about Black people.
Ordinarily, whites who deep down feel intellectually superior to Blacks--even though consciously they may or may not realize they are prejudiced--simply can ignore the existence of Blacks who better them intellectually.
But when a Black man is President of the United States, periodically reality MUST conflict with their conscious or unconscious prejudices. Remember when the Republicans invited the President to a healthcare Q and A session at their Baltimore retreat? The President put them to shame with his command of facts and figures that refuted every one of their silly talking points. "Jeb (Hensarling), that's not true and YOU KNOW that's not true", said the President at one point.
Even Fox "News" initally covered this Presidential slapdown, before Ailes decided to deep-six the President's confrontation of Republican lies with objective truth. That event must have been literally a nightmare for millions of Fox viewers, one they still are repressing.
Republicans tried to counter the President's superior instant command of healthcare facts with excuses like, "He used a TelePrompter", or "He had way too much time at the podium",
But their cognitive dissonance still evidently continues to torture them.
If conscious or unconscious racists ever were forced to admit to themselves for one second that President Obama has a superior instant command of the facts and figures of policy, then every encounter with a Black person, past, present and future, presents a possible contradiction of everything they've ever been taught about race their entire lives.
The cognitive dissonance the President has caused for millions of conscious or unconscious white racists must have become crippling by now. Republicans may need a Great White Hope to "put the President in his place" just so they can sleep at night.
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