During the presidential campaign, Barack Obama’s supporters promised that his election would allow America to “transcend race.” Among the headlines:
The Boston Globe: “Obama shows an ability to transcend race”
AdvertisementThe Atlanta Journal-Constitution: “Obama’s success suggests we can transcend race”
But of course that hasn’t happened.
Sorry, John, but everything has happened according to plan. Enough white people transcended the President’s race long enough to get him elected.
Now if you didn’t vote for him, you were always a racist. If you’re losing faith in him, you’re becoming a racist.
And while I doubt the President is any more of a racist than most folks who voted for McCain or Barr or whoever, it’s increasingly obvious that Obama never has transcended race, never plans to transcend race, and in fact finds it an invaluable tool for silencing his critics.
Only it doesn’t seem to be working nearly as well as it used to, and certainly not as well as Obama needs it to. So we might not have transcended race, but more and more people seem willing to transcend false charges of racism.
“but more and more people seem willing to transcend false charges of racism.”
Maybe so but those that do are always going to be called racists anyway by the left, the democrats and by those who should know enough about racism to not engage in it.
The American Blacks.
Except for a small conservative group of Blacks, white Americans remain the enemy, the ones that are “holding down the blacks and other minorities”. While the real truth as you know, is that the democrats have not only been holding down the blacks and others but have actually planned to do so, over the decades, because it enables them to use and control those populations.
In a perfect world no one would have to transcend racism, only remember that the color of ones skin should not enable or disable anyone.
Papa Ray
West Texas
Ray, you don’t know many black people, do you?
Casey, what’s the 411 on Black people?
I doubt the President is any more of a racist than most folks who voted for McCain or Barr or whoever
How about Jeremiah Wright?
Skip Gates?
Farrakhan?
Are you one of those guys who thinks black people are incapable of racism, either due to their numinous connection to the Third World or their isolation from the white power structure?
arhooley, I made that observation because anyone who makes such monolithic statements is usually demonstrating either ignorance or bigotry.
To turn the statement around, how silly would it be to make a blanket statement about white people? Whether you’re talking about ideology, religion, economics, or even sports teams or cars, there’s a tremendous distribution of varying points of view. Therefore blanket statements about white people are not only invalid, but absurd.
Now that that logic, and apply it to black Americans, asian-decent Americans, and so on. It is fatuous to make such broadly general statements about any “race,” tribe, or ethnic group. Papa Ray’s blanket statement that black Americans are racist, or consider white Americans “the enemy” is inaccurate, to say the least.
blanket statements about white people – like how the typical one would react to a black panhandler? That didn’t seem to hurt Obama any, certainly not among black voters. The Congressional Black Caucus wouldn’t let Steve Cohen join, though he represents a mostly-black district, because of Cohen’s skin color. Did you hear a hint of dissatisfaction with that decision from any black Democrat? When Spike Lee and Mos Def said Bush tried to destroy New Orleans, did you hear a whisper of criticism of either of them from any black Democrat? When Whoopi Goldberg asked John McCain if Republicans wanted to revive slavery, did you read a word of criticism from a single black Democrat? How about DL Hughley comparing the Republican Convention to Nazi Germany?
Maybe every other black person in America is appalled at the bigotry of those four Hollywood knuckleheads and the frankly segregationist attitude of the CBC. But aside from a handful of people who write for PJM or National Review, they’re being awfully quiet about it.
Casey: “To turn the statement around, how silly would it be to make a blanket statement about white people?”
Are you talking about someone who, when referencing his own grandmother, would make a statement including the words “like a typical white person”?