I've been thinking that alot of the anti-Obama rhetoric was basically coded racism. It turns I may have been right and I'm basing it on the theory that if white people are calling it racist it has to be extremely racist. How did i come to this theory? well i'm gonna try to explain. Its a proven fact that certain names(the negro sounding ones) are pretty much a negative when trying to get a job. A Jamal or a Tanisha is alot less likely to get a job than people named Jim and Mary even though they have the same credentials. Even with this data some people still dont see this as a racism or even a problem.
In fact white people are usually the last ones to say anything is racist when its not against them. When you combine that with the long history of racism in this country and the fact that for the most part this country was kinda built to help out wealthy white men it has to mean that something seriously terrible is going on when a wealthy white man like jimmy carter would go out and publicly say on tv that he's seeing a lot of racism in the anti-Obama rhetoric.
to sum it up.......
if he calls it racist,it may be racist
if he calls it racist it IS very racist
sources for this blog
http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/12/12/racism.poll/index.html
http://www.gallup.com/poll/109258/majority-americans-say-racism-against-blacks-widespread.aspx
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/poll/2009/sep/16/jimmy-carter-joe-wilson-racism-obama
http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=7242
http://primebuzz.kcstar.com/?q=node/19982
http://www.aclu.org/racialjustice/racialprofiling/index.html
