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A Post-Racial President …
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Race; Posted on: 2010-02-16 19:03:50 [ Printer friendly / Instant flyer ]
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… or a man with an agenda?
Ever since he caught the nation’s eye, Barack Obama has been careful not
to be too black. At the risk of alienating the pushier segment of his
natural constituency, he has tried to cultivate a “post-racial” image
that does not scare off too many whites. It was a balancing act that
worked well during the presidential election campaign, and culminated
in an almost Second Coming-like atmosphere for the inauguration.
However, after a year in office, Mr. Obama’s post-racial pose is
wearing thin. Both his actions and his appointments reveal a leftist
and implicitly racial agenda that is awakening whites to the fact that
he does not stand for them. If he does not shore up his rapidly
crumbling white support — and it is not clear how he could do that
without repudiating much of his record so far — 2012 could be the end
of the road for Barack Obama.
Shortly before his death in February 2005, frequent American Renaissance contributor Sam Francis predicted Mr. Obama’s ascension to the presidency and explained the dangers of his post-racial façade:
“Moreover, while openly racial candidates like Mr. Sharpton or Jesse
Jackson helped instigate white racial consciousness — if they can be
black, why can’t whites be white? — Mr. Obama works against it: If he’s
neither white nor black, why should you be white? Mr. Obama, in other
words, is both a living testament to the power of black racial
consciousness and identity and at the very same time a living
renunciation of white racial identity.”
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