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Not voting for Obama is racism?

Posted 14 May 2008 in 2008 election, Barack Obama, political correctness, racism

In case you haven’t been paying attention, anyone not voting for Barack Obama is a racist. CNN’s Ruben Navarrette Jr. makes no bones about it.

Meanwhile, some white Americans are turning themselves inside out to come up with excuses for why they’re not supporting Obama. It seems like just yesterday that these folks were arguing there is no racism in the immigration debate, and now they’re insisting there is no racism in the presidential election.

Some want to know why it isn’t racist when 70 percent of African-Americans vote for Obama but it is when 70 percent of whites vote against him.

The answer has to do with history. Over the decades, black Americans have had plenty of opportunities to vote for white people for president. And they have done so. But this is the first time that white Americans have a chance to vote for an African-American with a shot at the presidency. And what are they doing?

Many are responding quite well. Obama won the votes of many — to borrow a phrase — “hardworking white Americans — in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska and Wyoming. But, elsewhere, as Obama said in a recent interview, people may need to get their head around the concept of an African-American even seeking the presidency, let alone winning it.

Yeah, the answer couldn’t possibly be that many Americans dislike Obama because of his lack of judgment, lack of experience, and radical socialist positions on many issues. It’s gotta be racism. It’s your opportunity to make up for past racism by voting for a black man, and you white people are blowing it.

I guess I’m not “responding quite well” to my opportunity.

Posted by FullMetalPatriot
12th gen. American, Constitutionalist, Harley-riding Texan, gun owner & NRA member, blogger, illustrator, Florida Gator alumnus. #TCOT

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