No one EVER spoke about Bush's wife in the manner that Michelle Obama has been spoken about. EVER.
that's right. Hillary Clinton & even an adolescent Chelsea were dogged out during Bill's first four years of president but NOTHING on the scope of what's being said about Michelle Obama & the children. NOTHING. Laura Bush was NEVER spoken of in this way. She was seen as educated (she's got a degree & was a teacher) & a SAINT for being so longsuffering & married to that MORON Bush. You NEVER saw shit about her in the media & the coverage on her DAUGHTERS? well they put themselves out there being the drunk party girls they were. The obama kids are barely adolescents & yet their being called MONKEYS & calls for their assassination!? wtf?
No one ever spoke about killing Bush or took guns to his speeches.
anybody who showed up @ bush's speeches even wearing a SHIRT or carrying a SIGN of protest was confronted by secret service & REMOVED. remember when he had those 7 librairians removed? & they werent doing anything but sitting there in SILENT protest! meanwhile, Palin & Beck ENCOURAGED ppl to "get their guns out of the closet, clean them & load them & take them to Obama speeches!"
Most white supremacist sites crashed the day after Obama was elected due to people inquiring about joining.
the FBI & US justice department reported in 2009 & 200% SPIKE in white supremecist activity in the form of websites crashing, membership of white supremecist militias swelling etc & it was prooven to be a direct result of Obama winning the election!
I have no issue with people not believing as he does or not liking the job he has done. But the monkey pics and the pimp speech and calling Michelle Obama his "baby mama" is bullshit, and RACIST.
like i said, you've ALL seen me take issue w/ several of his policies & descisions but that's a FAR cry from what MANY ppl (who almost ALWAYS are republican & are led by the example set by the republican/tea party controlled CONGRESS ) are doing/saying.
We cannot get past race in this country because there are a LOT of racist people. People talk about the 60s like it ended there. It did not. You don't change hearts in a decade. And the children of segregation among whites make up the ruling class of this country today. Those 50 -75 year olds that voted in lower numbers for Obama than anyone and then became the Tea Party and the Birthers.
it goes WAY further back than that. even after slavery was abolished (& that was for a war strategy move & NOT for the specific purpose of "doing RIGHT" as many ppl would like to believe) Jim Crow & more things existed b/c it was felt by many ppl that "negroes" simply were inferior & should not be treated as anything BUT. if they couldnt be OWNED as property than they should be rendered outcasts w/ no rights & if that didnt work...then KILL them.
Racism is alive & well & there's no "getting past it" until EVERYONE gets real about it & acknowledges the history & seeks to do things differently in the present & future.
