The New GOP Con--Obama the Reverse Racist

[Joanne98]

For OpEdNews: earl ofari hutchinson - Writer

In quick succession J. Christian Adams, a former Justice Department attorney, strongly implied in his testimony to the Civil Rights Commission that the word came down from on White House high to the Justice Department to dump a voter intimidation case against the New Black Panther Party in Philadelphia. Adams just as strongly implied that the White House put the word out to play hard ball on discrimination cases when the victims are minorities, and soft peddle the same type cases when the victims are white. The conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch quickly announced a lawsuit against the DOJ to hand over documents on the case. Not to be outdone, Rush Limbaugh gassed that Obama hates America (meaning whites) and that he's deliberately torpedoing the economy to "payback" the nation for 230 years of racial sins against blacks.

Any other time, and with any other president, this would be treated exactly for what it is, sheer lunacy. But this not any other time, and the president is Obama. The suspicion that always lurks close to the surface is that an African-American once in a position of power will turn the tables and "payback" whites for the decades of slavery, Jim Crow segregation, racial violence, abuse, degradation and exclusion. The two decade assault on affirmative action firmly implanted the widespread belief that unfit and unqualified minorities and especially blacks were hell bent to shove whites aside and grab all the plum positions. It was reverse discrimination and racism. It was a short step from this to the notion that racism is virtually dead in America, except for the racism of blacks. This set the stage to tag Obama the reverse racist.
The shouts, taunts, spitting, catcalls, Obama joker posters, Confederate and Texas Lone Star flag waved by tea party activists was not just a naked, spasmodic race baiting by unreconstructed bigots. Many passionately believe that Obama is determined to give the company store away to minorities, especially blacks. Every chance he gets he'll dump more money, devise more programs, and propose favorable legislation that favor blacks and minorities at the expense of whites. An Obama White House will bend, twist, and mangle laws to aid and abet black advancement. No matter how much Obama talks about being president of all the people, downplays race, and has an impeccable record on broad race neutral legislation, he's still a reverse bigot.

The knock of Obama as a racist is much more than mindless dribble it serves a canny political purpose. The starting point is the 2008 campaign. The GOP could not have been competitive during campaign 2008 without the bail out from white male voters. Blue collar white voters have shrunk from more than half of the nation's voters to less than forty percent. The assumption based solely on this slide and the increased minority population numbers and regional demographic changes is that the GOP's white vote strategy is doomed to fail. This ignores three political facts. Elections are usually won by candidates with a solid and impassioned core of bloc voters. White males, particularly older white males, vote consistently and faithfully. They vote in a far greater percentage than Hispanics and blacks.

http://www.opednews.com/articles/The-New-GOP-Con-Obama-the-by-earl-ofari-hutchin-100708-539.html

[sinkingfeeling]

1. Yes, they're out in force on this. Here's an example:

[NoNothing]

2. I think we need to separate that case from the cries of bias

Basically I don't think the handling of that case was very defensible, but it has absolutely nothing to do with Obama hating whitey.

[rurallib]

3. for the life of me, i find it so laughable that white voters are being intimidated

at the polls. Were this to really happen, FUX would have a convoy covering it.
It immediately brings up a memory of reading about how Rehnquist earned his bones with the Republican party in Arizona. Sitting outside a polling place with a baseball bat in hand, menacingly questioning anynon-white who dared try to vote.

[SnakeEyes]

5. The idea that there is more than one isolated incident is absurd

But the New Black Panther case was handled poorly and, in my opinion, was a clear attempt at voter intimidation. But again, it's an isolated event. Fox News would have a field day if it weren't.

[classysassy]

4. Stuck on stupid

why would anyone listen to or believe anything Mr Limbaugh says,when he has stated to want to see our president fail.The gentleman is an unamerican shill for the racist and the rich white man in this country.

[jbfam4]

6. I agree with

all your points, but I would never call Limbaugh a gentleman.