re: #203 Obdicut

Um, okay. Obama was pointing out that we still do notice and react to race in America, and that for someone of his grandmother’s generation, there’s a reaction that is caused by having had grown up in a much more race-divided society, and that even someone without racial prejudice in any substantial way will still have that reaction.

As to saying some people, disappointed by the political process, become bitter and cling to religion, gun rights, and other issues— I’m not sure how that’s a racial statement, and it’s also perfectly true. Can you clarify how that is a ‘racial’ statement, please?

It’s not only racial but class-oriented as well.

You can have “code words” for working-class whites as easily as you can have them for other groups.

In any case, it’s a divisive, “us and them” rhetoric (remember where he said these things?) and it doesn’t reflect well on him.