If you don’t vote for Obama, you are a racist
“Racism” is the gift that keeps on giving - to anyone who wishes to whip up as much hysteria as possible. Here was an AP story today; the implied message here is that if you don’t vote for Obama, you are racist:
Poll: Racial views steer some white Dems away from Obama
WASHINGTON (AP) — Deep-seated racial misgivings could cost Barack Obama the White House if the election is close, according to an AP-Yahoo News poll that found one-third of white Democrats harbor negative views toward blacks — many calling them “lazy,” “violent,” responsible for their own troubles.
The latter remark is hardly surprising, since true conservatives tend to believe that in most cases, all people are responsible for their own troubles.
I concede that there are a fair amount of people who will not vote for Senator Obama because he is black. But any day, I will balance that against the masses of people who are supporting him simply because he is black.
And while we are at it, why don’t we also compare this against the number of people who will not vote for McCain because he is old, or because his running mate is a woman? Even by the AP’s own calculation, the number of these “racists” is only 2.5% (although in a race this close, that could be decisive).
If you think I’m reading too much in the AP story, keep in mind that plenty of others have said the same thing, and much more blatantly. Just last month, Jacob Weisberg, the editor-in-Chief of slate.com, wrote an article on the subject entitled: “If Obama Loses, Racism is the only reason McCain might beat him”. And it gets worse:
If Obama loses, our children will grow up thinking of equal opportunity as a myth. His defeat would say that when handed a perfect opportunity to put the worst part of our history behind us, we chose not to.
In other words, he is blatantly appealing to white guilt and accusing us all of being a racist nation if Obama is not elected. Incredibly it’s as if he doesn’t see any other issues in the campaign at all…
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