Is racism worse now than in 2008?

[hipeter924]

When Obama was elected, I didn't think things were bad at all racially. But with his promise of healing, I thought, things would be healed completely. It would be a time of "coming together." I was looking forward to it.

But now it is much worse, I think. What do you think?

The appeal of Obama for many white people is that he is a good role model for the black community. Biden nailed it when he called Obama "an articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy." He was the first black person of any stature to really meet those benchmarks. The way he did it was by not being raised anywhere near American black culture. Recall back the early days of his candidacy. The black community was still solidly in Hilary's camp. The criticism FROM the black community was that Obama wasn't one of them. He was raised apart. He didn't understand their struggles. That viewpoint soon gave way to racial solidarity but it was there.

Obama's failure is that he never did anything to make American blacks more like him. "Hey, African-Americans, don't be black, be like Barack." Too bad that slogan never turned into reality. It was unfair to put that goal onto Obama's shoulders. Leaders don't lead people where they don't want to go, leaders get in front of people who are already going somewhere.

Obama has good speechwriters but those words alone will never fix race relations. The problems with race in this country go very deep and they're unfixable.

The problems can be addressed but only with vast amounts of bribery and subsidy - wealth from White America has to be transferred to Black America in order to make up for lower levels of black economic productivity stemming from lower levels of black human capital. When there were 7 whites for every black person in the US this wealth subsidy was a burden that could be carried by whites. Now that we're at 1.6 whites for every minority, the burden is quite heavy. That burden is going to get heavier still in the coming decades as the white proportion of the population drops. When each white person has to subsidize one minority person, then people are either past or nearing the breaking point.

Each passing year this problem will grow in severity.

I don't know whether to like or hate this post.

So I think I'll do both.

Same here.

 

[ScienceRocks]

Does a bear shit in the woods? We elected the same kind of thinking that is in Zimbabwe or south Africa right now. The only thing on their mind is lets screw whitey!!!

 

[ScienceRocks]

What metrics are you using?

Do you are more people are racist now? Or that the same people are more racist now?

Pretty soon, you'll be forced to pay reputations and give up your job.

 

[hipeter924]

Does a bear shit in the woods? We elected the same kind of thinking that is in Zimbabwe or south Africa right now. The only thing on their mind is lets screw whitey!!!

I never elected him, as I wasn't here to vote. And I wouldn't have elected Romney or McCain either.

 

[theDoctorisIn]

What metrics are you using?

Do you are more people are racist now? Or that the same people are more racist now?

Pretty soon, you'll be forced to pay reputations and give up your job.

 

[Mr. H.]

Does a bear shit in the woods? We elected the same kind of thinking that is in Zimbabwe or south Africa right now. The only thing on their mind is lets screw whitey!!!

Calm yourself, young Padawan.

 

[Jackson]

What metrics are you using?

Do you are more people are racist now? Or that the same people are more racist now?

He's creating a sub-population of people that were not racists and still aren't, but now have a bias against blacks that wasn't there before his reign.

 

[Rikurzhen]

I don't know whether to like or hate this post.

So I think I'll do both.

Same here.

What parts upset you?

 

[chikenwing]

No.

It seems worse because they're not hiding behind bedsheets. They have slithered out from under their rocks and actually seem proud of their ignorant hate.

There are some racist scum who will try to say that Obama has made racism worse but they're really just looking in a mirror.

So you must mean the ones that burned looted others property,along with their own? The ones like yourself that are calling for the cops blood. Those hateful people?

 

[ScienceRocks]

I am against the knock out game, looting and all the bull crap of the black community.

They're ripping this nation apart.

 

[Jackson]

I am against the knock out game, looting and all the bull crap of the black community.

They're ripping this nation apart.

And if that is being prejudiced, count me in...and add to that most of the white population.

 

[Rotagilla]

No. Negroes have been militantly anti white since the late '60's...

Black Panthers, Symbionese Liberation Army..etc..
It was just easier to conceal black on white crime data back then.

 

[mudwhistle]

When Obama was elected, I didn't think things were bad at all racially. But with his promise of healing, I thought, things would be healed completely. It would be a time of "coming together." I was looking forward to it.

But now it is much worse, I think. What do you think?

Yes, much worse.

 

[theDoctorisIn]

What metrics are you using?

Do you are more people are racist now? Or that the same people are more racist now?

He's creating a sub-population of people that were not racists and still aren't, but now have a bias against blacks that wasn't there before his reign.

What do you base that claim on?

I see no evidence that Obama has caused anyone to be "biased" against Blacks.

 

[Rotagilla]

I am against the knock out game, looting and all the bull crap of the black community.

They're ripping this nation apart.

drop a few of them in their tracks and that sheit will chill.
They look for easy, weak prey. Don't be that.

 

[Jackson]

What metrics are you using?

Do you are more people are racist now? Or that the same people are more racist now?

He's creating a sub-population of people that were not racists and still aren't, but now have a bias against blacks that wasn't there before his reign.

What do you base that claim on?

I see no evidence that Obama has caused anyone to be "biased" against Blacks.

Have you read threads on this board? We are fed up with the actions this administration has gone through in favor of Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin, Gates, opening the Office of African American Education, ignoring problems all poor people have with education...just open your eyes.

 

[LoneLaugher]

How odd! A thread about race. Man...we sure needed to have this discussion.

 

[theDoctorisIn]

What metrics are you using?

Do you are more people are racist now? Or that the same people are more racist now?

He's creating a sub-population of people that were not racists and still aren't, but now have a bias against blacks that wasn't there before his reign.

What do you base that claim on?

I see no evidence that Obama has caused anyone to be "biased" against Blacks.

Have you read threads on this board? We are fed up with the actions this administration has gone through in favor of Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin, Gates, opening the Office of African American Education, ignoring problems all poor people have with education...just open your eyes.

So you're speaking for yourself - Obama has made you become biased against Blacks.

I'm going to bet that you were "biased" long before Obama came around.

 

[Jackson]

What metrics are you using?

Do you are more people are racist now? Or that the same people are more racist now?

He's creating a sub-population of people that were not racists and still aren't, but now have a bias against blacks that wasn't there before his reign.

What do you base that claim on?

I see no evidence that Obama has caused anyone to be "biased" against Blacks.

Have you read threads on this board? We are fed up with the actions this administration has gone through in favor of Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin, Gates, opening the Office of African American Education, ignoring problems all poor people have with education...just open your eyes.

So you're speaking for yourself - Obama has made you become biased against Blacks.

I'm going to bet that you were "biased" long before Obama came around.

Not at all. In my position I worked with with people of color all the time and had great rapport with them. I had a great deal of respect for them.. I was a teacher and the parents and I worked together for the children. Many of my colleagues were of color and Hispanic. My best friend is mixed.

 

[LoneLaugher]

What metrics are you using?

Do you are more people are racist now? Or that the same people are more racist now?

He's creating a sub-population of people that were not racists and still aren't, but now have a bias against blacks that wasn't there before his reign.

What do you base that claim on?

I see no evidence that Obama has caused anyone to be "biased" against Blacks.

Have you read threads on this board? We are fed up with the actions this administration has gone through in favor of Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin, Gates, opening the Office of African American Education, ignoring problems all poor people have with education...just open your eyes.

So you're speaking for yourself - Obama has made you become biased against Blacks.

I'm going to bet that you were "biased" long before Obama came around.

Of course. None of the USMB conservatives who have expressed such strong feeling against black people felt any such animosity before 2009. They were all delighted to see that a black man was going to be our President. They were all hopeful that the last vestiges of racism and discrimination were going to be eliminated.

If only Obama got on a stage and told America that he had had enough of the lazy, shiftless nature of the black community. If only he demanded that young black men pull there pants up, turn off the rap music and throw away the gold teeth. If only he declared that all young black women needed to keep their legs closed and stop whoring around.....making babies with strangers. If he did that, he'd have really started to heal the racial divide.