Comments on: Jimmy Carter & Racism Without Racists

By: tyrone321

tyrone321 — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 04:23:50 +0000

Former President Carter spoke the truth and he was talking about SOME white a very few! But the white control media loves to report on hate and devide! It is know way that all America does not see the racist white idiot carrying signs of hate. Calling President Obama a racist and Hitler! Glen Beck is not denouce by no republican for calling the President a racist. Where is the white leadership?

By: Leonidas

Leonidas — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 18:08:39 +0000

Anyhow the White House has spoken

But at the White House, the official line is: Race issue? What race issue?

"I'm not sure I see this large national conversation going on right now," White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said Wednesday. He said Obama "does not believe that that criticism comes based on the color of his skin," attributing it instead to honest policy disagreements.

Good for the President for not falling into the race baiting practice of his supporters. I wish he would have condemned such practices more strongly, but still I applaud his statement.

By: Leonidas

Leonidas — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 17:03:57 +0000

One reason why you have more talk about racism in the south can be easily explained, in most of the nation blacks make up 1% or less of the population. Racism can remain very hidden under those circumstances.

http://www.census.gov/geo/www/mapGallery/images...

For Hispanics its much the same but centered in the Southwest
http://www.census.gov/geo/www/mapGallery/images...

If your from an area thats 99% lily white, you likely wont see many examples of racist behavior locally. Doesn't mean there aren't racist there though.

By: vey9

vey9 — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:23:37 +0000

I saw racism in the North and the South when I was a teenager and a young adult. The difference was that in the North, they hid it a lot better. In the South, it was right out there and you knew you were talking to a racist pretty quickly. Some of my fellow high school kids used to go out on "coon hunts."

In the North, it took a while, but once you were a person that could be trusted, then they would tell you in not so many words.

Since then, more people have moved south and racism isn't allowed as it wasn't allowed in the North, but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

Those old folks on Medicare, when they were young adults, racism was normal and Jim Crow laws existed even in NYC, so they can't change very easily, they just know that it isn't polite to say much about it. Listening to them now, they love the Drudge Report and Rush Limbaugh. They want to cheer when they hear "the magic negro" song. And they will tell you that Obama is a muslim.

But the old folks know that they have to say it's because they hate government (even though they owe their lives and fortunes to it) although they loved it when Part D was passed. They sure didn't hate government then.

By: DLS

DLS — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 12:54:58 +0000

Decent people always have objected to the bogus racism charges.

Carter has occasionally made a joke of himself, and this was another occasion.

At least he didn't say "apartheid" as he has with the Israelis. Old age and neglect?

By: Father_Time

Father_Time — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 12:04:45 +0000

--[if we put the defendant in a backroom and had the defendant answer all questions by email that the gap between black and white defendants, the sentences and conviction rates would shrink]--

Then the gap between the spell checkers and the non-spell checkers would grow. You'd be back to square one.

By: pacatrue

pacatrue — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 08:16:59 +0000

It's been really hard to know what to say about racism and the reaction to Obama. There is indeed some racism out there driving some of this. Perusing the open boards of a site like Yahoo reveals rampant racism. A friend of mine recently made a comment in support of health reform on her Facebook page and someone else responded that she didn't mind some of the reforms, but not if “Shaniqua and her 6 kids…” blah blah blah, pulling out every stereotype of the black welfare queen. But of course not everyone opposed to various measures is racist, by any stretch of the imagination. And, while some of the visceral hatred shown towards Obama is because of race, it's also in part because of an entire media industry whose sole purpose is to instill hatred and disdain of those deemed liberal that has grown stronger and stronger over the last two decades.

So how do you point out the real racism driving some people without maligning and offending the people who simply disagree? No idea.

By: kritt11

kritt11 — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 06:43:19 +0000

There is some racism- and just some plain old boorish behavior behind the support for Wilson. Its no coincidence that the GOP is now a regional party – a Southern stronghold. Not all Southerners are racist, but some definitely are. The South has always lagged behind the rest of the country in racial equality.
Carter is a Georgia native and grew up around Southern racists, so he's probably oversensitive to it.

By: redbus

redbus — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 06:34:27 +0000

The cynical side of me thinks that Rahm Emmanuel called the former President and asked him to play the race card. As I've said before, I believe there are plenty of racist folks out there, so Carter's words are far from false. After all, 48% of the country didn't vote for President Obama, and some of those certainly didn't because they didn't want any black person in the Big Chair. The problem is Carter's analysis is myopic, but when all you have is hammer, everything looks like a nail.

By: Leonidas

Leonidas — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 06:28:52 +0000

http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/9225/2jhde82...

http://cdn0.knowyourmeme.com/i/6512/original/Do...

By: imavettoo

imavettoo — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 05:01:37 +0000

Not racist? Bullshit! These knuckle-dragging wingers act & talk total racism, get called on it & then say “I know you are but what am I”. I don't dislike you because you're white (I am white) I dislike the racist person that you prove yourself to be.

By: mw

mw — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 04:51:32 +0000

I don't know how anyone can deny that opposition to Obama is based in racism. It's all in the definition.

Here are the facts. Racism has been rising steadily over the last few months. In recent polls, President Obama's favorability rating has dropped from 70% to 50%. This means the percentage of racists in this country has risen from 30% to 50% - a 67% increase in only eight months! Even more alarming, close to one out of two Americans are now racist. We have reached a tipping point. If this trend continues, the racists will soon be in a majority. Now, more than ever, we need the pundits, ex-presidents, and sages of the mainstream media to speak out. We need to beat back the scourge of racism before - you know - the next election.

By: riverrat

riverrat — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 04:36:41 +0000

While I have no doubt that Jimmy Carter is right in what he says, the fact is that all he did was open up a can or worms the Obama administration is now going to have to deal with again. They dealt with it during the campaign, and now it's back. Something tells me the White House is throwing darts at pictures of Jimmy Carter tonight!!!