This type of article (below) is reflective of what drives the “racist” messaging into the mainstream psyche. Insufferable arrogance and elitism on display. According to the pontificating writer any/all opposition to President Obama is based on racism. This is beyond insufferable, well beyond.
The internal pressure on the legacy, ivory-towered and liberal academia, to produce students suffering from the infection of white-guilt, leads to generational breeding of this ideological genetic disconnect.
True racism is placing “skin color” or “ethnicity” ahead of any other form of disagreement, OR agreement, in ideology.
Consequently a determinative belief that opposition to any ideology cannot be based on any other form of disagreement than color or ethnicity is, by itself, racism. Indeed, it is just as racist to state a person is incapable of their own ideological definitions of disparity. Not only is it racist to claim any opposition MUST be based on race, but it is also racist to claim that ALL opposition can only be based on race. Hence, progressives are the most racist people on earth.
(Associated Press) […] The question of whether race fuels opposition to President Barack Obama has become one of the most divisive topics of the election. It is sowing anger and frustration among conservatives who are labeled racist simply for opposing Obama’s policies and liberals who see no other explanation for such deep dislike of the president.
It is an accusation almost impossible to prove, yet it remains inseparable from the African-American experience. The idea, which seemed to die in 2008 when Obama became the first black president, is now rearing its head from college campuses to cable TV as the Democratic incumbent faces Mitt Romney, the white Republican challenger.
Four years after an election that inspired hopes of a post-racial future, there are signs that political passions are dragging us backward.
“We’re at a tipping point,” said Susan Glisson, director of the Institute for Racial Reconciliation at the University of Mississippi. “But I don’t know which way we’re going to tip.”
Glisson knows that many conservatives disagree with Obama solely because of his policies. “But I am also quite certain that there are others who object to the president because of his race, because they have a fear of blacks that is embedded in our culture,” she said.
Her conclusion is based on something called “implicit bias”- prejudices that people don’t realize they have.
Studies show that due to longstanding negative stereotypes about African-Americans – which give such false impressions as most black people are dangerous, unintelligent or prefer welfare to work – many people harbor anti-black biases yet don’t even know it. Such unconscious biases, the studies show, are present in people of all backgrounds, not just whites.
“Our history has created this unconscious bias,” said Gail Christopher, vice president of program strategy for the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, which has funded research on the subject. “Now we need to create safe places to discuss and educate people about unconscious bias, where we are not blaming and shaming them.”
Those safe places generally do not include the political arena.
“Every time they say, ‘We want our country back,’ I know what that means,” Susan Bankston, a white Democratic National Convention delegate from Richmond, Texas, said at the gathering last week.
“You recognize it when every time the Republicans with their own convention refer to him by his first name, Barack Obama. He’s President Barack Obama,” said Patt Sanders, a delegate from Englewood, Calif., who is black.
Such logic inspired James Taranto, a conservative Wall Street Journal columnist, to write: “Every comment from a Republican can be translated, through a process of free association, to: ‘We don’t like black people.'” (continue to read the insufferable)
Democrats are, and have always been, the party of “identity politics”. Fracturing off the electorate into smaller segments, or boxes, of party-defined constituency targets. Hence you see “African-Americans for Obama”, “Latino’s For Obama”, “Gays for Obama”, “Students for Obama” etc.
The Democrats have never hidden their racist ideology. A person only needs to look at the response to Senator Robert K Byrd, the KKK leader, from the party elite; or consider Bill Clinton saying in earlier years “Obama would have been carrying their bags”, or Harry Reid saying Obama is a “clean” and “articulate” black man. Or worse yet Joe Biden saying “they’re gonna put y’all back in chains” to a black audience, the perfect representation of “projection”.
It is a particular kind of wicked nature that espouses race as the defining factor in telling an electorate what their wants and needs are; consider the term “food stamp president” being considered racist, yet the Democrats just ignore the fact that the majority of food stamp recipients are white.
“Social justice” is their chosen catch-phrase for wealth distribution; but to the Democrat “social justice” is defined by black and hispanic skin color and not economic status.
A shallow, wicked ideology.
