Many supporters of Barack Obama hoped his election as America's first black president might herald an era of post-racial politics, but race has been an issue his administration just can't seem to avoid.
Division and tension between black and white Americans has cropped up repeatedly over Obama's 18 months in office, hurting his popularity and distracting from his political agenda.I wonder why that is. Perhaps somebody should ask Andrew Brietbart or FOX News why every time they bring up Jeremiah Wright, ACORN, Van Jones, the New Black Panther Party, or Shirley Sherrod that Obama is the one to pay the price.
Gosh, you would almost think these media outlets were fomenting racial tension and division on purpose in order to pursue a cynical "neo-Southern Strategy" to constantly terrify white voters across the country into dropping the Democratic Party and voting Republican.
It's not like racial, cultural, or ethnic division has ever been used successfully for political purposes in America before or anything.
Why hasn't Obama solved racism yet? He's had 18 months!
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In Obama's defense I've never seen him pull the race card. Now there have been plenty of others who use that on his behalf, you being one of them.
Maybe I missed it but what did ACORN have happen that was race related?
Also come on Jeremiah Wright brought controversy and racial attention on himself.
New Black Panther party, are you honestly that close minded and naive? Voter intimidation is not news worthy at all.
"On July 6, 2010, J. Christian Adams, a former lawyer for the Justice Department, testified before the Commission on Civil Rights and alleged that the case was dropped because the Justice Department did not want to protect the civil rights of white people."
Regardless of if the motives he stated are correct, action should have been taken, not ignored.
The fringes of both sides are playing the race game. The GOP will defend any racism by saying the accuser is crying wolf. In their defense NAACP was just proven wrong on some of their racist claims, as well as the few Senators that claimed there were racial slurs thrown during health care signing.
The Dems have themselves called race, let us not forget forget Jimmy carter, Brian "Brown Shirts" Baird, and Nancy "Swastikas" Pelosi. In the Dems defense because of the GOP racists can be more open because they have the GOP cover.
In my opinion unless someone drops the N bomb or states it's because of someones complexion we need to let the cries of race go the way of the dodo. There is more than enough to focus on
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