Racism plays major role in opposition to Obama
Posted on 16. Sep, 2009 by Shera Crossan in Audio-Video, Commentary, Events, Feedback, Opinion, Politics, Race
. . . former President Jimmy Carter repeated his assertion from a day earlier that he believes racism is an issue for President Obama in trying to lead the country.
“When a radical fringe element of demonstrators and others begin to attack the president of the United States as an animal or as a reincarnation of Adolf Hitler or when they wave signs in the air that said we should have buried Obama with Kennedy, those kinds of things are beyond the bounds,” Carter told an audience of students at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.
“I think people who are guilty of that kind of personal attack against Obama have been influenced to a major degree by a belief that he should not be president because he happens to be African American.
“It’s a racist attitude and my hope is and my expectation is that in the future both Democratic leaders and Republican leaders will take the initiative in condemning that kind of unprecedented attack on the president of the United States.”
Carter’s comments came during his 28th annual town hall meeting at the school, where he has been a professor since 1982.
Michael Steele, who is the first African-American to chair the Republican National Committee, denied Wednesday that race is fueling protests.
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“President Carter is flat-out wrong,” Steele said in a statement. “This isn’t about race. It is about policy.”
Carter’s comments follow up similar statements he made Tuesday when he said racial politics played a role in South Carolina Rep. Joe Wilson’s outburst during Obama’s speech to Congress last week .MORE
Jimmy (Peanut-fucker) Carter just needs to shut his crusty chili-hole.
once again jimmy carter has proven that hes nothing but a bumbling old coot
Carter is pre-internet in training and culture and probably finds the new free-for-all atmosphere very troubling.
Get used to it, Jimmy. It ain’t going away.
Maybe a lot of Whites who put Obama into office woke up and got their heads out of their arses meaning that realism struck home?
Don’t miss the fact of the RNC chairman’s race. Both parties pander and grovel. They are both fighting to be the first one to successfully throw our heritage under the bus and elect a new citizenry.
@Jan III
America’s dirty little secret is the malicious removal of minor parties from the ballot.
If you cannot vote for the “Flat Earth Party” with the same ease and convenience as you can for the democrats or republicans, then that election is rigged. It’s a sham. It only LOOKS like an election, if you don’t look too hard.
Carter is still a F——Moron. First of all it was White America that put super slave in the black house. Second of all, where was Carter when all the racist things came about regtarding Obongo and his associates, for example: The typical white person comment Obongo made and his relationship with Jeremiah Wright and having attended a church where they knowing allowed the black panthers to meet in the basement what about his supreme court pick Sotomayor’s comment about being a wise latina—-how she can reach a decision better than a white male and then Van Jones’ affiliation with the new black panthers and white cop killer Abu Jamal Mumia. Where the F—- was Carter for all this? None of this is racist? All racism started with Rep. Wilson? Carter needs to shut the F— up and go back to growing peanuts, assuming he can do that right.
Jimmy was applauded by me when he declaired that Israel was a racist aparteid state. It took guts to speak that truth.
Now he seems to have regressed with this latest episode. Shame.
Didn’t Jimmy Carter die a decade or so ago?
I agree with Vilnius. I started to like Carter when he was calling a spade a spade. Even Obama says that race was’nt a factor. I am so sick of our own people having to grovel and apologize for everything.
@a244
As always you are spot on. The mass of people who marched on DC, I was one, are not as Republican as you think. I spoke to many and educated a few. They knew the facts but didn’t put them into context. There maybe hope for this nation. Time is running out, fast.