The moderate-liberal commentator in New York argues that liberals must wake up to reality: "President Obama's re-election has again made life harder for our professional Cassandras about racism in this county. And that's a good thing. The scientist is interested not just in watching chemicals sloshing around, but in what the chemicals actually do, in the results of their interactions. The better politicians — and commentators — are also supposed to be all about results, not ideology. But when it has come to whether racism is an obstacle to Obama's success, the good-thinking press has been like a scientist who has already decided on the results of her experiment before letting the chemicals come into contact with one another."
He adds: "The times just don't fit the grand old rhetoric, and nothing attests to that more than the fact that a black man will have occupied the White House for eight years, not just four. And the second time, he beat an opponent who gave him a run for his money. This is real. The issue is no more whether there is racism than whether there is weather. The issue is whether racism works. Increasingly, in so many ways, it would seem that it just doesn't."
Booker Rising response: While he has certainly opened the door, Obama is only half-black and his black father was an East African immigrant. Unlike his wife Michelle, his background isn't remotely quintessentially black American. When I see a black person with two black parents, raised by black folks, and with an extensive genealogy rooted in West African ancestry, American slavery and Jim Crow get elected to the White House, then America will have truly turned a corner.
reelection has again made life harder for our professional Cassandras about racism in this country. And that’s a good thing.
The scientist is interested not just in watching chemicals sloshing
around, but in what the chemicals actually do, in the results of their
interactions. The better politicians — and commentators — are also
supposed to be all about results, not ideology.
But when it has come to whether racism is an obstacle to Obama’s
success, the good-thinking press has been like a scientist who has
already decided on the results of her experiment before letting the
chemicals come into contact with one another.
As soon as Obama settled into the White House, the racism watch began
in earnest. The cartoon in the New York Post that some took as depicting
the President as a chimpanzee; Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) yelling “You
lie!” during the State of the Union address; tacky racial remarks on the
occasional Tea Partyer T-shirt; Donald Trump’s birtherism.
Behind the aggrieved reportage on this kind of thing was a narrative
seeking to deny that the election of a black President was as signature
an event in our racial history as it looked like. And the anticipated
outcome of this narrative was that racism would keep Obama from a second
term.
John McCain, such people t
Read more:
http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/face-racism-dying-article-1.1202089#ixzz2CVXI4mX7
As
soon as Obama settled into the White House, the racism watch began in
earnest. The cartoon in the New York Post that some took as depicting
the President as a chimpanzee; Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) yelling “You
lie!” during the State of the Union address; tacky racial remarks on the
occasional Tea Partyer T-shirt; Donald Trump’s birtherism.
Read more:
http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/face-racism-dying-article-1.1202089#ixzz2CVXEdxpe
The moderate-liberal commentator in New York argues that liberals must wake up to reality: "President Obama's re-election has again made life harder for our professional Cassandras about racism in this county. And that's a good thing. The scientist is interested not just in watching chemicals sloshing around, but in what the chemicals actually do, in the results of their interactions. The better politicians — and commentators — are also supposed to be all about results, not ideology. But when it has come to whether racism is an obstacle to Obama's success, the good-thinking press has been like a scientist who has already decided on the results of her experiment before letting the chemicals come into contact with one another."
