Obama’s Black Skin Privilege

Sure, if that's what he did - I'm not in a position to say if he did or not. But that wasn't the issue, which I quite specifically pointed out - the issue being:

- the multiple allegations that he was a dictator, coupled with the claim that:
- the U.S. only ignored sucht because he was black,
- and as a separate example, the claim that the only reason he got elected was that he was black (it backs up the problem inherent in the first two)

IF he was right that Obama was a dictator, then:

- saying 'hey, are you guys ignoring this because you feel some guilt over his skin colour?" can have some justification...
- though that allowance is a bit like a person saying who is nasty to another because "I'm just telling the truth", has some justification....even though they could achieve the same results with tact.

So history has shown that Obama wasn't a dictator. That 'some' justification goes out the window . And it reverses (in the comparison, the nasty person 'just telling the truth' that is actually not telling the truth - so just being nasty. No justification whatsoever). The only reason to use Obama's skin colour is to try and convince people that he is a dictator. "Open your eyes past his skin colour' (when he's not being what is claimed to be), is attempting to use Obama's skin colour against him...and is therefore, quite unarguably, racist.

And surely you understand that many people voted for him because of his party affiliations, as well as his charisma and oratory (and probably policy, but I don't know about that) ? So saying he only got elected because he was black, is racist.

I never said that. And saying Obama is black is not racist, it is simply a fact and the truth.

Who said you said that? Are we not talking about the video in your OP? Is that not obvious from 'the multiple claims that he was a dictator?
We agree...but this wasn't in contention. The issue in contention was the guy saying 'Obama only got elected because he was black'

Those were both fairly obvious.

Was Trump elected because he was white? I am sure someone could say that but would they be considered racist? The double standards are in play here.

Alright, so an admission that the comment was racist, but that there are hypothetical double standards at play...hypothetical double standards, because no one on this thread has said "Trump was elected just because he was white"

And yes, saying "Trump was only elected because he was white" would also be racist. Racism goes in each direction. Denying that racism can go in any direction isn't just wilful blindness - it lessens society. Of course an interesting conversation on this topic arises if the society is inherently racist, but that is another discussion.

Not on this forum.

The man killed people with drone strikes.

Killing people with drone strikes is not exclusive to dictators.

I think you might be confusing the meaning of words. Or perhaps you're re-interpreting them in a way that suits some emotional agenda. Either or. The U.S. didn't become a dictatorship, and that's fact.

Conservative Republicans can not be white supremacists.

Republicans freed the slaves for a reason.

Obama split families up and put children in cages!

That was before the Republican Party pandered to the Southern conservatives—who include white supremacists—at the time of the burgeoning civil rights movements.

Lol same ol' A2K

Oh yeah, the Democratic Party has its disreputable history. It's founders would today be solid Republicans. This does not negate the fact that the Republican Party panders to the Southern conservatives and white supremacists.

It is just another conservative opinion that don't mean shyt.

The video that racist Democrats don't want you to see.

The "Southern Strategy"bullshit are just lies repeated for so long they are taken as truth.

Charen's argument doesn't hold water. So what if Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia weren't the first to turn. Virginia, North Carolina, Texas, Tennessee, and Florida were all Confederate states themselves. Furthermore, she's being disingenuous with her timelines. Republicans pandered to white racists in the '68 and '72 presidential elections. According to Nixon's political strategist, Kevin Philips, "From now on, the Republicans are never going to get more than 10 to 20 percent of the Negro vote and they don't need any more than that... but Republicans would be shortsighted if they weakened enforcement of the Voting Rights Act. The more Negroes who register as Democrats in the South, the sooner the Negrophobe whites will quit the Democrats and become Republicans. That's where the votes are. Without that prodding from the blacks, the whites will backslide into their old comfortable arrangement with the local Democrats."

You are just so full of ****.