Shorter Fox: See what you made us do.
Who the hell did they think were holding up racial caricatures before President Obama even took office?. Fox needs to look at the rabid right politicians they were and are supporting.
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WHAT RACISM??? Are you trying to suggest that if Dick Cheney and George Bush were black they would have been prosecuted? Or are you trying to suggest that if Eric Brown and Michael Garner were white they wouldnât have been killed as a result of fighting with the cops?
Hey, President Obama is black and they keep talking about impeaching him for nothing. Does that answer your question?
Finally. Now will someone tell Tavis Smiley and Cornell West the news?
Item 1. Source is Fox News. Does anyone need anything further?
Item 2. Jeannine Piro, former Westchester County, NY REPUBLICAN politician wonât be helpful.
Item 3. Racism in America has been under scrutiny and attempted cure since President Washington - yeah, thatâs right, George Washington.
Item 4. Just another âfailureâ to pin on the president who dug us out of a GOP-induced recession, passed a health-care law that seems to be working, drew down our military participation in wars overseas, lowered the deficit without inflation, etc., etc.
This lady hasnât the cachet to be taken seriously here.
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The âparty of personal responsibilityâ asks why the President hasnât cured racismâŚreminds me of a church flier I saw advertising a class called âLord, Change My Attitude!â Jeez, change your own fu**ing attitude. Stop abdicating all that personal responsibility.
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This is the kind of shit America is up against today, and every day, statements like this from Okay, a racist with a platform. I may view Obama as a disappointment but failing to improve race relations is not something he can be blamed for. An impossible task that will probably never change as long as Comcast, NewsCorp, Disney, Viacom, TW, and CBS control 90% of what we read, watch, listen to on radio, film, and the news.
Add into that a marginal economy, a police force becoming a danger to the very citizens its mission is to protect and serve, an insatiable appetite for violence, and you have the makings of war on those of minority status, the poor and anyone making demands or simply asking for more porridge.
Inside of all this is Americanâs unique problem with its fellow black citizens. We are a very diverse society (there were hundreds of mosques in NYC before 911) and I was selling computers to Muslims in Queens NY more than 30 years ago, but with our black population weâre not sure what to do. Electing a black president was far from the answer. And here we are still, for many, sincerely trying to figure it all out while being shouted down by the haters and politicians who look for political gain in the murdering of young black men, boys really.
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No. They actually attempted to impeach Bill Clinton and I believe he was technically white. âRacismâ has existed primarily in Jesse Jackson and Al Sharptonâs imagination for 4 or 5 decades. If you can control your BEHAVIOR and pull your pants up, âracismâ magically disappears
Nice deflection. You know what Iâm talking about⌠all the bad mouthing the Republicans have been doing when President Obama does a bit of what the Republican presidents were doing a lot of.
And you need to check out the histories of the zippers on at least two of the Bush men.
Did the Bush presidents get a lot of girls? Good for them. All Iâm saying is that the idea of âracismâ in 2014 is extremely exaggerated and basically just an excuse for lazy people who didnât try hard enough and end up on welfare.
Two of the bush men you refer to might be poppy and dubya, but now weâll have a chance to focus on Jebbieâs zipper since he has a little while ago said he had
decided to actively explore the possibility of running for president of the United States.
and in the process pissing off Rubio who knows FL donations wonât flow to him. If it was ever going to
âCâmon?!â What an INCREDIBLY lame headline! Youâre addressing mega-bigots! You really think a âCâmonâ or two will make them respect diversity, OMG!!
Text is at least 4X too long also BTW!
Try sending out your resume with a black sounding name and get back to me on what happens.
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Whatâs a âBlack Soundingâ name? Are you talking about a name like Fredrick Douglas, or Rosa Parks? Or are you talking about a name like Propeesha Scruggins or DeeJohntay Lewis? Black people didnât used to have âblack soundingâ names. They also used to be able to buy pants that fit and they were capable of Asking a question rather than just âAxingâ someone.
He who holds the whip never feels the sting.
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Wasnât Affirmative Action supposed to fix all of this? Something about if black people were just given a chance to do complicated and mentally challenging work everybody would see that they were just as capable as white people? Itâs been over 60 years. Shouldnât it have kicked in by now?
So John you would like all Black people to speak proper English. Which English would you prefer? The slow southern drawl of the Carolinasâ, or sharp brusque tones of the urban East Coast, or the almost unrecognizable usage or words spoken by the Cajuns in LA?
And as for names are you in favor of having an approved naming list like Iceland? That can cause a whole lot of trouble if you are a guest worker and need any form of government paperwork.
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Obama was a useful way of getting the racist sickos to crawl out from under their rocks. It enabled a good census of the state of American racism and it isnât pretty. But good data is better than no data. By making visible the not always visible, Obama has been useful.
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You bring up several excellent points. The approved names lists that they have in many other countries do seem kind of restrictive, but then again, just because you can get pregnant doesnât mean you have a sufficient IQ to open a jar of peanut butter. If my mother named me Duh-Markus or DeeJohnaise, you can bet your ass I would be working every summer to save up enough money to legally change it to John or Mark as soon as I turned 18.
As far as accent, there is a standard american english accent. Itâs called âGeneral Americanâ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_American
Seriously, when was the last time you heard a Cajun accent trying to sell you an iPhone or get you to switch credit cards?
Barack Obama is NOT the Magic Negro. Never has been, never will be.
I for one, as an African American, never expected his presidency to signal any kind of positive change. Iâm probably one of the few people who watched, listened to and assessed his speech at the 2004 Democratic convention as OK. Everyone else was marveling at how powerful it was. For all the hope and expectation that we are One America, I thought, how naĂŻve can this man be? Then I had to remind myself, Barack Obama does not have the same history in this America that all other native born African Americans do. He cannot relate to this history.
But Iâm not knocking him for this. Itâs just simply the way it is. His perceptions are from a much narrower focus. Heâs symptomatic of a number of black/white mixed folks who try and straddle the fence. There is really no way this country is ever going to be able to get past itâs racial issues until, as Oprah says, " Until they start to die off."
The schools in this country paint a tarnished version of what the real truth of American history is. So anyone who attends school in this country starts out with a distorted version. Media of all types since the dawn of film, television and mass produced print media have successfully used stereotypes of black folks to further their agenda.
So given what has occurred here in the last 400 years, to expect Barack Obama to somehow âmagicallyâ move this country into a âpost-racialâ environment is not being realistic.