Obama openly admits to making a mistake and tries to rectify it by bridging the race divide and you crucify him for it. Classic. "And because this has been ratcheting up -- and I obviously helped to contribute ratcheting it up -- 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. And I told this to Sergeant Crowley." Of course, you also ignore his other attempts to keep this topic from boiling over.
I didn't "crucify him" for it. The fact is he blew up what should have been a non-issue into a national debate on race. That he apologized for it and admits to doing it doesn't erase the fact that he did fan the flames of racial tension. The only reason this topic "boiled over" is because the President accused the white police officer of "acting stupidly" and then gave a rather lengthy rant on race, the police, and profiling. All this during a prime-time press conference. It's akin to an arsonist running back to a house he set on fire with a pail of water. I'm not crucifying him at all. I am pointing out how Obama contributed to racial tensions, a point that even Obama seems willing to concede.
You know Obama was not the first black man to run for president. Both parties have had black men campaign for the presidency. I doubt it was his race alone that got him elected.
Just because racists are now encouraged to openly express their irrationally hateful, ignorant, un-American bad manners at Repugnant political rallies organized and funded by the very corporations who are bleeding them to death, you blame the President?
I lived in rural North Carolina this summer and the racism there is in your face. I remember one older lady at my work complaining about how black people ruined people's lawns by marching through them in civil rights parades. Another coworker loved to tell this joke that Obama is dark skinned because he's so full of shit. On inauguration day the mood in the office was somber, people complained that Obama was a Muslim and the only reason he got elected was because he's black and speaks well. There weren't any African Americans in that office...
I don't see color being an issue here. I see an entire busload of cowards who hopefully will someday feel shame for their inaction/actions. I assume the driver is now unemployed.
here, here. I feel bad for that kid. Think we ought to take up a fund for counseling for him. He is going to need it.
Correct me if I'm wrong, I may be thinking of an entirely different incident, but I think I read somewhere that the reason the first attacker wouldn't let the kid sit next to him is because he was white...
I notice there are other white kids on that bus in the middle of black kids? maybe they were invisible?
