have race relations in the US deteriorated since obama came to power?

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Two processes are underway: The white majority is literally absorbing the black race, in a century you wont see any blacks. 2, blacks who resist absorption die. Our Indians went through the same processes. In my genome are tribes that went extinct long ago.

 

[dolf]

http://www.theguardian.com/commenti...sata-shakur-racist-state-of-america?CMP=fb_gu

^^this showed up on my facebook feed today. I was mostly curious about how lit would react to the question. weirdly, you've all been fairly calm and reasonable.

 

[ms_ann_thrope]

The United States of North Mexico.

 

[CandiCame]

I'll help build a bridge between races. By laying some pipe.

 

[dolf]

I'll help build a bridge between races. By laying some pipe.

is this smutty innuendo or drug innuendo?

 

[CandiCame]

is this smutty innuendo or drug innuendo?

It goes both ways.

 

[dolf]

It goes both ways.

like you!

 

[marshalt]

I haven't scored with any minorities since he's been in office.

 

[ms_ann_thrope]

I haven't scored with any minorities since he's been in office.

Have you scored with anyone?

 

[marshalt]

Have you scored with anyone?

Does your mother count?

 

[ms_ann_thrope]

Does your mother count?

Yes. She can count.

 

[Sean Renaud]

I don't know if it's gotten worse or of people are just less likely to keep a lid on pre-existing attitudes though.

 

[toubab]

have race relations in the US deteriorated since obama came to power?

or is the news & lit giving me a false impression of the situation?

if relations have deteriorated, what could be the causes?

Yes, obviously.

If anything, the news (US) is underplaying it.

Obama, Holder, and Democrats in general are fanning racial flames instead of tamping them down. It will probably end badly.

 

[Sean Renaud]

Obama and Holder have absolutely no business tamping down these "flames". That is one of the great shames of the African American, we are, especially as we get further and fruther up the food chain unlikely to talk about the injustice in this country and those two cowards are no better.

 

[Adre]

Obama, Holder, and Democrats in general are fanning racial flames instead of tamping them down. It will probably end badly.

Why are Democrats responsible for tamping down racial issues?

 

[ms_ann_thrope]

Why are Democrats responsible for tamping down racial issues?

It's what they do, kill babies and tell everyone to just get along.

 

[Learnsmith]

have race relations in the US deteriorated since obama came to power?

or is the news & lit giving me a false impression of the situation?

if relations have deteriorated, what could be the causes?

I don't think that the infestation of racism has necessarily worsened; I just think that that the roaches have become more comfortable in venturing out of their cracks.

 

[Learnsmith]

Obama and Holder have absolutely no business tamping down these "flames". That is one of the great shames of the African American, we are, especially as we get further and fruther up the food chain unlikely to talk about the injustice in this country and those two cowards are no better.

"One of the great shames of the African American." Speaking of the above, that is a VERY interesting use of phrasing there.

 

[Que]

have race relations in the US deteriorated since obama came to power?

or is the news & lit giving me a false impression of the situation?

if relations have deteriorated, what could be the causes?

Yes.

The cause is the racist president, his racist administration including his racist attorney general, and the administration's racist supporters.

A black man being put into the White House by all of the blacks, most of the latinos and a lot of whites could have been seen as the triumph of Dr. Kings speech. Instead it is marginalized to justify the false narrative on race required by Democrats to keep black and latino voters corralled.

Obama himself telegraphed how he would use race to insulate himself from charges of being unqualified (which he unquestionably was, and is) when he played the race card in the Democratic primary against the Clintons.

Every single day on lit at least one administration apologist plays the race card to ascribe to administration detractors racism for policies that they didn't like under Lyndon Johnson or Woodrow Wilson or James Carter or that (apparent) racist William Clinton (previously known as the first black president).

 

[eyer]

On April 30, 2008, I left an area which I had basically resided in for the previous 23 years, that held close to 1.5 million people in roughly 400 sq miles, and that was roughly made-up of 70+% whites, 21+% blacks, and the remainder everybody else...

...the next day I made my new home in a county that's 3 times the size of Delaware and holds just over 9,000 people in its over 6,000 sq miles. The majority here is Hispanic, whites are next, blacks & Native Americans both make-up just over 1.1% each, and everybody else makes-up the balance.

I honestly haven't seen any significant change in "race relations in the US" in my lifetime.

 

[toubab]

Why are Democrats responsible for tamping down racial issues?

Everybody should be trying to tamp down racial flames.

 

[toubab]

Obama and Holder have absolutely no business tamping down these "flames". That is one of the great shames of the African American, we are, especially as we get further and fruther up the food chain unlikely to talk about the injustice in this country and those two cowards are no better.

Obama and Holder are the two people whose business it should be to tamp down racial flames in the US.

 

[IrezumiKiss]

Obama and Holder are the two people whose business it should be to tamp down racial flames in the US.

Really?

Why? Why them specifically?

Why couldn't it have been Dubya's business?

Or Clinton's?

Or Bush Senior's?

Or Reagan's?

Or...

 

[Que]

Really?

Why? Why them specifically?

Why couldn't it have been Dubya's business?

Or Clinton's?

Or Bush Senior's?

Or Reagan's?

Or...

Because they are the ones that inflamed it?

 

[doctor_insanus]

Because they are the ones that inflamed it?

By being black?

Fuck you.