Reply #61: I agree with your point [View All]

[Empowerer]

I do believe that some white liberals voted for President Obama because they wanted to be the kind of people they thought they were. That's not a bad thing - Barack Obama appealed to their better natures and they strived to be who they wanted to be.

But once he was in office, some of these people got frustrated when he didn't do things the way they wanted him to - often because they projected certain expectations onto him based upon their notions of what kind of president a black man would be. And when he didn't meet those expectations, they got mad. And in getting mad, they revealed some of their hidden biases and sense of white privilege. THEY get to tell him what he's doing wrong, but he'd better not push back. THEY get to tell the rest of us whether racism, prejudice or bias are an issue anywhere in the political discussions. If THEY don't think they are, anyone else who does is a racist who PLAYS THE RACE CARD. THEY get to decide the time, place and manner of any discussions about race and any discussion that doesn't fall within their parameters are off-limits, unhelpful and counterproductive. And on and on.