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Al, is that like the plants at Tea Party rallies?

I don't think racism is worse today than when Obama took office. He may have done more for improving race relations than he's given credit for, and that may only become apparent after a few years. One current indicator is his approval rating as he leaves office. Rasmussen pegs his approval at about 60%, a number that far exceeds the number of minorities in the U.S.A., and has only happened a few times with other two term Presidents. So some white people think he did a decent job. The fact that he survived 8 years without any help, no, with total obstruction if we're being honest, from the opposing party and actually lifted America from near catastrophe, will probably be looked upon favorably by later generations. He will provide an example to future Americans that someone other than a white man can lead this great country.

Although I don't personally like Mr. Trump, I hope he can be viewed as highly as Obama after his Presidency. That means that he will have had a successful run, which means that America will be a better place.

"If I had a son he would look like Travon" I guess there is nothing divisive about that statement. Nor would sending high ranking government officials to Ferguson to hold hands and sing kumbaya because a black criminal thug got shot trying to beat a white police officer in his car.

Those cases and others were racially charged. The ........ took the low ground in each of them. Not to mention his hiring of the most rascist Attorney General in the history of the US.

He definitely didn't play that issue down the middle and did not balance his duty as commander and chief and minority advocate very well. He very much embraced the latter more than the former in this arena. He may have felt he had to given the historic win, and pressure from the community, but I agree he didn't do it well and things are more volatile than they were in my opinion. But maybe you also have to break a few eggs and maybe they are just more visibly volatile and we are seeing what has been there all along.

I don't know. I don't see much interest in understanding other views or coming together from any side.

Of course the problem (racism) existed before. Nobody claims Obama invented it.
But to say that groups were "afraid of repercussions"? that's pure BS.
There are so many black-centric organizations that BLM was just one more. Until they started riots and became news worthy.
that's not fearing repercussions. That's thuggery. And it would be separate from the Obama administration if Obama denounced them in any fashion.
Silence can be deafening. and the things our sitting President chose to speak out against and what he remained silent speaks volumes about his true (lack of) character.
In my opinion.





Nice use of white guilt.

Look, if you want to legitimize the liberal rhetoric, fine.
Just don't expect to be taken seriously.

but true rioting is illegal... your saying it's justifiable to make a point..?? Do you really think the people actually rioting give a chit or just want a new tv..??

Let's say tail shoots my dog.

I may respond to that in a number of different ways. I may just file a police report and follow the legal route.
Or I may poop on his doorstep.

One method of brining the issue to the attention of authority is legal the other isnt. They may have different levels of success or even different levels of satisfaction.

Neither impacts the severity of the issue.

Tail hates all puppy dogs.

As in the white "racist" cop involved in the "racist" arrest of Henry Gates, the black Harvard professor(and personal friend of Obama) who was arrested trying to break into a house(his own home as it turned out.) But while the cop gathered the info to determine that it was Gates' home, he was met with attitude and derision from Gates, he got aggravated and placed Gates into custody until he could gather the needed information without Gates'es (????) interference.

Without having any real information about the incident, other than it was a black man (and Friend of Obama) and a white cop, on July 22,2009, Obama was making statements like, " I don't know, not having been there and not seeing all the facts, what role race played in that. But I think it's fair to say, number one, any of us would be pretty angry; number two, that the Cambridge police acted stupidly in arresting somebody when there was already proof that they were in their own home. And number three, what I think we know separate and apart from this incident is that there is a long history in this country of African-Americans and Latinos being stopped by law enforcement disproportionately. That's just a fact."

President Obama appeared unannounced at a White House press briefing on July 24, and said, "I want to make clear that in my choice of words I think I unfortunately gave an impression that I was maligning the Cambridge Police Department or Sergeant Crowley specifically – and I could have calibrated those words differently." Also, that "I continue to believe, based on what I have heard, that there was an overreaction in pulling Professor Gates out of his home to the station. I also continue to believe, based on what I heard, that Professor Gates probably overreacted as well."

And then the "BEER SUMMIT"..............and then racially everything was......well, we all know how everything has been since then

reading post 118 makes me wonder why anyone is upset with Obama.

Dude you really need a Grande Espresso so you can up wake up and refrain from post ludicrous crap like that.

You might poop on his doorstep. I'd probably take the John Wayne route.

What's recipe for brining something to the authorities? I'm always looking to try out new tastes.

no argument, but I know that all kinds of people get upset when cops pull them over and they really were speeding. Cuss them out, tell them they'll see them in court...basically saying they suck at their job even though the cop did the job correctly.

But Gates really was at his own house. His reaction may have been normal, we'll never know.

I'm pretty sure I would not have gone off on the officer if it happened at my home, and I doubt the Cambridge cop had race in mind...perhaps Gates was being opportunistic, no one knows despite certainty on c-bid, but rereading Obama's words makes him sound kind of normal.

To me, not much of an example of widening the racial divide.

Obama spoke out against Cambridge police doing their job.
He made a bigger deal out of that incident then he did about the BLM riots.

But because he didn't CREATE racism I guess we shouldn't blame him for failing relations.

Race riots are not a new phenomena, not only in the U.S., but many other places where an oppressive majority mistreats and creates a hopeless environment for a weak minority. I'm no expert, but I think Obama's reaction may have diffused the potential severity of the riots in response to police shootings.

Did anyone notice the difference between the police response to the occupy movement and the black protests? Occupy resulted in total reform of police tactics towards citizen protests and freedom of speech. Communication, free speech zones, identify and meet regularly with protest leaders, no military style tactics, etc. Occupy had majority white protestors...

A. I hated the occupy movement.
B. The occupy movement was not a riot.

Next.

I got fooled.

Meet the new boss.

Same as the old boss.