Posted on 12/11/2009 10:28:38 AM PST by gimme1ibertee
At the Heart of the Anti-Obama Protests Is the Scared White Man Overwhelmed by Change
By Robert James Taylor
Writing about the wave of anti-President Obama protests by white middle class Americans in recent weeks, conservative commentator Patrick Buchanan attributed what was taking place to the rise of “the angry white man.” Buchanan is only partially right. What we are actually witnessing is the near lunatic backlash of white conservatives who have been overwhelmed and frightened by change.
Yes, there is definite anger at those anti-health care reform town hall meetings. But if you listen closely to what is being said and how it is being said, you can only conclude that the dominant emotion driving the anti-Obama protests is fear. There is a segment of the American population, mostly white conservatives, who have been overwhelmed and frightened by recent changes in this country.
The first change was the election of an African American man as president of this country who did not get a majority of white votes. Never forget that most whites voted against Barack Obama. The final and most authoritative tallies show that only 43 percent of white voters cast their ballots for Obama. The first Black man became president of the United States because 95 percent of Blacks, 66 percent of Hispanics and 63 percent of Asian Americans voted for him.
This truly scared conservative whites because it confirmed Census Bureau projections that America is increasingly becoming a country that is less and less white and more and more Black, Brown and Yellow.
Secondly, fear is being generated by the apparent failures of some of the centerpieces of conservative ideology. The unstated but deeply held belief that the white man has some inalienable right to rule the rest of the world has been undermined by the war in Iraq: a war against a rag-tag band of insurgents which was supposed to be over in six months but is now nearing its seventh year.
The belief that American “free enterprise” capitalism is the solution to all problems has been undermined by the banking crisis and the current recession. Indeed, it was the freeing of banks and other financial institutions to do as they please with little or no government regulation that brought about the banking crisis and ushered in the current recession.
Thus, while conservatives may say they fear increasing government involvement in the economy may take away their freedoms, deep inside their superficial brains they know that government is the only institution with the deficit spending power capable of pulling the nation out of the recession. They know this but they fear it. This is why they opposed the Obama stimulus plans and his health care reform plans.
They deeply fear government power but they simultaneously realize it is the only power which can solve the most critical problems currently facing the nation. And what scares them most is that a lot of that power now rests in the hands of a Black man with a liberal-to-progressive agenda.
Congresswoman Jackie Speier of California best summarized the growing white conservative fear during a recent interview in which she said, “I’m just scared and people are justifiably scared because so much has happened so fast in this country. I’ve been in office for 16 months and I haven’t caught my breath yet because it’s been one issue after another. It’s been one failed institution after another.”
In other words, white conservatives are witnessing changes they do not control and which they do not fully understand, so they lash out. Obama has simply become the target of all their fears.
I thought it was the black man scared by how many women were coming forward???? Hmmmmmm!
Change without Prudence is foolishness.
Leave it to a liberal to psychoanalyze all conservatives in one 200-word column (and likely without ever actually speaking to one).
Not even worth arguing with.
SnakeDoc
I hear that!
Race relations will not improve until someone can take exception to the goals and beliefs of a person of a different race without being reflexively accused of racism.
I don't like Obama's white half, either!
The ugly heart of black racism on full display, with no need for shame.
Yep, it’s just a “typical white person” scared not by a black man (Thomas Sowell can be POTUS tomorrow morning and it would be OK with me) but by a fake, fraud, socialist/commie/America hater/black racist, traitor, lightweight, no weight, phony baloney, secret Muslim/Islamofascist, Manchurian POTUS narcissist who wants to destroy America and freedom and cave in to all of our enemies who want us all dead.
Yep Obammy is just a simple honest blackman.
BOOLSHAT!
Oh man, I’d love to debate this guy. It would be child’s play.
The problem with Obama is not his skin color, but his policies. The “change” that he advocates looks suspiciously like the “change” made by Hugo Chavez. Venezuela is teetering on the edge of a sovereign default, civil liberties have been sharply proscribed, and prosperity and initiative have vanished. Why should we want such a future for the US?
Ridiculous.
There has been continous heated debate on the proper size and scope of federal government since DAY ONE of the Republic (actually even before that).
Even Barak Obama has acknowledged that in several interviews.
Hate to break it to ya there Robert but, No, it actually WAS that 43% of white voters that elected this loser.
Don’t go gettin uppity.
These morons conveniently ignore facts like it was black african tribes and muslims including BO’s ancestral tribe who captured and sold other blacks into slavery to all takers including other black tribes and muslims as well as the white man. They continue to support the party of slavery and the KKK and trash the party that was formed and operated as the anti-slavery party, fought against the democrat slavers and the KKK, voted to pass the civil rights act when the democrat party would not. The republican party won against slavery, the KKK and the democrat party of slavery and we know and recognize the attempt by the democrat party to impose governmental and economic slavery on those of us who have worked hard to put down the Nazi democrat party. They should have been outlawed as a party in 1865.
Just a long way to call whites racists. Yawn.
He’s right. I’m scared to death.
I'm not scared. I'm angry.
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