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Author says country bitterly divided by race under Obama
Bookviews ^ | 9/6/2011 | Seth A. Forman

Posted on 09/15/2011 5:35:27 AM PDT by Kim Dylan

Obama’s aggressive agenda for changing the vital structure of American life to reflect the more collectivist, less individualistic creed of the far Left has already triggered “white flight” from the Democratic party.


TOPICS: Books/Literature; Education; Society
KEYWORDS: blacks; obama; race; whites
I read this new review of Seth A. Forman's "American Obsession: Race and Conflict in the Age of Obama." It is highly recommended. You must scroll down a little to view it. I read the book this summer for a college class. It was great. But I hadn't seen any reviews yet. Bookviews I think is the first.
1 posted on 09/15/2011 5:35:33 AM PDT by Kim Dylan
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To: Kim Dylan

And the race baiting and outrageous declarations by the CBC certainly aren’t helping. They sound like lunatics.


2 posted on 09/15/2011 5:37:46 AM PDT by Qwackertoo (New Day In America November 03, 2010)
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To: Kim Dylan

I don’t think race enters into it. He has divided us by normal folk and the stupid. (or elites, either one is interchangeable in my mind.)


3 posted on 09/15/2011 5:38:35 AM PDT by ozark hilljilly (Sanitized for your protection)
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To: ozark hilljilly

“I don’t think race enters into it.”

To me, (and a lot of people I know) race does enter into it. Because of the blind allegiance by blacks to Obama (still up in the 90%). To oppose his policies makes you a racist by default. People are tired of of it.


4 posted on 09/15/2011 5:46:40 AM PDT by bluecollarman (searching .......)
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To: bluecollarman

I reckon it all depends on where you live.


5 posted on 09/15/2011 5:48:06 AM PDT by ozark hilljilly (Sanitized for your protection)
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To: ozark hilljilly

He’s divided us by whatever lines he could. Of course he’s also driven the right and middle together.


6 posted on 09/15/2011 5:52:41 AM PDT by wiggen (The teacher card. When the racism card just won't work.)
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To: Kim Dylan

Bamster seems to care less about the content of one’s character, IMO.


7 posted on 09/15/2011 5:58:47 AM PDT by Jane Long (Soli Deo Gloria!)
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To: ozark hilljilly
I reckon it all depends on where you live.
No, if over 90% of blacks still support Obama, I'd say that pretty much encompasses the entire US.
I still can't get over an entire race of people who are self destructing at light speed, yet still do little more than blame whitey.
Just incredible.
8 posted on 09/15/2011 6:00:59 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: ozark hilljilly
Barack Obama is the stupidest President we have ever had, at least in my observable lifetime. Some will say, no, he knows exactly what he is doing, but rather he is sinister.

But isn't it just plain stupid, to take on the founders of this nation; to take on millions of honest productive Americans who see through him on every histrionic speech; to take on the millions who are vastly more talented than he; to take on the very principles of self responsibility, self honesty, and self reliance which made this country great; to fall for the elitist puppet masters who manipulate him through his ego for their own agenda? Isn't the definition of stupidity when one's Ego dominates one's analytic objectivity? Bill Clinton, also a leftist, was at least smart enough to disguise his intentions, and knew when he was being manipulated.

As a person one can actually feel sorry for Barack Obama, being such a deluded individual (deluded by the puppet masters). As a President he is one of the greatest tragedies, for many many many reasons, in the history of the United States.

But we should all recognize Barack Obama was put there by agents still unfingered.

Johnny Suntrade, the Suntrade Institute

9 posted on 09/15/2011 6:05:34 AM PDT by jnsun (The Left: the need to manipulate others because of nothing productive to offer.)
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To: ozark hilljilly

I was not racist when I was younger. I best friend in high school was black. We were like brothers and did everything together. Once, at a Lynyrd Skynyrd concert, this guy approached my friend and said, ‘You’re black. You’re not suppose to like this music.’ My friend smiled, said ‘Oh’ and kept dancing. We both still laugh at that.

Since zero came to office, I see contempt in black people’s eyes.

Like I said, I used to not be a racist. It’s more about attitude than skin color.

The race card is a very dangerous card to play. Zero and his cronies play it all the time.


10 posted on 09/15/2011 6:05:59 AM PDT by appalachian_dweller (Live each day as if it's your last. It might be.)
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To: Kim Dylan

The only people that care about his race are his supporters and the KKK type remnant. The latter is rare indeed.

And since he is mullato, when he starts crashing and burning his supporters can start calling him white. 8->

After all, everybody knows that Bill Clinton was the first black president.


11 posted on 09/15/2011 6:07:59 AM PDT by cuban leaf (Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
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--Barack Obama is the stupidest President we have ever had, at least in my observable lifetime. Some will say, no, he knows exactly what he is doing, but rather he is sinister.--

I just quoted the above from your post, but I agree with the whole thing to the point that you and I are redundant.

And to sum him up in a single sentence:


12 posted on 09/15/2011 6:11:59 AM PDT by cuban leaf (Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
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To: appalachian_dweller

—The race card is a very dangerous card to play. Zero and his cronies play it all the time.—

They are like the muslims firing their AK-47’s in the air. They forget the bullets come down.


13 posted on 09/15/2011 6:13:20 AM PDT by cuban leaf (Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
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To: Qwackertoo

And the race baiting and outrageous declarations by the CBC certainly aren’t helping. They sound like lunatics.
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They are perfectly sane, For Racists.

They hate white people. They are just as sane as Skinheads.

They are the Klan with a tan. Hoodies have taken the place of sheets,in the black communities, but the hatred is there.It is led by the Congressional Black Caucus, Farrakhan, Reverend Wright, Al Sharptongue and Obama and his wife.


14 posted on 09/15/2011 6:15:39 AM PDT by Venturer
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To: Kim Dylan

Race relations in the United States has been set back by a least a century by CZAR B.O.!


15 posted on 09/15/2011 6:17:44 AM PDT by leprechaun9
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To: Kim Dylan

Bitter divided “by race”?? ROFL!! No, it is bitterly divided by ideology. Recall that he who controls the meaning of words controls the outcome of a debate. It is about the liberal meaning of “black”.

When Nobel Prize winning poet Tony Morrison can write an October 1988 New Yorker article titled “Clinton as the first black president”, then what is “black”? When the NAACP calls the black conservative Kenneth Gladney, “not black enough”, and “not a brother” then what is “black”? When Time magazine’s Jack White calls Supreme Court Justice Thomas, “the scariest of all the hobgoblins”, saying “Washington seems to be filled with white men who make black people uneasy”, than what is “black”? And when Obama, a man whose mother is Caucasian, can tell us in a widely read autobiography that in his youth he struggled with his racial identity before *deciding* to be black, what is “black”?

When Bill Maher, during a panel discussion on HBO complains that Obama’s policies are “half-assed” “because he’s only half black.” and that “if he was fully black, I’m telling you, he would be a better president.”, and that “there’s a white man in him holding him back”, than what is “black”?

CNN’s Soledad O’Brien writes of a private meeting in 2007 with Jesse Jackson in her book, “The Next Big Story.” During the meeting, Jackson complained to O’Brien, whose mother is a black woman from Cuba, that there weren’t any black anchors on CNN. She wrote, “He looks me in the eye and reaches his fingers over to tap a spot of skin on my right hand. He shakes his head. “You don’t count,” he says.” She closed the section with “[t]he arbiter of blackness had weighed in. I had been measured and found wanting.”

“Black” in all these contexts, as well as Juan Williams’s complaint on Fox News that the extraordinarily lopsided expression of Missouri voter sentiment in August of 2010 rejecting ObamaCare was really about race, is clearly not about “race”.

As these expressions of “black” pile up in the mind of the public, more and more will wake up to this truth: with respect to BHO being black: it is not about the racial characteristics he was born with, it is about the socialist ideology he adopted. It is not what percent black he is, it is about how thoroughly red he is.


16 posted on 09/15/2011 6:36:15 AM PDT by theBuckwheat
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To: ozark hilljilly

Race definitely enters into it; always has, since Johnson decided he had the blueprint for ‘the great society’, which, as you can see, ain’t so great. Don’t give credit to O-dumbass for it; he hasn’t accomplished even that.


17 posted on 09/15/2011 6:42:01 AM PDT by arrdon (Never underestimate the stupidity of the American voter.)
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