Topic: Obama and the race card.

[Pugnate]

So I am pretty pleased with some of the steps Obama has been trying to take and all, but anyone else at all disturbed by all these shouts of racism? The fallout of what happened with his prof. friend a while back caused me to lose some respect for Obama.

Here is what I am talking about:

http://blog.taragana.com/n/obama-says-racism-still-haunts-us-says-police-acted-stupidly-in-arrest-of-harvard-scholar-117920/

The arresting officer was outraged at being labeled a racist, and rightly so. He mentioned how he saved a black man's life by giving him artificial resuscitation years back etc.

Then Obama called the officer and his friend to the white house for a beer... odd.

Then this happened:

http://edition.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/09/10/obama.heckled.speech/index.html

So that guy apologized or whatever, but I doubt his outburst had anything to do with racism. Even if it did, there was absolutely no evidence of it.

Then Jimmy Carter, the old cook, said it was all out of racism:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8258011.stm

Nuts...

Still, there is no doubt that there is a lot of racial resentment in America, that seems more evident thanks to the anonymity of the internet.

Videos on youtube featuring blacks are full of racist comments, some of which are shocking.

[Cools!]

Obama made a mistake with the arrested professor. Every president makes little media relationship mistakes like that. But because he's the first black president he has to be even more careful. He's being watched by hawks just waiting for him to make a mistake.

[Quemaqua]

Pretty much like every other president ever.

[gpw11]

But in his defense he did publicly call Kanye West a jackass.

[Quemaqua]

That's pretty epic.

[Pugnate]

That's pretty epic.

[MysterD]

But in his defense he did publicly call Kanye West a jackass.

Like we didn't know that already, though...

*points at Mr. West's albums....*

It's all there.

I mean hell, here's two examples -- just look at "Ego (Remix)" by Beyonce and Kanye; and also "Barry Bonds" with Lil' Wayne (from Graduation).

[Cobra951]

No.  I will not.  I would rather listen to a jackhammer go through a pile of puppy dogs.

[nickclone]

Well unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on how you look at it) most of the racism that goes on in America is very subtle. Can you guys think of someone that isn't apart of a hate group that will openly say that he hates blacks, Latinos, Jews, etc? The cop didn't have to say he hates blacks, his actions were racist. He saw a black man breaking into a house, the man proved the house was his and then he was arrested for being "hostile"?

First of all, anyone would be "hostile" after some cop was given him shit about "breaking into his own house". Second of all, after he proved he owned the house, the cop should have just left. He never put his hands on the cop or tried to attack him, so even if he cursed him out, the cop should have just left the guy alone.

I think we would all be kidding ourselves to think that this same event would have happened to a white guy. I'm not saying the cop wouldn't have come to the scene, I'm saying that the guy wouldn't have been arrested inside of his house, for breaking into his house.

On a side note, I think cops are worthless assholes. Sure, they catch "bad guys" every now and then, but they've never done anything for me when I needed them and have only given me shit.

[Quemaqua]

Gee, there's a shocker.

[Ghandi]

As a loyal American and a student of history, I'm a little confused about why we stopped blaming the Indians for all our problems. What's all this talk about "black" and "white"? It makes no sense. I see only red. We know who to blame. AM I RITE?

[Quemaqua]

Don't forget the slant-eyes.

[Ghandi]

I don't care about those bastards. They can have our maths and our sciences. We have our guns.

It's not like I don't want the bastards dead, but they have small penises. Our focus should be on the Indians with their sweat lodges and their penis enhancement pills and their voodoo / witch doctor large-penis spells.

You know what I'm talking about. Those bastards have been trying to make us leave ever since we invaded and handed out smallpox blankets.

[Cobra951]

Somehow, I never associated Indians with penises, large or small.  This is a new image I must now contend with.

[Ghandi]

Yeah, I dunno where I was going with that.

[ren]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/6161691.stm

Different kind of Indian but I still like to mention it when I can.