It's a Great Time to Be Racist

[Wicked Jester]

Obama and Racism: How Else to Explain the Insults?

Let's face it: There's only one explanation for some of the attacks on President Obama.

Racists have officially lost their minds. In recent weeks, the venom spewed at President Barack Obama would leave one to believe that we are in the midst of a racist renaissance. "A dick," "jackass," "tar baby, "your boy" -- you name it and the president has been called it. For some reason, some people are so enraged by how this country is purportedly being run that they cannot separate a real critique of the president's decisions from mean-spirited name-calling related to his race.

Yes, the country that likes to pretend that it is far removed from its racist past has engaged in the verbal equivalent of a throwback jersey. Some people have reached far back into that Reconstruction-era closet, pulled out that dingy jersey adorned with racial slurs, shaken it out and put it on proudly. Elected officials have reduced themselves to behaving like petulant children, storming in and out of meetings and running to the media to lob personal attacks at the president, then offering lame apologies shortly afterward.

Is this the postracial era that so many people theorized about following the election of the nation's first black president? Try post-Reconstruction, because the harmful slurs and images being tossed around the Internet and in public spaces hark back more to a racist past than to a racially ambiguous future.

It's not surprising that President Obama is being received in such a way.

No, it's really not surprising. But they'll keep denying it - and they'll keep attacking him.

Wow! All this from the Board's Biggest Bigot !

Don't you have a box of Ding-Dongs to attend to in that trailer of yours ?

She had a box o' Ding-Dongs.....Unfortunately, the roaches and rats went on a raid.....Really, they did. Saw it on "Billy The Exterminator" last week.

 

[Sallow]

Lincoln was a republican!!and you can not be a racist because you are black!!!i don't hear many libbs challenging your views!!....your IQ is around 70

Lincoln was also a very liberal lawyer.

Lincoln was also what was at the time called "neutral" on the race issue, until the last couple years of the civil war. For most of his life, he believed it should be left alone where it was, just not allowed to expand to other territories.

True.

But he was against slavery and initially wanted to have black people leave the country after they were freed.

Needless to say..his view matured a great deal.

Early in his presidency, Abraham Lincoln tried repeatedly to arrange resettlement of the kind the ACS supported, but each arrangement failed (See Abraham Lincoln on slavery). By 1863, following the use of black troops, most scholars believe that Lincoln abandoned the idea. Biographer Stephen B. Oates has observed that Lincoln thought it immoral to ask black soldiers to fight for the US and then to remove them to Africa after their military service. Others, such as the historian Michael Lind, believe that as late 1864 or 1865, Lincoln continued to hold out hope for colonization, noting that he allegedly asked Attorney general Edward Bates if the Reverend James Mitchell could stay on as "your assistant or aid in the matter of executing the several acts of Congress relating to the emigration or colonizing of the freed Blacks."[16] Mitchell, a former state director of the ACS in Indiana, had been appointed by Lincoln in 1862 to oversee the government's colonization programs. In his second term as president, on April 11, 1865, Lincoln gave a speech supporting suffrage for blacks.

American Colonization Society - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

That's part and parcel with Liberalism. Your views are subject to change if a better idea comes along.

 

[Patrick2]

Lincoln was also a very liberal lawyer.

Lincoln was also what was at the time called "neutral" on the race issue, until the last couple years of the civil war. For most of his life, he believed it should be left alone where it was, just not allowed to expand to other territories.

True.

But he was against slavery and initially wanted to have black people leave the country after they were freed.

Needless to say..his view matured a great deal.

Early in his presidency, Abraham Lincoln tried repeatedly to arrange resettlement of the kind the ACS supported, but each arrangement failed (See Abraham Lincoln on slavery). By 1863, following the use of black troops, most scholars believe that Lincoln abandoned the idea. Biographer Stephen B. Oates has observed that Lincoln thought it immoral to ask black soldiers to fight for the US and then to remove them to Africa after their military service. Others, such as the historian Michael Lind, believe that as late 1864 or 1865, Lincoln continued to hold out hope for colonization, noting that he allegedly asked Attorney general Edward Bates if the Reverend James Mitchell could stay on as "your assistant or aid in the matter of executing the several acts of Congress relating to the emigration or colonizing of the freed Blacks."[16] Mitchell, a former state director of the ACS in Indiana, had been appointed by Lincoln in 1862 to oversee the government's colonization programs. In his second term as president, on April 11, 1865, Lincoln gave a speech supporting suffrage for blacks.

American Colonization Society - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

That's part and parcel with Liberalism. Your views are subject to change if a better idea comes along.

I happen to have just been reading about this lately in James McPherson's excellent civil war history. Lincoln gave up on the resettlement idea mainly because black leaders were cold to the idea and wouldn't support it - not because he changed his ideas. Of course then he saw the need for equal rights since they weren't going to leave. An aside: as much as blacks have a permanent gripe fest about the US, even in the immediate aftermath of the end of slavery, they had no desire to leave this country.

 

[Sallow]

Lincoln was also what was at the time called "neutral" on the race issue, until the last couple years of the civil war. For most of his life, he believed it should be left alone where it was, just not allowed to expand to other territories.

True.

But he was against slavery and initially wanted to have black people leave the country after they were freed.

Needless to say..his view matured a great deal.

Early in his presidency, Abraham Lincoln tried repeatedly to arrange resettlement of the kind the ACS supported, but each arrangement failed (See Abraham Lincoln on slavery). By 1863, following the use of black troops, most scholars believe that Lincoln abandoned the idea. Biographer Stephen B. Oates has observed that Lincoln thought it immoral to ask black soldiers to fight for the US and then to remove them to Africa after their military service. Others, such as the historian Michael Lind, believe that as late 1864 or 1865, Lincoln continued to hold out hope for colonization, noting that he allegedly asked Attorney general Edward Bates if the Reverend James Mitchell could stay on as "your assistant or aid in the matter of executing the several acts of Congress relating to the emigration or colonizing of the freed Blacks."[16] Mitchell, a former state director of the ACS in Indiana, had been appointed by Lincoln in 1862 to oversee the government's colonization programs. In his second term as president, on April 11, 1865, Lincoln gave a speech supporting suffrage for blacks.

American Colonization Society - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

That's part and parcel with Liberalism. Your views are subject to change if a better idea comes along.

I happen to have just been reading about this lately in James McPherson's excellent civil war history. Lincoln gave up on the resettlement idea mainly because black leaders were cold to the idea and wouldn't support it - not because he changed his ideas. Of course then he saw the need for equal rights since they weren't going to leave. An aside: as much as blacks have a permanent gripe fest about the US, even in the immediate aftermath of the end of slavery, they had no desire to leave this country.

Why would they?

They are as American as anyone else.

Conservatives bitch about shit all the time..none of them are leaving either.

 

[California Girl]

Lincoln was also a very liberal lawyer.

Lincoln was also what was at the time called "neutral" on the race issue, until the last couple years of the civil war. For most of his life, he believed it should be left alone where it was, just not allowed to expand to other territories.

True.

But he was against slavery and initially wanted to have black people leave the country after they were freed.

Needless to say..his view matured a great deal.

Early in his presidency, Abraham Lincoln tried repeatedly to arrange resettlement of the kind the ACS supported, but each arrangement failed (See Abraham Lincoln on slavery). By 1863, following the use of black troops, most scholars believe that Lincoln abandoned the idea. Biographer Stephen B. Oates has observed that Lincoln thought it immoral to ask black soldiers to fight for the US and then to remove them to Africa after their military service. Others, such as the historian Michael Lind, believe that as late 1864 or 1865, Lincoln continued to hold out hope for colonization, noting that he allegedly asked Attorney general Edward Bates if the Reverend James Mitchell could stay on as "your assistant or aid in the matter of executing the several acts of Congress relating to the emigration or colonizing of the freed Blacks."[16] Mitchell, a former state director of the ACS in Indiana, had been appointed by Lincoln in 1862 to oversee the government's colonization programs. In his second term as president, on April 11, 1865, Lincoln gave a speech supporting suffrage for blacks.

American Colonization Society - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

That's part and parcel with Liberalism. Your views are subject to change if a better idea comes along.

 

[California Girl]

True.

But he was against slavery and initially wanted to have black people leave the country after they were freed.

Needless to say..his view matured a great deal.



That's part and parcel with Liberalism. Your views are subject to change if a better idea comes along.

I happen to have just been reading about this lately in James McPherson's excellent civil war history. Lincoln gave up on the resettlement idea mainly because black leaders were cold to the idea and wouldn't support it - not because he changed his ideas. Of course then he saw the need for equal rights since they weren't going to leave. An aside: as much as blacks have a permanent gripe fest about the US, even in the immediate aftermath of the end of slavery, they had no desire to leave this country.

Why would they?

They are as American as anyone else.

Conservatives bitch about shit all the time..none of them are leaving either.

Wow, you really have lost your grip on reality. Seriously. I know I shouldn't laugh but.... really? This is your response?

 

[Patrick2]

True.

But he was against slavery and initially wanted to have black people leave the country after they were freed.

Needless to say..his view matured a great deal.



That's part and parcel with Liberalism. Your views are subject to change if a better idea comes along.

I happen to have just been reading about this lately in James McPherson's excellent civil war history. Lincoln gave up on the resettlement idea mainly because black leaders were cold to the idea and wouldn't support it - not because he changed his ideas. Of course then he saw the need for equal rights since they weren't going to leave. An aside: as much as blacks have a permanent gripe fest about the US, even in the immediate aftermath of the end of slavery, they had no desire to leave this country.

Why would they?

They are as American as anyone else.

Conservatives bitch about shit all the time..none of them are leaving either.

Blacks' bitching is fundamental bitching - look at Salt. They'll endlessly say that racism is in the warp and woof of the US, that Washington owned slaves, that Lincoln was a racist, the constitution is racist, they face racism every day of their lives, etc etc etc, whereas conservatives point out the irrationality of specific leftwing policies.

 

[del]

Always racist, never ignorant.

Yes I do "get to define what a microcosm of the tea party/republican thinking is", I just did. Racist white tea party/republicans with their long and tenuous history of racism in this country "make a mockery" of crying about being victims of racism. If life was fair being accused of racism would be the least of your victimology.

Lincoln was a republican!!and you can not be a racist because you are black!!!i don't hear many libbs challenging your views!!....your IQ is around 70

Lincoln was also a very liberal lawyer.

sure thing

 

[California Girl]

Lincoln was a republican!!and you can not be a racist because you are black!!!i don't hear many libbs challenging your views!!....your IQ is around 70

Lincoln was also a very liberal lawyer.

sure thing

It's funny how the liberals seem to think they own everyone in US history (possibly even world history) who ever did anything decent. Odd, very, very odd.

 

[Patrick2]

Lincoln was, with washington, one of the greatest two presidents this country ever had, and immensely helped blacks. The people who with 20-20 hindsight go over his record with a Pee See microscope 146 years later and evaluate him against 21st century standards are imbeciles.

 

[hortysir]

Lincoln was, with washington, one of the greatest two presidents this country ever had, and immensely helped blacks. The people who with 20-20 hindsight go over his record with a Pee See microscope 146 years later and evaluate him against 21st century standards are imbeciles.

If I could preserve the Union without freeing a single slave I would do it.

 

[Two Thumbs]

Leftist are such spoiled little children.

they go around looking for insults constantly and when they think they see one they can twist, they run to mommy media and cry about what meanies the right is.

You are all an embarassment to adulthood.

 

[California Girl]

Actually BD has a point (which I am sure was quite serendipitous) in that it really is a good time to be a racist. The left spend so much energy creating faux racism allegations against anyone who disagrees with them that the real racists can go about their racism unchallenged. I would like to congratulate the left on this. They have made the label 'racist' into something meaningless. The law of unintended consequences in action.