Sep 17 2009
RACISM Fueling Anti-Obama Actions
Former President Jimmy Carter has gone on record asserting that racism and fear are driving the anti-Obama anger, protests, and “heckling” even within the U.S. Congress.
My opinion is that the “good ol’ boy” network of aging white men just can’t come to terms with the decline of their power and influence. They still consider Barack Obama (and his wife) to be “uppity nigras” who seek to usurp the prepotency enjoyed by the white majority for two centuries of United States history.
Recently, Carter wrote of the repugnancy of religious fundamentalism that promotes the belief that women must be subjugated to the wishes of men and therefore justifying slavery, violence, forced prostitution, genital mutilation and rape. Such beliefs are manifested in the official governmental and societal sanction to deny girls and women equal access to education, health care and employment, and to dictate when and to whom they shall marry.
Is this really so different than the fundamentalist religious beliefs that apartheid is based upon? Racial superiority or Gender superiority, it all comes down to white man keeping control.
However, I must opine, the most interesting thing that I see is how many Black men, once emancipated and ascendant, perpetuate the subjugation of women, thus joining with their White Gender-mates, to maintain control over women.
I don’t doubt for a minute that, had Hilary Clinton won the U.S. Presidency, she would be subjected to the same anger and heckling that Obama is experiencing. That is a common acknowledgment: in surveys, white men, having to choose between a Black man in the Presidency or a White women….would prefer a Black man.
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