Talk of Race for Obama is a Giant Step Back for Obama and for Us

Originally Posted 9/16/2009

President Jimmy Carter has now made it official. The liberal Democrats have decided to make the country pay for the mistakes of the Obama administration and their agenda by faulting Americans as racist. It is time for minorities to step up and say that this time we will not be used as the scapegoat, as the propaganda, as the victim, and as the dividing force in this country in order to legitimate the nation’s first black President.

The race card has been up the media’s sleeve as a defense mechanism for President Obama long before Joe Wilson shouted out, “you lie”, in the special session to Congress. The Joe Wilson incident only provided the stage for a long written script that the media planned to pull out when Americans or conservatives dare criticize or vehemently disagree with the President. Is the only way to defend the President and his policies to drudge up the prejudices of this nation from sixty to hundreds of years ago? And, to play up on the one thing that can make Americans feel sorry for the President as if his blackness is some unspoken disability that many ignore, but, are expected to condescend to like a guy in a wheelchair in front of a heavy door? The whole fiasco about the half- African decent of President Obama’s being the cause of civil unrest is not only disgusting, but, pitiful: poor President Obama, if only he were white, Congress would have passed health care reform by now. If only most Americans were not racist, the town halls would be full of Americans rallying in support of all the spending coming out of Washington. And, if only the nation could accept a black man in charge, Obama could reign in unobstructed peace and solidarity no matter what policies or laws he wants to impose. When one actually translates out load the implication of the racist accusation, only then does the absurdity truly rise to the top.

Has anyone stopped to think that perhaps the American people deserve more credit than what the media will allow them? Here is a spectacular point of view: perhaps the American people are even more so disappointed in Obama because they expected SO much of him, not so little. And, in that expectation, many hoped positive change had come with him because of his race, not in spite of it? We have celebrated this awe inspiring African-American man. We have looked to him to unify us with his diverse points of view and his intellectual philosophies. We have turned to him for racial edification. We have hoped that this big change that was all about electing him would wipe the slate clean and cleanse us of our sins of a prejudiced past. Quite simply, the return on this promise has left us empty and further wanting. The promise of change, we have found out is a lie. And, we are to sit idly by while our country pays the price.