Black wedding banned by Baptist church

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53. Racism is reinforced by the PTB

An article on Toshiba News this morning tries to examine what, if anything, Obama's presidency has done for race relations.

http://start.toshiba.com/news/read.php?rip_id=%3CDA0AIMFO1%40news.ap.org%3E&ps=1018&page=1

Just weeks after taking office, Obama said, "There was justifiable pride on the part of the country that we had taken a step to move us beyond some of the searing legacies of racial discrimination."

Then he joked, "But that lasted about a day."

Or, rather, three months.

By July 2009, the black Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates was arrested for yelling at a white police officer who questioned whether Gates had broken into his own home. Asked to comment, Obama said he didn't know all the facts, but Gates was a personal friend and the officer had acted "stupidly."

The uproar was immediate. Obama acknowledged afterward, "I could've calibrated those words differently."

Four years after Obama smashed the nation's highest racial barrier, and less than four months before America will decide whether he deserves a second term, the nation is uncertain about the meaning of a black president.

Recently, Obama was asked in a Rolling Stone magazine interview if race relations were any different than when he took office.

"I never bought into the notion," Obama said, "that by electing me, somehow we were entering into a postracial period."

The Republicans have done everything they can to show disrespect to Obama and the RW co-opted religion back in the 80s, as much as I can tell. So we have two powerful institutions doing what is undeniably wrong. Hate and prejudice are useful tools for those with an agenda it would seem.