An Obama Presidency Will Set Race Relations Back Decades

Reality Check ^ | 5/30/08 | Warner Todd Huston

[NoobRep]

I know some conservative Republicans who almost wouldn’t mind if Barack Obama does win the White House in November. Their theory is that once we as a nation elect a black man to the White House, that election will forever eliminate the claim that Americans are racist because we won’t elect a black man to that office. On its face, it seems a logical theory. In practice, however, it will not work. Not with this black man, not with Barack Obama. If Obama becomes president of the United States, his disastrous time in office will set race relations back 50 years.

First of all — and there is just no other way to say this — the man is a liar. He claims to want to solve our partisan strife, doesn’t he? He claims he wants to work with Congress instead of against the other party. He is supposedly the man of “change” and “hope.” If you do a web search for “Obama reach across the aisle” you’ll get thousands upon thousands of hits. The general perception that Obama has succeeded in fostering is that he does, indeed, want to “reach across the aisle.”

Unfortunately for all of us, it is all a giant lie.

As a legislator, Barack Obama has absolutely no history of working with anyone “across the aisle.” There are instances when he has occasionally made statements that have seemed to auger support for an idea that is supported by the Republicans, but when ever it has come down to actual votes, his is always a straight up, far left, liberal vote. He has never worked with anyone on the other side of the aisle on anything. And there is no reason to suspect he’ll suddenly start such a practice upon stepping into the White House, either.

Worse, we have seen the sort of people he’s surrounded himself with and none of them are folks on the other side of the aisle. He is close friends with racists (Rev. Wright, Louis Farrakhan), he has the support of aging hippies who were domestic terrorists in their youth (William Ayres, Bernadine Dohrn), he has even invited a young fellow who was mentioned as a communist while at Harvard to be his official campaign blogger (Sam Graham-Felsen). Then we get to his wife who is famous for having said that she was never “proud of America” until her hubby ran for president. She has also said things to disparage capitalism and called the country “mean.” But does Obama have any close associates and supporters who are Republicans, even moderate ones? No. Not a single one. And further more, he never has.

Then we add this little fact: Obama has rarely stood up to be counted on much of anything in his whole political career. He has never been a major activist for any cause. He has never led a movement or pushed an organized, identifiable agenda. He has no past of true leadership. His past is almost a blank slate.

So, what sort of president will he make? And why do I say he will set race relations back 50 years?

A Barack Obama presidency will be one filled with one extreme left idea after another. He will strengthen our enemies, most likely try to gut our military, undermine the economy, raise taxes, and inflate government spending on pointless give-aways and welfare programs. He will find mounting resistance from Republicans and moderates because of it. He will repeatedly stumble with foreign policy making himself look the fool. God help us if a terror attack happens during his presidency, because his response will be a fiasco.

And what will be the result? The right will eviscerate him. And his response will be to continue the whining that he has done thus far in the campaign. He will moan that he is being “attacked” and will lament that everyone is so mean to him. With that, his supporters will point fingers at everyone else and claim racism with every attack on their demi-god, Barack.

We already have a parallel by which to gauge what will happen in this country should Barack Obama get elected: O.J. Simpson. The so-called trial of the century is a perfect template by which to measure what will happen between black and white in this country after Obama takes the White House.

You’ll recall that guilt and innocence closely followed the racial divide between black and white while the O.J. trial was on going. Blacks by and large assumed he was innocent of the charges of murder. Oh, they didn’t necessarily know what the evidence against him was, nor did they care. The assumptions of innocence that many blacks evinced for O.J. was built on their feelings that whites are racists and that, therefore, O.J. must be being railroaded by the white establishment. Worse, there were many blacks that didn’t even care if O.J. was guilty. they wanted him free just to get even with the white justice system that they so despised. By and large, blacks in America gave O.J. a pass and his case was used as a way to attack the legal system quite regardless of the merits and evidence of the case.

Many whites, on the other hand, felt he was guilty based on the evidence they heard. There was little if any bias against O.J.’s race mentioned among whites. In fact, few people even thought of O.J. as a typical black man at all. He’d been around so long that he was thought of as just O.J. not as “that black guy O.J.” But, every white person who said O.J. was guilty was deemed a racist in the view of the nation’s black population.

You’ll find that this will happen with Barack Obama. Every time he makes a fool of himself in front of a foreign leader, whites will be called racists for pointing it out. Every time his wife is heard to confirm how much she hates this country, it will be the fault of whites for asking her why she is so filled with hate. With every legislative failure and internal scandal, whites will be attacked as being mean to Barack.

It will get very tiresome. It will get so tiresome that whites who would never have a racist thought in their minds will begin to have unkind thoughts of Barack’s racemongering supporters. And this will be reflected upon every black person in the country. Blacks will have their hate-whitey feelings further entrenched (just as they did during the O.J. trial) and whites will find frustration with the foolish, blind support of a president that is obviously a failure. And for those who truly are racists, the debacle of an Obama presidency will give them the excuse to say that they have proof that blacks are not up to the pressures of being president.

After the last days of a Barack Obama presidency, we will see race relations taking a giant step backward. So, I say to my Republican readers who think that an Obama presidency might be helpful for race relations in America; it isn’t going to happen. Sadly, just the opposite will occur.

A President Barack Obama will nearly ruin race relations in America.

[NoobRep]

Kind of eerie how spot on Warner Todd Huston was, on both Obama's presidency and his effect on race relations.

[cripplecreek]

The left only screams “racist” louder and more often now. I couldn’t care less that Obama is half black but I do care about the massive damage the amateur in chief is doing.

[RebelYell1990]

So what do you think will happen? What should be done?

[BamaBlue]

ping

[ETL]

From Jeff Head's website...
One notable quote from [James] Cone describing his Black Liberation Theology is as follows:

"Black theology refuses to accept a God who is not identified totally with the goals of the black community. If God is not for us and against white people, then he is a murderer, and we had better kill him. The task of black theology is to kill Gods who do not belong to the black community ... Black theology will accept only the love of God which participates in the destruction of the white enemy. What we need is the divine love as expressed in Black Power, which is the power of black people to destroy their oppressors here and now by any means at their disposal. Unless God is participating in this holy activity, we must reject his love." - "Divine Racism: The Unacknowledged Threshold Issue for Black Theology", in African-American Religious Thought: An Anthology, by William R Jones, ed Cornel West and Eddie Glaube (Westminster John Knox Press).
http://www.jeffhead.com/blacklibtheology.htm

African American Religious Thought: An Anthology (Paperback)
by Cornel West (Editor), Eddie S. Glaude Jr. (Editor)
http://www.amazon.com/African-American-Religious-Thought-Anthology/dp/0664224598
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HANNITY: But Reverend Jeremiah Wright is not backing down and has not for years and in his strong stance on the teaching of black liberation theology is nothing new. He had the same things to say last spring when he appeared on "Hannity & Colmes:"

WRIGHT: If you're not going to talk about theology in context, if you're not going to talk about liberation theology that came out of the '60s, systematized black liberation theology that started with Jim Cone in 1968 and the writings of Cone and the writings of Dwight Hopkins and the writings of womynist theologians and Asian theologians and Hispanic theologians, then you can't talk about the black value system.

HANNITY: But I'm a — reverend

WRIGHT: Do you know liberation theology, sir?

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,354158,00.html
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From HumanEvents.com...
April 29, 2008

"Obama did not address the [Rev Wright] issue squarely until forced to justify his relationship with Wright, his pastor at Trinity United Church in Chicago, for over 20 years. In a speech several weeks ago, Obama denounced Wright’s comments but justified them by saying that America didn’t really know Wright. Obama’s connection to the pastor runs deep, as he titled his second book, “The Audacity of Hope,” after a sermon Wright gave. Wright also baptized Obama and his children as well as performing the marriage ceremony of Michelle and Barack Obama."

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=26261
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[Mamzelle]

Bump. Very apropos considering the “T Shirt” imbroglio.

[Tax Government]

A significant part of the country seems to have accepted this proposition:

“Obama’s (at least part) black, so it would be untactful and impolite to challenge his policies.”

[HiTech RedNeck]

Actually the MSM reaction is worse. They COULD scream “racist” all the time, but they know that would get real old real fast, and might spark a genuine debate. Instead, they simply ignore criticism of Zero altogether. Cold, and effective.

[HardStarboard]

I don’t know if the Obama presidency will set race relations back 50 years, but it sure as hell will set black aspirations to political power back a whole bunch - maybe more than 50 years.

[cripplecreek]

I suspect that as Obama’s time in office winds down, the left will rediscover his white half and decide its time for a “real” black president and start all over again.

[doc1019]

Because he and the msm keep emphasizing his blackness and not recognizing his white ancestry … he is doing nothing to cool racial hatred in this country. He has a great opportunity to bring us all together and he is ignoring it.

Mayhap on purpose?

[NoobRep]

Well...on Monday morning in a courtroom in California we may get a real sneak peek. If and when this clown gets exposed for being an ineligible President, the Los Angeles riots are going to look tame.

[BigCinBigD]

“So what do you think will happen? What should be done?”

What do you think will happen?...When he’s voted out/impeached....Black riots.

What should be done?...Fire hoses and police dogs.

[Jet Jaguar]

I read somewhere that Obama will mess this country up so bad, there will not be another black president.

[bravotu]

Like , The MAN is Keeping Us Down ,Man!

[PanzerKardinal]

O.J. had nothing to do with RACE.

It was all about FAME.

If O.J. wasn’t famous he’d be in jail right now.

Because if O.J. was a bus driver, he wouldn’t be O.J.

He’d be Orenthal the bus driving murderer

- Chris Rock

[RebelYell1990]

That’s wishful thinking, I think we will have 8 years of this mad man. As more illegals enter the country and get citizenship and have kids, and as more people turn from God, and as more products of Marxist indoctrination become regular voters, and as larger segments of the population become more welfare dependent I am afraid we will have very few chances to win any more elections. We are going to need a huge turnaround in the Congress and Senate to get impeachment and it is going to take a tough campaign to defeat the media machine in 2012, it will be close though.

[Eric Blair 2084]

Nobody here who is willing to confront me gives a crap if Obama is white, orange, green, purple.

He’s a radical left wing Marxist.

Nothing personal. I’m sure I could have a good time drinking beer with him. Swell guy.

Not with the ultimate authority as POTUS. I don’t like Reds in that position.

[cripplecreek]

Cracker please.

[DB]

Bump for later.