How's Post Racial America Working Out for Ya?

Obama and the press have learned a hard lesson. They played the race card, and lost. For the past 1 ½ years, the left wing press, the progressive Democrats and Obama himself have accused everyone and everything that has opposed Obama’s political agenda a racist. Fox News is racist. The Tea Party is racist. Your Aunt Tilly is racist. Never mind that the only racism that I have seen has come from the people screaming race the loudest. Thugs can intimidate voters. Black Panthers can talk about killing white babies. Illegal drug lords can sneak across the border and kill policemen. But it is the Tea Party that is racist.

Now it has bitten Obama on the ass. And I hope that it hurts. After a week of racial vitriol from the NAACP, Andrew Breitbart posted an edited version of a canned speech given by one Shirley Sherrod, an underling employee of the Department of Agriculture. In her speech, she tells of her redemption in attempting to deal with her own prejudices 24 years ago when she was called on to help a white farmer save his farm in Georgia. She goes on to say that she had difficulty in dealing with her personal feelings of race, but concluded through the process that it is not a white/ black issue, but a have/have not issue.

The White House found out that Fox News had this piece of video tape without really knowing the content of the tape. One of the mucky mucks then decided they better get Ms. Sherrod’s resignation prior to this tape being aired on television, and forced her to email in her resignation while she was driving her car from Georgia to Washington. They actually made her pull over to the side of the road to email her resignation. We are getting conflicting stories as to who forced whom to what, and who knew what when. One thing is clear. The edited version of the tape eventually shown on Fox News did not tell the whole story, and portrayed her as being a flaming racist. The administration tried to say it was the tape played on Fox News that made them fire Ms. Sherrod…but in reality, the poor woman was fired prior to anything being aired on television. The joke was on them.

Add to the mix the racially charged atmosphere created by an NAACP trying to recapture its glory days; then add a report about something called “Journolist”, you have a media feeding frenzy.

What was Journolist? This was a group of 400 mainstream media types and journalism professors who conspired to portray any conservative as racist during the 2008 election. What is scary is that the professors were from the most elite of the elite schools, and many of the journalists were mainstream reporters for the big three networks as well as smaller networks like Bloomberg television.

The discovered emails show a deliberate attempt to portray those who opposed Obama as racist.They also display a hatred of conservatives beyond any rational basis, including comments that people like Rush Limbaugh should die horrific deaths while others watch in glee. Some of this stuff is almost sickening…and scary.

I don’t think America understands the hatred that comes from the left. Racism is a cancer in our society that should be cured, not exploited. Obama was supposed to be the post racial President and help heal the wounds. Looking at the Black Panther wanting to kill white babies; a group of media types purposely destroying individuals by calling them racist; and President who got it wrong a year ago with his Harvard professor thing and now with Ms. Sherrod…how’s that post racial thing working out for ya?