Huffington Post – Earl Ofari Hutchinson
In quick succession J. Christian Adams, a former Justice Department attorney, strongly implied in his testimony to the Civil Rights Commission that the word came down from on White House high to the Justice Department to dump a voter intimidation case against the New Black Panther Party in Philadelphia. Adams just as strongly implied that the White House put the word out to play hard ball on discrimination cases when the victims are minorities, and soft peddle the same type cases when the victims are white. The conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch quickly announced a lawsuit against the DOJ to hand over documents on the case. Not to be outdone, Rush Limbaugh gassed that Obama hates America (meaning whites) and that he’s deliberately torpedoing the economy to “pay back” the nation for 230 years of racial sins against blacks.
Any other time, and with any other president, this would be treated exactly for what it is, sheer lunacy. But this not any other time, and the president is Obama. The suspicion that always lurks close to the surface is that an African-American, once in a position of power, will turn the tables and “pay back” whites for the decades of slavery, Jim Crow segregation, racial violence, abuse, degradation and exclusion. The two-decade assault on affirmative action firmly implanted the widespread belief that unfit and unqualified minorities — and especially blacks — were hell bent on shoving whites aside and grab all the plum positions. It was reverse discrimination and racism. It was a short step from this to the notion that racism is virtually dead in America, except for the racism of blacks. This set the stage to tag Obama the reverse racist.
The shouts, taunts, spitting, catcalls, Obama “Joker” posters, and Confederate and Texas Lone Star flags waved by tea party activists were not just naked, spasmodic race baiting by unreconstructed bigots. Many passionately believe that Obama is determined to give the company store away to minorities, especially blacks. Every chance he gets he’ll dump more money, devise more programs, and propose favorable legislation that favor blacks and minorities at the expense of whites. An Obama White House will bend, twist, and mangle laws to aid and abet black advancement. No matter how much Obama talks about being president of all the people — no matter how much he downplays race, no matter that he has an impeccable record on broad race-neutral legislation — he’s still a reverse bigot.
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Here is one comment from the above article that I wanted to post:
There are so many incidents of voter intimidation all across the country. Why is the Right-Wing media so focused this one incident? This is just an extension of ACORN and James O’Keefe. Demonize all things African American.
http://www.southernstudies.org/2008/10/voting-rights-watch-voter-intimidation.html
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2008/09/24/53024/election-officials-telling-college.htmle.html
