...persistent, ongoing, and ugly racism.

It's in our DNA as a nation. Slavery built America. The displacement and extermination of Native peoples, the Color Line, the use of racist demagoguery and its stoking of racist fears to pit white citizens against "the Other"....it's integral to our history.

Sometimes, I wonder if we're actually backsliding into the dark past....after so much progress in the latter part of the last century. Maybe we didn't make as much progress as we had thought we did; America's closely related demons of racism and white supremacy certainly have persisted into the present day. Racism has taken a different form from slavery and Jim Crow segregation, in the Prison-Industrial Complex and the assaults on "welfare" and anything "public" (like education, assistance to the poor, etc.)

These last few years have been very revealing indeed, as much of white America doesn't see the President-OUR President-as "legitimate." They can't fucking accept that a black man can smarter, more competent, and above all, more powerful than a white man. Hence, the constant assaults on Obama-from Left, Center, and Right. "Take our Country Back." Birtherism. Lies upon lies upon racist fucking lies.

wholeheartedly.

My family is Quebecker. The majority still at home, but I have lived here for many years. Language was not a problem because we spoke 2 at home, but culture was another thing.

Our first year here, we went on vacation, traveling through Mississippi to Florida. We saw many groups of prisoners, not chained together but wearing ankle chains. Each group had a man watching on horseback or in a truck bed. Prisoners all black, guards all white.

When we were in Florida, we noticed how the black servers and clean up people at the restaurants were treated very rudely by patrons and bosses.

Really made us wonder why, 100 years after your civil war ended, the same people still treated non-whites the same old way.

And as you note, it has not changed. Crude open racism is accepted as okay.

It is disgusting and people should be ashamed but racists apparently have no shame.

among the diehard bigots and racists. They revel in their hate, applaud it and celebrate it. This country in the last 15 years has turned into a swamp of ignorance and that swamp has a lot of stupid and devious people living there.

That is all he has gotten since his inauguration. The GOP met that night to plot against him, to make him a failed President and hold him to one term.

Joe Wilson cried out, "You Lie"!

The most disrespected President in the history of our country?



TomP's diary about honest-to-goodness racists frothing at the mouth as they protest the President's presence in their state got me thinking.

Is Obama the most disrespected president in the history of our country?

I am not talking about ordinary people disagreeing with their leader.
I am talking about heads of states and elected officials...diplomats who should conduct themselves with class and professionalism at all times who cannot help themselves when it comes to Barack Obama. I wonder why?

You do remember McCain's, "That one!" don't you?
Take a look at those I will show you below the squiqqle and I challenge you to find anything even remotely resembling them directed against another president.


This was actually captioned: Netanyahu schools Obama


This is self-explanatory:


Remember these?




Is it just me? Or are we looking at the most disrespected president in the history of our country?

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/08/07/1229674/-The-most-disrespected-President-in-the-history-of-our-country#

Thank you for your Op heaven.

This

I can contribute........I will be honored to do so in this forum. I am just tired of the faux nicey nice BS of the people who govern our information in the mass media. I appreciate the truth and nothing else. Your response is truth. Never again will I look at this country as having possibilities for POC. Certain ones yes, a thomas, a carson et al get a chance if they kow tow to and butt kiss the corporate and banking butts....the rest of us out here....goodluck. Thanks for your input....much appreciated, links and all......

is that so many people do not see or have not been educated to see how racism is reflected in ALL of the problems that affect this country.
US wars are always framed as an US vs. THEM conflict. The THEM in question is generally non-white and non-Christian. This makes it easier to identify the THEM because THEY look different, talk differently, believe differently, etc. THEY are not like US. This emphasizing the differentness of THEM makes it easier for US to kill THEM because they are not really human. Or they are 3/4 of a human.
Consider:
genocide against the First Peoples, a red people. Not Christian, not US.
chattel slavery against black people, many Muslim but all non-Christian.
wars against nearly every South American country filled with brown people. Again, not Christian.
wars against the Chinese, the Japanese, the Vietnamese, Laotians, Fillipinos. All yellow and brown people.
3000 white Americans die on 9/11/2001. A nation outraged about this monstrous act. When the US incinerated 300,000 at Nagasaki and Hiroshima that was an heroic act. The pilots were awarded medals. What difference, other than scale? Yellow people do not count as much as white people.

Racism determines: who gets arrested, who gets disciplined in school, who gets hired last and fired first. Who gets the bad mortgage loans. Who gets stopped for driving, walking, listening to music, selling loose cigarettes, playing in a park while black.

Unless and until white Americans realize that the true struggle is not between workers of different color BUT AGAINST the 1% WHO ARE RUINING THIS COUNTRY the battle cannot be over.