Racism in Obama’s America

Sep 15

The past few months have been littered with charges of racism this, and racism that. Newsweek gave us the gem, “Is Your Baby A Racist?” (story) and media outlets like MSNBC, The New York Times and others have told us that Tea Party protesters (or in their derogatory words, ‘teabaggers’) are all racists who hate Obama not because he is a socialist, but because he is black.

Let me be perfectly clear, Obama is a socialist. I dislike him because he is a socialist. I would dislike him just as much if he were a white socialist.

How could I possibly disagree with the chosen one? Simple. I am a conservative, I believe in free market economics, I believe in liberty and I believe that the money in my wallet is mine, and only mine, it is not yours.

I have been to tea parties, I have held up signs, I have voiced my displeasure with the President, but these liberal media lapdogs don’t report on the people like me (it takes one hour in a Writing for the Media to understand that it does not sell papers when you write about happy things), they report on the fringe lunatics who carry posters that depict a racist anger towards the President.

What the media refuses to tell you is that there are reasonable white people in this country who disagree with the chosen one. It’s possible to disagree with a minority person based on something other than their race. It is possible to disagree with a democrat without being partisan, its called being smart.

People like Rev. Al Sharpton have been telling us for years that every time that a white man and an African-American man disagree it is because the white man is a racist. These people make me sick. The reason we have racism in the country today is because of people like him who will say or do anything to perpetuate the belief that the white man is keeping the minorities down. I have to be completely honest when I say this, the white man doesn’t care anymore. If people like Al Sharpton would close their mouths and stop perpetuating stereotypes this world would be a better place.

Instead, we live in a world where African-American students beat up a white child on the bus while others cheer and the bus driver does nothing, and yet the students are not dealt with (Video). We live in a world where organizations like ACORN run out of control with our tax dollars. Heaven forbid you mention cutting funds to this organization which has time after time been caught in illegal activities by hidden cameras (Video). The first mention of cutting funds for this disgusting organization brings the ire of the people because they are helping underprivileged minorities exercise their rights to vote, forget the illegal activities altogether.

So this message is for those who pray for a post-racial society. It will never happen as long as the people who cry for it the loudest, also perpetuate the problem the most. By dividing races against each other for your own personal and political gain you effectively prevent the goal you claim to seek. The reasonable observer, however, knows that your claim to desire a post racial America is a lie, because you stand too much to gain from this racially divided nation. As long as the Democrats perpetuate this belief that Republicans hate the poor and the minorities, they win. The day that minorities realize it was the welfare and over-regulation fought for by Democrats which kept them down is the day the Democratic party falls forever. Unfortunately, unless we find a way to break through this lie they have been told for decades, that day is a long time away.

ACORN, Al Sharpton, conservative, Obama, race, tax dollars

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Comments

cbell

September 16th, 2009 at 11:39 AM

Interestingly enough, comments on the Newsweek article are “currently closed.”
Steph

September 16th, 2009 at 2:52 PM

“Is Your Baby a Racist?”- That is the dumbest thing I have ever read. I agree, this whole thing is getting out of control. I am POSITIVE that most people who do not like Obama hate his socialist policies and do not base their dislike on his race. I think that enough is enough. I am also conservative and if Obama were white I would dislike him and his policies just as much as I do now. I strongly agree with everything you said and I think that you express how many people feel and the aggravation we are all going through.
C. Gomez

September 17th, 2009 at 1:09 AM

Hi Gary,

Your post is very well written, and I couldn’t agree with you more.

“What the media refuses to tell you is that there are reasonable white people in this country who disagree with the chosen one,” was my favorite line, you couldn’t have made the truth any clearer.

As for Jimmy Carter’s race based comments about the massive tea-party protest in D.C., let us look back at Jimmy Carter. Here is a man that when he ran against Reagan in ’80 just like Corzine today Jimmy ran only negative attack ads and none on his own record.

Also Jimmy would go to African-American crowds and openly condemn Governor Reagan as a racist opposed to the 1964 Civil Rights Act just because Reagan endorsed Barry Goldwater, who was also vilified as a racist when in fact he was not.

Then 30 years after Carter’s landslide defeat he writes a book calling Israel an apartheid state. Many in the Jewish community, including many Democrats, view Carter as an anti-Semite.

When Democrats have no intelligent defense, they quickly make use of the race card, which bares the question forward: Are Democrats the real racists? After all President Jefferson Davis of the Confederacy was a registered Democrat and the KKK was originally organized by resisted Democrats.

But then again, pointing fingers at who is racist will not lead us to a post-racial society as you in fact say in your article Gary.

But enough with Jimmy Carter, or as Ricky and I like to call him–”History’s Greatest Monster.”

After reading the Newsweek article, I have come to the following conclusion: Any publication that publishes that article automatically discredits itself as a serious and reliable new-source!

Like serious, Newsweek in my mind is more satirical than Mad Magazine, at this point.

Anyway, I really enjoyed your article it was well written and articulated.
C. Gomez

September 17th, 2009 at 1:12 AM

After all President Jefferson Davis of the Confederacy was a registered Democrat and the KKK was originally organized by registered* Democrats.

(spelling error on my behalf)