"In a white supremacist society…"

[MrScorpio]

22. But race has always been an issue in this country, has it not?

In spite of incremental gains, race is always lurking in the nation's psyche, correct?

That the fact that we have a black president isn't the harbinger of the end of the image of white supremacy. It's the very fact that he had to excel and succeed in a white supremacist world in order to achieve the office of the Presidency. He had to be twice as good as any white person in order to be considered an "equal".

Still, the ideal exists. It's not going away because a black man had to excel through life, over and above the call of duty to earl the Oval Office. As a matter of fact, his enemies only consider this a temporary anomaly, to be corrected by the election of the next white male. For them, sooner, rather than later.

Half of what he's done could qualify any white male for the Presidency. Yet he had to prove that he's twice as good as any white male, and still he doesn't even get half the respect in many circles. The opposition to Obama is quantifiable in more ways than any of his predecessors have had to deal with and his race has been a central theme in that opposition. It's not just because he's a Democrat.

There's a definite double-standard when it comes to race and identity in America. It's all over the place, from the criminal justice system, to social injustice, to entertainment and to politics. The election of one black man to the White House doesn't sweep away the rest of the problem. Once you can prove to me that that double-standard no longer exists, then you can convince me that white supremacy no longer hold sway in this country.