British "Guardian" : Jimmy Carter was right. 'Post-racial' America is still a forlorn hope - This is self evident - You can not hide the Sun

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British "Guardian" : Jimmy Carter was right. 'Post-racial' America is still a forlorn hope - This is self evident - You can not hide the Sun

British "Guardian"
The Observer
Jimmy Carter was right. 'Post-racial' America is still a forlorn hope
The former president has caused outrage by claiming that many Americans do not want a black president. Sadly, he spoke the truth
Keith Richburg
September 20, 2009

Jimmy Carter was right. 'Post-racial' America is still a forlorn hope

Some excerpts :

Jimmy Carter has always been one to speak bluntly – irritatingly so, to some of his critics. Even at 84, the former president continues to show his willingness to raise the most indelicate topics, often at the most inopportune time. This time, the topic is race and, more specifically, the racism that underlies some of the ugliest, most vociferous criticism of President Obama.

"I think people that are guilty of that kind of personal attack against Obama have been influenced to a major degree by the belief that he should not be president because he happens to be African-American," Carter said.

Carter's remarks were like throwing a dead cat into the middle of the dinner table. Obama in interviews broadcast today says race is not a factor, while other democrats disavowed the former president. Republicans cried foul. But perhaps most disturbing in all this is that it looks like Carter is right.

Ten months after Americans poured into the streets to celebrate the historic election of the first black president, the racists, white supremacists and old-school segregationists are feeling emboldened. As Obama's poll numbers have fallen from stratospheric highs, and as criticism has grown over his health reform plan and economic policies, so, too, have the bigots felt more comfortable coming out of the woods.
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One did not have to look too hard at the 12 September anti-Obama rally in Washington – an overwhelmingly white, largely rural crowd – to see the sea of Confederate flags, a symbol of "heritage" to some southern whites and a symbol of racist oppression to blacks. Or the racially laden signs, such as "The zoo has an African lion – the White House has a lyin' African." Others held signs that demanded Obama be sent "back to Kenya".
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