Navy Pride
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Your thoughts please.
Your thoughts please.
Neither. Minorities have no effect on the treatment that they receive from the white majority. There is no such thing as earning being the victim of racism, and certainly not having to earn an escape from racist treatment. It is completely up to us to stop treating people poorly. It is not up to them to somehow convince us to treat them with basic human decency.
Your thoughts please.
Americans talking about race is like having Lindsay Lohan as a guidance counselor.
Neither. Minorities have no effect on the treatment that they receive from the white majority. There is no such thing as earning being the victim of racism, and certainly not having to earn an escape from racist treatment. It is completely up to us to stop treating people poorly. It is not up to them to somehow convince us to treat them with basic human decency.
I thought his election was going to help race relations. It hasn't.
And to answer the question as it specifically relates to Obama himself, IMO he has hurt race relations.
Pretty much this.
It's difficult to say. I'd say that his blackness has been as much an aspect of his presidency as every president's whiteness before him wasn't an aspect of theirs, and that's pretty unfortunate. It was certainly historic when America got its first black president, and the issue of Obama's race at that point really should have stopped more or less right there, but in the public discourse, for those across the entire political spectrum, it never really did. I don't think anything Obama personally did hurt or helped race relations, but by being the first black president he certainly held a mirror up to the rest of the country.
The man lent the credibility of his office to the agitators. I'm not sure that doesn't count as 'Nothing he does personally".
Elaborate.
I think having a black President has made people act as if they have a freer reign to be passively-aggressively (or explicitly aggressive) toward blacks in public discourse. Beyond that, it is more a neither helped nor hurt race relations.
I think having a black President has made people act as if they have a freer reign to be passively-aggressively (or explicitly aggressive) toward blacks in public discourse. Beyond that, it is more a neither helped nor hurt race relations.
Hurt - through no fault of his own though. The republican base has really shown their true colors, as much as they are willing to admit, when it comes to him. I think every honest person in the country has been awakened to the fact that we are a lot farther off than we thought when it came to racism in this country. There are still a large number of people who harbor it.
So yes, by him being black and president, it has hurt race relations because racism has reared its ugly head more in the last 6 years. Who would have thought there would have been so many telling our president to "go back to Africa"? I wouldn't have thought it.
Hurt - through no fault of his own though. The republican base has really shown their true colors, as much as they are willing to admit, when it comes to him. I think every honest person in the country has been awakened to the fact that we are a lot farther off than we thought when it came to racism in this country. There are still a large number of people who harbor it.
So yes, by him being black and president, it has hurt race relations because racism has reared its ugly head more in the last 6 years. Who would have thought there would have been so many telling our president to "go back to Africa"? I wouldn't have thought it.