Don G. Dinsdale Loc: El Cajon, CA (San Diego County)

President Obama Continues to Sabotage Race Relations in America

By Gary Fouse - 27 June 2015


This week, we were once again treated to an example of President Obama's negative contribution to race relations in this country. During an interview with Marc Maron, Obama used the n-word and said that racism was part of our DNA.

It is not the use of the n-word that I object to though I maintain that the word should have disappeared from our lexicon by now except for its embrace by rap artists and other blacks who have incorporated it into their street language. Obama, for his part, used it in the proper context.

I do object, however, to his saying that racism is part of our DNA. He should have saved those words for Jeremiah Wright, in whose church he sat for 20 years. The President's words are a slap in the face of a nation whose people have worked hard for 60 years or so to transform a nation whose institutions were, in fact, racist so dramatically. They were a slap in the face of the good citizens of Charleston, who came together so positively after the horrific slayings of last week.

Even those who voted against Obama in 2008 had hoped that his election might turn a page in our sad racial history. Instead, this man and his minions-people like Eric Holder- have taken us back decades to a place we thought we would never see again. Now too many of us, black and white, are looking at each other with suspicion and blaming each other for Ferguson, Baltimore, and other places that have seen tragic events unfold.

This is a man who has invited race hustler Al Sharpton into the White House over 80 times! What does that tell you about his own agenda? This is a man who described his own grandmother-the woman who raised him- as "a typical (read racist) white woman". This is a man who has allowed his followers to paint his political opponents as "racists" knowing full well that is a lie. His own wife, the first lady recently told a Tuskegee University audience that "others" (white people) still don't view them as equals.

So now, in 2015, we have an America where young people on our college campuses talk about such nonsense as "white privilege", a term used when one cannot prove white racism. We have an America where cops, white, black, brown or yellow, are open targets for murder thanks to their demonetization by our own president and his followers.

No, Mr President: Racism is not in our DNA. You, however, should examine your own DNA.


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Airforceone

Are you really that much of an idiot. Are you so close minded as to the point Obama was trying to make. How sad

JW

For once, I agree with Obama. Racism is in our DNA. It is the mechanism that makes us suspicious of strangers, makes us cautious in strange neighborhoods and makes us feel comfortable around people who look like us.

It is the evolutionary impetus for speciation. You would think Liberals would understand that inasmuch as most of them support Darwin.

peter11937 Loc: NYS

Yes, Obama spits on the heritage of Rev. Martin Luther King, doesn't he? Apparently, that is in HIS DNA......he is pathetic.

missinglink Loc: Tralfamadore

:thumbup: :thumbup:

dennisimoto Loc: Washington State (West)

Barry was trying to make a point? Your mind is definitely one of the more convoluted in OPP if you discerned a "point" in his talk. It's a clear extension of his continuous racist slant on every lie that he utters.

Airforceone

What's pathic is how the right can twist and turn remarks to fit there agenda of racism. What a foolish commet

peter11937 Loc: NYS

So then, you think racism is , factually, an integral part of America's " DNA". I completely disagree with that and agree with Dr. King. Who, between the two, is the truth teller? Nothing was twisted, Obama said exactly what he said, he needs to own up to it and you need to give up your crush on him.

Airforceone

It exist in the South it always has. There pissed they lost a war they were fighting for 230 very rich plantation owners and a lot of Americans died. It is not part of American culture although it still exist in the south. What pisses me off is these far right religious fanatics are the people who generate hate and racism in this country and I can't figure out what the hell bible there reading.

I can't understand how you can be so blind and out of touch with this ideology of buying into hate a racism.

peter11937 Loc: NYS

I grew up in an integrated area. The schools had black, white, Jewish Christians etc. The Music teacher was Korean. My first cousin is married to a Japanese-Korean lady. My son #2 is married to a Honduran lady. The #1 son is married to a lady who is 1/8 Cherokee. From the time was 8, my b'day parties included invitations to all classmates with the note my Mother wrote saying that no b'day gift was requested and that no gift that anyone brought could exceed $1.00 nor would it be accepted , but would be returned return to the giver. Easter after church was spent at the hones of a few local people of color who lived about 300 yards across open fields to their homes. There our patents would hide the Easter eggs that we had colored the night before. We would hunt them out, eat some and have a nice brunch.
After HS Graduation, I attended college in Texas. There, I was stunned to see the prejudice that existed in the south. One smsll town had a sign on the main Rd. into twn that read 'Welcome to (blank) Texas the back of the sign read "N-----, don let the sun set on you in (blank)". I was among the first to help desegregate the College approved off campus housing, openly protest a KKK meeting that was held on the steps of the Capital building in Austin. The three of us were concerned for our physical safety as we were getting evil looks from the gathering, but other students began to arrive and soon we outnumbered them by a few hundred, and they fled the steps and have never since had a rally there. There more, but it is not germane. What is concerns today. It is a world of difference, that you seem unable to grasp. There is no state or city in the country that does not have prohibitions against segregation. You can buy a home where you can afford. You may not know it , but Frank Sinatra broke the color barrier in Las Vegas by refusing to perform in a casino where he and Lena Horne were scheduled to appear and the Casino wanted Lena to stay at a "colored only" sub standard hotel. Basically he said either she stays where I stay or there will be no show and I'm staying in the Casino suites. Ms. Horne, a lovely woman btw, stayed in a suite at the Casino. Blacks are not being shot and buried in unmarked graves by the KKK who are cops, their are no crosses burning on lawns of "upitty" blacks, Chinese in Georgia are not being beaten half to death as an older friend, a "Chennault Flying Tigers" pilot was while training as a fighter pilot here for duty over Europe. My father, a bomber pilot was escorted twice by the Tuskegee Airmen out of 70 total combat and non combat missions in Europe.
Today, the fighter and bomber and airline pilots might me male, female, black, white , oriental, or some mix. NO ONE refuses to fly based on the race of the pilot on command. A potential REPUBLICAN presidential candidate, Dr. Ben Carson is a skilled pediatric surgeon, no one refuses his service because of his race. Racism is no longer endemic in the south, there is no "DNA" of racism in America. There are racists , to be sure, and there always will be. There are racists in EVERY NATION ON THE FACE OF THE EARTH. Try the 56 muslim nations, China and Russia for example. There, racism might indeed be literally in the DNA.

Airforceone

What a great story thank you for sharing your story. I want to share a story with you as to how I was brought up. It was a multi ethnic neighborhood. And as a young kid my dad did not hit me he had better ways to discipline and I would have rather got hit. But one day I think I was maybe 12 or 13 and I was at the diner table and I used the N word. OMG he came across the table a beat the living hell out of me. He told me don't you ever use that word again. I was raised to see all people as equal. From that day on I never seen,color, Asian,Jews, or any other ethnic background other than we are all Americans and we are people.

It was not until I got into the service in 1964 that I was exposed to southern racism. I just could not believe how these people treated expecially the blacks, and the Jews. It was a real eye opener to me and from that day forward everyday when I see my father and god bless him he is 91 years old I give him a hug and thank him for number one making me the person I am today because I don't see color I see real people, and the work ethic he gave me.

I raised my sons the same way so thru my father he broke the string of racism in my family. But it appears in the south that string in a lot of families continues to be a problem. But it's difficult to blame these kids because they are a product of there environment and they know nothing else. Taking down the flag is a start but it took 9 people shot by a 21 year old kid who attended a bible study and was invited to stay to finally wake these politicians up. But maybe just maybe it may wake up a lot of kids in the South and do the job that there parents did not do.

We need more stories like yours posted on OPP to get people to understand what's real and what's propaganda.

peter11937 Loc: NYS

Thank you for your kind words. There were some funny stories too, like the time my friend "Superspade" (never gave me his given name) was evicted from his long held favorite watering hole for being black. and how he was reinstated.