Dissent, thy name is Racism in Obamaland
By pm317 on September 16, 2009 at 10:01 AM in Current Affairs
I hate what Democrats, Obama supporters are doing to this country. Most recently it is President Carter who is fanning the flames of racism lit by Obama minions last year. Starting with his campaign, everyone who raised objections to his inexperience or lack of accomplishments got branded as being racists. There is nothing worse than calling an engaged citizenry in a democracy racists.
Now they have come back to use the same tactic. Is this one way to silence the critics of his policies and agenda?
When does true dissent become racism?
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Writing about Carter’s interview, the esteemed Salon had this to say:
On Tuesday, former President Carter gave voice to what a lot of Democrats have been thinking lately, saying a good bit of the opposition to President Obama is due to his race.
“I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man,” Carter told NBC News’ Brian Williams. “I live in the South, and I’ve seen the South come a long way, and I’ve seen the rest of the country that share the South’s attitude toward minority groups at that time, particularly African Americans. And that racism inclination still exists. And I think it’s bubbled up to the surface because of the belief of many white people, not just in the South but around the country, that African-Americans are not qualified to lead this great country. It’s an abominable circumstance, and it grieves me and concerns me very deeply.”
Oh, take your grief and concerns to hell!
The Salon article goes on to repeat the myth that despite what a lot of Democrats are thinking about Obama and his race, he himself stays away from this thorny issue:
Beginning with the campaign, the president and his team have been very reluctant to get involved in issues of race, much less allegations of racism against Obama, in part as a way of avoiding charges from opponents that he’s playing the infamous “race card.”
I am with you, if you are laughing out loud after reading that at the ridiculousness of it — media sycophants and liars, where were they during the Democratic primary? But here is the myth buster — I came across this curious passage in a NY Times article which unwittingly refutes the myth about Obama’s non-involvement. See what you think? The chronology is off because the writer of that article seems to be talking about the general election. But as you and I remember, the race card was successfully played against their own during the Democratic primary even to the extent of shamefully dubbing the Clintons racists.
[snip] As Obama told me, the opportunities afforded him and Jarrett by their predecessors in the civil rights movement gave them both “a shared sense of obligation.” To her and the Obamas, failing to acknowledge the racial dimension of the 2008 campaign constituted dereliction of duty, even if silence on the subject was considered politically expedient by other senior campaign staff members. A moment of truth occurred last July, when the candidate predicted to a Missouri crowd that his opponents would be focusing on how Obama “doesn’t look like all those other presidents on the dollar bills.” Rick Davis, McCain’s campaign manager fired back that Obama had “played the race card, and he played it from the bottom of the deck.” Momentarily flummoxed, the Obama campaign responded with a tepid insistence by Gibbs that the senator was merely “describing that he was new to the political scene.”
“But within the campaign, Valerie had been saying, ‘You guys, you’re not getting this issue right,’ ” recalls a top official. “And Obama communicated to his senior advisers that he thought we were a little gun-shy on race issues; that the reality was, he did look different. There were also African-Americans on our staff, some in relatively senior positions, who were clearly upset that we had not consulted them in the response. And she actually organized a meeting to discuss it.
“And that’s not just a process thing,” the adviser said. “Because moving forward, the candidate made it very clear to us that we were just a bunch of white people who didn’t get it — which, by the way, was true.”
That Obama required the presence of someone who did “get it” inevitably meant that he would want Jarrett in the White House.
So there you have it. Their post-racial president is not just cognizant of his race but requires the presence of people who “get it” around him in the White House.
As far as he is concerned, this country is full of white people who don’t “get it.” And his minions are no longer gun shy about calling every dissenter a racist. They are just following his directive (unwritten of course, to leave no trace).
These people are ready to insulate him but do his bidding of crying racism at the first scent of opposition. Why would he soil his hands when there are others like Carter and the media scoundrels playing the race card on his behalf? I thought once the campaign was over and he won the election, that this race card trick will be put to rest. I was wrong — it will be played over and over again whenever his inexperience gets him in trouble and the opposition becomes vocal. He and his minions are not just a bunch of whiners but are hurting this society in the long run with their “boneheaded” dialog and false cries of racism.
The media has been co-opted by this administration and are no longer arbiters of truth and objectivity. The citizenry at large is being silenced with false accusations. Let us be real — these cries of racism will not deter true racists but they will silence true opposition needed for checks and balance.
If indeed that is their MO, how do we function as a democracy?
by Ronald Scott
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