If it's not racism, then what is it?

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236. +∞²

Obama is very definitely being held to a very different standard than any president prior. The "We expect more from a democrat" argument falls flat when you look at the shit Clinton got away with - and still gets away with without a peep from the left.

It's not that people are brooding under white hoods about how much they hate blacks or anything - it's because American society is deeply, possibly indelibly racist. You can't help but absorb it growing up, internalizing it, seeing it as just "how the world works." This nation, its politics, its media, even the foundational rhetoric, makes the assumption that white male hetero cisgendered property-owners are the "normal," and everyone outside that standard must continually be proven against it.