Fear of a black president

[Flaylo]

All critcism against Obama by whites is inherently not racist and accurately reflects the genuine feeling of non racist whites against Obama's policies. After the election of Obama all whites became colorblind, concerned American citizens, to even suggest that any of the criticism against Barack Obama is borne out of racism is a slap in the face to all white and the blacks are the real racists for pointing out what is obvious to most observers.

 

[Yukon]

Republicans are racist and they are cowards. Cowards because they do not have the courage to admit to their bias.

 

[Flaylo]

Why are liberals so obsessed with race? It's just not something I care about that in a representative.

He's half black. Why on earth does it matter? Even if he was of English-Irish descent, I would oppose his agenda because it doesnt help this nation.

Its a good excuse for his inabilty, claim its all racism.

Funny thing is, I'm now hearing blacks who not only voted for him, but campaigned for him, saying he's not black after all....

The whites who hate Obama are very racist because they only hate his black half and not his white half, why don't they ever hate his white half when they talk about him?

 

[Yukon]

"... why don't they ever hate his white half when they talk about him"

Because it was the white-half that they voted for.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Republicans are racist and they are cowards. Cowards because they do not have the courage to admit to their bias.

Go fuck a goat

 

[CrusaderFrank]

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.

You don't know how Wright you are, dawg.

Thank God you're here!!!

Pure Genius!!!

 

[Flaylo]

So all opposition by white people to Obama is racist.

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

So all the opposition to white people who hate Obama is hysteria, I bet you're the type of person to spray perfume on shit and call it roses and say people have no sense of smell and no sight for saying otherwise, is that correct John Wayne?

 

[Flaylo]

"... why don't they ever hate his white half when they talk about him"

Because it was the white-half that they voted for.

That's racist, aarghhhh!

 

[Flaylo]

Our President is half white as well. Something the sad Leftist Race-Baiters continue to conveniently forget. Leftist wingnuts never let the facts get in the way of their stale Race-Baiting. Par for the course for them i guess. Pretty sad stuff.

Hey bud, excuse my ignorance, but our President is half white as well. Something the sad Right wing Race-Baiters like Glenn Beck who says Obama hates white people continue to conveniently forget. Right wingnuts never let the facts get in the way of their stale Race-Baiting. Par for the course for them I guess. Pretty sad stuff.

 

[Gatekeeper]

Personally I don't give a 'Krap' who, what color, what religion, what weight, height or looks of anyone in leadership positions in the USA, as long as they are HONEST for one, and uphold the freedoms, rights and values of the people of the USA, and of course others, but the USA first.

I am not invoking religion for the simple reason that basically every human being on the planet for the most part just wants to live in peace and raise a family regardless of what belief they subscribe too, or deity or deities. They,We, have to lighten up on our personal values regarding the religions of others and accept the fact that people subscribe to different flavors in daily living and stop the 'being offended' nonsense of others who have been brought up in various environmental and Sociological backgrounds.

That's another of my 2¢

 

[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.

Here's the part I don't get. Won't never get.. Obama,, White mamma, black daddy and you guys claim he's black,, well, isn't that racism? what about his white?? I think you are a damned racist.

When people see a man that is black, he is considered black by blacks and whites. I can't believe you had to have that explained to you. No, that is not racism. It's just the way it is.

 

[RadiomanATL]

So all opposition by white people to Obama is racist.

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

So all the opposition to white people who hate Obama is hysteria,

Nope. More like a mix of blind partisanship, true ideological differences of opinion, and just plain stupidity.

My bet is that you fall in the third category.

 

[Againsheila]

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.

Here's the part I don't get. Won't never get.. Obama,, White mamma, black daddy and you guys claim he's black,, well, isn't that racism? what about his white?? I think you are a damned racist.

When people see a man that is black, he is considered black by blacks and whites. I can't believe you had to have that explained to you. No, that is not racism. It's just the way it is.

Have you taken a good look at Obama? He sure doesn't look "black" to me...he's more fair than my sister and she's "white".

 

[Bass v 2.0]

Here's the part I don't get. Won't never get.. Obama,, White mamma, black daddy and you guys claim he's black,, well, isn't that racism? what about his white?? I think you are a damned racist.

When people see a man that is black, he is considered black by blacks and whites. I can't believe you had to have that explained to you. No, that is not racism. It's just the way it is.

Have you taken a good look at Obama? He sure doesn't look "black" to me...he's more fair than my sister and she's "white".

Stupid, Obama is not a full blowns sub-Saharan African just as most African Americans aren't, whats next, Beyonce is not black? Since when was being black in America based on how black you are excpet if you were one of the people who look like they could "pass" for white? That whas the whole purpose of the one-drop rule, created by whites to keep such "passers" from diluting the white American genepool and with it, every person with blaqck ancestry, not matter how much, became "black." Obama doesn't look like a passer and there are some non-biracial Americans who are lighter than he is.


Again, it was your white American ancestors who created that silly one-drop rule and now its funny how you flip it around to call black people racist for identifying Obama as black, not to mention that he too identifies as black but has said repeatedly millions of damn times that he has non-black ancestry because his mom is white, you'll have to clue the Bass in as to why you're wasting posts arguing over this insignificant point.


Obama looks perfectly within the range of normal African Americans, its only African Americans like these that are ambiguous:

Again, the purpose of the one drop rule was to keep people like the above from diluting the white American genepool as well from keeping such people from enjoying the same rights as whites people like Obama don't look close to those two above people.

Damn he looks "whiter" than your sister, are you sure your sister is real "white?"

 

[Yukon]

President Obama is only half-coloured. From the neck up he is obviously white.

 

[Flaylo]

So all opposition by white people to Obama is racist.

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

So all the opposition to white people who hate Obama is hysteria,

Nope. More like a mix of blind partisanship, true ideological differences of opinion, and just plain stupidity.

My bet is that you fall in the third category.

Thanks for the tips RadiomanATL, I wasn't fully alert and aware that its the blacks and liberals that are to blame here. They don't have any grounds for believing that some of criticism against my CINC Barack Obama is due to racism. We live in the 21st century where whites are no longer racist and black people shouldn't be so pretentious and sensitive to every fucking thing thats said about them. Thanks for the tips.

 

[Flaylo]

When people see a man that is black, he is considered black by blacks and whites. I can't believe you had to have that explained to you. No, that is not racism. It's just the way it is.

You ungrateful fucking negress, why can't you see that whites are the best thing that ever happened to blacks? Your people were taken from the fucking jungles of darkest Africa and made into slaves to be worked from dusk til dawn and to be raped and whipped at will, in Africa it was more fucked up. You were given the worst of everything that America has to offer, can't you fucking see that its better than anything in the jungles of Africa? When we white people say that all the attacks has nothing to do with racism we're giving you more of best that we have to offer, but your ungrateful ****** ass just cannot fucking see this.

 

[saveliberty]

0bama is a mass of contradictions. He looks black, but is half white. He appears to be the leader of the free world, but hasn't a clue (just ask some NY Times writers). His education would lead you to believe he was smart, but reality is quite the opposite.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

When I look at Obama I don't see a black man, this is what I see

 

[Oddball]

According to the L.A. Times, hardly a co-conspirator in the VRWC, it's a coin toss as to whether he's "black enough".

But it's clear that Obama also is running for an equally important unelected office, in the province of the popular imagination -- the "Magic Negro."

The Magic Negro is a figure of postmodern folk culture, coined by snarky 20th century sociologists, to explain a cultural figure who emerged in the wake of Brown vs. Board of Education. "He has no past, he simply appears one day to help the white protagonist," reads the description on Wikipedia http://en.-wikipedia.org/wiki/Magical_Negro.

He's there to assuage white "guilt" (i.e., the minimal discomfort they feel) over the role of slavery and racial segregation in American history, while replacing stereotypes of a dangerous, highly sexualized black man with a benign figure for whom interracial sexual congress holds no interest.

As might be expected, this figure is chiefly cinematic -- embodied by such noted performers as Sidney Poitier, Morgan Freeman, Scatman Crothers, Michael Clarke Duncan, Will Smith and, most recently, Don Cheadle. And that's not to mention a certain basketball player whose very nickname is "Magic."

`Magic Negro' returns - Los Angeles Times