When Obama took office, his supporters were very optimistic about what having the first black President would do for our country. We could finally get past racism, and prove it to the world. But it hasn’t turned out like they said.
Having a black President promised to make things fair and equal for everyone. In his campaign, Obama said the U.S. had been “stuck” in “a racial stalemate… for years,” and he wanted to help the country “move beyond some of our old racial wounds.”
Obama himself thinks he’s done a pretty good job at that — he recently said that even though racism is “deeply rooted” in our society, we’ve made progress as a country.
However, most Americans don’t agree with him. A poll by Bloomberg Politics says that 53% of Americans think race relations have gotten worse since Obama took office — 56% of whites and 45% of blacks.
Only 9 percent of the people in the poll said race relations had gotten better under Obama.
Another poll by Wall Street Journal and NBC discovered only 40% of white people and 35% of black people thought race relations were “good” in the US. It’s the lowest those numbers have been in almost 20 years.
Instead of becoming less charged, conversations about race have become more controversial. People’s reactions to the decision in Ferguson and NYC are recent examples. The country is much more divided on race now than it was when Obama took office.
Why is that the case?
I’m not here to analyze politics. (Could you even imagine Bristol Palin trying to analyze anything?) But I sure do think that if we could look past color instead of constantly pointing out our differences, that would go a long ways toward making relationships between races better instead of worse. Sometimes it seems like the President and the people he appoints are more interested in pointing out the bad, instead of pointing people towards the better America that they say they want.
Okay well first off obviously we know that this is all Nancy French as directed by Sarah Palin, and Bristol probably does not even know the post exists.
But since she allows her name to be used to pimp this garbage let me respond as if the Palin baby factory is actually capable of stringing words together to make actual sentences. (I've read some of her e-mails and texts. Trust me she gives stupid people a bad name.)
So listen here Bristol, if you are looking for somebody to blame for the increased racism, look no further than the house you grew up in. That is where Alaska's own little Miss Race Baiter resides for a little less than half of each year.
After all the very first signs of a resurgence in racism was found at one of Palin's rallies back in October of 2008. Which of course came after Palin herself had started claiming that our future President palled around with terrorists and wanted to fundamentally change the country for the worst.
From there it simply expanded exponentially and soon they were accusing him of not being born in the country, being a Muslim, having an anti-colonial mindset, being gay, being a communist, and just about everything else under the sun.
President Obama is not responsible for any of that.
All he did is, by daring to win the presidency, set a match to a barely concealed powder keg of racism to which that much of the country seemed completely oblivious.
Racism did not increase, it simply refuses to stay hidden any longer.
Today the white sheets and pointy hats are replaced by the tri-corner hats of the Teabaggers, the suits of the Fox News pundits,or simply a pair of red, white, and blue cowboy boots.
Fuck off!
If any one person is to blame she is in the picture up. NOT sitting in the White House doing his job day in and day out, against an unprecedented sea of opposition.
