and it's all because a BLACK MAN IS PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES...

[a kennedy]

it's killing them.....it's killing them, they can't handle that, and it's all coming to the top.....JMHO

[butterfly77]

1. That's when they got..

bolder with it many,tried to tell us over and over again "Its not racism" but many of us know it when we see it.

[spanone]

2. agreed. it has ripped the scab off of our racism...unleashed the crazy.

[seabeyond]

4. Kinda disagree. I feel bushco did the rippin' and made racism ok. I started

Hearing it outloud and the comment that they are allowed to say out loud.... Ya, the pc'ers had stopped them all those years.

[Tumbulu]

32. Very good point- but I think that it began before Bush...

I blame Rush for starting it. Laid the foundation for it to be OK to attack women and anyone for that matter. In W Bush's term it did become normalized......and now it is a festering outrage.

Just my opinion.

[mountain grammy]

34. I think all that racism was suppressed but waiting on the fringe..

Once we elected a black man to the presidency, all racism was declared dead. It's like the election of Barrack Obama gave the racists permission to be ranting, raging assholes, because, see, we have a black president, so everything is magically equal.

[12AngryBorneoWildmen]

59. I think Reagan restarted the embers with his presidential launch speech and the choice of location..

in Philadelphia, Mississippi.

[kelliekat44]

63. No, Ronnie started it all. As well as the right to be greedy and avoid taxes. Raygun, Raygun!!! n

[Pinkflamingo]

3. I agree. They've worked hard to sabotage him, even though we all suffer.

[madokie]

5. You got that right

I seen it for what it is a long time ago, in fact shortly after the first election I could see it was all the color of his skin, not what was in his heart

[hopemountain]

50. or even that he HAS a heart nt

[Freddie]

6. It unleashed their inner batshit craziness

That's what "I want my country back" really means. Back where it belongs, in the hands of white men.

[Mira]

7. I'm actually quite shocked

to agree with you so thoroughly and have to agree this is true STILL.
My background: I'm a European immigrant in this country since Nixon/McGovern, and did not grow up with black people around me. I was a very young girl, and folks in this town tried to teach me about racist attitudes after I arrived on a coal freighter and settled in.
I have lived in the South, a very long time.

I don't much realize color after I know a person and when it comes to President Obama that is true as well. There was for instance once a quick moment when he had a press conference, and as he bounded into the press room my quick impression was: Damn, has he been on vacation? That's a hell of a tan.

I honestly thought that the familiarity of getting to know a black President will breed something like that in the hearts of folks. That seeing color first, and keeping up being prejudiced will lessen in this country.

It distresses me that I see little evidence of progress around me.

[Al Carroll]

8. 50/50

I'd say about half are racists. The other half don't mind working for, making excuses for, and seeking the votes of, racists.

[951-Riverside]

9. Yup.

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Sadly this guy didnt get the memo.

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[madashelltoo]

20. He got the memo

His dumb ass thinks he's that color because he's been out in the sun too long. It's not a lot you can communicate to people like this guy, Clarence Thomas, Allen West and Mr. 9 9 9. Dumb asses one and all.

[Paladin]

10. Agreed. (nt)

[HipChick]

11. I disagree...

It's always been there...they just feel bolder..

[mountain grammy]

12. It's the honest, 100% truth..

how else can they hate their own ideas as soon as Obama says he agrees. We agree and disagree on policies with the president, but the haters hate EVERYTHING he does.. everything! There is no way to have a conversation with people who say, I hate to see him, I hate to hear him, etc. etc. Like George Clooney, you just say "fuck you" and leave.

[Louisiana1976]

27. Well said.

[kardonb]

13. because...

EXACTLY ! a kennedy , May it choke them forever .

[arely staircase]

14. yep

I live in the deepest red part of a red but changing state. There are a lot of people who can't come out and say it but hate the president because he is black.

[mstinamotorcity2]

15. Oh it Started with Ronald Reagan and the

Dick Army Crew!!!!! They have just been more embolden since the Minority Leader of the Senate said that they would deny this President any Governance!! They were going to say no to everything!! He would be a one term President!! He has never been our President to Mitch McConnell, he has always been "This President" to him and most Republicans!!!

[Louisiana1976]

29. +1 million

[Spitfire of ATJ]

16. Wait until a woman is in power....

You will see assaults on women increase.

[Enthusiast]

18. I suspect you're correct.

They will lose their little bigoted minds.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

28. Now watch, the MSM will present it lightheartedly like Bobby Riggs Vs. Billie Jean King...

...as the newsrooms nationally are flooded with reports of murder.

[47of74]

35. And just wait until it's a non white woman

The liquid shit will really hit the fan then.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

40. What's funny is when a Right Winger says, "Hillary will NEVER be President."...

You say, "Why not?"

They say, "Benghazi."

(insert laugh track here)

[uponit7771]

53. +1

[Enthusiast]

17. They lost their fucking racist minds because a black man was elected president.

It's pretty simple.

[madashelltoo]

22. Never thought it would happen!

When it happened again . . . the loons could not be restrained. They will not be silenced.

[Enthusiast]

24. I have been around some of these nutters.

Everything is based on race. Some of them consider the election of a black president as a direct and personal insult. It's hard to wrap your mind around that sort of thinking.

[madashelltoo]

25. Don't try!

You'll blow a fuse in your own mind. Not worth it.

[MFM008]

19. exactly

thats what it all boils down to.

[Bobbie Jo]

21. Yep

It's coming to the top.....everywhere.

[LuckyLib]

23. When PBO was first elected, And the crazies started in, I

said to my SO "what the hell is going on?" His response: "there's a 'Negro' in the White House." Yes, indeed. The shit hit the fan!

[Grassy Knoll]

26. Here's a book June, 2010......

[Louisiana1976]

30. Excellent post. K&R

[sheshe2]

31. It has been here all along yet,

it has escalated since Obama became a real contender for President. It went nuclear after he won.

They are emboldened!

[RedRoses323]

42. Yes...

[Jamaal510]

33. I blame Obama

for the U.S. no longer having two sane major parties anymore. Goddamnit, Obama...you just had to run for President and win...you couldn't just be happy as a Senator. Why??

Seriously, his Presidency opened up a can of worms on the other side. Don't get me wrong--the GOP was also pretty messed up back in the day under Nixon, and then became more shady as the years passed under Reagan and both Bushes, but what we have today is a whole new level of Chickenshittery. They no longer even support policies that were once bipartisan, like health care, education, and infrastructure! Gun sales rose drastically under his presidency, and so have so-called "patriot" and "militia" groups in the U.S. There has been a record number of filibusters.
It's no secret: the RW is fuming that "their" country was taken away from them by the (Black) Democrat in the Oval Office.

[Rod Beauvex]

36. I cannot believe that it took this long for this thread to be made.

Our next president should be a half black / half Hispanic woman. I would vote for her, if only to just see how bat shit crazy the right wingers go.

[snowjob]

38. Here you go....

May I suggest Donna Brazile. Heads explode.

[snappyturtle]

37. NO...he's an eloquent, intelligent Democrat and they can't stand it!

[Puzzledtraveller]

39. isnt that guy a democrat?

[uponit7771]

54. if you're talking about sterling then no... life long reThug

[stone space]

41. It does seem that way, doesn't it? (nt)

[mmonk]

43. It's been obvious all along to thinking people.

[Enrique]

44. Ruby Ridge, Waco, Oklahoma City

the militia movement of the 1990's.

There's a lot of RW nuttiness out there, but I don't think we are at a peak now. I remember a period where it was more "at the top", and the presidents were white then.

[stonecutter357]

45. Obama 2016!

[WHEN CRABS ROAR]

46. Most of these racists have been racists for most of their lives

and they are not going to change their beliefs and a lot of them have also been right wingers for a long period of time, making it nearly impossible to change their ideas.
We need to change their children.

[rustydog]

47. And "they" believed simply making Steele head of the GOP would make their negro

counteract the Democrats negro. Then they picked Sarah Plain and Stupid as a counter to Hillary.....Jesus, the GOP is so obvious in their distaste for minority Americans it stuns me.
All they think they have to do is put a house-negro on TV to show they like colored-people too! Embrace Ted Cruz and now the Mexicans will vote GOP for generations!!!!

[TrollBuster9090]

48. That became obvious to me in early 2009, when the White House YOUTUBE channel posted a video

of the Obama's giving a new PUPPY to his girls. (Remember that?) I watched this lovely video of the Obama's, with their girls, playing with their new puppy.

I scrolled down the comments section, and saw a comment saying "Huh, all I see is some apes playing with a dog."

I scrolled down a few more and saw "I'd love to see this image through the scope of my hunting rifle."

I kept scrolling, and about every fifth comment was like that.

The fact that Obama hadn't even DONE anything yet (except buy a PUPPY for his two little girls) demonstrated that this seething resentment, which I'd never seen directed at ANY president before, had nothing to do with POLICY. I knew at that moment that we were in for a hell of a wild ride, with racists and xenophobes coming out of the woodwork, and RATIONALIZING their hatred for a black man in the White House with whatever political propaganda gimmick they'd be offered by the other side. Which is exactly what's happened. The Obama Presidency started out with a large group of people harboring a visceral, seething hatred for the President, based on what he IS, not what he's done; and the GOP has simply offered them a thin veneer of faux political reasons to hate him ('big government', executive orders, Fast & Frivolous, Benghaaaaazi, the 'constitooshin' says he's illegitimate etc.).

[Ccarmona]

56. Exactly

Just check out the comments on any news story about the President on Yahoo, and all you read in the comments is vile and racist hatred. The reason it continues is obvious, the lack of any Right Wing "leader" speaking out against this rhetoric, instead they condone this continued attack and the dumbing down of the population.
The right wing media is also complicit in fanning the flames of hatred and racism, and it never pays any consequence for this.

[Beacool]

49. Yes, but I doubt that they would have had a meltdown if he had been a Republican.

The Clintons are lily white and they tried to throw him out of office over lying about oral sex.

They just can't handle that a Democrat won the WH, and the last two won two terms. So they have to demonize them. If Hillary becomes president, she'll get it in spades too.

They are sick people.

[unblock]

51. not *all* because *he* is black. they see the entire democratic party as the party of blacks

and in other contexts, women, homosexuals, atheists, other minorities, you get the idea.

at this point, a white male straight christian democrat probably wouldn't be treated much better than obama. i mean, their treatment of bill clinton hardly showed any respect at all for the office of the presidency, and republicans have gotten much worse since then.

[Nye Bevan]

52. So how do you explain Marge Schott? (nt)

[nomorenomore08]

64. What does Schott have to do with anything? I always thought she - racism and possible Nazi

sympathies aside - was mostly apolitical?

[Kablooie]

55. The racism yes but not all the hatred.

Certainly the racism exacerbates the hatred but remember when Clinton was president the hatred was pretty thick then too. Conservatives seem to have hatred as part of their soul.

[treestar]

57. I agree

I was teasing a couple of right wingers that Hillary would be next and I really think they would be able to handle a woman president better if she is white. Of course they will call it Bill's third term. But I really think they can handle that better. Because at least she is white.

[Gothmog]

58. The GOP and Fox News rely on Racism

[bobGandolf]

60. True, true, true....

no doubt in my mind.

The nasty behavior of belittling others, like welfare moms(many being black), and hiding behind patriotism started well before, with Reagan. Clinton's term saw rise to the nasty lies, and and the removal of respect for the presidency. Bush refined it all. The open election became a blatant attack on Obama, and many didn't hide their racism.

[Wash. state Desk Jet]

61. I saw this train in passing just the other day.

Pulled up to the train crossing and stopped of course than put it park. At first glance I said to myself ,this is going to be a long one. I thought about that and I said to myself ,if I were to board that train and that train is life and times ,where would I be on that train.

Would I be at the head of that train ,would I be somewhere in the middle, close to the end or running up to the caboose at the tail end of the last chance.

I wouldn't be at the car just ahead of the caboose looking back at the stragglers saying, I might be late to come but not as late as those people back there at the end .

Actually there is no end because no matter how long it takes them to get on board ,they will always be welcomed.

Because change is about everybody ,and fifty percent of everybody isn't ever good enough.

And I think that's what it's all about.

[lame54]

62. Forget Hillary - let's run Samuel L. Jackson...

Enough is ENOUGH! I have had it with these motherfuckin' Republicans in this motherfuckin' Congress!

[TheFrenchRazor]

65. please. does your memory not extend to the clinton era? they IMPEACHED him over a blowjob.

there is nothing new just because a black male is in the whit house.

[anAustralianobserver]

66. But they hated past Democrats mainly(?) because they were "minority- or foreigner-lovers".

(Fear of women was the other factor.)

[standingtall]

67. Republican hate when Democrats are President

Even worse when the President is black on top of that. One thing about racist is they hate being called racist. I remember talking to republicans in the 2008 election, and they were complaining that if they didn't vote for Obama people would call them racist. I hardly remember anyone if anyone at the time saying vote for Obama or your a racist. With the election of Obama I believe to them it was the affirmation that the majority of America believed the Republican parties policy were harmful to minorities. So they flipped out, and instead of being subtle about their racism. They are now blatant about it.

[northoftheborder]

68. They wouldn't be able to handle a woman president either. could be just as nasty.

Remember how they degraded Hillary during Bill's terms, and she wasn't even an office holder. I really think the blatant racism is worse now than ever, even though it has been under the radar a lot of the time during the last twenty years.