out bullshit.

No ....but all posters on USMB that call themselves RadiomanATL today are ass munching morons... ALL OF THEM!!!!

I'm a moron for calling Palin blow-dried idiot, for saying that the invasion of Iraq was bullshit, and calling BS on falsely whining about racism?

Those have been my positions today so far. Which one do you disagree with?

 

[LibocalypseNow]

Both sides have a hateful lunatic fringe and to claim that only one side has this,is just plain dishonest and hypocritical. The Leftist nutters used to actually resort to calling George Bush's daughters "Drunken Whores" for God's sake. They have been incredibly vicious to Sarah Palin's children as well. So both sides have a lot of hate. This President is both Black & White. This a fact that seems to get conveniently forgotten by the usual suspects. I think he's a bad President because his policies are awful. Race doesn't have anything to do with it. I think most people who criticize this President feel the same way. Lets stop claiming that only one side has a hateful lunatic fringe though.

 

[The Rabbi]

I wonder if world renowned child Psychologist, Alvin F. Poussaint, has ever done a study about how black people will vote for and follow like lemmings, any person running for office that kind of looks like them.......... regardless of their obvious lack of knowledge, experience or qualification for the job. I would love to see how this dildo would spin that.

Provide evidence to back up your claims.

You want proof that Sitarro has wondered all this??

I am only aware of one politician (maybe two) who were white who got elected running against blacks in predominantly black areas. Steve Cohen of Memphis is one.

 

[Sinatra]

This thread is a total fail!!!

 

[sitarro]

I wonder if world renowned child Psychologist, Alvin F. Poussaint, has ever done a study about how black people will vote for and follow like lemmings, any person running for office that kind of looks like them.......... regardless of their obvious lack of knowledge, experience or qualification for the job. I would love to see how this dildo would spin that.

Provide evidence to back up your claims.

You want proof that Sitarro has wondered all this??

I am only aware of one politician (maybe two) who were white who got elected running against blacks in predominantly black areas. Steve Cohen of Memphis is one.

Houston just elected a well known white lesbian as Mayor over a black candidate, liberal lesbian trumped conservative black. There is a large homosexual/lesbian community in the city and they, like blacks, vote like lemmings for their "own kind". Most blacks I've known think that conservative blacks are traitors to their race, I witnessed this type of talk in a room full of black guys at work....... I was amazed to listen to the shit they said about him during a debate.

 

[Againsheila]

An attorney I work for is black and gay and he is against Obama's POLICIES.
Too much going on there.
The left and right are so hung up on "I disagree with their policies so they are a very bad person".
But the fact does remain that MANY have a problem with a black President. To ignore that is absurd.
The absurd death panel, born in Kenya, he is a Muslim accusations that go on and on and on and on and on and on.
This mentality has spread to the churches as well.
Sad state of affairs when preachers get up in church and condemn a President.

Ironic, isn't it? Considering Obama's own preacher of more than 20 years said "God Damn America!"