"White community adapts to Obama reality" ...say WHAT?!

[PTK]

http://www.comcast.net/articles/news-politics/20081118/POLITICS-US-USA-OBAMA-COMMUNITY/

Yes, folks, "White community adapts to Obama reality" - that's really the title of the news article. Does that bother anyone else, or is it just me?

The rest of the article isn't too bad, but DANG did that title get me. Just wanted to know if that title ticks anyone else off.

Worried by racial tensions churned up by the U.S. presidential election, teachers at one U.S. high school braced for the worst in their majority white community the morning after Barack Obama was elected the country's first black president.

Must be a nice place. 

[RealGun]

Perhaps you haven't heard that the black and white cultures and respective priorities are different. It sounds like you need to get out more. There isn't much to discuss, unless you state why it bothers you.

If you are concerned about being politically correct, you have your answer. Wake up! Discussion of racial differences, particularly cultural and then political, is not taboo.

What irks me is that little was said about race during the campaign, or mentions of it were shouted down. The very next day though it was all about race...and more than just how a political success of that magnitude was nationally historic.

As long as the presidential motorcade can't be heard thumping from a mile away and doesn't have bling wheels or secret service agents with chains and baggy pants talking trash, I guess I'll be okay with it all.

[HankB]

As long as the presidential motorcade can't be heard thumping from a mile away and doesn't have bling wheels or secret service agents with chains and baggy pants talking trash, I guess I'll be okay with it all.

I expect Barack Hussein Obama will show a bit more decorum than the President displayed in the movie Idiocracy.

I hope.

[MechAg94]

Skimming through the article, it sounds like there were comments such that some people did have an issue with race.  However, when they try to stretch that out as some sort of common issue nationally, they need to realize that Obama got a very large portion of white people to vote for him.  It isn't like he was only elected by minorities. 

[French G.]

To counter what she called "unsettling bigotry" in Maryland's Carroll County, Westminster High English teacher Laura Doolan wrote a 30-minute lesson for all students to give them a chance to discuss the election and correct misconceptions, such as the widespread rumor that Obama is Muslim.

I saw this yesterday, I read the above as "Liberal card carrying NEA member Laura loves Obama and pounds sunshine up little misguided children's backside."

Is it really a teacher's job to give political indoctrination?

[roo_ster]

Is it really a teacher's job to give political indoctrination?

According to every statist since JJ Rousseau up to and including BHO, the answer is "yes."

[Standing Wolf]

"White community adapts to Obama reality" - that's really the title of the news article. Does that bother anyone else, or is it just me?

Hey. Where were you? Don't you remember all those "Black Community Adapts to Bush Reality" articles in 2000 and 2004?

[longeyes]

Skimming through the article, it sounds like there were comments such that some people did have an issue with race.  However, when they try to stretch that out as some sort of common issue nationally, they need to realize that Obama got a very large portion of white people to vote for him.  It isn't like he was only elected by minorities. 

McCain took the white vote, last time I heard, 55-43.  Obama won by huge landslides in the "Hispanic" and African-American communities.  So, yeah, he WAS "elected by minorities" and there's no doubt this election turned on race despite all the propaganda to the contrary.

[jackdanson]

My cousin (she's white) goes to a mostly black high school in north st. louis.  The day after the election there were guys running around the halls screaming "we're in charge now!" and "Black Power".  They got in her face and said "what do you think about that", etc.  She was scared to report anything, although she is sure the teachers saw it, they just don't care.

Had the reverse happened there would be outrage, but this is just chalked up to "pride".

[gunsmith]

What "white" community?
 

[longeyes]

There isn't one.  That's the point.  Whether there will be one depends on the future of identity poltiics and demographic fun and games.

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"Community" is a euphemism for race.

[RealGun]

There certainly is a "black community", so I'm thinking, well dang, there must be a "white community". When blacks unanimously admit they experience no resistance to a feeling of equality and are willing to give up their power base and ability to play the race card when convenient, we can start talking about there being no racial polarity.

[Leatherneck]

McCain took the white vote, last time I heard, 55-43.  Obama won by huge landslides in the "Hispanic" and African-American communities.

Blacks are about 13% of the American population. So LOTS of White (or at least, non-black) people voted for Obama. I think the most racism was that 97% of the black population voted for Obama. Only 3% of blacks are conservatives? 

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[Manedwolf]

The only loudly persistent "black community" I am aware of are the ones who say my black neighbors are "being white" by having gone for the American dream with education, hard work, and a successful career.

Tribalism really doesn't ever help anyone. Especially if the tribe is self-destructive. Bill Cosby said the same in his rant that he was trashed by the "black community" for daring to speak.

[longeyes]

That's right: tribalism will be our great undoing, but we are well along the way toward that, I'm afraid.  Instead of achieving a color-blind society we are more and more seeing through the prism of race and ethnicity.  This bodes ill for America.

[Manedwolf]

That's right: tribalism will be our great undoing, but we are well along the way toward that, I'm afraid.  Instead of achieving a color-blind society we are more and more seeing through the prism of race and ethnicity.  This bodes ill for America.

Well, that's the irony. My neighbors are white, black, Indian, Asian, Hispanic...that IS colorblind. They just happen to generally be successful professionals of some sort or the other, one couple seems to run a business from a home office. Busy people.

But the blacks get called terrible things or are told they're "being white" when they live in suburbia and have a successful career. What's up with that?

[A.M. Baer]

I was having a conversation with someone with a fellow student, who happens to be African American.  He stated that he is glad that a black man is going to be President, and the he voted for Obama because he's black; I slipped and said, "So you're a racist?".  He continues to state that I hate black people and believes that "blacks can't be racist".  It is so obvious to me that voting for someone because they are black is directly equal to not voting for them because they are black; or similarly voting or not voting for someone because they are white.

I am glad that a black man can be elected in this country; I however am very sad because that black man is not only a socialist, but he was elected mostly because he is black, and therefore his election is based on racism, and is a sign that racism still exists in this country on a large scale.

A common sign of racism I see is one greatly lesser qualified person being accepted for college or a job over a highly qualified person because that lesser qualified person is black; that my friends is racism in its clearest form.

[Monkeyleg]

A black man could have been elected president 12 years ago. His name is Colin Powell. There are others, such as Alan Keyes, but none would get support from blacks in the 90%+ range because they're conservatives.

I know whites who didn't vote for him because he's black, and I know white's who voted for him just so that we could have the first black president. Racist no matter which way you look at it.

If Obama had been white, would he have even made it as far as the Iowa caucus?

[A.M. Baer]

If Obama had been white, would he have even made it as far as the Iowa caucus?

No.

[Don't care]

A black man could have been elected president 12 years ago. His name is Colin Powell. There are others, such as Alan Keyes, but none would get support from blacks in the 90%+ range because they're conservatives.

Ahem, Colin Powell is certainly not a conservative.

[MechAg94]

It doesn't really matter who or what he is.  He probably could have gotten a lot of support if he had wanted it. 

[stevelyn]

I don't care what color is hide is. It's his Marxist red tendencies that concern me.

[RealGun]

Let's not forget that people voted for Obama in the primaries because he wasn't Hillary Clinton. In some cases, aside from Hillary issues, that would likely have translated "he wasn't the woman".

[Werewolf]

Let's not forget that people voted for Obama in the primaries because he wasn't Hillary Clinton. In some cases, aside from Hillary issues, that would likely have translated "he wasn't the woman".

Maybe.. voted for Obama because he wasn't Hillary that is.

One wonders how much influence that bloviating windbag Limbaugh and his operation chaos had to do with that?

[MicroBalrog]

Maybe.. voted for Obama because he wasn't Hillary that is.

One wonders how much influence that bloviating windbag Limbaugh and his operation chaos had to do with that?

In some states Obama won by a really tiny margin.