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In reply to the discussion: I am not liking Obama very much these days [View all]geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)but, the prospects for a retaliatory alert were certainly in the air after mine succeeded.
I repeat: people who feel compelled to use the president's race to insult him should find a different message board. There are plenty of message boards where angry white people who hate Obama are allowed to invoke his race in order to insult him.
This includes the crowd who insist that "black people voted for him because he was black," "he only won because he was black," as well as "the only thing he's accomplished is being black."
If people find themselves hating the president so much that they start typing up a message going down the blackety black black route as a means of insulting him, they should cut and paste and post that at Discussionist or the Yahoo! comments section where it belongs.
And, no, being ostensibly on the left does not mean a person is not a racist.
I know a lot of people think that white populist 'progressives' who hate the president should get a free pass in using racial attacks on him. But I have a generally low opinion of such folks and discount their opinions on all matters.