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Is racial animosity behind some political criticism of the Obama administration? That’s what Attorney General Eric Holder said on Sunday. The exact phrase he used was “racial animus,” which he said motivates some of his and Obama’s political opponents.
“There’s a certain level of vehemence, it seems to me, that’s directed at me, directed at the president,” Attorney General Holder told ABC. “You know, people talking about taking their country back.... There’s a certain racial component to this for some people. I don’t think this is the thing that is a main driver, but for some there’s a racial animus.”
Much of the opposition to President Obama’s policies is ideological, Holder added. He said that 50 years after Freedom Summer, when civil rights activists moved into the South to try and register African-Americans to vote, the US has made “lots of progress” on issues of race. But there is still some distance to travel on the issue, said the attorney general.
originally posted by: Kangaruex4Ewe
I am sick of seeing the race card played as a (successful) method to shut the negativity down pretty swiftly. It works like a charm too. PEOPLE are so terrified to be called a racist,
originally posted by: Benevolent Heretic
I've never seen people shut up because they're called racist. They come back even stronger.
And why are people so terrified of being called racist?
why did everyone say he was born in Africa?
Why do they continue to this day to claim that he's not a natural born citizen? That's never happened with any other president.
Chester A. Arthur (1829–1886), 21st president of the United States, was rumored to have been born in Canada.[64][65] This was never demonstrated by his Democratic opponents, although Arthur Hinman, an attorney who had investigated Arthur's family history, raised the objection during his vice-presidential campaign and after the end of his presidency, publishing a book on the subject.[66] Arthur was born in Vermont to a Vermont-born mother and a father from Ireland, who was naturalized as a U.S. citizen in 1843, 14 years after Chester was born. Despite the fact that his parents took up residence in the United States somewhere between 1822 and 1824,[67] Arthur additionally began to claim between 1870 and 1880[68] that he had been born in 1830, rather than in 1829, which only caused minor confusion and was even used in several publications.[69] Arthur was sworn in as president when President Garfield died after being shot.
originally posted by: FlyersFan
It's natural for people to defend themselves against false accusations and to get pissed off when it's continually insinuated that they are something evil that they clearly are not.
So you'd enjoy being called .. let's say homophobic
Many people questioned where he was born. Considering Obama's fuzzy history, and his own historical paperwork (school documents) stating he wasn't an American (and that he was a Muslim), it was a legitimate question.
Many on the left still claim Bush43 was AWOL during Vietnam even though he's produced the military papers showing he wasn't.
originally posted by: Benevolent Heretic
WHY did they even question where he was born??? Why did people start looking into it and find all this supposedly fuzzy stuff? This is where I think race comes in.
I'm asking why people started looking into it BEFORE Obama was even elected.
Jesus! Read.
Others were questioned and dropped. The birthers are alive and kicking yet today.
originally posted by: Benevolent Heretic
I asked why people were TERRIFIED.