Tea Partier: Obama brought back racism, made cops too afraid to shoot blacks

[DonViejo]

By Travis Gettys
Thursday, August 21, 2014 7:35 EDT

A conservative commentator and occasional political candidate said the ongoing unrest in Ferguson, Missouri, demonstrated that President Barack Obama had revived racism.

“It’s like we’re reliving the 1960s with Barack Obama,” said Wayne Allyn Root during a radio appearance Wednesday. “He didn’t come in to help us end the specter of racism, he brought it back, folks.”

Root, a Fox News contributor and the 2008 Libertarian Party vice-presidential nominee, told religious right broadcaster Steve Deace that police had been cowed into submission by Obama, reported Right Wing Watch.

“Is it not a racist overreaction by the police department that is scared to death of being called racist to allow people to loot and burn and do nothing but stand by while stores are being looted and burned because the people doing the looting and burning might have dark skin, and therefore if you hit one of them, if you arrest any of them – if you kill one of them in a gunfight – you’ll be charged with even more racism?” Root argued.

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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/08/21/tea-partier-obama-brought-back-racism-made-cops-too-afraid-to-shoot-blacks/

[d_r]

1. What the conservatives call "racism"

is talking about racial issues or being upset by them.

[woo me with science]

2. Demilitarize the police.

Stoking partisan flames is the last thing we need. The people need to come together to demand an end to these programs that militarize our police, which have been enabled by corporate politicians in both parties.

All these outrageous statements publicized by the corporate MSM are *designed* to inflame and divide us and distract us from doing that.

Stopping police militarization -Focus on the programs and the corporate politics that drive them.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025416709

[riqster]

9. Divide and conquer. Rinse, lather and repeat.

It's how authoritarian regimes operate.

[BaggersRDumb]

3. Till the bitter end you can count on seeing the racists project their racism...

They cant do anything else, they literally dont understand what they are saying, they just say it because they heard someone else say it.

These are people so dumb you wouldnt want them mowing your lawn

[DetlefK]

4. Everybody knows, Obama becoming POTUS eliminated racism. And then that miscreant revived it!

Because there were totally no racist attacks on Obama. The president is a black man! This proves that whites are not racist! The only racists left in America are black racists! You see, Obama secretly hates normal white people, because he's different. He's a foreigner, he's no true american, he's not one of us. He was born in an exotic place like Hawaii, has foreign relatives and even spent time with Muslims as a child! He doesn't love this country like REAL Americans who dodge the draft and refuse to pay taxes.

[Fred Sanders]

5. Racists should just get their own Lilly White nation where they can all live in stupidity forever.

I suggest Western Greenland.

[hobbit709]

7. A low lying Pacific atoll would be better.

[CanonRay]

6. Every now and then the true face of the Tea Party

peeks out from behind the mask, and it is real ugly.

[underpants]

8. Wayne, the uh root of the problem is a cop gunning someone down in the first place

Skipped over that part of it did you? Oh yeah all of Fox News skips over that.

[gollygee]

10. The cops seem very very comfortable killing black people

Before the 1960s, the time he's raging about, it was even worse. Random citizens were free to kill black people and the police turned their backs and ignored it.