@snood,
snood wrote:
... to me it's way more sad than infuriating.
You don't have to believe me, but once one leaves the South, the demographics are not Black and White. It is Italian, Irish, Polish, Jewish, Hispanic, Black, White Protestant, and many more. So, if some ethnic was elected, during his her time in office, there would be criticisms based on ethnic jokes at best, in my opinion. My point is in context of the belief that Bernie is not seen as White, but as Jewish. And, many Jews do not want a Jewish President, since anything he does, that is perceived as incorrect, all Jews would be blamed, in my opinion.
I do think that there is a belief that the Presidency should become where every ethnic group gets their "turn" to have someone in the Whitehouse. The Presidency is not a birthday party game.
I would tend to believe that any racism that we see under Obama's term in office is not suddenly rising, but has been under the surface, just like anti-Semitism is under the surface, and would not "suddenly" appear, if Bernie was President and did something not appreciated by all.
Perhaps, living in a more homogeneous South, people do not realize how Northerners really are, but we are not one monolithic demographic, since 1850, or thereabouts.
My point is, the racism you identify should be no more infuriating than any bigotry directed to any other group, nor any more sad than what other groups have to endure. What is sad, in my opinion, is that Black people collectively seem to believe that they can only feel good about the country if they are thought of as just like anyone else. No such luck. And, as a secular Jew, I would like to be able to give Blacks the level of self-esteem that Jews seem to have, that makes then inured to three-thousand years of Gentile contempt.
