@79. AThinkingPerson:
“Isn’t it great that all we heard about was RACE during the election (as in if you disagree with Obama you’re a RACIST) and now we can’t even bring up RACE in regards to Obama?”
Perhaps your choice of news outlet was focused on certain aspects of the campaign that were less important to others. Racism was a problem in the election, but Obama was popular enough to overcome that handicap. Most estimates put the impact of racism at less than 15% of voters.
“Obama has taken race relations back 20 years.”
Only in your mind, you deep thinker. Obama has, in reality, brought hope to an entire generation of Americans (and others) of all colors, who had begun to doubt the commitment of America to her deepest values. Any setback in race relations can be laid at the feet of the folks who have been fanning the flames of religious and ethnic hatred from the far right. There is nothing Obama has done to justify your apparent disdain, except to acknowledge his heritage. How is he the racist?
It seems much more plausible that the GOP would like to take race relations back 40 years by playing petty politics with a Supreme Court nomination. This effort will fail, because the younger generations truly have a completely different perspective on race. The white racist culture that dominates the GOP is simply not a long-term winner.
Peace.
DS
