Asclepias
You miss the point. They DO appreciate what we have in America that is QUITE PRIVILEGED.
They DON'T appreciate being blamed for being white and associated with privilege by RACE.
They are arguing that is equally racist to keep framing them as "representing a larger group" based on skin color.
I think youre missing the point. Where in any of those topics are whites being framed? Are you claiming that merely stating historical facts is racist?
Dear
Asclepias that's what people are saying about Black reactions to things as being racially biased
when they are meant as historical.
People on both sides are taking things to mean pushing a bias either for or against Whites.
Someone brought this up in church on Sunday. That supporting Black Lives Matter was seen as anti-white.
That is the reality we live in, that people on both sides have been jumping on each other this way.
Can't bring up Christianity without people attacking the history and biases associated with white privilege,
especially white men.
Can't bring up the Constitution or the Tea Party without bringing up white racists.
Can't bring up the issue of slavery and the unresolved issue of reparations without
bringing up complaints that Blacks are racist in blaming all Whites for slavery, etc.
Any thing we bring up in this context and the media we have today,
gets framed and answered in terms of the race-baiting politics.
Because we still haven't resolved those issues, so they are still being projected on anything that touches these subjects. Even the Gorilla incident brought up racial issues, and it was only because the animal rights concerns overshadowed everything else, that the race issue stayed minimal. Even with that incident, people projected their racial issues onto because of past fights over racial perceptions and blame projected in media.
I disagree. Saying Black slaves built the WH should have no bias either way. If you are perceiving a bias against or for whites then you have a perception issue and a issue with facts. The facts are that the bulk of the people that built the WH were indeed Black enslaved laborers. Someone getting their feelings hurt because the FLOTUS mentions this is silly beyond all reason.
Dear
Asclepias consider the source and the history.
Obama deliberately targeted and blamed wealthy white conservatives as the greatest threat.
He deliberately pushed for several laws from ACA mandates, to the LGBT agenda
with marriages and now public school bathroom policies,
KNOWING these violate the beliefs of "the opposition"
Neither Obama has tried to remedy this, but instead resorted
to acts of "REVENGE" to treat it as a war with the enemy by political bullying.
So
Asclepias given that context of beliefs coming out of this White House they have expressed before,
THAT is why that comment is taken as negative!
Once you set up the sides to be hostile, anything said is going to be interpreted in that context. The Obama's
set it up that way to use this strategy politically. So once you choose that way of winning at the expense of demonizing another group, that is going to stay with you.
When did Obama target and blame wealthy white conservatives as the greatest threat? If he did I agree but I dont recall him saying anything like that.
What does ACA and LGBT have to do with race directly?
No one set up anything to be hostile. As i recall Obama pledged to work across the aisle but white conservatives were instead hell bent on destroying him. Does the disrespectful phrase "you lie" ring any bells?
1. He "lied" by saying he would work across the aisle and support consensus,
but then he pushed ACA against the express dissent of half of Congress and the nation
representing creeds he excluded and penalized with the mandates that were clearly contested.
So he either "lied" or changed his mind and used political strategy to coerce, instead of real consensus.
2. There were at least references, maybe I combined them as one
a. one is the reference to rightwing extremists being more of a threat to the nation that Jihadist terrorists
CNN reports the Obama administration has named a national security threat it believes is more dangerous than even the Islamic State terrorists beheading, crucifying and burning innocent human beings: Right-wing extremists.
b. The other was a softer reference to wealthy conservatives being the enemy
He even apologized when he was criticized for alienating and demonizing fellow citizens as enemies.
I will try to look that one up. He did acknowledge and apologize, but actions speak louder than words.
The hostility and damage done is two sided, and is not something you can just blame on the people
reacting to him and his actions. The most conciliatory remarks I have heard him say is asking fellow
liberals to be considerate of the gun culture that is a strong tradition in this country and to respect that.
Those words went overlooked as Bush when he addressed the need to support former inmates assimilating back into society who deserved support to become productive citizens. Whenever these Presidents have said something on the side of common ground, somehow that gets overrun by all the polarizing politics.
Not backing down on ACA and failing to recognize the fatal flaws with those mandates
was not only partisan politicking but a breach of Constitutional duty to protect rights beliefs
and liberties of all citizens equally. That breach has not ever been acknowledged much less
corrected; and even the Conservatives called out Judge Roberts for not striking that down.
So Obama made "enemies" all right, but by his own actions in office, and has not been
seen except as pushing political agenda instead of putting Constitutional duty first.
Whatever you paint that bias with, blaming it on his Black, liberal, Democratic, Muslim,
Communist influences etc., it was his own failure to enforce Constitutional protections of citizens
that got him so divided from the conservatives who were betrayed even by their own reps
in Congress and Courts, they are not going to come back from that until these issues are resolved.
the context is already set up to fail,
Asclepias and these conflicts would have to be
resolved directly between parties to stop the war of words and ideology in the media over these things.
