I just have to give this a thread of its own. I am flabbergasted. hate for the President is

[BlueCaliDem]

19. ODS born out of ingrained racism has got a LOT to do with it, kelliekat.

Even in a VW auto manufacturing plant in Chattenooga, Tennessee, no matter what America's propaganda outlets are saying.

And although President Obama can't be blamed for America's hatred and loathing - on both sides of the political aisle - of a black man in the White House, we can't deny that hatred for his skin color has worked against him and this country.

The ingrained racism that has infested this country like the HIV virus since the Civil War has played and continues to play an important role in the rise and resilience of racist Teabaggers and Republitarians, which was skillfully coddled and utilized by millionaires and billionaires who have been pining for the overthrow of the U.S. Gov't and the usurping of the U.S. Constitution since, well, the Civil War and the end of legalized slavery.

The palpable racism and xenophobia among a large segment of the American populace is the problem. The disrespect they were taught by loving parents to show "the others" continues to manifest in the ugliest ways against this president and his family, and it's made large parts of the populace so rabid with it that they'd vote against their and their family's financial interests just to satiate their innate hatred for that black man in the White House.

Directly, no, President Obama can't and should never be blamed for other people's prejudices. But it's hard for me to see that his skin color had nothing to do with electing racists and xenophobes to the People's House after 2010 that's now driving the change for the worse in our country.