While some in the media breathlessly declared in 2008 that a post-racial utopia was ushered in with the election of Barack Obama, such declarations were hardly based on reality. Voter turnout rates of young blacks increased 8.7% over 2004 - the largest jump ever - to 58.2% in 2008, and a full 95% - 95%! - of all blacks voted for Obama. It's clear that race was a major factor - if not the only factor - in how blacks voted.
That, my friends, is racism. Racism practiced by some who were once its victims.
Meanwhile here in Texas, The 2010 census showed a significant increase in Texas' population, meaning that Texas is due four additional seats in the U.S. House of Representatives. The Texas legislature drew up new congressional districts but Democrats and their race-hustler allies immediately began screeching that the new districts didn't properly represent Latinos, who made up the lion's share of Texas' population growth. The issue is currently before the Supreme Court.
More racism and bigotry. Only racists and bigots care more about the color of their representative's skin than what that representative might actually do.
With blacks eager to see a brotha elected to the highest office in the land for the first time, coupled with leftist fraud machines like ACORN working hard to get the Democrat candidate elected, it's not hard to imagine the intense effort that was expended to get out the Latino vote ahead of the 2008 elections. Minorities generally vote Democrat for some reason and everybody knows it. Sure enough, some 67% of Latinos voted for Obama in the general election.
Yep, more blind focus on race.
While Obama never made much of an effort to hide his racism while proudly recounting his time as a parishioner at a church with a hate-filled racist pastor for 20 years, and immediately jumping to the conclusion that a white police officer "acted stupidly" when arresting a suspected home invader who was black and turned out to be a college professor, it's unacceptable that he use the proverbial soapbox belonging to the president of the United States to spread his racist ignorance like he did at a fundraising dinner last night:
Everything we fought for during the last election is at stake in this election. The very core of what this country stands for is on the line — the basic promise that no matter what you look like, no matter where you come from, this is a place where you could make it if you try. The notion that we’re all in this together, that we look out for one another — that’s at stake in this election. Don’t take my word for it. Watch some of these debates that have been going on up in New Hampshire.
He is inferring that if a Republican wins the White House, the new president will act to minimize opportunities for minorities. That is intellectually dishonest and frankly, it's appalling to see our president - the leader of the greatest country in the world - stoop so low. Utterly despicable. But then again, that's what racists do...they play the race card when have run out of compelling arguments on the actual subject at hand, like Obama has. He has been in office for nearly four years, and has amassed an impressive, steaming pile of failures to show for it. Desperate, one of the last weapons he has in his arsenal of failure is racism, hoping that it will somehow help him win re-election.
There's a fair chance it will work. If it does, we will have post-racial racism to thank for a post-American America.
Fundamental transformation? Check.
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