Racism exists and President Obama is not immune to it's effects

[NJmaverick]

two facts that many hope people will forget or ignore.

[jaxx]

1. It's ruled the rightwing since the day he was nominated.

They try to say it isn't so, but they wouldn't treat a white president this way.

[goclark]

3. My Senior memory serves me another way

As I recall they hated Carter with a passion and dogged him throughout his term in office - he is/was a smart,decent man.
They talked about his Mama, called his brother and his other family members "trash." Even talked about precious Amy!

Let us not forget that they could not stand Clinton because Democrats loved him so much. Surely he was not the first President to "have sex with A female that was not his wife."

Democrats had to fight like hell to save his Presidency while we saw the "Monica Kiss in a crowd" photo 24/7.

Question: Where is Monica now, she sure is quiet. Suppose they realized that they didn't need to bring her front and center now, Hillary didn't win. I believe they would have been just as evil to HRC. These people are MEAN and want POWER and they will do whatever it takes to get it back.

There were tiny rumors that GW and Condi (a "Black" woman) had an affair. Crickets in the M$M about it, crickets.

I have vivid memories of seeing Condi and George, in the Rag magazines - maybe on TV in a quick "let's move on" 5 second mention,looking like they were on a date at the baseball game and his WIFE - Laura, was NOT with them.

Condi was in a sleeveless dress with a sweater tied around her bare shoulders like she was with her husband/boyfriend/whatever.

Crickets!

She even referred to him as "her husband" at a party(it was in Vanity Fair) and CRICKETS again from the MSM.

On the other hand ~ if we think the 24/7 coverage about the silly Lady in her Red Dress that got into the WH was bad -- it would be a horror story if they ever saw Obama do anything that could be considered "Not Appropriate" with another woman White or Black or anything.

I was too young to know what they did to FDR with his love life but the way they smeared Clinton was horrible. White Water or what ever it was called was always front and center. Then the friend that committed suicide ( can't remember his name) that was front and center for days. I cried everyday.

Now let's take Clarence Thomas, a "Black" man ~ he should not have seen the light of day on the Supreme Court!

I say that and I am African American.

He continues to serve and even though the Democrats tried their best to "grill him" he still got the position.

Anita Hill was not telling Lies on him and they knew it but they still won the day ~ the dogs!

Look how that one vote from that one "African American?" so called Justice has affected our lives in a negative way.

Look how they allow 'Lil Mike Steele to remain as the Head of their party. Crickets from them about Michael Steele. They hate him I'm sure but they put him there to use him to make Black/White America think Republicans like Black people. They are that stupid and on the other hand, they may just be that slick because "Lil Mikie is still in his position. The difference is HE does what THEY want him to do, they pull his strings.

They are so afraid of President Obama because he won the hearts and minds of millions of people all over the world and they are still in shock that they let the Power get get away from them.

Do they plant the seeds of hate about President Obama because he is Black, that may play into it but IMO, it is at least 90% about the POWER that he holds that they can't believe they don't have now.

There is a very hard to get book on Amazon that after 1 year of waiting I got a used copy for $21 , " The Six Black Presidents = Black Blood, White Masks."

When you read it,you will see that Obama probably has more WHITE BLOOD than six of the Presidents that our history books told us were "Real Americans" and pure White.

Even during those times, there were writers that called them names , posted pictures of them with Negroid features, terrible terrible things were said. The difference is that news did not move through the internet.........

Here are the names: Thomas Jefferson, Jackson,Lincoln, Hannobail Hamblin( Vice President/1 term,Warren Harding, Dwight D. Eisenhower
AND Name Withheld - the authors listed "the 7th or Eighth Black President.

[gratefultobelib]

5. Good, thoughtful post. I think it's important to point out the ruthlessness of the

republicans through the years. I agree that Obama's being "black" is only a small part of the repubs hostility.

[goclark]

6. txs so much gratefultobelib

Just my take on it.

I was just thinking of how much they feared the Kennedy family and what "Oswald" did ~ I'll never believe that one.

They hated the Kennedy family. Why? Because they had SO MUCH POWER.

Octofish here at DU has many Posts about that saga.

It's interesting, when I talk with my african American friends, they rarely mention that it is RACISM that drives the ugly deeds of the opposition for the 1st KNOWN to Be African American President.

The only theory I can see for that is that we have looked Racism in the face so many times when it was about something as simple as buying a house in a White neighborhood that we are not surprised.

Most of the time, when I hear a discussion among my friends about the way the Repubs/MSM idiots are treating the President, the reason I'll hear more than others is based more on a feeling of Pride, not anger ~ " They can't take it because he is loved all over the World!" The other day I heard a friend say," Obama is King of the WORLD and they can't take it!"

That makes us Proud!

PS/ Remember too that many African Americans are a few generations from slavery. Since childhood we have heard that "White People don't like Black People ~ that's why we have to be even better at what we do."
We are very strong people because of it IMO.
:patriot:

[Cha]

2. That link you provided from blackwaterdog

on dkos was an important commentary, "The Arrogance of Being Black While President", nails it.

I say "screw those who can't deal with it". They really are just a faction of insecure ignorant people who don't respect themselves.

[swilton]

4. I think that racism should/would change because Obama was elected

was a myth....I think (based upon casual observation) that part of the Obama canidacy/election hope was that once he was elected it would represent a departure from the US racial past. This was a major part of his charisma...Within the Naomi Klein thesis of 'branding' a la her book No Logo - Obama the candidate was sold to the public as a brand - the departure from racism was part of that marketing of Obama the candidate...

Having said that - I wish that the problems that the country faces today were racist - I don't see the problems as racist because I think that they are class based problems...these class based problems have racial aspects in that race is used as a figleaf to disguise the classist nature of the structural problems.

[TicketyBoo]

7. There is plenty of racism in my neighborhood,

and it has been more apparent since President Obama has taken office.

Down the street, someone thought that a life-sized black dummy, hands shackled and hung with a rope from a tree was a clever Halloween decoration.

There's no way that isn't racism.

My husband heard a clerk at a local store tell a customer that, "It will be a great day for America the day he's shot. Hanging would be better."

My husband was kicked out of another local store and told not to come back because he dared to speak up in support of the President.

These are the reasons I sought out Democratic Underground, and why I rarely even read the GD and GDP forums any more. It's too close to home.

[quiet.american]

8. Wow. That is god-awful. nt

[TicketyBoo]

9. Yep.

And someone on GD told me not to post about it.

I've since put that one on Ignore.

[NJmaverick]

11. Yes President Obama's election has certainly shined a light on the racism

that had been well hidden.

[ismnotwasm]

10. He certainly is not.

I was reading a horrible story in Mother Jones-- "The Age of Treason" "This Soldier is Ready to Take up
Arms Against the Obama administration. He's Not Alone"

When reading the story, the author focused on one group the "Oath Keepers", the article tended to side step the racist element, but tossed out this-- "Pray and his buddies plan to go AWOL and make their way to their "fortified bunker--the home of one comrade s's parents in rural Idaho--where they've stocked survival gear, generators, food, and weapons. If it becomes necessary, they say, they will turn those guns against their fellow soldiers" (All this is in response to these 'Oath Keepers" conviction that the Obama administration will find some pretext for martial law)

My son is stationed in Iraq and I asked him if he had met anyone like this and he hasn't. He simply mentioned a black soldier he is stationed with that "that can't stand Obama" (I gave him my opinion that Soldiers often tend to think they're Republicans or the equivalent of while they're active and often don't lose that infection throughout their lives. It's a epiphany when they do, and thank God so many of them do)

Anyway, nobody can convince me this isn't a racist response. The article mentioned Glen Beck, the Tea-baggers, the Birthers and Truthers-- all of them supporting this type of thought in soldiers. It's sick and dangerous and as racist as it gets.

[Cha]

12. Oh, that's so sad to be so

screwed in the head.

And, don't the Soldiers get fucking rush limpbaugh piped into their heads via the airwaves?