So long as this President is black, nothing will be good enough...
TomP has an excellent recced diary "Deathers" Pushing New Conpsiracy Theory Against Obama. In it he igves that one overriding truth about not just "Deathers', but about the birthers, and those who call him Socialist, and those who say he is not American enough, and those who emphasize his middle name (It's HUSSEIN...BOO!!), and those who declare that he isn't a real American. Their complaints can all be boiled down to this simple mantra from TomP:
So long as this President is black, nothing will be good enough...
It comes as news to no one here, there doesn't need to be any long discussion trying to parse the evidence or give the benefit of the doubt or claim it is all about politics.
And it is not about saying you cannot criticize Obama because he is black, because if you wannt to disagree with him about taxes, or health care, or energy, go right ahead. I encourage it...
No it is when your arguments are tinged with the veneer of he cannot be trusted, he isn't being honest, or that he isn't qualified or good enough to be President. Every accomplishment is suspect to certain people, why?
So long as this President is black, nothing will be good enough...
Again, this is not all of Obama's detractors, probably not even most of them. But it is a fair amount, and what is sad is how much mainstreamed they are into the media dialogue. This is racism, pure and simple, from Trump on down (or is it up). It is hidden in plain sight.
They will never admit it, of course. In fact for some it is so ingrained that they don't even recognize it...like the tone deafness of sending out an email with a picture of Obama as a monkey and apologizing for "just a joke". They know they don't trust him, they know whatever he says, whatever he does need their highest level of scrutiny. With them it is "distrust and terrify" instead of "trust and verify", when it comes to President Obama.
But it is getting harder and harder for them to hide in plain sight. They act more irrelevant, more unhinged, more crazed as Obama accomplishes more, as Obama proves himself again and again that Obama is not a Black President... he is THE President and he is kicking their asses on a daily basis.