The racist criticisms of Barack Obama...

[kentuck]

....by every rightwinger from FOX News to the NRA to the Tea Party are creating a very unhealthy racial tension in this country.

We had a chance to heal the wounds of racism with the election of Barack Obama. The first African-American President gave hope to every minority in our country. It hurt deeply to hear some people accuse him of being a "Muslim" or say that he was born in Kenya or say that he was "lazy" or that he did not love this country like a white President.

These racist rants by those on the right are at the root of the killings by the police and the reactions by the black communities across our nation. They are sick of the racism from the right of the President. It has become obvious that it is all about race and it has stirred up an anger that cannot be easily resolved.

[Faux pas]

1. Agreed

don't remember any other president being battered and direspected every.single.day. From his innaguaration until now. I cry for him every day.

[6000eliot]

2. I agree 100%! He NEVER had a honeymoon period from the press.

It's especially galling knowing that the moron in the White House before him, who did so much damage to this country, got over five years. The press never seriously criticized him until Katrina.

[Faux pas]

6. The idiot before him did get to skip on

down the road care free. That does make it so much more painful.

[JaneyVee]

4. Not racially at least.

[Faux pas]

7. Yep

and that makes it even worse.

[AlbertCat]

15. As Janeane Garofalo said the DAY of Obama's inauguration...

.... because there were Teabagger protests galore and he hadn't even DONE anything yet (except win)...


"Racism...straight up."

[Faux pas]

17. Is it that the racists can't see it or

they just won't admit it? I know I don't get it.

[JaneyVee]

3. And they blame Obama for making racism worse.

Instead of blaming themselves for not being able to deal with having a black prez.

[kentuck]

5. Exactly right!

They cannot handle the truth.

[Faux pas]

8. So True!

[meow2u3]

9. Amen, sister!

Truer words were never spoken, or in your case, typed.

[OilemFirchen]

10. I stated upon his election...

in response to the seemingly rhetorical "Is America ready for a black president?"... "No."

Seems I was correct, surprisingly.

[BlueCaliDem]

12. Sad, isn't it, that this brilliant president isn't judged by his incredible work, but by the

color of his skin. They (including our media) just can't see past the epidermis. So incredibly sad.

[lunatica]

11. Hopefully it will backfire on them big time

And Obama's Presidency will go down in history as the birth of the era of true equality era

The only way for that to happen is to expose the cancerous disease of racism at its full blown deadliest so we can cut it out of the Nation's body forever.

[RobertEarl]

13. The pendulum is a real swinger

With the election of Obama it reached it's leftward margin. Obama was elected because he offered Hope and Change to peaceful people.

I remember Bill Clinton being hated by the whitey-righties. Because he too offered Hope and Change. They whitey-righties were happy as pigs in shit with bushes back-to-war, and oppression, as a national policy. They figured they had it in the bag and the hippies had finally been defeated. They were proven wrong and their heroes all pissed down on them making them mad as a snake. And here they are; crawling backwards.

If we are not careful and united, we will get another righty-whitey in power.

We must push the pendulum back to the left even beyond where we pushed it in 2008.

[Iliyah]

14. K & R

and if HC become the first Female President, look out for extra bashing on women.

[Chasstev365]

16. Even More Disgusting...

The Right preached that racism in American ended with the election of President Obama. Are fucking kidding me? Could any white person ever know what its like to be racially profiled?