Racism In (and Outside) America

Racism In (and Outside) America

Probably the 3 most pathetic news items to hit the wires in the last 24 hours are the desparate efforts of Rep. Maxine Waters and Rep. Charles Rangel to blame their ethical violations on racism and the effort of the family of mass murderer Omar Thornton to do likewise.

They’re pathetic but explicable in the racially-charged atmosphere and race-baiting the Obama administration has created in this country.

Gallup has released its latest poll on the president’s job approval ratings revealing, in a nutshell, that there is a marked racial component in how African-Americans think and function.

Gallup reports that “Obama’s job approval ratings among blacks, whites, and Hispanics in July are all at their lowest levels to date, although the overwhelming majority of blacks still approve.”

Thus, in post-racial America, it seems that quite a few people still operate on a racial plane. Blacks, especially, approve of and will undoubtedly again vote for Obama come 2012 although their approval has slipped to a still robust 88% in July as opposed to the 96% that voted for him just 20 months ago.

Since only 38% of whites now approve of the job Obama has been doing, a 50% difference, something seems awry. Compared with the 2008 tally when Obama garnered 43% of the white vote, that’s a very significant disparity since blacks only comprised 13% of the overall vote and whites 74%: http://tiny.cc/ktxwp

So what do we make of that plethora of numbers? . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1824)