President  Obama's  Racial  Opportunism

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Barack Obama is the first Affirmative Action President.  He has been given a position for which he clearly is not qualified.  Now that he has been elected, he is proving to be the most obviously incompetent President in American history, but any criticism of him is immediately counteracted with charges of racism.  He is a racial opportunist who got the job because of his skin color (and his ability to read speeches from a teleprompter) and now pretends to be the victim of racism rather than the beneficiary of white guilt.

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Obama pretends to be the victim of racial prejudice.

Is Obama a Racist?

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Obama's lack of qualifications and experience.




Obama pretends to be the victim of racial prejudice

Recently I observed President and Mrs. Barack H. Obama on television at the dedication of the Martin Luther King memorial in Washington, DC, singing We Shall Overcome (Someday) and I was struck by the unmitigated gall exhibited by this couple.  He's the President of the United States, yet he still whimpers about overcoming ... someday.

Mr. Obama jumps from one side of the fence to the other:  He plays the race card, then claims that everyone who opposes him must be a racist.

The End of the Race Card.  Not every person who makes up the 53% who voted Democrat in 2008 is the proverbial pie-eyed supporter.  Rather, there have been many from this number over the last four years who have held legitimate questions about actions taken by the president.  Questions for which they have been made to suffer a grievous assault upon their integrity.

Politico: Are You Ready for the Most Racially-Charged Election Ever?.  Unable to run on a record of failure, Obama is gearing up for an enduringly negative and blame-filled 2012 campaign.  A critical element of this effort will be a persistent, deeply ugly push by the president's allies to paint his critics as racists.

Obama's Eligibility Diversion.  [Scroll down]  It's not uncivil, racist, or "birther" to question a candidate's credentials and records.  Vetting is a concept every GOP hopeful painfully understands.  And Obama, although the president now, is a candidate in the 2012 election.  The citizens of Georgia had every right to question anew his eligibility.  "Is Obama eligible?" is a legitimate question.  But so is "Who is Obama?"  And further, "Who is backing him?"  Let's see Obama's records.

Fast and Furious: Three Questions Not Asked.  To date, the media has largely buried the story of the Department of Justice scheme that contributed to the deaths of a federal agent and more than 300 Mexican citizens.  Such a story would have held front-page, top-of-the-hour focus until answers were provided and officials had been hounded out of office or imprisoned had it occurred under a Republican administration.  But Barack Obama is a Democrat, and black.  Also, Eric Holder is a Democrat, and black.  It is inconceivable for the mainstream media to grill the decisions, motives, or goals of black Democrats for fear of being "racist" according to their own definition of the term...

Obama's racial politics:  Obama's racial politics are aided and abetted by a dishonest news media.  When Republican candidate Texas Gov. Rick Perry referred to "a big black cloud that hangs over America, that debt that is so monstrous," he was dishonestly accused of racism by MSNBC's Ed Schultz, who said, "That black cloud Perry is talking about is President Barack Obama."  Schultz omitted the second half of Perry's quote.  Chris Matthews referred to Perry's vision of federalism as "Bull Connor with a smile."

Juan Williams plays dumb.  One reason many liberals were overjoyed with the election of Barack Obama was that they could use his race to shield their socialistic policies.  This is why the R-word was the first one out of the lips of many critics when people formed the Tea Party.  They could not wait to label critics as racist.  I am not saying that no conservatives are racist.  What I am saying is that the trumped up charge of racism is a diversion from the real issue: President Obama is bankrupting the country.

Beating the Racism Card.  [The 2012] campaign is going to be about one thing:  racism.  No matter what else happens, racism will be the theme. ... This is the essence of totalitarian thought control:  you cannot win, you cannot remain aloof, you cannot get out of the game.  That being the case, the game board must be broken, the pieces scattered, and the rules burnt.

Through the Prism of Race.  When George W. Bush was President, he was mercilessly mocked as a buffoon, an ape, a terrorist and the ultimate evil (all by the Left).  There was even a movie that was released showing his assassination, for crying out loud.  The vitriol placed against the President was so vicious he is still being threatened by leftists the world over.  Yet, when anyone on the right says ANYTHING even remotely derogatory (and yes, I admit some things aren't just derogatory), the media immediately claims the GOP candidate is using "code words" from Jim Crow days.

Rev. Luke Robinson: 'They Want Us To Be Silent Because the President Is a Black Man'.  At the March for Life in Washington, D.C. on Monday [1/30/2012], the Rev. Luke Robinson said that pro-abortion activists want black leaders to be silent about what legalized abortion is doing to America because President Barack Obama is black.  "These so-called freedom fighters, just the instruments of the culture of death, they want us to be silent because the president is a black man," said Rev. Robinson, who is pastor of the Quinn Chapel AME Church in Frederick, Md.  "But he and his administration is leading this nation, and especially the African-Americans, to absolute destruction."

You Might Be a Racist If:  You might be a racist if you believe a sound energy policy includes oil, gas and nuclear.  You might be a racist if you believe that the Tea Party represents our nation's original core values.  You might be a racist if you believe our leaders need to provide documentation of their past.

Victim in Chief.  Barack Obama's difficulties are the result of racism:  It has been a frequently recurring theme ever since he emerged as a serious presidential candidate.  Obama himself has raised it occasionally, though not often, but his supporters fall back on it all the time — including now.

They who live by the race card die by the race card.  After spending the last three years, assisted by their media minions, convincing Americans that any and all criticism of or opposition to Obama is racist, Democrats find themselves victims of their own trap.  Fearing the repercussions, Dems do not dare display the slightest abandonment of Obama.

Dem Congresswoman: "The Real Enemy Is The Tea Party".  "Let us all remember who the real enemy is.  The real enemy is the Tea Party — the Tea Party holds the Congress hostage.  They have one goal in mind, and that's to make President Obama a one-term president," Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-FL) said at a Miami town hall with constituents.  Rep. Frederica Wilson blamed "racism" for the high black unemployment rate on MSNBC yesterday [8/22/2011].

The widening racial divide of the Obama era.  Contrary to the expectations of most pundits, the election of Barack Obama has aggravated the racial divide in America between blacks and all other racial groups.  Seth Forman has an insightful column in National Review that concludes Barack Obama has hardened black political segregation.  Far from bringing black and white together, as he promised to do in his famous 2004 Democratic National Convention speech and that was implicit throughout his 2008 campaign, his policies since assuming the Presidency have led to racial polarization.

If You're Reading This You Might be Racist.  Martin Luther King said he hoped for the day when people would be judged not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.  But now, to judge President Obama on his character and not the color of his skin, is branded as racist.

Liars vs Racists.  The birth certificate has been part of the much larger underlying issue which is the lack of transparency by the Obama Administration in even the simplest things.  And that may not be a resolvable issue anymore.  It's not just that Obama has lied too many times.  Most politicians lie or stretch the truth or hold back information.  The problem is that the media and too many institutions have been willing to lie for him. ... If you agree with Obama, you're a liar.  And if you disagree with him, you're a racist.  It's useless to conduct a political debate under these conditions.

The Race Game and Obama's Campaign for 2012.  By styling himself in 2008 as an emblem of a "post-racial" era in which America's history of inter-racial conflict will find resolution, Obama succeeded in catapulting himself into the office of the presidency.  However, the last two years — to say nothing of his life's history — decisively demonstrate that Obama is anything but the "post-racial unifier" that he positioned himself as, because Obama is keenly aware of the extent to which white Americans have ingested the "white guilt" with which the racial game has marked them.  But you can so take it to the bank that Obama will adopt this strategy once more in 2012.

The Victim in Chief.  In treating most communication as a means of stating how he feels about what someone else has done, Obama is not merely demonstrating his own personality.  He is embodying the character and reflexes cultivated today in academia, the traditional media, and in politics.  In exactly his present form, he is the ideal of our cultural elite.  Sadly, that elite doesn't know any longer how to speak to Iranians in the tones of liberty, empirical confidence, and moral courage.  Its expertise now lies in reducing all questions to matters of hate speech and victimhood.

Who's Playing the Race Card?  What makes the charges against McCain especially revolting is that he has been scrupulous in eschewing the race card.  He has gone far beyond what is right and necessary, refusing even to make an issue of Obama's deep, self-declared connection with the race-baiting Jeremiah Wright. ... What makes it doubly Orwellian is that these charges are being made on behalf of the one presidential candidate who has repeatedly, and indeed quite brilliantly, deployed the race card.

40 Acres and a President.  During the election, despite having been portrayed as America's first post-racial candidate, Barack Obama actually represented the complete opposite.  With astonishing cunning and guile, a type that his opponents could have never imagined possible, Obama and his campaign unabashedly and tenaciously used race to goad Americans into believing that voting for him would right the wrongs of America's racial history.

Sebelius:  Expect scare tactics.  Echoing comments by Barack Obama, Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius predicts that Republicans would undertake "a major effort to try and frighten people about him" because of his race.  "That has been the Republican playbook for the last eight years," said Sebelius, an Obama ally.  "'He's not qualified, he's somebody who should scare you.  He's too liberal.'"

The Editor says...
 A careful examination of a presidential candidate's voting record and ideology are essential, if we are to avoid another dreadful era like the years between 1992 and 2000.  It is not a "scare tactic" to point out that Obama is a liberal extremist, or that he attended a hate-filled church for 20 years, or that he has changed his positions on several important issues, or that a number of credible people believe that he is a closet Muslim.  If you're scared of Obama just because he's black, you are truly a hick.

Racy Content.  Transcend means "to move beyond, to surpass."  At least that's what I always thought.  But I'm beginning to wonder whether it means instead:  "Much, much more of the same, only this time really stupid." ... Obama has set off a case of full-blown race dementia among precisely the crowd that swears Obama is leading us out of the racial wilderness.

Criticizing Obama has been made off limits.  Let me give you a few helpful survival tips for the next four years.  The most important rule in this coming age is to remember that one must take great caution when criticizing Barack Obama.  Remember, even Democratic hero Bill Clinton was accused of being a bigot for calling Obama's political biography a "fairy tale."  Former Democratic vice presidential nominee Geraldine Ferraro was compared to David Duke for suggesting that Barack Obama gained some advantages from being black.

The Rule Book for Criticizing Obama.  Rule 1:  Don't criticize family no matter who they are or what they do.  Rule 2:  Don't criticize any policy that the candidate might have even if he is not mentioned by name. … Rule 4:  Don't examine any of Obama's anti-American, racist, terrorist, or criminal associates.

Obama is who he is.  It's getting tricky to know how to refer to he who presumes to be the next president.  It was made clear several months ago that mentioning his middle name was a forbidden act.  (Pass out more egg shells.)  Then, last week "he" warned his followers that, having nothing honorable to say, Sen. John McCain would try to scare voters by pointing to Barack Obama's "funny name" and the fact that "he doesn't look like all those other presidents on those dollar bills."  Now, putting aside for the moment the racial component of his warning, what are we to make of the "funny name" reference?

Obama's acolytes turn it ugly.  The race issue has been well and truly joined, and John McCain didn't do it.  Barack Obama, who has flirted with it, left it to his surrogates in Congress and his cheerleaders in the mainstream media to stir the ugliest pot in politics, and the easiest to bring to boil.

Whitey Need Not Apply.  "Will race be an issue in this campaign?"  Hearing the cable talk-show host solemnly pose the question, I could not suppress a belly laugh.  For the anchor was fearful that some white folks might reject Obama because he is African-American — even as a Rasmussen poll was reporting that Barack is beating McCain among black voters 94 to 1.

The Bottom of the Deck.  Obama is no longer just preemptively defining the opposition to him as illegitimate; he is defining it as racist.  Republicans have been slow to respond to this provocation.  McCain is often said to be someone who responds indignantly to attacks on his honor.  In this case, he ought to do so.

Injecting Race Into the Campaign.  It's true; Obama is black.  And the person who keeps mentioning that Barack Obama is black most often is Barack Obama.  In fact, Obama has preemptively accused the entire McCain campaign of racism and the entire electorate of being susceptible to racism.  So now, those of you who find Obama's inexperience or his policy prescriptions — or even his personality — lacking, have fallen prey to bigoted politics.  You are too frightened to see the light.  The hope.

Obama and the Racism Card:  In a statement Obama repeated three times, he said what George Bush and John McCain are "going to try to do is make you scared of me.  You know, he's not patriotic enough.  He's got a funny name.  You know, he doesn't look like all those other presidents on those dollar bills." … Obama clearly was talking about race.  He said much the same thing in Berlin:  "I don't look like the Americans who've previously spoken in this great city."

Ugly game of who's the bigot.  Barack Obama is not even Jewish, but he speaks fluent chutzpah, the Yiddish word to describe "nerve," as in, "he's got a lot of nerve."  ... The senator himself played the race card this week and accused John McCain of raising the race issue.

Obama Aide Concedes 'Dollar Bill' Remark Referred to His Race.  Sen. Barack Obama's chief strategist conceded that the Democratic presidential candidate was referring to his race when he said Republicans were trying to scare voters by suggesting Obama "doesn't look like all those other presidents on the dollar bills."  The comment had triggered a charge Thursday from Sen. John McCain's campaign manager that Obama had "played the race card... from the bottom of the deck."

Why is Obama foolishly evoking race time after time?  The voter is starting to hear serially from Obama about race; they were promised a racially transcendent candidate, but so far Obama seems obsessed with identity, either accusing others of racism, or using heritage himself for political advantage.  This is a tragic blunder.

Slate Writer Claims Racism Is Only Reason Obama Will Lose.  The liberals have already come up with their excuse for why Barack Obama might lose the election in November.  It wouldn't be because of his inexperience, poor judgement, or far left political views.  No, the real reason according to Slate's Jacob Weisberg is racism.

The Racism Cry Returns.  Having begun softly during the primary season, an incessant drumbeat has steadily gained strength and will soon reach its deafening crescendo as we march toward November:  If you are white and vote for anyone other than Sen. Barack Obama (Savior-IL) for president you are a racist.

25 Reasons You May Be A Racist:
(# 1).  If you think Obama's the most liberal member of the senate you...may be a racist.
(# 2).  If you object to Obama raising your payroll, capital gains and estate taxes you...may be a racist.
(# 3).  If you'd prefer a president have at least some foreign policy experience you...may be a racist.

The Race Card Returns.  Last week Barack Obama did the unthinkable — he played the race card.  In an unusually clumsy attempt to pre-empt the onslaught of McCain's increasing negative campaign, Senator Obama made a huge mistake.

Graham:  It's A "lie" To Say Obama Not Injecting Race Into Campaign.  "To say that Barack Obama did not intentionally inject the idea of his name and his race is a lie," [Sen. Lindsey] Graham said in an interview on "Fox News Sunday." [8/3/2008]  "There is no doubt in my mind that Sen. Obama is trying to suggest that he is the victim of something,"

Barack Obama:  Pretense galore.  In a lousy year for Republicans, against a GOP nominee who combines the youthful effervescence of Wilford Brimley with the soaring oratory of a life insurance seminar, Obama is actually losing ground.  Why?  Obama, sadly, blames race.  It's all about evil Republicans, he claims, trying to scare voters by telling them "I don't look like those guys on the dollar bills" and "Did I mention he's black?"

The Race Libel.  "Much of America's political conversation is couched in code," says Anna Quindlen, writing earlier this month in Newsweek.  And what's the code telling us?  That the campaign of John McCain is playing a "Caucasian card," Quindlen's way of saying that it's appealing to white racism.

The Racism Excuse.  In this week's Newsweek (and on Slate), Jacob Weisberg reasoned that only some "crazy irrationality over race" could prevent Mr. Obama from winning the White House. … Wow.  Vote for Barack, or America is as irredeemable as many foreigners believe.

Obama, Justice Thomas and Col. West: On Morality.  Senator Obama has a tendency to claim special protection from criticism because he is black, and therefore a victim — although he has no slavery in his family background (at least slaves), and has never encountered the degradations of the Dixiecrat South in which Clarence Thomas grew up.  Obama is a lifelong child of privilege, from birth all the way to Harvard Law School and the US Senate.  Yes his mother was a single mom, but one with a PhD and a mother who was a bank vice president, enabling her to spend her time overseas mostly unencumbered by a child.

Obama Has Lost His Mojo.  In the blink of an eye, the novelty of Obama's race has given way to the novelty of Sarah's gender.  Point, counterpoint.  With Sarah Palin on the scene, the Obama camp loses a valuable asset, the race card.  Charges of racism for those stupid enough not to vote for Obama can now be credibly countered with the sexism card.  Obama is finding out that life isn't fair and that what goes around, comes around.

It's Gettin' Ugly Out There.  During an Obama campaign appearance, a bland governor from Kansas made the not-so-bland assertion that the reason the current polls are so close is because "one of the candidates" is half-black. ... When Gov. Kathleen Sebelius injects the stale, tired old claim that racism might just keep Obama out of the White House, don't think for a moment that isn't done with the total blessing of the Obama campaign.

The media play the race card on Obama.  Many journalists are so convinced that racism is the only possible explanation for an Obama loss that they are beginning to see any effective anti-Obama ad as an attempt by John McCain to "viciously exacerbate" America's "race-fueled angst," in the words of one New York magazine writer.  For example, a McCain ad (citing the Washington Post) noted that Franklin Raines, the Clinton-appointed former head of Fannie Mae who helped bring about the current Wall Street meltdown, advised the Obama campaign.  Time's Karen Tumulty proclaims that because Raines is black, McCain is "playing the race card."

Liberals' Warnings About Obama Loss May Prove Self-Fulfilling.  If Barack Obama loses the 2008 election, liberal hell will break loose.  Seven weeks before the 2008 presidential election, liberals are warning America that if Barack Obama loses, it is because Americans are racist.  Of course, that this means that Democrats (and independents) are racist, since Republicans will vote Republican regardless of the race of the Democrat, is an irony apparently lost on the Democrats making these charges.

Race To The Finish.  [The Democrat] candidate's very nomination and rise to fame and fortune belie his charges of racism.  Martin Luther King once dreamed of a day when people would be judged by the content of their character and not the color of their skin.  Sadly for Barack Obama, that day has arrived.

Enter The Race Card.  When Barney Frank & Co. rave on about Republican "racism," what they're really doing is deflecting attention from their own sins — and trying to score some cheap political points for the Obama campaign.

The Obama Witch Project.  Republicans don't need to dress up for Halloween this year.  They're scaring the pants off Barack Obama's followers by their mere presence.  Anything they say, wear or do provokes instant cries of "RAAAAACISM!"  Wink, blink or think critical thoughts about Obama?  You're a bigot!  How many racial bogeymen have Obama operatives and sympathetic journalists discovered lurking in "coded language" and attire?  Let us count the ways.

How Obama Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the R-Bomb.  History reveals that when the measure of a candidate meets America's standards, he or she will be elected — regardless of outward appearance.  Consider this:  In 2000, black Republican J.C. Watts earned 65% of the vote to be reelected to a fourth term as Congressman of Oklahoma's Fourth District, which is only 6.7% black.

Castro:  Racism in US keeps many away from Obama.  Fidel Castro says a "profound racism" in the United States will stop millions from voting for Barack Obama in next month's presidential election.  The ailing, 82-year-old former Cuban president says it is "a miracle that the Democratic candidate hasn't suffered the same luck as (assassinated leaders) Martin Luther King, Malcolm X and others who harbored dreams of equality and justice."

To The Undecided Voter:  During the campaign there have been some rather amazing charges of racism.  Let's see if we can remember a few:  Using the word "skinny" to refer to Obama is racist.  "Community organizer" is a racist term.  Any reference to a connection between Obama and Franklin Raines, the former head of Fannie Mae is racist ... that would be because Raines is black.  All references to Jeremiah Wright are racist; that being due to Wright being black.  Referring to Obama as "eloquent" is racist because it infers that other blacks are not eloquent.  For goodness' sake, don't say that Obama is "clean."  This just in from The Kansas City Star: Calling Obama a "socialist" is also racist because "socialist" is just another code word for black.  And so it goes.

The Left Keeps Hate Alive.  As McCain and Palin campaign throughout the country it seems impossible for them to open their mouths without somebody accusing them of being racists.  The most recent accusation comes from columnist Lewis Diuguid of the Kansas City Star.  The editorial page writer claims that their use of the word "Socialist" to label Barack Obama is "an old code word for black."

Obama And His Silly White Women Behind Him.  If anybody really believes that Race is not an issue in this 2008 election, then they are grossly deceived, because that denial is being used as a shield to deflect criticism from the Obamaniacs when they spew out their accusations of racism against whites and anybody else who won't go along with their predominantly black agendas, which many have yet to understand their agendas have been in place for decades.  And they have made no secret that those plans are in place to the exclusion of everybody else except the blacks and all those whom they now call "people of color."  But, is that what the majority of Americans want for America?  I believe not!

Has Obama Overplayed the Race Card?  How ironic that the same Senator sponsoring the Deceptive Practices and Voter Intimidation Prevention Act of 2007 (S.453) would not only tacitly condone, but actually participate in racial intimidation to advance his presidential prospects.  Obama keeps cautioning crowds that "the race is not over," all the while knowing his race most certainly is over:  all over every facet of his ambitious strategy to make political history.

Don't call me Socialist, Whitey.  [Scroll down]  For instance:
 •  As Black racism is the direct result of White racism, any mention of racist Jeremiah Wright or the Obamas' 20 years of receiving his anti-American anti-White sermons, is itself, racist.
 •  As ACORN is largely a black organization concerned primarily with minority issues, any questions about the multi-state vote-rigging allegations against them or Obama's involvement therein is racist.
 •  Suggesting minority-centric lending policies were factors in the Fannie/Freddie collapse is racist; more so if former Fannie Mae CEO Franklin Raines' name is surfaced.
 •  Calling a black man "articulate and bright and clean" is racist as it apparently implies most are not.
 • "Socialist" is a code-word for black.
 •  "Community Organizer" is also a code-word for black
 •  Even "Inexperienced" is a code-word for black.

Liberals:  A Black President Is No Proof Against Racism in America.  Obama was never foolish enough to admit that America is not a racist country.  After all, that would have undermined his own claim to the presidency, which was based on the notion that Americans could disprove their racism by electing him.  Instead, Obama's campaign — and his supporters in the media — promised us that his election to the White House would start a new era in America's racial history.

Obama Doesn't Fulfill Martin Luther King's Dream.  Obama's camp uses race, emphasizing his color to heighten "white guilt" and win support.  That's not the colorblindness MLK preached.

Cracks in the Facade:  Far from bringing us together, I think Obama's serial emphasis on race may achieve the unintended opposite of polarization.  He should have learned in the campaign (Rev. Wright, Trinity Church, typical white person, clingers, call for reparations, his grandmother — the purported prejudicial stereotyper, etc.), the perils of seeing the world through skin color.  Yet to establish his own diplomatic fides abroad, he immediately evokes race at the South American summit.  His interview with al Arabiya highlights his race and family's religion.  Race appears in presidential jokes.  He distances himself from America prior to his coming of age.  Stranger still, Obama's heritage is unlike that of a Clarence Thomas, Tom Sowell, or Bill Cosby, who all knew real prejudice in 1950s America.

At the NAACP, Obama Removes His Mask of the Great Unifier.  It is truly a sad day in America when the president of the United States fans the flames of racial hatred.  The man elected to be president of all the people, in his speech at the NAACP basically said, though America is racist, sexist and homophobic, you can make it in spite of those white [people]'s attempts to stop you.  Wonderful.  How inspiring.  The NAACP audience erupted in applause.  Obama's condemnation was "red meat" to the liberal, protective of their victim status, organization.

Race Baiter in Chief.  If the country wanted to elect Jessie Jackson or Al Sharpton as president we already had that chance.  Many thought Obama was an educated, reasonable, objective man.  Instead, I think we have just had confirmed what some feared and suspected:  we have elected the Race Baiter in Chief.

Obama's Criticism of Police Is Nothing New for Him.  Serving up a pack of falsehoods for public consumption does absolutely nothing to promote "unity."  It only promotes grievance mongering and resentment.  Moreover, Obama's lies about the justice system were far more than mere unfortunate failures to "calibrate" — as he puts it — his words with greater precision.  Rather, those lies were part of a longstanding Obama tradition of:  (a) lamenting the alleged racial "disparities in criminal sentencing"; (b) asserting that blacks and whites "receive very different sentences ... for the same crime"; and (c) complaining that "certain sentences ... are based less on the kind of crime you commit than on what you look like and where you come from."  The empirical evidence against Obama's claims is weighty indeed.

Obama Plays the Race Card.  If Barack Obama really thinks that the Tea Partiers are aggrieved because they want to get their hands into the public till — the federal government was bailing out others but "wasn't helping them nearly enough" — then he is far more obtuse than I had suspected.  More likely, he knows better but can't resist his hyperpartisan habit of always attributing bad motives to his political opponents.  It strikes me as self-evident that the Tea Party movement has nothing to do with race.  It is about out of control government spending and debt.  What does that have to do with race?  Nothing.

What happened to post-racial America?  Whatever happened to that "post-racial" America we were supposed to be living in?  Whatever happened to those warm and fuzzy feelings we got when we elected America's first black president?  Whatever happened to being so proud of ourselves for having bridged the racial divide?  Didn't last very long.

Obama's Seven Deadly Political Sins.  Many Americans believed Barack Obama's election would lead the country into a post-racial world.  After all, Obama's rhetoric during the campaign was very different from previous "black leaders" like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson.  Besides, if a black man could become President, how racist could the country really be?  However, that wonderful dream has turned into a nightmare since Obama was elected. ... The last thing most Americans thought they were doing when they voted for Obama was increasing how often the word "racist" was going to be errantly tossed around.

The Barry Lynn of The South.  Throughout the presidential campaign last year, liberals were champing at the bit to accuse Americans of racism for not supporting Barack Obama.  That was a tough argument on account of the obvious facts that:  (1) for every vote he lost because he's black, Obama picked up another 20 votes for being black; (2) Obama won the election in (3) a country that's 87 percent non-black.  So the accusations of racism had to be put on hold until ... the first note of dissent from his agenda was sounded.  Inasmuch as Obama was just elected and his policies have turned out to be the most left-wing the country has ever seen, it wasn't going to be easy to claim the electorate suddenly decided they didn't like the mammoth spending bills or socialist health care bills because they just noticed Obama is black.

You're A Racist!  The Ultimate Emotional Intimidation.  Many sincere white Americans thought by electing a black president America could never again be characterized as a "racist country."  Shamefully, this characterless administration betrayed Obama voters by exploiting race, using it as a tool to implement their far left agenda.  If you don't agree with everything Obama wants, you must be a racist.  Rather than the election of America's first black president bringing the races together, Obama's administration is tearing us apart.  They will continue to play the tired, old and tattered geriatric "race card" as long as it is effective.

Obama vs. Obama:  In short, Obama is now simply a normal President with sliding polls; if he tries to evoke his singular heritage in his decline for political advantage as he did in his ascendancy with real profit, his Presidency could implode.  The current public has had it with blame-gaming and victimization of any sort, and will have little tolerance for any who play that card.

The race bullies:  When "communist" was the allegation of the day, it lost its sting in due course.  Today, in spite of sixty years of immense black progress since Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights laws, the media and Demagogues love to read "racism!" into the minds of ordinary, decent Americans.  It is pure a Stalinist tactic to shut up opposition.  It is done with malice aforethought as a power play.  For Democrats there are no "racists" on the Left, just revered old Ku Klux Klanners like Senator Robert Byrd.

Criticism Is Racism.  Sadly, it's not enough to expect that people who level the racism charge at least try to back it up.  The claim is no longer about facts, but about silencing or discrediting critics.  The evidence suggests that the right should expect this slanderous strategy to continue as long as Obama is in office.

Democrats Jumping the Race-Card Shark.  Welcome to the post-racial presidency of Barack Obama, in which it has suddenly become a racial issue when American citizens dare to criticize the president.  Now, this is so silly, so asinine that it boggles the mind of any rational person. ... How easy did these people think it was going to be when they decided to elect a man whose resume fits nicely on a postage stamp to the highest office in the land?  Racism?  No.  Incompetence with a capital "I."  Yes, we can object.

That's right, Obama and his team are incompetent.

Who's a Racist?  Do Barack Obama and the Democrat Party foster racism and use it as a political tool?  The cold, hard truth that no one on the Left wants to admit is that they do.

More about liberals and minorities.

Democrats see race factor for Barack Obama foes.  Eight months into Barack Obama's presidency, as criticism of his administration seems to reach new levels of volume and intensity each week, the whispers among some of his allies are growing louder:  That those who loathe the nation's first African-American president, and especially those who would deny his citizenship, are driven at least in part by racism.

Race to the Bottom.  Last year Geraldine Ferraro called Barack Obama's race an advantage.  "If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position," she said to a California newspaper, the Daily Breeze.  "He happens to be very lucky to be who he is.  And the country is caught up in the concept."  Now Jimmy Carter says his race is a disadvantage.  Which is it?

Dems will stoop to any depth to tar Obama critics.  Sometimes losing in the political arena brings out the lowest depths of behavior.  This sad fact is on display now in the form of the slanderous mischaracterization of President Barack Obama's critics.

The Obsolescence of a Slur.  Are Obama's critics really racists?  It is a serious charge.  If true, it means the hope of a color-blind society is essentially over after a half-century of civil-rights progress.  If false, it means that we have institutionalized vicious smears as legitimate political tactics — and, in the process, discredited the entire dialogue that surrounds racial prejudice.  How do we determine the accuracy of the "racism" charges?

Hating Whitey Makes Unexpected Comeback.  Here we are only nine months into the ubiquitously proclaimed "post-racial presidency," and all that promised harmony among the races has disappeared faster than a Chicago minute.  All it took for addled minds to conjure shadows of racism behind every whitey tree in the whole American forest were voices raised in dissent over the President's far-left policies.

Would Obama Be President If He Made These Five Campaign Promises?  Even amongst politicians, Barack Obama is such a liar that he makes Bill Clinton look like honest Abe Lincoln by comparison.  During the campaign, Barack Obama promised everything to everybody and when people inquired too closely, his supporters screamed that you had to be a racist for doubting him.

The Racism of the Black Community.  According to allies of President Obama, all opposition to Obama's policies is driven by racism.  "We think all of it is!" shouts Gwen Dawkins, a Democratic "activist" from Michigan.  Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-Texas) explains that "As far as African-Americans are concerned, we think most of it is." ... Apparently, racism must be spreading like wildfire.

Paranoia Strikes Deep in Obama's America.  In Obama's brain, his father's womanizing and boozing wasn't due to low moral standards; white supremacy was to blame.  His grandmother was "a typical white person," not someone who had personal failings.  Obama married Michelle, a woman who sees everything through the lens of race.  Rather than feeling honored to attend Princeton, she regarded the place as a hotbed of racism.  Some of her pre-First Lady speeches reek of loathing for America.

How the Left Reveals Itself:  I have recently come to the conclusion that leftists reveal their innermost thoughts when attacking those with whom they disagree.  For example, in President Obama's recently televised meeting with Republicans, he chastised critics who believed his policies were part of some "Bolshevik plot." ... Another example is the charge of racism leveled against anyone who disagrees with President Obama's way of thinking (the most recent declaration is that anyone who calls Mr. Obama a "professor" is probably a racist).

Breitbart to NY Times Reporter: 'You're a Despicable Human Being'.  After Barack Obama's election as the first black president of the United States, we were supposed to have entered a new, post-racial era.  However, as many feel it has turned out, any dissent or criticism of the most powerful man in the free world or his agenda draws allegations of "racial tones," as happened on the New York Times Web site on Feb. 18.

Howard Dean implies the Tea Party movement is racist.  In a speech Wednesday night [2/24/2010] at the George Washington University, Howard Dean told College Democrats that "the Tea Party is about a generation who grew up in an America where everyone looked like them" and implied that the movement is hostile to President Obama because of his race.

Obama's white-flight problem.  Desperate Democrats and their co-conspirators in the media are busy trying to whip up a race war.  "The health care bill is not the main source of this anger and never has been.  It's merely a handy excuse," Frank Rich wrote in a recent New York Times column.  Their line is that all those opposed to the president's radical agenda are racists who resent having a black man as president.  It is a moldy, old smear, but as approval ratings for Mr. Obama sink below 50 percent, it is being revisited with increasing fervor.

Inestimable Harm.  If I have learned one thing from life, it is that race is the engine that drives the political Left.  When all else fails, that segment of America goes to the default position of using race to achieve its objectives.  In the courtrooms, on college campuses, and, most especially, in our politics, race is a central theme.  Where it does not naturally rise to the surface, there are those who will manufacture and amplify it.

Obama's race-baiting.  President Obama has been denouncing Republicans who purportedly "exploited for political purposes" the issue of illegal immigration.  He also has denigrated Arizona's new illegal-alien law for threatening "to undermine basic notions of fairness that we cherish as Americans."  All this overheated rhetoric exposes Mr. Obama as the one who is cynically manipulating racial tensions for political purposes.

Obama, the Thin-Skinned President.  Obama is among the most thin-skinned presidents we have had, and we see evidence of it in every possible venue imaginable, from one-on-one interviews to press conferences, from extemporaneous remarks to set speeches.  The president is constantly complaining about what others are saying about him.  He is upset at Fox News, and conservative talk radio, and Republicans, and people carrying unflattering posters of him.  He gets upset when his avalanche of faulty facts are challenged, like on health care.  He gets upset when he is called on his hypocrisy, on everything from breaking his promise not to hire lobbyists in the White House to broadcasting health care meetings on C-SPAN to not curtailing earmarks to failing in his promises of transparency and bipartisanship.  In Obama's eyes, he is always the aggrieved, always the violated, always the victim of some injustice.

He's Obama!  He's black!  So, shut up!  I received this message on Twitter from a black female, "Lloyd Marcus "F—— you!", in response to my opposition to Obama.  This woman is obviously a non thinking racist who refuses to take an honest look at her black idol president.  She has chosen to ignore Obama's long list of offenses of shredding the Constitution, governing against the will of the American people and using Chicago thug tactics.  All this black woman knows is Obama is the chosen one and he is black.  So shut up!

A War amongst Ourselves.  It is becoming increasingly clear to anyone paying attention that the seeds of division are being sown with increased vigor by Obama's shadowy machine.  America, in her naïvité and eternal hopefulness, thought that electing Barack Hussein Obama would be the final chapter on race in America and would hammer the last nail into a well-deserved coffin for the divisive racial narratives that demagogues and provocateurs have used for so long to tear down this country.  Little did America know that Barack Obama was the candidate of exactly those demagogues and provocateurs.

The New Racial Mess.  Weren't we supposed to enter a new age of tolerance with the election of Pres. Barack Obama?  His half-black, half-white ancestry and broad support across racial lines suggested that at last Americans judged each other on the content of our characters — not the color of our skin or our tribal affiliations.  Instead, in just 18 months of the Obama administration, racial discord is growing and relations seem to have been set back a generation.

Know When to Hold 'Em.  In my view, Obama still doesn't know when to hold or fold his race cards.  Neither does the NAACP.  They've been bluffing the dummies so long they think they can get away with it forever.  And they are wrong.

Welcome to Wonderland.  Can I call Barack Obama a black president?  Not without offending someone, even though it is just a play on the "Red Queen."  This is indeed a measure of just how mixed up our political world is.  By actually noticing the color of his skin, I run the risk of being declared presumptively to be a racist.  But wasn't it Eric Holder, Obama's attorney general, who said we were "a nation of cowards" for shying away from a direct discussion of race?

This article was written when Obama was a U.S. Senator:
 The Barack Obama Myth.  His voting record certainly displays the ideology characteristic of an indulgent liberal.  (Sorry, "Progressive.")  Obama favors abortion, socialized medicine, and Affirmative Action.  Obama sponsored a bill in the Illinois legislature requiring local police departments in Illinois to record the race of anyone stopped for questioning so that the data can be used to track the occurrence of racial profiling.

The LA Times can't resist interjecting race into politics.
 Revenge of the white men.  Millions of white men who voted for Barack Obama are walking away from the Democratic Party, and it appears increasingly likely that they'll take the election in November with them.  Their departure could well lead to a GOP landslide on a scale not seen since 1994.

Race realist Jared Taylor declares the "civil rights struggle was won long ago".  As for Mr. Obama, he encourages the population shifts that are displacing whites.  He has sued a state that simply wants to enforce the duly established immigration laws that the federal government refuses to enforce.  He wants to give amnesty to 12 million illegal immigrants, most of whom are non-white.  In these respects, he is probably not much different from his main Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton.  However, even she would not have ordered the Justice Department to drop its voter-intimidation case against the New Black Panthers.  This sort of thing is alienating whites.

The Obama Agenda and the New Global Elite.  Many Americans supported Barack Obama in order to make history by voting for the nation's first "black American" president.  These people's intellect was not subtle enough, nor were their experiences vast enough, to enable them to discern between Mr. Obama's cultural frame of reference and the color of his skin.  They will continue to think in terms of decades-old tropes that aid in keeping our dialogues on race and ethnicity in a historical straitjacket.

Barack Obama: Liar and Demagogue.  [Scroll down]  In the intervening two years since the election, the president, his underlings in the administration, and the sycophantic members of Congress have repeatedly invoked the checkered past of this country in regard to civil rights and never missed an opportunity to remind the people of Mr. Obama skin color.  This has been done in a willful effort to capitalize on so-called white guilt, thus keeping alive the tensions in the black community and muzzling dissent, while enacting radical policies anathema to the overwhelming majority of the American people.

Running on the Race Track.  Obama says that the Tea Party movement is inspired by race, by a sense that minorities are getting all these goodies from Washington.  They are motivated, the President thinks, by "a subterranean agenda."  This is such a piece of hackery and flackery, of puffery and guffery, of foolery and fakery.  Politics at its rankest masquerading as analysis at its frankest.  There is so much dirty laundry being aired here that I simply had to make a list.  Every trick in the old, old playbook is on display.

The 10 Most Shameless Race Card Plays.  Opposition to any one of them can elicit charges of racism from the Left.  Last week alone saw four egregious examples of liberals infusing race into discussions of issues that have little or nothing to do with race.  But it's not just left-wing bloggers and MSNBC blowhards who regularly play the race card.  It's also some of the most prominent members of the Democratic Party.  Barack Obama was hyped as America's first post-racial president.  But his two years in office have produced scores of examples of liberals gratuitously playing the race card.

Affirmative Action Since Obama Shattered the Highest Glass Ceiling:  A little over two years ago, a black man educated at Ivy League schools was democratically elected to the most powerful office in the world.  Most people saw the election of Obama to the U.S. presidency as decisive evidence that affirmative action policies are no longer necessary, if they ever were.

You Must Be A Racist If You Don't Love Obama, Right?  CBS anchorman Bob Schieffer says that Donald Trump is a racist.  Whoopie Goldberg and her colleague on the View, Joy Behar, concur.  MSNBC host Ed Schultz interpreted Mr. Trump's questioning as to how Obama was able to get into Harvard with his alleged poor grades, as a racist remark doubting Obama's intelligence.  The host on Fox's Red Eye, Greg Gutfeld, usually ends his Gregalogue rant with, "and if you don't agree with me you must be a racist."  Gutfeld, however is a satirist but these mainstream media pundits are serious.

The Next Election and Race.  There can be no doubt that the presidential campaign of 2012 is underway, for Barack Obama's supporters have begun to accelerate the rate at which they charge the president's critics with "racism."  The Racism Industrial Complex has been laboring indefatigably since Obama became a viable contender during the Democratic primaries in 2007 until the present to discredit all criticism of the president by attributing it to racial animus.

Racism in the 21st Century Coming From the Left.  Perhaps we need a new definition of the word racism because it is now bandied about in a frivolous manner by race baiters who've never undergone its scourge. ... In 2008, America elected a black president, Barack Hussein Obama which should have been an indication that we are now living in a post-racial time but progressives in politics, the mainstream media and the entertainment industry have now defined racism to mean any criticism at all of their chosen black icon or his agenda.  Obama is half white and was brought up in a middle class environment with liberal white grandparents in relative comfort denied to many blacks historically.  He had an Ivy League education and became a millionaire at an early age.  Yet whatever bigoted insults he endured during his life they pale in comparison to that still hurled against Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and other conservative blacks dubbed Uncle Toms or Aunt Jemimas by political opponents.

President Obama's problems are mostly caused by the 'color of his skin,' says Clyburn.  South Carolina Democratic Rep. James Clyburn, the third-ranking Democrat in the House of Representative, holds racism accountable for most of President Obama's failures.  Clyburn was quoted by McClatchy Newspapers saying, "You know, I'm 70 years old.  And I can tell you; people don't like to deal with it, but the fact of the matter is, the president's problems are in large measure because of the color of his skin."

Obama Calling Tea Party Racist Reveals A Far More Disturbing Reality.  The Democrats and the liberal mainstream media sold the American people on Obama, "the man."  Despite Obama's zero experience at running anything, they said a leader with his spirit and heart was "what we have been waiting for".  Fearful of criticizing our first black president, politicians politely say, "President Obama's policies have been unfruitful," while ignoring the huge elephant in America's living room.  The elephant of which I speak and America's major problem is "Obama, the man"; socialist, divisive and evil.

Racism to blame for Obama's problems, key Democrat says.  House Assistant Democratic Leader Jim Clyburn, the highest-ranking African-American in Congress, on Wednesday [5/25/2011] blamed most of President Barack Obama's political problems on racism.

Jackson Lee: Congress complicating debt ceiling because Obama is black.  Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) on Friday [7/15/2011] strongly suggested that members of Congress are making it difficult for President Obama to raise the debt ceiling because of his race.  "I do not understand what I think is the maligning and maliciousness [toward] this president," said Jackson Lee, a member of the Congressional Black Caucus.  "Why is he different?  And in my community, that is the question that we raise.

Obama and Holder Should Put the Race Card back in the Deck.  President Obama led us to believe that he would be a post-racial president who would bring the races together, but it's gotten to where you can't criticize this most leftist administration in American history without someone accusing you of racism.  The most recent example involves criticism of Attorney General Eric Holder over Fast and Furious...

NBC's Gregory Lectures on Civility: 'Racism' Toward Obama 'Brings Out a Level of Hatred'.  In a panel discussion on Sunday's [3/11/2011] NBC Meet the Press that included left-wing bomb-thrower Al Sharpton, host David Gregory worried: "Where has civility gone in politics?"  He declared the source of incivility:  "I talked to John Lewis, the civil rights leader, recently, who said he does think there's something particular, if it's racism or something else, about Obama that brings out a level of hatred."

Barack Obama and Racial Double Standards.  The proposition that because Obama is the first black president we should treat him differently than we would treat a non-black is one many of us simply reject.

Top five cliches that liberals use to avoid real arguments.  Liberals insist that they live right downtown in the "reality-based community," and if only their Republican opponents weren't so blinded by ideology and stupidity, then they could work with them.  This has been a theme of Obama's presidency from the start.  A couple of days before his inauguration, Obama proclaimed:  "What is required is a new declaration of independence, not just in our nation, but in our own lives — from ideology and small thinking, prejudice and bigotry" (an odd pronouncement, given that "bigoted" America had just elected its first black president).

A Psychologist Analyzes The President.  Today the Democrats have placed all their hopes in Obama.  But this man could put an end to their party.  The great majority of blacks voted for Obama.  Only a fool does not know that their support for him is racially driven.  This is racism, pure and simple.  The downside of this is that if Obama turns out to be the disaster I predict, he will cause widespread resentment among the whites.  The blacks are unlikely to give up their support of their man.  Cultic mentality is pernicious and unrelenting.  They will dig their heads deeper in the sand and blame Obama's detractors of racism.

Dick Morris: White House will spin Holder contempt proceedings as racism for political gain.  While Attorney General Eric Holder is on the verge of facing a contempt citation in Congress for allegedly not complying with a congressional subpoena over Operation Fast and Furious, in the long run the situation could be a political positive for President Barack Obama's reelection effort, according to former Clinton adviser and Fox News analyst Dick Morris.

NY Times Goes Hunting for Racist 'Ultraconservatives' in Ohio Who Won't Support Obama.  The New York Times sent reporter Sabrina Tavernise to the battleground state of Ohio, to the blue-collar town of Steubenville in pursuit of a pet theory:  Barack Obama may struggle to win because some whites are racist.  Tavernise starts by suggesting this could be a problem with Democrats, but "ultraconservatives" quickly surface.



Is Obama a Racist?

It is bad enough that President Obama claims to be the victim of racism, but there is considerable evidence accumulating to show that Barack H. Obama (a/k/a Barry Soetoro) walks around with a racial chip on his shoulder, just like his mentors, Jeremiah Wright and Frank Marshall Davis.

President Obama seems to tolerate, if not encourage, the blatantly racist actions of Attorney General Eric Holder, including Holder's preferential treatment of the Black Panthers and ACORN.  Under Mr. Holder's leadership, and with Obama's apparent approval, the Justice Department will not prosecute cases in which the victims are white and the offenders are black.*  How obvious does racism have to be?


'African-Americans for Obama' Revived; Media Double Standard Obvious.  It wouldn't take more than a nanosecond for the establishment press and TV talking heads to rip into any white political candidate — Democrat or Republican — who carved out a web site devoted to "Whites for Candidate X."  About a week ago, President Obama, with his powers of incumbency in tow, has decided to revive something he created back in 2007:  "African-Americans for Obama."  And, as seen in the Obama video which appears at the site and in what appears to be a new twist, the Obama campaign is driving a Mack through the alleged wall of separation between church and state by finding so-called "congregation captains" to maximize African-American support on his behalf.

Obama's Marxist Faith Is Legitimate Campaign Issue.  BLT [Black Liberation Theology], in fact, is the Rosetta stone for understanding Obama and his agenda, decoding his rhetoric, and divining where he plans to take this country.  Here is a primer:
  •   The doctrine is an explicitly Marxist interpretation of the Bible whose aim is to stir up class and race hatred.
  •   BLT combines the teachings of Christ with those of Marx to justify the overthrow of the capitalist system.
  •   It does not believe the Bible is inerrant.  Hence, it can be, as Obama put it, "modified to accommodate modern life."
  •   BLT ignores the epistles of Paul and the other apostles since they accept the institution of slavery that existed at the time.
  •   As professor James Cone, the father of BLT, once explained it, "Black theology seeks to prepare all nonwhites for revolutionary action."

Obama to break ground for national black museum.  With eyes on his own personal legacy, President Obama revealed today that he will help in the groundbreaking of the nation's first African-American museum.  According to the White House, he will deliver the key remarks at the ceremony for the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture to be built on the National Mall.  The ground breaking takes place February 22.

Obama's Racial Politics.  Criticizing Republicans, before a Mexican-American audience, Obama said that he ran for office because "America should be a place where you can always make it if you try — a place where every child, no matter what they look like (or) where they come from, should have a chance to succeed."  If you don't get it, "no matter what they look like" is code for nonwhite.

Obama's Racial Politics.  Never has America been more assimilated, integrated, and intermarried — as is evident in everything from politics to popular culture, from statistics to anecdotes.  Yet from late 2007 to 2012, Barack Obama has been establishing new rules of racial referencing.  In general, his utterances follow a disheartening pattern.  When he is ahead in the polls, has won an election, and is not campaigning, then he emphasizes the unity of the country.  But when he is running for president, or campaigning for others, or sinking in the polls, he and his closest associates predictably revert to charges of racial bigotry, albeit usually coded and subtle.  America is redeemed when it champions the Obamas, but retrograde when it does not.

New Team Obama Re-Election Gimmick: Is America a Post-Racial Society?  Suddenly, there is a lot of discussion about whether or not we live in a "post-racial society."  With the 2012 presidential election right around the corner, I can only conclude that, despicably, "race-baiting" will be a major component of the left's and the White House's Obama re-election campaign.

Obama Plays La Raza Card In Key Appointment.  In another move aimed at aiding his re-election, President Obama on Tuesday [1/10/2012] announced that Cecilia Munoz, a former senior vice president of the National Council of La Raza (NCLR), would replace Melody Barnes as head of his Domestic Policy Council.  Hispanics are a key part of the coalition Obama and a key part of his re-election strategy will no doubt be to portray Republicans and others who advocate border security and stronger immigration enforcement as racists.  Munoz's appointment is a part of that strategy.

Obama's "Razist" Lobbyist Moves Up.  With public attention focused on the GOP primaries, the White House quietly promoted another self-dealing lobbyist to serve as President Obama's top domestic policy adviser.  Promises?  What broken promises?

The class warfare President.  From the beginning of his Presidency, Barack Obama has endeavored to divide Americans any way he can, either by race or by class.  On practically any given day, he can be counted on to attack "the rich" — those evil people who have worked hard to succeed while building businesses, and in the process actually made a good living and put many other Amreicans to work.  For Obama, however, that simply isn't right.  How dare they want to keep some of their hard earned money!

Obama's Greatest Failing.  The sad truth is that our president has flunked every racial test he has taken — from his ineptly criticizing the Cambridge police for their alleged stupid handling of a complaint by a prestigious black Harvard professor to his embrace — yes, an actual hug — of the clever racial bigot, Al Sharpton.  Obama has had many opportunities to use the bully pulpit of the White House to denounce bigots like Sharpton and his brother-in-hate, Farrakhan, but he has not done so.  Just the opposite. Anti-white and anti-Semitic thugs are flourishing in this spineless atmosphere — even though we Americans had every right to expect Mr. Obama to deal with them harshly.  All of which brings us back to the New Black Panther case.

Breitbart connects Obama to New Black Panther Party.  Internet provocateur Andrew Breitbart has photographic evidence of then-Senator Barack Obama sharing a stage in 2007 with Malik Shabazz, National Chairman of the New Black Panther Party, a revival of the militant black supremacist organization founded in 1966 by a couple of thugs named Huey Newton and Bobby Seale.

Candidate Obama Appeared And Marched With New Black Panther Party in 2007.  New photographs obtained exclusively by BigGovernment.com reveal that Barack Obama appeared and marched with members of the New Black Panther Party as he campaigned for president in Selma, Alabama in March 2007.  The photographs, captured from a Flickr photo-sharing account before it was scrubbed, are the latest evidence of the mainstream media's failure to examine Obama's extremist ties and radical roots.

MSM Not Concerned with Obama's Racially-Charged Past.  Not worthy of a racial media fury:  a sitting Democrat president who...
  ...spent 20 years in a racist church.
  ...called the racist Jeremiah Wright his mentor.
  ...shared a stage with the racist, anti-Semitic New Black Panther Party as a presidential candidate.
  ...also shared that stage with Malik Shabazz, the head of the New Black Panther Party.
  ... has yet to tell us if the Malik Shabazz who signed the White House guest book in 2009 is the same Malik Shabazz who heads the New Black Panther Party.
  ...appointed an Attorney General who all but dropped slam-dunk charges of voter intimidation against this very same New Black Panther Party.

Obama: Whites need not apply.  The White House issued an executive order on Thursday [8/18/2011] titled "Establishing a Coordinated Government-wide Initiative to Promote Diversity and Inclusion in the Federal Workforce."  The purpose of the order is "to promote the federal workplace as a model of equal opportunity, diversity and inclusion."  In other words, it would be better for the government if public-spirited white workers sought employment elsewhere.  Lost amid all the politically correct box-checking is the principle that the most qualified person should be hired for a job.

"Promote diversity and inclusion" means, "Don't hire white males."
 Obama orders federal agencies to focus on diversity.  President Obama issued an executive order Thursday intended to coordinate a "government-wide initiative to promote diversity and inclusion in the federal workforce."  The order creates a council of deputy agency chiefs and federal workers tasked with developing a government-wide plan to improve diversity in recruitment, training and promotion of federal workers.

Sorry, Your Race Card Has Been Declined.  Obama's entire life has been devoted to fomenting racial animus.  All of his mentors, from the rancid racist and surrogate father, Frank Marshall Davis to Fan of Farrakhan, Jeremiah Wright, have been rabid, whitey despising racists.  In his fictional "autobiography", Obama is consumed by bigotry.  He can find ersatz discrimination in nearly any situation.  Even his white mother was preoccupied with race.

Are the Black Flash Mob Attacks on Whites Obama's Fault?  As America's first black president, fair or unfair, Obama's presidency comes with enormous responsibility in terms of its influence on black youths.  This is why it is so unfortunate that American black youths' ultimate role model is a characterless, race-baiting political hack.  While I am not saying president Obama is responsible for the epidemic of black youth flash-mob attacks on whites around our country, his race-baiting has to be a contributing factor.

More about black mobs and black racism.

Is Obama fomenting a race war?  President Obama is inciting racial division.  He rightly fears that the Democrats will suffer huge losses in November's midterm congressional elections.  Republicans are within reach of retaking control of the House of Representatives.  Even the Senate may be in play.  His party's grip on power is threatened — and with it, Mr. Obama's radical socialist agenda.  Fear breeds desperation.  Hence, Mr. Obama is resorting to the worst kind of demagoguery:  playing the race card.  In a video to Democrats, the president embraced identity politics; black, Hispanic and female voters are to be courted at the expense of white middle-class America.

Obama's racial appeal.  President Obama is transforming from being the "post-racial" to the most racial president. ... The historic first black president of the United States should be more cautious than to explicitly call for race-based support.  Such a frank appeal seeking to exploit ethnic and gender divisions reinforces the suspicion that Mr. Obama and his party do not represent the whole country.

Few say race relations have improved under Obama.  Just 35 percent of Americans believe race relations have improved since Barack Obama became president, according to a new Gallup poll.  Forty-one percent say race relations haven't changed, and 23 percent say race relations have actually gotten worse under the nation's first African-American president.

Obama's Race War.  [Scroll down]  The Obama administration continues to ramp up the anti-white rhetoric.  This is nothing new.  [Eric] Holder famously called us a "nation of cowards" on racial matters last year; Obama himself called his white grandmother a "typical white person" and blasted the Cambridge Police Department for racial profiling; Michelle Obama wrote her Princeton thesis on how white folks were racists; Michelle and Barack went to Rev. Wright's racist church for 20 years.  They've all just upped the ante recently.  Now Holder says that the Arizona law will promote racial profiling; Obama agrees with him; and Michelle Obama visits the NAACP, where she tells the black audience to "increase our intensity."  What's their motivation?

Fat Black Kids Showcase America's Racism.  The most recent statement by Michelle Obama baffles me, as she compared black children's health to the age old Democrat policies of slavery and Jim Crow laws:  ... Imagine my surprise to learn that one can recognize racist policies caused fat black kids.  Here I thought racism was when black men intimidating white voters are not prosecuted for obvious voter intimidation, by a black Attorney General, simply because the perpetrators were black.  I erroneously believed that racism had occurred when a black president speaks out (without any facts) on behalf of a black professor behaving badly, and who is given preference over a white cop doing his job.

Obama, Not the 'Post-' but the 'Most' Racial President.  While President Obama has touted himself as a post-racial president, he has built a record demonstrating precisely the opposite.  Is it Obama's bitterness, or is the incessant playing of the race card by him and many of his supporters merely calculated political exploitation — or both?  Let's look at a non-exhaustive list of examples since Obama took office.

Obama Plays the Race Card .  The Obama Administration is playing the race card to win the November election and keep control of Congress.  The President who promised to "bring us together" acts now to fan the flames of racial division.  As every poll shows increasing disaffection among Obama 2008 voters, a desperate White House falls back on Alinsky 101 — mobilize your supporters with a campaign of racial and class division and demonize, divide, and demoralize the opposition.

Race Played Role in Obama Car Dealer Closures.  The Obama administration, already under fire for unprecedented allegations of racial bias, faces a new bias claim from a most unlikely source:  one of the administration's own inspectors general.  Decisions on which car dealerships to close as part of the auto industry bailout — closures the Obama administration forced on General Motors and Chrysler — were based in part on race and gender, according to a report by Troubled Asset Relief Program Special Inspector General Neal M. Barofsky.

The Obama Horror Picture Show.  What has been Obama's most notable accomplishment since assuming the presidency?  Steering us toward a race war.  The constant cries of racism are designed to inflame and agitate.  And talk about projection:  Has there ever been a more racially biased administration?

Unemployment:  Is Barack Obama a Racist?  Remember Katrina?  Remember "George Bush doesn't care about black people"?  Remember how the suffering of non-whites was used as prima facie evidence of racism on the part of President Bush personally and the government at large?  I'm sure you do.  What does that tell us about Barack Obama and unemployment?

Why Obama is Just Not That Into You.  Obama practices reverse racism by preferring his brothers above all others.  Obama's DOJ refuses to prosecute the New Black Panthers, through they threaten to kill "cracker babies."  According to a DOJ whistleblower, the department will investigate no injustices against whites.  And though quick to allege racism against a Cambridge cop, Obama has been conspicuously silent about some horrific black on white attacks of late.  But the pièce de résistance, the quintessential example of Obama-style contempt, has got to be just last week.  Obama invited a Chicago rapper, Common, to perform at the White House, even though the rapper's lyrics praise cop killers.  And, of course, Obama does so during National Police Week, which honors fallen cops.

What Happened to Our Postracial President?  A black politician who once struggled to establish African-American credentials has now become our collective arbiter of race in a way former African-American national figures could hardly imagine.  Whether due to the utility of identity politics or simply to his own comfort with racial emphases, Obama has highlighted, rather than downplayed, his own mixed heritage in efforts to accentuate an African-American identity.

A Post-Racial President?  Many people hoped that the election of a black President of the United States would mark our entering a "post-racial" era, when we could finally put some ugly aspects of our history behind us.  That is quite understandable.  But it takes two to tango.  Those of us who want to see racism on its way out need to realize that others benefit greatly from crying racism.  They benefit politically, financially, and socially.  Barack Obama has been allied with such people for decades.

Obama told us more than he intended — or wanted.  Did our president sit at the knee of that Harvard teacher, who, like the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, preached sermons of insurrection, racial hatred and national destruction?  Obama's reflex reaction to defend Professor Gates seems to say that he did.  That should be cause for concern to any thinking person.  Is our president a barely contained volcano of racial prejudice and resentment?

How Obama and Henry "Yo Mama" Gates Can Woo Back the "White Devils":  The generational wounds of discrimination will not heal with Obama calling one of our nation's best and brightest fair-skinned cops "stupid."  FYI to BHO:  That kind of talk, thoughtlessly slurring one of our finer whiteys' intelligence, will leave a negative mark on our Caucasian consciousness.  You can say we can't jump, or we can't dance, but you cannot call one of our tribe stupid when, in reality, the guy was just doing his job in an excellent manner while apprehending one of your belligerent, bigoted buddies...

There Is a Pattern Here ...  The point here is that the public is starting to sense two things:  One, Obama's first impulse when speaking out on race is his most genuine and most disturbing; and two, his statesmanlike disavowals always come not out of genuine embarrassment over his initial remark (such as praising the racist Wright), but out of real concern that he is going to be hurt politically without such a "correction" — an awareness that in turn seems to engender only more anger, and leads to the next incident in the series.

TSA Groping and Obama's Black Revenge Narrative.  The growing TSA groping scandal is another Obama political fiasco, almost a comical way for an American president to commit political suicide.  TSA's groping of little kids and their moms instead of going for the bad guys who blew up the Twin Towers fits the narrative of radical black revenge.  Now all the rich white folks are treated as police suspects.  Let's see how they like it!

Obama to sign bill awarding payments to black farmers: justice or 'fraud'?  President Obama signs a law Wednesday [12/8/2010] aimed at rectifying USDA actions that undercut black farmers.  Some conservatives call it 'modern-day reparations' that reward political friends.

Our "Pay No Attention to that Man Behind the Curtain" Moment.  An Obama speech echoing boilerplate themes such as "there are no red states, there are no blue states" today simply could not be given -- the laughing in the audience would be far too much.  After Eric Holder's "cowards" outburst, the beer summit, Van Jones, the slurs against Arizona, and the video appeals targeted at particular racial groups, the public takes for granted that a Rev. Wright, the clingers speech, "typical white person," and Michelle's angst (e.g., "downright mean country," "never been proud," "raise the bar," etc.) were disturbing premonitions rather than rightwing racialist paranoias.

Race War A'Comin'?  [Scroll down]  Racial politics has poisoned this society and the affairs of this nation.  President Obama was fraudulently presented as a race-uniter and elected by white people, but he couldn't put down the race issue as a weapon, and he can't control or redirect his belligerent and bellicose posturing.  His agitation is destructive, hateful, and malignant.  Is he intent on destroying America?

'An Environment of Hostility Toward Race Neutral Enforcement'.  [Scroll down]  Now with the testimony of Christopher Coates, on top of the testimony of J. Christian Adams we learn that under the administration of Barack Obama, the Department of Justice has little interest in enforcing voting rights for all, just those who are of a certain skin pigmentation and those for whom English is a second language.  The Obama administration has been criticized because many of its programs such as are designed to redistribute income.  Frighteningly, the policy of the DOJ seems designed to redistribute voting rights by singling out one group whose rights are forbidden to be protected.  If true, than this is the most racist presidential administration the United States has had in many decades.

The Wrongdoing, the Cover-Up, and Executive Privilege.  The wrongdoing is not merely that the Obama administration dismissed a blatant case of voter intimidation.  It is not merely that an NAACP attorney pressured the Obama team to dump the case.  It is not merely that the Obama Justice Department explicitly told attorneys not to enforce Section 8 of the Voting Rights Act, which helps prevent voter fraud.  It is that the Obama team believes that the civil rights laws run only one way and offer protection only to certain racial or ethnic groups.

Obama courts La Raza support at event in midst of "crisis".  In the midst of a fiscal crisis — that his administration claims will lead to Armageddon — President Obama took time out to visit with a key constituency:  La Raza, a group many claim is the Mexican version of the KKK.

Obama's Racial Spoils System.  Embedded within the Patient Protection and Affordable Act (ObamaCare) are provisions sending tax dollars preferentially to medical schools that have robust admissions programs for "underrepresented minorities" (meaning academically-outperforming Asians don't count).  More money flows if these schools send their doctors to and nurses to "vulnerable populations" in "underserved areas," meaning inner cities.  The focus on tipping the scales was so blatant that it drew a rebuke from the U.S Commission on Civil Rights that such provisions were "racially discriminatory."  This rebuke was ignored; racial discrimination apparently is in the eye of the beholder.

Can Obama hold on to African American voters in 2012?  For several months, radio host Tom Joyner has pleaded with his 8 million listeners to get in line behind the first black president.  "Stick together, black people," says Joyner, whose R&B morning show reaches one in four African American adults. ... Even as Obama and his campaign play down the suggestion that support among African Americans is flagging, a cadre of powerful allies is snapping back at critics in the black community and making explicit appeals for racial loyalty.

The Editor says...
 Racial loyalty?  "Stick together, black people"?  Is that is not blatant racism, what is it?

WaPo Finds Blacks Demanding Racial (Racist?) Unity Behind Obama.  The front page of The Washington Post carried a story Tuesday [10/18/2011] on black liberals demanding all blacks stand with President Obama — just because he's black. ... On the front page, Thompson quoted from radio host Tom Joyner on his BlackAmericaWeb.com blog.  "Let's not even deal with the facts right now.  Let's deal with just our blackness and pride — and loyalty.  We have the chance to re-elect the first African-American president, and that's what we ought to be doing.  And I'm not afraid or ashamed to say that as black people, we should do it because he's a black man."

Vote For Obama Because He's Black.  At the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston, Sen. Barack Obama said, "...There is not a black America and a white America and Latino America and Asian America — there is the United States of America."  Those were welcome and commendable words.  Unfortunately, they appear to be only words.  Since then, Obama has divided us along race and class lines more than any modern president.  Some of his strongest, high-profile supporters in the black community are now saying that Obama's race, alone, should be enough for black voters to vote for his re-election.

It's Only Racist if a White Guy Does It.  Sunday's Atlanta Journal-Constitution contained an article by Krissah Thompson of the Washington Post.  Headline:  "Obama's backers urge black unity."  You do realize, don't you, that we're only allowed black unity in America.  White unity is verboten.  The article quotes hugely popular morning radio host Tom Joyner saying:  "Stick together, black people."  Stick together to do what?  To keep Obama in office, that's what.

Obama tells the truth.  Four years ago, Barack Obama promised to be a post-racial and post-partisan president.  Instead he has deteriorated into our most partisan and most racial president.

Obamas Visit Black Church Ahead of Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday.  President Barack Obama and his family attended church services on Sunday, continuing their custom of prayer on each Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend.  The family does not go to church frequently, but has traditionally spent the holiday occasion at historically black places of worship.  This year, President Obama, first lady Michelle Obama, and daughters Sasha and Malia visited the Zion Baptist Church in Washington for the first time.  Founded in the 1860s, the congregation's historical commission is dedicated to preserving the history of black Christian culture in the District of Columbia.
[Emphasis added.]

How Obama Betrays Martin Luther's King's Dream.  The man who campaigned on the theme that there was no "white America" or "black America" has used his powers as President to practice identity politics on a scale never before seen in America.  Barack Obama has overtly chosen top officials on the basis of their skin color and not on the content of their character.  Moreover, he has enacted policies that overtly favor "people of color" over "people of pallor" regardless of the merits of the individuals impacted by his programs.  What were we expecting from a man whose moral compass was the race-baiting Pastor Jeremiah Wright, whose views of white people and America would have repulsed Martin Luther King, Jr.?

CBC chairman: African Americans would 'march on the White House' if Obama wasn't black.  Rep. Emanueal Cleaver — the chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus — told The Daily Caller that African Americans won't "march on the White House" over the high unemployment rate in the black community because President Barack Obama is black.

Samuel L. Jackson Drops the Act: Admits He Only Voted for Obama because of Race.  Jackson admitted that he only voted for Barack Obama because of the president's skin color.  Said the actor, "I voted for Barack because he was black.  'Cuz that's why other folks vote for other people — because they look like them.  That's American politics, pure and simple.  [Obama's] message didn't mean **** to me."  Well, Jackson certainly isn't alone in his ignoring of Obama's message. ... 96 percent of blacks supported Obama in 2008.

Samuel L. Jackson: I Voted for Obama because he's black.  Barack Obama's politics meant nothing to Samuel L. Jackson because the "Pulp Fiction" star only voted for the president for one reason and one reason only ... because he's black.

'I Voted for Barack Because He Was Black'.  It seems actor Samuel L. Jackson didn't care about either the hope or the change Sen. Barack Obama promised back in 2008.  The young Chicago politician shared the same skin color as Jackson, and that was enough.

Obama's Racism: Completely Out of the Closet.  The message in Obama's video is vote for me because I am black and I'm going to punish the rich.  Democrats are always screaming about "separation of church and state."  And yet, in his video, Obama solicits people to become "Congregation Captains" for his reelection campaign.

Here is the video:
President Obama Announces the 2012 Launch of African Americans for Obama.

Is Obama losing his mind?  President Bush may have tanked it, but President Obama has done nothing but spend, spend, spend and blame Bush.  After 3 years of this, the American people are sick of it.  Disgusted.  Barack Obama is seen as a nice guy, but incompetent.  President Obama's response may be to simply play the race card — the race deck — the race casino.  Obama may have decided to become the most race-obsessed major presidential nominee since George Wallace.

Obama Plays Race Card, Calls on Churches to Support Campaign.  Imagine if Ron Paul announced a national campaign called 'Whites for Ron Paul' — he'd be vilified as a racist.  And yet Barack Obama has done the equivalent of precisely that with his launch of 'African Americans for Obama'.

More Obama Tapes: Michelle Obama a Race Agitating Occupier?  A treasure trove of information is coming out regarding Barack Obama's time in college.  Over at the Breitbart sites, we are learning how Obama inserted himself into a fight to implement hiring on the basis of race at Harvard Law School.  The Obama tapes also seem to show the other Obama — Michelle — occupying the Harvard Law School dean's office.  The occupiers were agitating for the race-based hiring of Harvard law professors.

Obama Assigned Reading: Bell Says Whites Might Enslave Blacks.  Back when Barack Obama was a lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School, he assigned Derrick Bell's readings in class.  In particular, he assigned the introduction to Bell's book, Faces at the Bottom of the Well.  Bell's book was highly controversial, and for good reason: it contains some of the most inflammatory racial material in the critical race theory canon.

Barack Obama: The First American President To Embrace Critical Race Theory.  Bloggers led by the Breitbart team have been hard at work researching Professor Derrick Bell, the man to whom Obama exhorted his classmates to open their hearts and open their minds — the man who Obama literally embraced, and whose books he assigned when teaching at The University of Chicago.  The picture they're painting is not a flattering one. ... Barack and Michelle Obama have marinated in Professor Bell's brand of toxic, Marxist, racialist garbage their whole lives — and it shows.  It has culminated in a Presidency that has deliberately divided the nation along class and racial lines...

The Racist Ravings of Derrick Bell.  By now, you may already have seen the 1991 video footage of Barack Obama, who was then a 30-year-old student at Harvard Law School, speaking in glowing terms about Harvard professor Derrick Bell, whom Obama described as a man known for "speaking the truth" and for an "excellence of ... scholarship" that had not only "opened up new vistas and new horizons," but had "changed the standards [of what] legal writing is about."  "Open up your hearts and your minds to the words of Professor Derrick Bell," Obama urged the sizable crowd which had gathered to show their support for Professor Bell that day.

Radical Cronyism? Sit-In Leader Nominated as Judge by Pres. Obama.  The leader of the occupation in the video — Robert L. Wilkins of the Harvard Black Law Students Association — was nominated by President Obama on May 20, 2010 to be considered for judge of the U.S. District Court, District of Columbia.  He is now a sitting judge in that position. ... Not mentioned in the [White House] press release:  that Wilkins once led an illegal occupation of a law school building to demand the school hire based on skin color, a protest primarily focused on supporting the actions of radical bigot Derrick Bell.

Obama Assigned Bell at University of Chicago Law School.  Barack Obama made his own students at the University of Chicago Law School read some of Derrick Bell's most radical and racially inflammatory writings.

Bell: USA Must Admit We're Permanently Racist.  Obama:  "Open your hearts and open your minds to the words of Prof. Derrick Bell."  Derrick Bell:  "Racism is permanent".

Obama's Beloved Law Professor: Derrick Bell.  Breitbart.com has revealed that while at Harvard Law School, Barack Obama embraced the racially charged cause of professor Derrick Bell.  Both Obama and Bell demanded that Harvard hire professors on the basis of race.  Obama and other students rallied to Bell's side after Bell quit teaching in an attempt to force Harvard to implement race-based hiring policies.

How Derrick Bell Beat Martin Luther King Jr.:  "History proves that the white man is a devil," said Malcolm X.  "Whites are liars," said Jeremiah Wright.  "I love to harass white folks," said Derrick Bell.  "This is what you deserve.  You get what you deserve, white boy," a black teenager said to Allen Coon, a white student on the porch of his own home, as he set him on fire.  "Don't tell me words don't matter," Obama once said.  And he was right.  Words do matter.  The words of his mentors that have rooted hate so deep in the black community that it has become a cancer, a sore that bleeds violence, a stain on the soul.

'The Blacks: A Clown Show'.  [Scroll down]  The play comes back to me now as do Genet's words, because in my recollection of that production and rereading of Genet's work half a century later it occurs to me that his play is a forerunner of Critical Race Theory, a racialist concept at total odds with American principles and ideals, a concept unfortunately at the very heart of our President and his administration.  At its very core CRT is hatred and from it Obama's ideas are born.

Obama Loves the Hoodie.  I knew it wouldn't take Obama long to see how to make the shooting of Trayvon Martin in Florida a political talking point.  "If I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon."  Is that supposed to make the death of Trayvon much more tragic? ... As it turns out, the "white" man who shot the kid was actually a half-white and half-Hispanic man.  Funny how the media considers a half-white half-Hispanic man white, but a half-white half-black president black.

The Editor says...
 If Obama had a son, he'd probably ACT like Trayvon, too.

Obama Just Can't Resist Injecting Race into Any Situation.  Far from being a post-racial president, Barack Obama has been the most divisive leader we have had in the last half-century.  All he seems to know is that no matter the circumstances, it's America's fault — and furthermore, it's white America's fault.

The World According to Obama.  Not only has Obama chosen to surround himself with like-minded individuals of similar backgrounds spent in academic isolation, but he has also opted to limit his sources of news and information.  It was reported several years ago that Obama "hardly ever watches news programs, preferring to 'read the news.'"  What news does he read?  Obama recently shared that he enjoys reading "African American publications"...

Race Relations Are Much Worse Under Obama.  If you're a white person who voted for Barack Obama believing that his election would usher in a post-racial era in America, you must be very disappointed.  Race relations have in fact never been more volatile and the nation is now sitting on a time bomb as we draw closer to another election.  Whose fault is it?  Race-baiting demagogues like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson are feverishly trying to exploit the recent killing of a young black man in Florida for their own selfish agenda to boost their fading relevance.  Typically they have jumped to conclusions before all the actual facts have been uncovered.

What if Your Son Doesn't Look Like President Obama?  On several occasions during the course of his presidency, Barack Obama has said some unhelpful things.

Obama Campaign: Republicans "Politicizing" Trayvon Martin's Death.  This is what's called "projection".

The Editor says...
 It's the old Karl Marx strategy:  "Accuse others of what you do."  And if all you need is a five-second sound bite, it works.

Barack Obama, Race Hustler.  President Obama has fanned the flames of hatred in the Trayvon Martin case, and has not said a single critical word about the outrageous actions of the New Black Panthers, who offered a $10,000 bounty on George Zimmerman — the same New Black Panthers on whose behalf Eric Holder quashed a federal criminal prosecution; or of Spike Lee, who tweeted a wrong address for Zimmerman, presumably to facilitate harassment or even murder; or of the many liberals who have posted on the @killzimmerman Twitter feed; or of the many other Democrats and liberals who have indulged in an orgy of hate with respect to Mr. Zimmerman.  President Obama's interest in the victims of violence is selective:  he cares if they look like the hypothetical son he doesn't have.  Or, perhaps more to the point, he cares if an opportunity for political gain presents itself.

Obama Stoking Racial Warfare Flames?  A week ago, Obama brought his children into his politics; except this time he talked about an imaginary son looking like the slain Trayvon Martin.  Pulls at the heartstrings, doesn't it?  But it also heightens racial tensions in an already volatile social atmosphere.

What happened to my Barack Obama?  For 20 years, the president faithfully sat in pews absorbing hate-filled messages from the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, such as how the "U.S. of KKK A." lied about "inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color."  Is it any wonder, then, that Mr. Obama's knee-jerk reaction to the recent shooting of Trayvon Martin was very similar to his knee-jerk reaction to the disorderly-conduct arrest of black Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates?  In both cases, without having the facts, the president somehow just knew that the lighter-skinned participants were racist.

Obama Invites Sharpton to WH, But Not Southern Baptist President.  The White House is facing criticism for their decision to invite the Rev. Al Sharpton to the White House Easter Prayer Breakfast, while excluding top leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention — the nation's largest Protestant denomination.

Race-Baiting in the Era of Obama.  Alas, racial tension in this country is not new.  What is new is having a president who, for political gain and selfish ideological reasons, is instigating a racial divide that has not been seen for decades.  In order to ignite a passion in his base, Obama is intentionally taking this country back to the Civil Rights Era, when violence in the streets was commonplace.  But a black person in America in 2012 has every civil right that a white person has — and then some.  Affirmative action has led to black people actually having an easier time accessing certain schools, jobs, and positions of higher authority.

Is Barack Obama's Anti-white, Anti-American Bias Inherited?  In order to understand Barack Obama's motivation when it comes to national defense, jobs, deficits, taxes the economy, and American culture in general, one must accept the following fact:  ["]Barack Obama holds a deep, personal resentment against those Americans who have the audacity to succeed and prosper.["]  It would be wrong to blatantly accuse the president of using an anti-white bias when making economic decisions.  It is mere coincidence, you see, that he always targets the so-called rich whom also just happen to be mostly Caucasian.

Whites need not apply.
 President Obama's camp tries to diversify.  President Barack Obama's team is looking to hire more African-Americans, a search that has stirred a debate among black Democrats about Obama's record on diversity and its implications for his reelection.  Stefanie Brown, director of the campaign's African American Vote program, wrote in an "urgent" March 21 email to contacts in the black community that "The Obama for America campaign is in the process of really staffing up in states around the country, and I need your help to find qualified, African American candidates for some of these positions."

Five Myths of the 'Racist' Criminal Justice System.  Calling America's criminal justice system "racist" is not confined to "civil rights leaders" like the Revs. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton.  Then-Sen. Barack Obama, during the 2008 presidential campaign, said it, too. [...] Let's examine five major assumptions behind this assertion.

Dems Choose '60s Radical's Daughter for Race Bait Training.  According to the Washington Examiner, House Dems are ready to take on the election season with professional "race bait" training from someone who learned the art from the best.  Their expert instructor, Maya Wiley, has plenty of connections current and past to make her the ideal choice.  Currently with the Center for Social Inclusion, Maya has a resume that any progressive would envy, including work with Soros' Open Society, NAACP, Tides, and the ACLU.



Is Obama Black?

Obama's Zip-a-Dee-Do-Dah Black Agenda.  After three years of ignoring his largest voter base, the White House held an African-American Policy Conference November 9th.  The White House also issued a report, in case you haven't been paying attention, "outlining how the President's policies directly impact the African American community."  Reading this report you would think blacks are living Zip-a-dee-do-dah days under the Obama administration.  This will come as a surprise to the Congressional Black Caucus and the 16% of black Americans who are jobless and on a downward economic spiral.  Obama is loath to refer to himself as black much less give audience to a black agenda.

American Blacks Cannot Be Blamed For Barack Obama.  Here we have man with a white American mother and an East African father.  No connection to West Africa whatsoever.  He spent his early years in Hawaii, one of the most racially diverse areas in the United States.  He was raised in large part by his white grandparents.  He spent several years in Indonesia as the stepson of an Indonesian Muslim.  After returning to the U.S. he attended some of the country's leading universities including Columbia and Harvard.  Virtually his entire professional life has been spent among white elites.

Calling Obama black is an insult to his mother.  Only in one important sense can Obama be legitimately termed "black".  In the US and the UK too, until fairly recently, "black" was a political identification, shorthand for "not white" in the long game of power held almost entirely in white, male hands.  So his win does represent, as with Colin Powell and Condi Rice, an historical shift as some top jobs finally get into the hands of non-white Americans.

See Obama for who he is.  The closer Obama gets to representing us all, the more people struggle with the notion of him as a black man — reflecting in growing detail America's chronic schizophrenia about racial identity.  The question of race that has been raised repeatedly in Obama's campaign is both straightforward and existential: Is he really black?  Isn't he really biracial?  Or maybe post-racial, even nonracial?

Would Obama be 'the black president'?  For many black activists in Obama's adopted home state, who might be expected to form the core of his political base, a central question still looms about the man who has risen speedily over 11 years from state lawmaker to U.S. senator to a sensation in the 2008 presidential campaign:  As he works to appeal to voters across the nation, will Obama stand firm for black people and black causes?

[As long as there are "black causes" there will be racial division and strife in this country.]

Some Black Voters May Find Obama 'Too White'.  Being black doesn't necessarily mean White House hopeful Sen. Barack Obama has a lock on black voters.  In wooing a faithful Democratic constituency, Obama faces two-term New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, the party front-runner who enjoys strong support in the black community.

Barack Obama and the Breakdown in Family:  Barack Obama, the Illinois freshman senator who hopes to occupy the Oval Office, strikes me as a man uncomfortable in his own skin.  I say that having just finished reading Obama's first book, "Dreams from My Father:  A Story of Race and Inheritance," written before he decided to enter the political world and was therefore less careful about revealing his own doubts, fears and confusion.

The N-word and why black power could keep Obama out of the White House.  [Scroll down]  Many older, more traditional, blacks are [mistrustful] of Obama.  They believe him an unworthy heir to their political inheritance and don't consider him properly 'black'.  The older generation trace their ancestry back to the days of slavery, and remember vividly the battles of the civil rights movement of the Sixties.  Obama did not build his political career through this movement, or the institutions it spawned. … And while he makes all the right noises about the civil rights movement of the Sixties, many question whether he really believes what he says.

Jesse, Barack, and African-American Support.  It may be difficult for Obama to grasp, given his intense self-identification with the black community as revealed by his stint as a community activist and as a representative of ACORN, that he remains an outsider.  But [Jesse] Jackson's words, and the coolness of the response from the blacks who comprise the core of his support, suggest it's something he needs to consider.

Could Obama be the first Asian American president?  He was born and raised in Hawaii, the only majority-Asian state in the union; he spent four formative years in Jakarta, the home of his Indonesian stepfather Lolo Soetoro, where he attended local schools and learned passable Bahasa Indonesia.  The family with whom he's closest — half-sister Maya Soetoro-Ng and her Chinese Canadian husband, Konrad Ng — are Asian American.

Why is Obama black?  I have one question concerning Barack Obama.  Why does he refer to himself as black?  Here is a man who is of mixed race, 50 percent black and 50 percent white, who was raised almost exclusively by his white mother.  Other than providing 50 percent of his genes, his black father played no more than an absentee role as parent.  So why does this man identify himself as black and not white, or at least as mixed race?

Is Barack Obama black?  For some of us, the heralding of Barack Obama as the first black president of the United States seems a rather uncontroversial claim.  Not so for others.  One well-known African American writer, Debra Dickerson, famously objected that Obama is not of the people properly defined as "black" on the grounds that because he is not descended from slaves.  Ergo, he is not black — at all.

He's Not Black.  He is also half white.  Unless the one-drop rule still applies, our president-elect is not black.  We call him that — he calls himself that — because we use dated language and logic.  After more than 300 years and much difficult history, we hew to the old racist rule:  Part-black is all black.

Yep, he's black.
 Blacks, whites hear Obama differently.  On matters of racial identity, many observers in the African-American community say he benefits from what's known as "dog-whistle politics."  His language, mannerisms and symbols resonate deeply with his black supporters, even as the references largely sail over the heads of white audiences.  This is part of the reason that as a candidate, Obama won intense support among African-Americans while never being branded, in the fashion of a Jesse Jackson, as a candidate defined by race. ... Beyond speech, blacks have picked up certain of Obama's mannerisms, particularly his walk, that signal authenticity.  Bush had his cowboy strut, and Obama has a swagger — a rhythmic lope that says cool and confident and undeniably black.

Wait — maybe he's not.
 Understanding the Black Experience?  Touting Obama as the poster child for blackness is a ridiculous notion.  Further, the idea that Obama can teach me "blackness" is equally ridiculous.  Unlike me, Obama is only half-black — as much white, as he is black.  Obama's formative years were spent mostly in the white world.  He was raised by his white grandparents in upper middle-class lifestyle.  He attended expensive mostly white private schools in his youth, his education culminating with Harvard.

What Happened to Our Postracial President?  Unlike [Colin] Powell, [Condoleezza] Rice, or [Clarence] Thomas, Obama was not born into, but rather piggy-backed onto, the African-American experience.  He came of age well after the South's oppressive Jim Crow culture began to wane.  He grew up in a multiracial Hawaii that was always somewhat more relaxed, and was exempt from the tensions inside the continental United States.  Obama was of half-white ancestry, and raised by white grandparents.  Finally, Obama's father was a Kenyan national and Muslim, not a descendant of American slaves, and so he lacked an African-American pedigree altogether.

Every Critic a Racist.  Every president eventually is criticized by the media — even one as "transcendent" as Obama.  The President's supporters should engage his critics with facts, not charges of racism.

Stop playing the race card.  It was Obama who quoted Wright admiringly in his book, The Audacity of Hope, "white folks greed runs a world in need."  Recently his administration dropped charges of voter intimidation against the virulently racist New Black Panther Party even though the Justice Department has already won the case.  Based on his writings and past associations, the President is not post-racial, but race obsessed.  Like his mentors and leftists colleagues, he believes that our country is essentially racist, particularly its "white folks."

We Have Race on the Brain.  Intermarriage and assimilation should have made racial lines almost meaningless.  Barack Obama, Valerie Jarrett, and Eric Holder talk about being black; but they are not nearly so in comparison to my Sikh neighbors in the Central Valley, who both are darker and, I imagine, have had harder childhoods.  (What constitutes being "black," or are we back to the Old Confederacy for the one-sixteenth rule?)

Gloomy Obama would rather be a victim than leader.  People are noticing how little President Obama seems to enjoy his job.  The president's two main emotions on display are regret and indignation.  He's either lecturing about the problems facing the country in a slightly patronizing tone or expressing his disgust with someone who won't take his lesson to heart.

The Editor says...
 Boo hoo.  Nobody feels sorry for you, Mr. President.  If you don't like the job, or if it's more than you can handle, resign!

Why Obama should not have checked 'black' on his census form.  I have always considered Barack Obama to be biracial, and I had hoped that his election would help our country move beyond the tired concept of race.  Unfortunately, the president is not getting with my program.  Although I knew Obama self-identifies as African American, I was disappointed when I read that that's what he checked on his census form.

Playing the presidential race card.  Zora Neale Hurston, one of the 20th century's preeminent black writers, spoke for the colorblind ethic when she said, "Why should I be proud to be black?  Why should anyone be proud of their skin color?  Races have never done anything.  All that is good and excellent is the work of individuals."  And she meant it.  By way of contrast, President Obama in April pandered to black voters by making a public display of his "black-only" Census identification.  The president who once said he "could not disown his white mother and grandmother" did just that.

Voter Anger Is About Racism — 'Fear of a White Minority'.  Are you sick and tired of being called a racist because you don't agree with Barack Obama's policies?  If you are, you shouldn't read any further, for Cynthia Tucker this weekend claimed the voter anger that threatens the Democrat majorities in the House and the Senate is all a function of racism.

The Chosen One.  [Scroll down]  Obama's identity as a "black" American is artificial.  Neither genes nor experience equips him for the role.  Yet he practiced the speech cadence, the walk, and the aggrieved-but-proudly-restrained attitude well enough to pass for one if you don't look too closely.  (He described the process in Dreams from my Father.)  Above all, he adopted the Marxist understanding of American black resentments.

The Dialect Dialectic.  "Stop complainin'.  Stop grumblin'.  Stop cryin'," President Obama lectured the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation on Saturday [9/24/2011], according to the Associated Press.  According to the White House transcript, the president said:  "Stop complaining, stop grumbling, stop crying."  Dylan Stableford of Yahoo! News reports that the case of the missing g's is now prompting charges of racism.

Obama's Racial Crisis.  In the current racial circus, the president of the United States, in addressing an assembly of upscale black professionals and political leaders, adopts the style of a Southern Baptist preacher of the 1960s.  He alters his cadences and delivery to both berate and gin up the large audience — posing as a messianic figure who will "march" them out to speak truth to power.  In response, the omnipresent Rep. Maxine Waters goes public yet again, to object that the president has no right to rally blacks in this way, when he does not adopt similar tones of admonishment with Jews and gays.  (Should Obama try to emulate the way he thinks gays and Jews talk in his next address to them?)

The Obama Code.  Reporter Mark Smith quoted the President this way:
"Take off your bedroom slippers.  Put on your marching shoes," he said, his voice rising as applause and cheers mounted.  "Shake it off.  Stop complainin'.  Stop grumblin'.  Stop cryin'.  We are going to press on.  We have work to do."
Though that is precisely what the president said, it differed from the official White House transcript, which included the three missing g's.  Smith, sensing something important not in the president's words, but in the way he delivered them, thought it important not to change them.  For that simple application of journalistic integrity, he was called a racist.


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