At least 30%-40% of white Americans vote Democratic. If you are a black person, you vote Republican you get attacked. There needs to be more political options in this country.
It was after the Civil Rights Act when the Democratic Party had a fissure, and so-called "white" people in the South switched parties. Those developments would certainly have driven many blacks into the Democratic fold.
But I don't criticize blacks for voting Republican. I criticize Republicans for voting Republican. I once thought I was a Republican, and I criticize myself for it.
So again, as I said, many of us emerged from the 1980s and 1990s to think we were in a "post-racial" America. We're not. And the reason we are not derives from racial-identity insecurities. I've witnessed more than just a sample of people expressing revulsion for the Obama presidency, and they did so explicitly on the grounds of race.
If others didn't do so explicitly, they still showed their hand in the way they constructed criticism of the Obama presidency. I saw the Speaker of the House get up and demand "Where are the jobs?!" when Obama had been in office for a mere month. Another man I encountered argued "Obama is the worst president -- ever!" when he'd been in office merely five months.
Righties were faced with the cultural dilemma of sorting out their criticism of the Obama administration for acceptably legitimate reasons, and their criticisms which really had an origin in racial animus. That's why there was an epidemic of pundits and others whining about "political correctness" and all the little conniption fits occurring on college campuses: because they couldn't say "N****r". And that's why the GOP acted in lockstep against any thought of cooperative bipartisanship with the Obama presidency. It follows the logic of the quote from Lincoln about fooling some of the people. An office holder can be wrong about some of the things some of the time, but he can't be wrong about all of the things all of the time.
If Obama had been "white" -- the same person with the same party and the same policies, the same public presence, same voice, same words, same ideas -- would have been treated altogether differently. So the "B" in Republican stands for "Bigot". And bigots are neither honest with themselves, nor honest with anyone else. Bigots or not, they've elected the most dishonest piece of disgusting filth in modern history. It's not his race that lies at the bottom of my despite. IT's one thing to hate someone for altogether acceptable reasons. It's another when the reasons are totally unacceptable, as affirmed by the progress of the last 50-plus years.