On the heels of the George Zimmerman verdict, when this nation deeply needs a tense situation defused and soothing, reassuring words of racial unity, the president and attorney general give us just the opposite.
We desperately need to strive for racial harmony and unity, but our task is exceedingly more difficult when President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder repeatedly invoke race and stir racial tensions.
Trayvon Martin’s death was terribly tragic, but Obama’s and Holder’s racially charged statements (and sometimes actions) are damaging. Even if Obama hadn’t promised to be a uniter, he’d have a duty, as do all political leaders, not to stir tension between blacks and whites.
When Obama became a serious presidential contender, I was concerned about his apparent attitude toward race. There were the candid admissions in his books, his long attendance at a race-oriented church and certain statements that he had made that indicated that racial bitterness was part of his makeup.
All of this was completely at odds with the public image Obama carefully sought to project and with the promise that he would inaugurate a new era of post-racial politics.
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stir race up, it gets BLACKS out to vote.
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ReplyDeleteObama doesn't even know what he said yesterday. When someone lies constantly like he does that's what happens.
ReplyDeleteObama is nothing but a cowardly liar and a communist. He has no honor or code and is the worst type of racist. He respects nothing and holds the American people in contempt for their prosperity. He is a piece of garbage and a poor excuse for a human being. It's a shame that the first black president turned out to be a true loser and non-patriot. We now know the true meaning of "leading from behind." The whole world laughs at us and we are fast becoming a second rate nation due to his lack of courage and his lack of ability to lead.
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