Posted on 09/09/2012 11:37:09 AM PDT by DogByte6RER
Does racial bias fuel Obama foes? How to tell?
Is it because he's black?
The question of whether race fuels opposition to President Barack Obama has become one of the most divisive topics of the election. It is sowing anger and frustration among conservatives who are labeled racist simply for opposing Obama's policies and liberals who see no other explanation for such deep dislike of the president.
It is an accusation almost impossible to prove, yet it remains inseparable from the African-American experience. The idea, which seemed to die in 2008 when Obama became the first black president, is now rearing its head from college campuses to cable TV as the Democratic incumbent faces Mitt Romney, the white Republican challenger.
Four years after an election that inspired hopes of a post-racial future, there are signs that political passions are dragging us backward.
"We're at a tipping point," said Susan Glisson, director of the Institute for Racial Reconciliation at the University of Mississippi. "But I don't know which way we're going to tip."
Glisson knows that many conservatives disagree with Obama solely because of his policies. "But I am also quite certain that there are others who object to the president because of his race, because they have a fear of blacks that is embedded in our culture," she said.
Her conclusion is based on something called "implicit bias"— prejudices that people don't realize they have.
Studies show that due to longstanding negative stereotypes about African-Americans — which give such false impressions as most black people are dangerous, unintelligent or prefer welfare to work — many people harbor anti-black biases yet don't even know it.
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Is it because he’s black?
The question of whether race fuels support of President Barack Obama has become one of the most divisive topics of the election. It is sowing anger and frustration among leftists who are labeled racist simply for supporting Obama’s policies and conservatives who see no other explanation for such deep support of the president.
It is an accusation almost impossible to prove, yet it remains inseparable from the African-American experience. The idea, which seemed to die in 2008 when Obama became the first black president, is now rearing its head from college campuses to cable TV as the Democratic incumbent faces Mitt Romney, the white Republican challenger.
Four years after an election that inspired hopes of a post-racial future, there are signs that political passions are dragging us backward.
“We’re at a tipping point,” said Susan Glisson, director of the Institute for Racial Reconciliation at the University of Mississippi. “But I don’t know which way we’re going to tip.”
Glisson knows that many leftists agree with Obama solely because of his policies. “But I am also quite certain that there are others who support the president because of his race, because they have a fear of blacks that is embedded in our culture,” she said.
Her conclusion is based on something called “implicit bias”— prejudices that people don’t realize they have.
Studies show that due to longstanding negative stereotypes about African-Americans — which give such false impressions as most black people are dangerous, unintelligent or prefer welfare to work — many people harbor anti-black biases yet don’t even know it.
The net worth of a man/woman, is not determined by color, it is determined by his/her moral character.
It’s an easy-out to whine about the “black experience”, a throwback to slavery and pre equal rights, but one would think after all these decades that people would try - just a little bit - to live within the society the fought so hard to be an equal part.
The loss of “victimhood” means some need to get out of the wagon, and help the rest to pull it.
The “victims” whine about discrimination, which by law and acceptance, has been almost eradicated. Then comes the rabble-rousers, like Jackson, Sharp, and yes - Obama, and convinces people of color that when a white person says a common, everyday word, like “Chicago”, that it has racial connotations.
Leaders of mobs always fire up other people to back them into striking back for some personal belief, or hatred, they have against someone, or some group. Jesse Jackson used to work fast-food, and admitted he would spit in white peoples’ food. That is not only crass and disgusting, but it demonstrated the deep-seated hatred that boils inside Jackson where whites are concerned.
The main problem stems from the fact that white people have been successfully whipped into assuming all of the guilt for every black persons own failings. And if a sad story and reruns of “Roots” doesn’t work, then out comes the race card.
It’s a sham. It’s a national game of “three-card-monte”, where the only way to win, is to not play.
Why should people be forced to relinquishing their principles, morals, and their fortunes because they fear one simple word of the English language...”racist”?
No matter how benevolent, how generous, or how “diversified” you try to be, if you’re white, you’re going to tote the “racist” brand the first time you fail to kneel to the demands, intentional, or not. Or you’re in some group that has been labeled as such.
As long as the “magic word” works, as long as it invokes knee jerk reactions and causes us to swallow our own pride, then we are on the way to genocide-by-guilt.
The word is starting to lose its power, somewhat, but until it becomes totally oblivious - until it stops making us flinch, and cave, those who live by it will continue to take, and take...untill everything - including America - is gone.
/rant off
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I oppose Obama for the same reason that I opposed Carter, Mondale, Dukasis, Clinton, Gore, and Kerry. With the exception of Clinton's second term (in which he was effectively a moderate Republican, so he could play ball with the Republican Congress), all of them have promoted the same tired economic policies that have failed everywhere that didn't have an independent source of income to prop it up.
But, I'll ask an uncomfortable question: if opposing Obama due to his race is racism -- what do you call supporting Obama because of his race?
Lemme guess... whites voting 60-40 for the white guy is racist, but blacks voting 99-1 for the black guy is not.
It is because he is a Communist who plays the Alinsky Rule #5 ridicule card if you identify him as such.
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White liberal women pulled down Black kids in the school system by coddling them. They will pull down the rest of society if you let them.
Ole Miss Ex-purt Mississippi ping.
(Expert = former drip under pressure)
You don’t even have to identify him as black or a minority. When those on the left are met with opposition they cannot keep debate on an informed and cordial level, they cry prejudice, hate, racist, homophobe, anti women’s rights, anti-poor. It is a tactic and that’s also what political correctness is about , changing word meaning and language and when the opportunity arises, again they can go into a personal attack and ignore the debate, the political or economic facts and compleatly change from an argument based on substance which they will always lose to an emotional attack based on your “prejudice” and ignoring the substantive facts.
90% of all racism exists in the black community and dim party.
LLS
What race were they?
I’m sick to death of the crap.
LibLieSlayer is right. 90% exists in the black “community” and within the RAT-party.
Excellent. Thank you for posting.
That link is getting emailed to several friends and family members just minutes from now.
>>Her conclusion is based on something called “implicit bias”— prejudices that people don’t realize they have.
Gee, you mean like the prejudice you have about conservatives being racist?
Amen. i protested Clinton in person. I haven't had the opportunity to protest Obama ... I've been too busy looking for work or helping others keep their heads above water during his economic non-recovery.
The truth is I had tuned out of the process, policy debates and politics; I not heard Obama speak until sometimes in 2010. My first impression of him was a disembodied voice full of scolding condescension coming live through my radio.
And that was the start. Then I looked at the state of my country, the policies under pursuit and was horrified.
As Romney echoed in his acceptance speech, I wanted Obama to succeed in a way that means American would succeed. His policies failed and he badgers us besides. I'd rather have someone earnest but simply out of their depth, like Carter, than someone grossly incompetent and unbothered by it all like Obama.
I wish the Democrats had given us Hillary. And I'm not sorry McCain lost. His brand of nuttiness would've destroyed the Republican brand for generations. With Romney/Ryan we have a chance to correct that and get American back on track.
It's funny Democrats slavishly praise Clinton and the Clinton era but he was successful because he knew how to pivot, how to move an agenda forward, how to give-and-take. Romney knows how to do that; Obama does not. And, disturbingly, Obama's not even far left enough for them! They have more in common with the Green Party candidate. If Obama is a moderate voice in his party, this nation is in severe trouble.
LLS
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