The fact is that one of our two great political parties has made it clear that it has no interest in making America governable, unless it’s doing the governing. And that party now controls one house of Congress, which means that the country will not, in fact, be governable without that party’s cooperation — cooperation that won’t be forthcoming.
Has anyone ever truly wondered what some folks mean when they say “We want our country back!” Back from whom? Did someone take it when we were all sleeping?
Carlos Dew, who is an author, professor of English literature, and chairman of the Department of English Language and Literature at John Cabot University in Rome, thinks he has the answer. Quoting his white parents who say that with the election of Barack Obama, “Ni**ers… won’t even give up their seats for white women anymore. I don’t know what we’re going to do with ’em.” According to Dew, “Don’t let the virulent hatred of Obama’s presidency – veiled in “policy differences” – fool you. Just ask someone raised around bigotry.”
Dew offers a fascinating and thought provoking discussion of racism veiled as “policy differences” as to why Mr. Obama will continue to run into wall after wall on creating real change in America. Dew reminds us that racism is not dead, that the country has not totally submerged itself into the acceptance of a black man running the “White” House, and that push back against Mr. Obama’s attempts to clean up 8 years of mistakes from the previous administration have more to do with race than perhaps many of us care to admit. Repeated claims of his illegitimacy and consistent calls for him to produce a birth certificate, as one Republican lawmaker in Texas argued for recently on CNN, is just one example of racism in over-drive against President Obama and his attempts to govern.
Here are excepts from his piece, entitled “THE NI**ER SHOW.” The full article can be seen by clicking HERE.
‘The ni**er show.” I first heard this expression used to describe the Obama administration during a visit to my hometown in East Texas during the early summer of 2009.
I understood what the epithet meant: Our minds are made up, the president lacks legitimacy, and there is nothing he can do that we will support. I was not surprised to hear such a phrase.
The veiled racism I sense in the United States today is couched, in public discourse at least, in terms that allow for plausible deniability of racist intent. And those who resist any policy initiative from the Obama administration engage in a scorched-earth policy that reminds me of the self-centered white flight, the abandonment of public schools, and the proliferation of private schools, that followed the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision to desegregate public schools. The very people, like my own rural, working-class family back in East Texas, who stand to gain from the efforts of the Obama administration and the Democratic Congress are, because of their racism, willing to oppose policies that would benefit them the most. Their racism outweighs their own self-interest.
Unfortunately, racists in the United States have learned one valuable lesson since the 1960s: They cannot express their racism directly. In public, they must veil their racial hatred behind policy differences. This obfuscation makes direct confrontation difficult. Anyone pointing out their racist motivations runs the risk of unfairly playing “the race card.” But I know what members of my family mean when they say – as so many said during the town hall meetings in August – that they “want their country back.” They want it back, safely, in the hands of someone like them, a white person. They feel that a black man has no right to be the president of their country.
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