Good freaking god, the president is not a "divisive figure." He has been made into a divisive figure

[kpete]

ON WEARINESS
By Charles P. Pierce on August 19, 2014

Good freaking god, the president is not a "divisive figure." He has been made into a divisive figure. He and his people have to know that by now. The harder he preached his message of conciliation, the more his enemies made a figure of division out of him. The more people seemed to be buying that message, the harder its opponents worked to frame the message as, at best, camouflage for the president's "real agenda," and the harder they then worked to frame anything he did for African American citizens as "reparations." No matter how often he spoke about personal responsibility, the louder were the complaints about "Obamaphones." He placed himself in a kind of box because his rhetoric about racial reconciliation and one America failed to take into account the political utility of entrenched racism. Hell, everybody believes we've "gotten beyond" our racial problems in this country. Even the people rigging state election laws, or cheering on radicalized police forces, believe that. However, racism is still politically powerful and, therefore, politically useful. It is not a demographic fluke that 66 percent of the people in Ferguson are African American, but that only three of the cops are. That ratio is the result of deliberate political decisions, deliberately made, in which entrenched racism was politically useful to the people making them. That is what the president never really acknowledged, that was the poison in the apple. That's why he can't speak out the way he should speak out. No wonder he looks tired.

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[handmade34]

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"He has been made into a divisive figure"

...and on top of everything else the Black Community has to endure... it is the complete disrespect people show out President (primarily because of his color: directly and indirectly)