Carter Was Dead On the Money on Racism
President Obama continues to play too nice on the issue of racism. His latest racial duck and dodge was to soft shoe former President Jimmy Carter's blunt charge that racism is the high octane that fuels the GOP counterinsurgency against Obama. Of course, Carter was dead on the money. And my guess is that in private moments with only the White House walls to hear him Obama shouted, "right on Jimmy!"
I mean what else can you call the bunch at the so-called Taxpayers March in Washington DC who were 99.9 percent white, proudly brandished signs with crude racist slogans, and derogatory pictures of Obama, and who waved Confederate flags and the Texas Lone Star flag.
The avalanche of borderline and flat out racial digs, hits, and quips from packs of rightside bloggers, talk show hosts, and the Fox Network is aimed at one thing and one thing only mortally wounding Obama's agenda and him. Racism--sneaky, covert, and at times blatant--has been the MO of the GOP for four decades. And it's worked magnificently and it's doing the same with new target Obama. Carter knows that and he the guts to say it. The pity is Obama didn't publicly say "right on" to him when he did.
Again, Earl, how about pictures of all those "crude racist slogans"? And NOW you're offended by the Texas flag? My lord you have a thin skin. The avalanche of "flat out racial digs" coming from people like the Fox Network... uh, have you ever seen the Fox Network? Yeah, I didn't think so.
You got quite the paranoia thing going on, don't you? Could you at least acknowledge that someone might disagree with the president? Could you at least acknowledge that someone BLACK might disagree with the president? Because you don't seem to be able to make that fine distinction, which puts you somewhere in the vicinity of the "loony" you're so quick to throw at the Right.