Posted on 09/09/2012 1:03:43 PM PDT by mdittmar
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.
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I guess that objecting to a socialist spendthript incompetent who wrecked the armed services through budget cuts and inflicting homosexuals on us is racist.
Sorta like Obamas white grand mother?
“Her conclusion is based on something called “implicit bias”- prejudices that people don’t realize they have.”
Things people don’t recognize about themselves?....Like her being an idiot and not seeing it?
In fact, I am so much opposed to Obama's actions, that I started this thread last night, and I encourage everyone to read it, and to show it to others whom they think might be interested:
Here are 95 examples of Barack Obama’s lying, lawbreaking, corruption, and cronyism
So these “scholars” are going to be pumping this “if you don’t vote for BO you’re a racist” claptrap into the public consciousness for the next eight weeks.
Funny that we never hear a discussion of it.
No, it’s not because he’s black.
It’s because he’s incompetent.
Either that, or evil.
He stands for everything I abhor, and skin color is simply not a factor.
Although, in reality, he’s not black. My WASPy skin is probably darker than his when he fails to golf-tan.
All that meme will do is enhance the Bradley effect.
Which is OK — close polls keep us on our toes, taking nothing for granted.
Finding somthing else to blame.
I don’t care what it is that makes people vote for Romney, My only care is that there are enough of us to get rid of the Muslim POS that is in the White House now.
Black like Maxine Waters, Sheila Jackson, John Conyers, or Robert Mugabe? Or black like Tom Sowell, Alan West, or George Washington Carver.
If the former (and I think it true) it’s a problem for me, and many others. If the latter... well, it doesn’t matter for them; they are great human beings regardless of their “color.”
“Is it because he’s black?”
That’s about the only thing that he has halfway going for him and he’s not even halfway there.
He’s not black. He’s biracial.
And white raised
the correct term is mulatto
Barack Obama is racially mulatto, having one white and one black parent
I don’t even think most leftists believe it either. They just know the accusation has always been effective in the past to silence opposition
More like “implicit stupidity” where someone is highly educated but doesn’t have the common sense to pour warm piss out of a boot!
Obama is NO blacker than he is White..
Hes not black.. or White.. but he is a traitor..
Makes no difference whether he is black or white, red or Yellow..
He is begging for the Hangman.. at least for a cell..
I want to know why the racists blacks, all 94 percent of them, are voting for such a failure.
Could it be............he’s black?
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