I used to think only Pat Buchanan could say some of the most overtly and obviously racist and comments I've heard in our supposed "post-racial" society. Then I go and decide to read the news and I find this:
The above link is of an article in the Washington Times.
The author, a conservative, is upset because Obama recently went to China to discuss economics with their leader. Upon greeting the leader, he bowed as a sign of respect in diplomacy. Because of this, he is now ripe for accusations of being 'un-American' and 'subservient'. "What is Thomas Jefferson or John Adams had done this?" asks the author. Well, John Adams did spend many years in England learning to kneel in front of a foreign leader (much more so than a simple bow), so I guess there's that answer. But that's neither here nor there. What I'm interested in is the tangent the author goes off on towards the end.
He starts on somewhat of a personal rip of Obama and his upbringing. He says "Obama was raised in a paradise, far outside of the American mainstream", bringing up ideas of exotic living and 'non-American'-esque people (think 'non-White' for some idea of what he really means).
He then makes it abundantly clear what the end point of his gripe is: he refers to Obama's father explicitly as Kenyan (a predominantly Black nation, and said as if his father's country of origin has any effect on how Obama is going to act with others) and says "raised by a mother who had a thing for 3rd world men".
*GASP* - You mean...dark people?
There are white-racial anxieties written all over this article. What does Obama's mothers "preference for 3rd world men" have anything to do with this situation? And his Dad's nationality?
I would say it's indicative of how a majority, though obviously not all, of conservatives vent their racial frustrations. They keep themselves censored and shut-up for the most part, but every so often they have to let out their antipathy towards all things non-White, non-Christian, and non-hetero.
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Well I think the reason why this guy is throwing these low off topic punches is because 1.) he's ignorant (not to be confused with idiot mind you) and 2.) He doesn't really have any tangible reasons for why what Obama did was so bad. I think that guy is missing the big picture here. So on one hand we got the president taking a bow and on the other we got all that is wrong (and I mean really wrong, like child molesters, drug dealers, people without health insurance etc.) in our country and that guy decides to write his article about the presidents bow? Come on guys. It's pretty sad when the Washington Times is turning into a tabloid.
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