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NACBA
01-04-2015, 10:42 AM
The temptation to play the race card is one that President Obama and his surrogates have too often found irresistible. Think of Attorney General Eric Holder’s claim last summer that criticism of the Obama administration is fueled by “racial animus,” or Vice President Joe Biden’s warning to a largely nonwhite audience in 2012 that Mitt Romney was “going to put y’all back in chains” if he won the White House. Recall Obama himself, predicting that Republicans would demonize him because “he doesn’t look like all those other presidents on the dollar bills.”

Yet there are also times when the president heeds the better angels of his nature, and declines to stoke racial resentments.

One such moment came during an interview last week, when NPR’s Steve Inskeep asked Obama if the country is “more racially divided than it was when you took office six years ago.” Without hesitating, the president answered candidly: “No, I actually think that it’s probably in its day-to-day interactions less racially divided.” There may be a perception to the contrary, he acknowledged, but that has more to do with the media-driven focus on particular events, “like Ferguson or the Garner case in New York.”

http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2015/01/04/racism-political-factor-has-largely-disappeared/kVvknd9557cpb8rkBA0blM/story.html

enhanced_deficit
01-04-2015, 08:12 PM
#Racism as a Political Factor has largely disappeared



Do you agree with that?

I do not, r-word use (and h-word) in US politics will evolve and continue.
#AmyPascal

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?465628-House-Majority-Whip-Scalise-confirms-he-spoke-to-White-Nationalists-in-2002&p=5741910&viewfull=1#post5741910