CNN: Parallels to country's racist past haunt age of Obama (long)

[zoony]

Racists didn't vote for him the first time around. Not sure how that's changed

[deejaydana]

I tried to keep an open mind reading this piece but my goodness, it has the feel of a freshman essay. The ending is particularly corny and overwrought. There's a reason CNN hit its lowest rating in 20 years this past summer and work like this doesn't help their case. Coincidental timeliness is just that : an Obama loss next week means we're not fully evolved in our take on race yet.

[skinsfan_1215]

And I say we see this and we see that because there are news organizations and people that make things up every couple days that are nonsense that escalate a real issue

How about that, I agree with you 100%.

[visionary]

Reading the quoted part is enough to make me not want to read the rest.
Sometimes people try to hard to find historical parallels for things aren't really the same.
We're not going back to reconstruction times, we're not going back to segregation or Jim Crow laws, and these kind of exaggerated comparisons are fairly silly, other than to play to some people's fears and delusions.

(reminds me of the time I sat down with some Larouche folks and this old former civil rights leader lady they were using who kept insisting that Bush was going to bring back segregation)

[aREDSKIN]

Agreed, the national political discourse has deteriorated rapidly since Obama's inauguration. It's hard to say how much is race related, but I know they didn't hate Clinton like this.

Clearly, you just have no idea. At 23 you cannot have any idea of the level of hate the repubs had for the Clinton(s).

Most of the race baiting is eminating from the left. They have much more to gain from iit than the right. Need to keep the constitutens in order. Most people want to use the R word but for most it's RESULTS and not Racist.The race hustlers thrive on the ill-informed.

MSNBC should just rename the brand MSDNC. They're so blatatnt pro anything left it's nausiating. Fox is predictible but when NBC/MSNBC advocates criminality etc it really crosses the lin IMO. And for the record I watch more MSNBC than anything else. The entire MSNBC daily line-up should be considered an in kind contribution to the DNC/BO campaign.

[Thiebear]

3 episodes of KeyandPeele and you have the US down- its doesn't need Reconstruction examples..
Especially the Zombi episode when they have to make it to the Sheriffs station.

[NLC1054]

It's always kind of funny seeing white people twist themselves into pretzels about what is and isn't racism. Particularly when it comes to Barack Obama.

[Jumbo]

It's always kind of funny seeing white people twist themselves into pretzels about what is and isn't racism. Particularly when it comes to Barack Obama.

My people are wonderfully, unintentionally, self-mocking

And now...a Jumbo tradition...

[SteveFromYellowstone]

Clearly, you just have no idea. At 23 you cannot have any idea of the level of hate the repubs had for the Clinton(s).

Most of the race baiting is eminating from the left. They have much more to gain from iit than the right. Need to keep the constitutens in order. Most people want to use the R word but for most it's RESULTS and not Racist.The race hustlers thrive on the ill-informed.

MSNBC should just rename the brand MSDNC. They're so blatatnt pro anything left it's nausiating. Fox is predictible but when NBC/MSNBC advocates criminality etc it really crosses the lin IMO. And for the record I watch more MSNBC than anything else. The entire MSNBC daily line-up should be considered an in kind contribution to the DNC/BO campaign.

You really think that the hate for Clinton was comparable to the hate for Obama? LOL. You're either denying reality or have a bad memory. Republicans back then actually tried to work with Clinton on some issues. Republicans now have been documented voting against laws that they themselves introduced because President Obama began to support them. I saw nowhere near the vitriol for Clinton that there is now for President Obama.

Hahaha and you say MSNBC is worse than Fox? You can't be serious. Show me clips of MSNBC blatantly lying and making up stories and refusing to say anything negative about the party they support like Fox does. If you really believe that MSNBC "crosses the line" more than Fox does, you are delusional.

[twa]

They worked with him AFTER shutting the govt down and he changed direction.....and then impeached him

sounds like a love affair

[Thiebear]

i listed a few MSNBC SteveFromYellowstone: Care to look at them and elaborate on how saying Angry twice turns you into a monster.
Are you going to Defend the "Ed Show" or "Chris Mathews".. are they any different than say Glenn Beck or Sean Hannity.

or comments like this? Bill Maher to Romney Supporters: 'Black People Know Who You Are and They Will Come After You'...

[NLC1054]

You know, one imagines that if the Conservatives don't want to be seen as racist, sexist, homophobic bigots, they'd, like...change some things.

They're anti-affirmative action.
They're anti welfare.
Anti equal pay for women.
Anti abortion rights.
Anti immigration.
Anti social security.
Anti Medicare.
Anti Medicaid.
Anti gay marriage.
Anti enviroment.
Anti public education.
Anti teacher.
Anti union.
Anti regulation.

And they treat pretty much every religion besides something with some vain of Christianity as misguided if not downright anti-American. Except maybe Judaism. On a good day.


Now, when one decides to be against that many things, and that many demographics, is it any wonder why people assume that the Republicans are only concerned with the one demo that they haven't alienated----middle aged white men looking for someone to tell them that THEY are the victims. That and the crazy and intellectually dim.


TL : DR version; if ya don't want to be called racist (or any number of bad things), maybe it'd be a great idea to not try to enact policies that seem racist and cater to dumbasses who ARE racist.

[zoony]

You really think that the hate for Clinton was comparable to the hate for Obama? LOL. You're either denying reality or have a bad .

I think in some ways Republicans hated Clinton more

They're pretty much the party of vitriol.

[twa]

TL : DR version; if ya don't want to be called racist (or any number of bad things), maybe it'd be a great idea to not try to enact policies that seem racist and cater to dumbasses who ARE racist.

Your list has one race centric listing, yet racist is the lead theme...why?

Are Minorities that oppose affirmative action racist as well?

speaking for myself, I been loving a teacher for a long time ....even five hrs spells

Zoony is right about the vitriol though....it comes with opposing so much during our progressive expansion of govt over the years (just look at how much vitriol Libs spew when opposing abortion restrictions)

[AsiaticSkinsFan]

Agreed, the national political discourse has deteriorated rapidly since Obama's inauguration. It's hard to say how much is race related, but I know they didn't hate Clinton like this.

I said this in the AP poll thread about negative views towards African Americans since Obama's election.

This hatred is something completely different than Clinton and Bush. I have never heard a politician, let alone a president, be questioned on whether they are American enough like I have heard with Obama many times.