Posted on 07/25/2013 4:04:25 PM PDT by jazusamo
Division: A not-so-funny thing happened on the way to post-racial America. Under our first black president and "Great Uniter," polling shows a serious worsening of race relations.
Remember Los Angeles-based street artist Shepard Fairey's famous red, beige and blue Obama "Hope" poster for the 2008 campaign? In the heady days of early 2009, the New Yorker magazine's art critic declared that Fairey had "created the most efficacious American political illustration since 'Uncle Sam Wants You.'"
The week before that grandiose pronouncement, the then-new attorney general of the U.S., Eric Holder, made his own grandiose remark: "Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been, and we, I believe, continue to be, in too many ways a nation of cowards."
Holder vowed back then that his Justice Department "must and will leave the nation to the 'new birth of freedom'" promised by Abe Lincoln. But what has happened in the 4-1/2 years of Obama and Holder since then? Race relations have gone into a free fall.
According to a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, the share of Americans who consider race relations "very good" or "fairly good" has plummeted from above 70% between 2009 and 2011 to only 52% today.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.investors.com ...
Is “Investots.com” a site for infantile investors???
I’m amazed at how many people, FReepers included, thought race relations in this nation were *good* prior to Zer0’s Philadelphia speech.
Dang, it must be. :-)
The domain's probably registered to the E-Trade baby.
OH!!! THAT’s GOOD!!! (uncontrollable laughter)
In fairness — race relations started to go south after the inexplicable OJ murder verdict.
Obama is just doing what he was born to do...cause trouble and make things worse. As president of the United States of America the least thing Obama could have done was work to correct the disastrous early years of the majority of black citizens. Instead he chose the usual “blame Whitey (especially rich Whitey) for your problems” agenda, and stirred the racial resentment pot with an endless series of attacks on white America. Way to go Barack.
“Race relations have gone into a free fall.”
It’s far worse than most people want to admit.
Never forget that the democrat party has advocated and worked for a national Eugenics program as a solution to poverty and crime for several generations now. They've achieved most of their goals. With the majority of undesirables already on welfare plantations totally dependent on taxpayers they're ready to go after the rest of their goals as the solution to the problems they're primarily responsible for. Once the laws are on the books who gets classified as undesirable is conveniently flexible and subject to media manipulation.
Read, "Beyond Freedom and Dignity" which was wildly popular among democrat folks in the late seventies and early eighties. That's their idea of where things need to go and it's nothing but a Eugenics sermon any good Nazi could have made before WWII. Along with the new paganism growing ever more popular it's all on the horizon unless people wake up.
The democrat thugs want the country run into a ditch and race relations ruined so they can get the sort of dictator they really want, not a pansy nitwit like King Barry. Barry is the perfect dedicated narcissistic dupe to accomplish the destruction they believe is required to usher their guy into office with the sort of draconian power they want. Possibly even before 2016 someone leading a small group of "patriots" will, "take back" the democrat party "from the radicals" Then after cleaning up the democrat party with great fanfare, they'll run just like an old fashioned Southern democrat that believes in States Rights and everything else people want to hear.
Whether or not people will fall for it is the question.
JMHO
Holder is Sharptons alter ego, Obama is simply hopeless.
Well said!
Here in northern NJ race relations went south decades earlier when blacks destroyed the inner cities and chased out the remaining whites. “Polar bear hunting” attacks are rare in NJ because both groups understand each other perfectly well. There are isolated incidents, but they rarely involve white people being in a neighborhood they shouldn’t be in after dark; instead they are carried out by war parties raiding along the frontiers of the welfare reservations.
“Ignorance WAS bliss, but now reality is setting in.”
You couldn’t be more spot on. For me, it’s like a monster has come out of the closet. I continue to love, respect and admire “Black conservatives”, but the rest of that sick community would do best to stay away from me.
You see, I admit it, I was stupid. Until Obama, I had no idea how much I was hated because of the color of my skin. I didn’t know that these folks actually went to church and prayed about how much they hate me.
Strangely, I guess I should thank Obama for bringing out the truth, because now I know. I know of another danger to be mindful of and I will act accordingly.
I have not lived in areas where there were many blacks. There are less than a dozen blacks living within my entire county. Of those that I know personally, one in an ER doc, another a nurse, one gal works in the administration at one of our two hospitals, one is a music teacher a a local high school, one is a retired businessman, and one has been the mechanic that I hire to work on my boat. Fortunately, these folks contribute to our community and I see them as harmless.
Obama, his filthy democrats and the treasonist MSM have cost our country dearly... this is just one more ‘change’ he has moved along. Racism is alive, well and growing, and it will take much more than a repeat of the 60’s to fix it.
Welcome to the light.....but don’t be blinded. ALWAYS keep your eyes open.
That's what I figured was happening. Maybe if we have the obama/holder conversation on race, we can get that 52% down to about 29% or so. 10% for the blacks on the dole and 19% totally insane "progressives" who haven't been mugged yet.
Ha! An investment site for tots, or not, it’s a good article, and so very true. It “feels” as bad, or worse, than the 60s.
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