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Reverse racism

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Reverse Racism is the the unique and deliberate focus on race, an attempt to discredit others for racism while claiming to be race neutral. Most users of this term are unapologetic about racial bias, refer to groups, whether guilty or innocent, as oppressors that need to be exposed. It is subtle in its use, deceiving and discriminating. Reverse racism is considered hate speech and affects all races and religious groups whether black or white, Christian or Jew.


2008 Presidential elections

The race for President is not without the injection of racism charges. The first African-American Democrat Obama running against a white Republican McCain. McCain is an honorable person as proven by his 28 years of elected office and his dedication to this country during a time of war. This has not stopped his opponents from trying to associate him with racism by means of reverse racism.

Examples

  • NYTimes, McCain ad that likened Obama's celebrity status to lightweight celebrities like Paris Hilton and Britney Spears, Obama suggested three times on Wednesday that the McCain campaign was trying to scare voters with racial appeals. [1] [2]
  • Time Magazine writes, Obama's Fannie Mae connections are completely fair game. But this ad doesn't even mention a far more significant tie. Instead, it relies on a fleeting and tenuous reference in a Washington Post Style section story to suggest that Obama's principal economic adviser is former Fannie Mae Chairman Frank Raines. Why? One reason might be that Johnson is white; Raines is black. Consider McCain's new ad, which the campaign says it will be airing nationally: Sinister images of two black men, followed by one of a vulnerable-looking elderly white woman. [3]
  • Democratic congressman from Georgia, John Lewis drew a rhetorical line connecting McCain to the white segregationist Alabama governor George Wallace, and through Wallace to the 1963 church bombing in Birmingham that killed four girls. [4] Obama and the Democratic national party, distanced themselves, no rebuke, no apologies of Lewis's comments to McCain from either.
  • Washington Post editoral, false claims that Obama is Muslim, that he trained to overthrow the government and that he was educated in Wahhabi schools are a standard part of the political discussion. These fake stories come from voices on the ultra right that have dabbled in other forms of conspiracy, including classic anti-Semitism. [5]
  • The Associated Press claimed, even mentioning the association with Ayers, as Sarah Palin did in a speech earlier in the week, signifies a hidden "racial tinge." [6]
  • In a statement Obama repeated three times, he said what George Bush and John McCain are “going to try to do is make you scared of me. You know, he’s not patriotic enough. He’s got a funny name. You know, he doesn’t look like all those other presidents on those dollar bills.” Neither has done any such thing, of course. McCain has distanced himself from attacks with the remotest hint of racial undertones. [7]

Also See

References

  1. ↑ NYT Calls McCain Ad Racist, McCain Camp Likens Editors to Kos Kids NewsBusters.org, August 1, 2008
  2. ↑ Obama’s Racism Card NationalReviewOnline, August 1, 2008
  3. ↑ McCain Plays the Race Card TIME, September 18, 2008
  4. ↑ John Lewis Smears McCain As Enabling Racist Violence; WaPo Sugar-Coats It In Blandness NewsBusters.org, October 12, 2008
  5. ↑ McCain and the Raging Right Washington Post, October 15, 2008
  6. ↑ Obama doesn't make you a racist CNN, October 9, 2008
  7. ↑ Obama’s Racism Card NationalReviewOnline, August 1, 2008