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Originally Posted by samurai007
What is being served now is to answer the critics who are posting what, to me, seem like veiled cries of "racism!" Let me be 100% crystal clear on this... opposing Obama is not racism. Disliking Obama's policies and ideology is not racism. I would very happily support other black people for President, such as Thomas Sowell, Walter Williams or Michael Steele. I am just as opposed to Obama as I would be a white man with the same ideology and background... no more and no less.
You know what IS an example of racism? All the people who voted for Obama because he is black, and "it's about time we had a black President", no matter who he is, what he believes, how little experience he has, or who he associates with.
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Samurai I am sure your opinion, like the opinions of many others, is purely political and has nothing to do with race. That has been my stance on opponents of the president talking to children for the most part.
However, I am sure you will agree there is a faction of people that opposed this speech simply because the president is a different color than they are.
The unfortunate thing is savvy political talk show hosts like Rush Limbaugh and others are able to feed this fear without being overtly racial in their words. It is sad and unfortunate and has no place in America in 2009 (or anywhere in the world) but is true.
Some have said Joe Wilson's call of "You liar" to Obama yesterday as racially motivated, and I think that is going too far and more than likely completely baseless (I never heard the man's name before yesterday, so I don't know his background), but attacking Obama does not make you racist. Attacking him because he is black does.