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Fear of a Black President
The Atlantic ^ | September 2012 | Ta-Nehisi Coates

Posted on 08/23/2012 4:38:12 PM PDT by mojito

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To: mojito

Ruining America is white man’s work.


21 posted on 08/23/2012 5:50:31 PM PDT by Mike Darancette (Democrats: Ticket of Dope and Chains.)
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To: mojito

Since qwhen should anyone with the first name Ta-Nehisi be given a scintilla of credence is beyond me.

That said, I have no fear of a Black president. Not if that Black president were Herman Cain, Alan West, JC Watts, Walter Williams or Thomas Sowell.

Even Condoleezza Rice, with her less-than-perfect record on abortion and affirmative action...not to mention admitting to being a lifelong Cleveland Browns fan, would be scary to me.

Its Zero’s politics that scare me, not his factory paint job.


22 posted on 08/23/2012 6:06:56 PM PDT by Emperor Palpatine (Tosca, mi fai dimeticare Iddio!!!!!!)
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To: Iron Munro
Prior to the November 2008 elections my liberal son and I had many conversations about the Emperor.

He got very upset when I asked if he would hire a recent high school culinary arts graduate to work in his catering business. When he said no it lead to so VERY interesting sidebar conversations.

Having said that, I have, IMHO, the final judgment of the Emperor's rule:

Obama stands an excellent chance of being the ONLT Black President. Regardless of party the next Black person who runs for the Presidency will be immediately branded by the opposing party as “Obama Lite”. It took the Republic over a century to get to the “First Black President” and I am fearful that it will take the Republic another century, or more, before it considers having another one. And that, IMHO, will be the true legacy of Obama.

23 posted on 08/23/2012 6:16:44 PM PDT by Nip (TANSTAAFL and BOHICA)
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To: mojito

Obama is not black he is half-white..
He is as white as he is black..

He is not black.. or white...


24 posted on 08/23/2012 6:19:19 PM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
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To: mojito

Ta-Nehisi sounds like he/she has been hittin’ da happy smoke. A so-called writer pimping the race card is very cheap and unbecoming. Morons will be morons.


25 posted on 08/23/2012 6:19:41 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Had enough of the freaks running the show yet?)
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To: mojito

26 posted on 08/23/2012 6:19:49 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: Pearls Before Swine

He’s not black, he’s a mullato, raised by white grandparents.
He became “black” when he started going to college (to take advantage of the color of his skin). He’s the biggest fake and phoney to ever take residence at 1600 PA Ave. He can’t tell you his name without reading off a teleprompter.The teleprompter goes out and he sounds like an illiterate that got kicked out of school in the eight grade.


27 posted on 08/23/2012 6:20:05 PM PDT by NKP_Vet
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To: mojito

Great satire!


28 posted on 08/23/2012 6:23:37 PM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: Iron Munro

Sportin’Life.


29 posted on 08/23/2012 6:24:08 PM PDT by RobbyS (Christus rex.)
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To: mojito
I've noted that both The Atlantic and The Nation have become warehouses of cheap, talentless Millienial-age Libtard bloggers, basically. No reporters, and certainly no writers.

Of course, The Atlantic stopped being relevant under Reagan, and The Nation under Bush, so sweet tears of dinosaur media extinction, etc...

30 posted on 08/23/2012 6:27:54 PM PDT by StAnDeliver ("So, a Mormon and a Catholic walk onto an aircraft carrier...")
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To: fireman15

Quite right! I’ve also head this concoction called ‘purple drank.’ Nothing innocent here.


31 posted on 08/23/2012 6:45:39 PM PDT by ArmyTeach (Our liberties, we prize and our rights we will maintain ... USS Iowa BB 61)
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To: mojito
Per Coates in the article:

“Racism is not merely a simplistic hatred. It is, more often, broad sympathy toward some and broader skepticism toward others.”

Coates got that right, but failed to look in the mirror!

32 posted on 08/23/2012 7:01:43 PM PDT by Seizethecarp
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To: tommix2

The Luos aren’t Arabs.


33 posted on 08/23/2012 7:13:52 PM PDT by Jacob Kell
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

Boy George would do a better job than Zero.


34 posted on 08/23/2012 7:23:21 PM PDT by Emperor Palpatine (Tosca, mi fai dimeticare Iddio!!!!!!)
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I'm still not sure what it's all about, except that if you don't like 0bama, Ta-Nehisi's pretty sure you're a racist.

Te-Nehisi is seemingingly compelled by their blackness to defend both the President and Trayvon Martin.

That they are both indefensible for reasons that have nothing to do with their color is beyond his comprehension.

It's a sad case. Jesse and Al know they're scamming the system. Te-Nehisi is simply the victim of his own prejudices.

35 posted on 08/23/2012 7:26:47 PM PDT by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
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Despite his sloganeering for change and progress, Obama is a conservative revolutionary...

LMFAO!

Man, this author is already trying to rewrite current history and move the moderate line by deeming the 0 a conservative. As expected of a liberal.
36 posted on 08/23/2012 7:37:04 PM PDT by hawaiianninja (Palm note to self: Work for a successful 2012! +Throw the liberal garbage out!)
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To: mojito
Our allegedly "black" half-breed mongrel mulatto POTUS has a fear:

That the public will see that his true birth certificate reads:

Race: CAUCASIAN.

37 posted on 08/23/2012 8:55:55 PM PDT by lightman (Settling for the "lesser of two..." is still choosing Evil)
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To: mojito

I suppose I’m a no good cracker then (NGC). That dribble made no sense whatsoever


38 posted on 08/23/2012 8:56:29 PM PDT by Figment
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To: Dr.Zoidberg

(yeah, I know it’s a guy, but that’s a chick name if ever I heard one....)

If you hadn’t posted that, I would still think it was a female. I didn’t delve into the writers bio. What was the mother thinking?


39 posted on 08/23/2012 9:01:28 PM PDT by Figment
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The Luos aren’t Arabs.You are right, I was careless. I must take time to learn more about the area. But Obama is not descended from American slaves and didn't experience growing up among American descendents of slaves, and is not an American black sharing the cultural memory of American blacks.
40 posted on 08/23/2012 11:26:29 PM PDT by tommix2 (,)
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