People Who Don't Think Race Matters In Ferguson Think Obama's Remarks Are Racist

[TomCADem]

The right wing is once again accusing the President of being racist for discussing the significance of race in connection with civil unrest in Missouri.

http://www.thewire.com/politics/2014/08/people-who-dont-think-race-matters-in-ferguson-think-obamas-remarks-are-racist/378719/

Few people were surprised when conservative commentators started criticizing President Obama for commenting on the Michael Brown shooting and aftermath in Ferguson, Missouri, and a new Pew poll shows why: white and Republican Americans are more likely to think race is getting too much attention in Ferguson. Conservative commentators calling the president racist are just the most prominent and extreme examples of people who think Obama is addressing race issues that don't exist.

In the last week, right-wing blog WND published a column by Larry Klayman arguing that the president was the "Racist in chief" for siding with his "black brothers" against "'whitey.'" Fox News' Todd Starnes wondered why the president offered condolences to Michael Brown's family, but didn't offer his condolences to the cop who shot him. Daniel Greenfield at FrontPage magazine wrote that the president "tends to avoid explicitly racist rhetoric. Instead he empowers those who do."

The essays are the extreme example of what Pew shows is a common trend: 47 percent of white people think race is getting too much attention, as opposed to only 18 percent of blacks and 25 percent of Hispanics. Sixty-one percent of Republicans think race is receiving too much focus, compared to 46 percent of Independents and 21 percent of Democrats. The divide is more extreme now than when Trayvon Martin was killed, but still in both cases there was a divide between whites and blacks.

With that in mind, it makes sense that white conservatives would see the president's remarks as race baiting.

[RunAwayGranny]

1. Right-wing faction is very uncomfortable about racism. Why would that be?

I've seen blogs and articles with that rhetoric, calling Obama a racist. I can't even believe the right-wing and white majority dare to spew such idiotic statements. Anybody who is incapable of seeing the race issue in a white officer putting six bullets into an unarmed black teenager, two in the head, is in denial or doesn't want to admit racism is real in America. These clowns will never be part of the solution and really want to avoid the subject, because it hits too close to home, if you know what I mean. I think they are racists themselves and delight in trying to pin the label on others, like the POTUS. I find people who try so hard to accuse others need to take a look at themselves.

They obviously want to point at others to distract people from looking at them. It's deflection. It's a sign of infantile immaturity. "I didn't do it, he did it; look at him. I'm innocent. He's the guilty one." I think they've taken this strategy to a whole new and pathetic level this time.