In the run-up to Obama’s election, journalists were promoting him as a “post-racial” candidate. Now with the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor for Supreme Court we know that both the media and the candidate were lying to us.
As USA Today columnist DeWayne Wickham wrote on May 5, 2009, “For many people in the USA, Obama's election ushered in a post-racial era that was expected to push race to the back burner of our national consciousness.” But his presidency isn’t “post-racial.” It’s not just the obvious identity politics where craven political calculations are used to pick candidates of appropriate age/race/gender/class/shoe size. It has to do with Obama’s stance on using racism to correct racism.
That position was evident in Obama’s deliberate choice of Sotomayor who figured prominently in a major case of racial injustice. The case in question – Ricci v. DeStefano – involves 18 New Haven, Connecticut, firefighters who sued because they were blatantly discriminated against because of their race. The 17 white and one Hispanic firefighters took the lieutenant’s and captain’s exams and, when they did well and black firefighters did not, the city canceled the results. On appeal, our likely next Supreme Court “justice” ruled against the men even though the evidence was stacked on their side.
That, along with a few truly moronic statements by Sotomayor, has thrust her candidacy into the spotlight, and it was no accident.
Obama has tried to look neutral on this issue as the Justice Department chimed in seemingly on both sides in what one lawyer told Newsweek was a “political straddle. “ Obama’s legal folks backed the city against the firefighters, but urged the case be sent back to the lower courts for reconsideration. It appeared he was trying to bury the issue.
That was a ruse.
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—Dan Gainor is director of the Business and Media Institute.
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If anything, this is a Hyper-Racial presidency
June 3, 2009 - 10:10 ET by krendlerand hyper-racial America, where every decision and appointment is made by considering the racial aspect involved, whether it's issuing a memo documenting the racial slights committed by your opponent (see the Obama campaign issuing such a memo against the Clintons during the Dem primary), nominating a replacement for a senate seat (Burris), or choosing a SC justice.
BTW, Soledad O'Brien comes out with Black in America 2 (or is it 3) next week.
We'll Get There Someday
June 3, 2009 - 10:44 ET by slickwillie2001The way I see this, we will make a much bigger step toward a 'post-racial' America when we can not only elect a black President, but also vote against him without being called racist for doing so, and in fact vote him out of office without riots in the streets.
It will also help if 'journalists' are able to report on him and evaluate him on non-racial issues without consideration of his race.
→ Post-Christian President
June 3, 2009 - 11:01 ET by Cool ArrowHang on to your seats. It's going to be a bumpy ride.
"The only reason Clarence Thomas is on the court is because he's black". - Joe Biden
He is the one who slides it in there
June 3, 2009 - 11:09 ET by StarAZI have noticed that campaigner Obama and President Obama both insert race...not ignore it. That speech on race--remember that--he inserted a little gem about how the blood of white slaveowners ran in the veins of his precious daughters--from his wife's side, he added. Just little things--he does it. He reignites it. Then, it's who-me-what? One day he describes himself as a "mutt," biracial, then the next day, when it suits, he is black. I don't even think of him as black or African-American, although the latter phrase is VERY accurate, because his father was an African. I just think of his decisions, his contradictions, his hidden agendas...then there he is again, bringing up the black stuff. We will never be post-racial, I guess.
WAKE UP
June 3, 2009 - 11:09 ET by cvgbuckeyeAMERICAN PEOPLE!!!!!!!! FOR THE SAKE OF HUMANITY; WAKE UP!
What we have here, in this presidency, is the classic example of an African American who, from childhood, has been filled with hate for anything white. America is the quintisential? representative of "all things white", to him.
He has been blinded upon "setting things right", as he sees it, and this thought process has turned cancerous since his dreams of world power have grown from fantasy to possibility to undreamed of reality.
THAT IS WHAT HE IS ALL ABOUT!; nothing more and nothing less.
The ENTIRE minority population, the left/main stream media, democrat party and the muslim world have joined him in his quest although after enough alarms, the MSM MAY back out but it will be to late for them to ever regain ANY credibility.
This, though, is either a genius of a man OR the anti-christ, of which I, myself remain undecided. He has a brilliant plan by which he can destroy everything Capitalist, which he finds correctly neccessary to accomplish his goal of a TOTAL redistribution of world wealth, starting with America. HE HAS A PRETTY GOOD START! He knows that his quest will not be bloodless since EVENTUALLY, a large enough group will rise up in defiance/resistance and they ALL will need to be liquidated, (take the ovens out of moth balls). It will be far to late.
Having said all of this, and just to slide into the impersonal mathematics of his vision; I have heard some interesting statistics of how the resulting numbers would look as a result of his plan. I cannot remember the source or the exact numbers of such a venture but I will lay them out as best as I can recall and maybe someone with a more reliable study will correct me:
If, today, we divided America's total wealth between every man woman and child in this nation, everyone would end up with about $2,500. But, Barack Hussein Obama doesn't envision stopping there; so if we followed same pattern with the entire world, then every human being would end up with around $175.
Now, we might ask a thousand or so questions about the wisdom of such plans, although it always seemed good to the communists, like, who now would own all the entities that provide the jobs? Who would produce the food. Who would ????????????
Well, I reckon that Obama has figured all that out with his Marxist brand of Black Liberation Theology.
Actually, I really have faith in him that he really has no ambitions of dragging the world down to the levels that I have described.
Actually, he is probably satisfied on repositioning ALL the world's people to the current standard of living equivalent to the Muslim world. So I guess things aren't as bad as they seem and I am just overreacting a little.
ALLAH IS GREAT!
joe blogs
June 3, 2009 - 19:58 ET by Joe BlogsYou're over-analyzing. The US is now being controlled by a Minority Occupied Government. And what is the first thing minorities do when they gain political power? They loot the treasury and persecute the most economically successful people through taxes and law suits. They also make sure they get their props by stuffing the courts with their soul brothers and sisters.
Every time. Everywhere.
Barky and his minions
June 3, 2009 - 11:11 ET by Scuba DudeBarky and his minions (which include the SCM) are quick to pull out the racial card anytime someone disagree's or calls them out on what his Administration is doing. To me that does not seem to be putting race on the back burner.
They will do and say anything to push their agenda.
The Obama Administration: THE most fiscally irresponsible Administration EVER
Passive aggressive racism
June 3, 2009 - 16:09 ET by sevenHe reaches across the isle. He is half and half.
Well, how did we get here?
June 3, 2009 - 17:05 ET by Joe BlogsHow did a 90% Caucasian Nation in 1965 suddenly decide it was a great idea to invite every tribe in the world to within our borders, giving each one special legally protected status at the expense of the majority? Our nation is now a mess of bickering ethnic groups all trying to pry money and privelege out of the system at the expense of whites. This game will eventually drag us into civil war, as the founding majority turns into the minority.
Thanks, Teddy Kennedy (you jackass). You are the anti-George Washington.