Insightful piece on the reluctance of blue collar, southern poorer white’s Democrat’s acceptance of the nation’s first black ( mixed actually) Democratic President…..
( We KNOW about the OTHER party’s feelings )
The phenomena has been a taboo in the media ….
(You will NOT much about it mentioned)
But IS still there…
While the piece points out that the respondents to questions on the subject give OTHER reason’s why they aren’t for President Barack H. Obama….
The underlining reason is always just below the surface ….
And the nation’s first black President …Isn’t such a big deal to most anymore….
Most….
Not ALL…
“He’s everything they hate,” she said, referring to ultraconservatives. “An affirmative-action baby. Got the Nobel Prize without deserving it.”
Many who raised race as a concern cast Mr. Obama as a flawed candidate carried to victory by blacks voting for the first time. Others expressed concerns indirectly, through suspicions about Mr. Obama’s background and questions about his faith.
“He was like, ‘Here I am, I’m black and I’m proud,’ ” said Lesia Felsoci, a bank employee drinking a beer in an Applebee’s. “To me, he didn’t have a platform. Black people voted him in, that’s why he won. It was black ignorance.”
Louis Tripodi, a baker in Steubenville who voted for Mr. Obama, blames talk radio and Republican rhetoric for encouraging such attitudes. “ ‘He’s a Muslim, he’s a socialist, he’s not born in this country,’ ” he said. “It’s got a lot to do with race.”
Race has also helped Mr. Obama. It increased voter turnout among blacks in 2008, and some younger voters said it was part of why they voted for him. But now that history has been made, it is less of a pull.
“It was kind of like a bandwagon that a lot of young people jumped on because it was history,” said Dee Kirkland, a 22-year-old working in a pizza shop in nearby Yorkville. “It was a fad to like him,” she said, adding that “race shouldn’t hinder you, but it also shouldn’t help you.”
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I’ve been saying this for months
Even when some posters here want to ignore it
And I still contend that the BIG issue for these “tea Partiers?”
GET THAT BLACK GUY OUT OF THE WHITE HOUSE!
Not just the Tea Party or GOPer’s we point out here….