Originally posted by: Obsoleet
Originally posted by: jbourne77
I don't buy the racism garbage for two seconds. We didn't hear shit about racism until Obama fell behind in the polls, and all of a sudden everyone started making apologies for him losing.
"If Obama loses, it's because people can't get past their deep-seeded racist views."
Horseshit. If he loses, it's because people don't think he has enough experience. Run after a couple terms in the senate, then he'll clean house, but the gun was jumped. If McCain loses, it's not because he's an old white guy who looks like Cheney, it's because people are afraid he'll be too similar to Bush.
Race has nothing to do with any of this.
You're out of your mind if you don't think "casual" racism (as if racism can be called such) is not a problem in America, more of a problem than almost any other western nation then you need a wakeup call.
I'd be willing to bet, most of the Republicans on this board.. IF it would fly and assist with helping change public opinion to support McCain would attack Obama based on racism. It's only kept hush because it's repulsive.
Yet, I can speak from experience that most Republicans, not all, will rant and rave about affirmative action, race based quotas and if you can get them to be honest enough, will reveal the root of that objection which is their own racism. Subconcious or not.
In my estimation the difference between a racist and someone who's not, is one who truly understands that theres no difference between arabs, whites, blacks, mexicans or any other group.
It pervades most of the GOP membership on issues such as immigration, the war on Iraq, affirmative action and other race based quotas and most things in our day.
Every position they take, conveniently is "pro-white" as much as possible without being outright racist. Even their undying support for Israel could be viewed as racist. They are the light skinned colony sitting in the middle east.
Most of your "save darfur" people are coming from the political left, not the right.
Let's not bullshit here.
To say racism isn't a problem in 2008 is just a flat out lie. To say that the GOP doesn't have the majority of racists between the two main parties is also a flat out lie.
To say that race won't affect Obama's chances at winning is also a lie. Will the people who will vote for him because he is black outweigh that? I doubt it, but it's debatable.
If this isn't the "casual racism" I speak of, then I don't know what is.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODaxZSz3Awg