File this one under the category “Stupid liberal tricks.”
It is pulled out all the time, because liberals are people who have no possibility of debating on the level of ideas, and can therefore only demonize and race-bait.
Last year, I responded to the same exact charge from Jimmy Carter the same exact way: “Question For Jimmy Carter: If We Despise Obama Because Of Racism, Why Is It That We Despise YOU?”
But here we go again, another liberal ideologue who assumes that just because she can’t get over her own personal issues of racism, neither can her opponents whom she projects upon:
Because They Can’t Say ‘I Don’t Like Him Cause He’s Black’
By Noel Sheppard | April 24, 2011 | 12:06ABC devoted its entire “This Week” on Easter Sunday to “God and Government,” and not surprisingly the question of President Obama’s faith prominently entered the discussion.
When it did, Cokie Roberts said, “The bad part about this is that it’s acceptable to say that he’s a Muslim because the same people won’t say, ‘I don’t like him cause he’s black'” (video follows with transcript and commentary):
STEVE ROBERTS: The word Muslim is a code word, and it’s a metaphor. It’s a metaphor for racism. It’s a metaphor for he’s different from us, he’s not like us, he’s got this funny name, which he says all the time. And it is – and he’s an alien on some level. But this goes back to our earlier discussion, that there has always been a strain of America that wants to exclude the other. Exclude someone who’s different…
(CROSSTALK)
COKIE ROBERTS: But – but – but the bad part about this…
(CROSSTALK)
ROBERTS, S.: But in the long run, the forces of…
(CROSSTALK)
ROBERTS, C.: Right. But – but…
(CROSSTALK)
RICHARD LAND, SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION: Forty seven percent of white people voted for him.
Actually, it’s 43 percent, but still a spectacular point by Land that most on the panel missed and most in the country ignore. They also forget that shortly after his inauguration, Obama’s favorability rating was around 75 percent. That includes a lot of white people as well.
What the media just can’t get their hands around is that disapproval of Obama today isn’t because he’s black – it’s because of his policies. Or do the 70 percent of the country that now believe the nation is on the wrong track also feel this way because the President is black?
ROBERTS, C.: But – but the bad part about this is that he – that – that it’s acceptable to say that he’s a Muslim…
EBOO PATEL, INTERFAITH YOUTH CORE: That’s right.
ROBERTS, C.: …because the same people won’t – won’t say, “I don’t like him cause he’s black.” So it’s – it’s – and – and the fact that it’s acceptable to dislike him because he’s a Muslim is the problem that you were talking about.
Calling Americans racist, despite there being an African-American in the White House, is acceptable on Easter Sunday.
I doubt I’m the only one that felt this was highly inappropriate on such a holy day.
So why is it that I think you’re a total disgrace, Cokie? I mean, you’re white and everything. Why is it, based on your racist theories, that I think that an obviously quite-caucasian-person like you is utterly morally depraved???
in 1995, Obama said, “my individual salvation is not going to come about without a collective salvation for the country …” and again in May of 2008, “our individual salvation depends of collective salvation.”
Then Jesus said to His disciples, “If any one (individual) wishes to come after Me, he (individual) must deny himself (individual), and take up his (individual) cross and follow Me. For whoever wishes to save his (individual) life will lose it; but whoever loses his (individual) life for My sake will find it.
For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one (individual) may be recompensed for his (individual) deeds in the body, according to what he (individual) has done, whether good or bad.
So then each one of us (individual) will give an account of himself (individual) to God.
“I (individual) have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I (individual) who live, but Christ lives in me (individual); and the life which I (individual) now live in the flesh I (individual) live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me (individual), and delibered Himself up for me (individual).”
“Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If any one (individual) hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him (individual) and will dine with him (individual), and he (individual) with Me.”
OBAMA: And what was the first thing the McCain?s campaign went out and did? They said, look, these liberal blogs that support Obama are out there attacking Governor Palin.
Let’s not play games. What I was suggesting — you’re absolutely right that John McCain has not talked about my Muslim faith. And you’re absolutely right that that has not come–
STEPHANOPOULOS: Christian faith.
OBAMA: — my Christian faith.
Barack Obama released statements for the Muslims holidays of Ramadan, Eid-ul-Fitr, the Hajj, and Eid-ul-Adha last year. Just last month he released a statement for the Persian Nowruz holiday
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October 11, 2011 at 4:29 am
I HATE IT BECAUSE ITS A NIGGER, not because its BLACK, that obama animal thing
October 11, 2011 at 11:21 am
I’m not addressing “Justin”; he frankly isn’t worth addressing. I’m addressing anybody who reads this and sees this hateful, despicable commen of hist.
And yes, I get the word-play in the name.
My first thought was to delete this comment and then block “Justin,” who seriously ought to be calling himself “Justaf Ool.”
There is a time and place for everything, including deleting hate speech. But there is also a time to look at it and preserve it. To denounce it on the one hand, but also to show that it exists. There are people out there who are simply evil.
Racism is evil, that’s the only way to put it. The Bible teaches that God created man in His own image. The part of us that every single human being has that is in the imago Dei is the immaterial soul, NOT our skin color. And racism is wicked and depraved on two separate fronts: 1) we reduce human beings to our lowest animal components; and 2) we single people out for hate and exclude them based on the most ridiculous of traits. Hating a black person because he or she is black is every single bit as stupid as hating me because my hair is brown.
It’s easy to quote Dr. Martin Luther King’s most famous line because he expressed the truth so perfectly:
It is what we ALL are in our essence (human, created in the imago Dei) and it is what we are in our character that ALONE should serve as the basis for our evaluation of other people REGARDLESS of any other trait or racial characteristic.
I blocked “Justin.” I hope to never see his vile and petty hatred again.
I actually personally apologize to anyone who thinks I should have deleted this comment and not allowed it to see the light of day, because I understand where you’re coming from. My view was to face it, denounce it and utterly reject it as evil.
But I wanted to let “Justin” reveal himself in order to denounce him and say, “Shame on you” to him.
October 21, 2015 at 4:12 am
I don’t know that the “Justin” is all about hatred. I think he is just a weird guy that thinks he is funny and wants to put a smirch on your page.
October 24, 2015 at 11:42 am
dog walker,
Well, okay, you could be right. But either he’s a racist hater or he’s a leftist tool trying to plant deceitful garbage in an attempt to slander conservatives.
I guess either way he still qualifies as a “hater” to me.
Me, I just want the TRUTH. Which is why I’m usually so frustrated in this age of lies and deception pouring out of one political side like never before in all of human history.
October 24, 2015 at 1:04 pm
uh, yeah, agreed.