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Racism is an inherent tool of the Obama campaign. We've seen the articles, the admonitions: vote for Obama, or you are Racist! We see the overwhelming support Blacks give to Obama, without any other motive than voting for his color..70% of blacks supported Obama in February, to over 90% today.

Obama's message to black voters is not one of forward-thinking, not one of unity for all of America's people. Instead, Obama's campaign focuses on the past, and looks to stir barely healed racial tensions, and strives to rekindle racism as a political weapon. There's no CHANGE in the minds of Obama's supporters. Just more of the same, revisited, political angst and victim manipulation.

STACLU has an excellent post chronicling the identity politics and the manipulation of the 'black victim': the haters vs. the healers. Dr. King and his leadership vs. Malcom X and the politics of of perpetual divisiveness. And the Obama connection to the haters. Excerpted here...

"But that other, darker myth would simply not die. It’s message was still too beguiling. It’s fiery preachers still to charismatic and inspiring. The baton of hate and revenge had been passed to a new generation of pied pipers, the Sharptons and the Jesse Jacksons, who had never given up on their dark vision of the nightmare. The empty promises of endless victimhood and a total release from the weight of personal responsibility. The hope now was the hope for reparations, all kinds of reparations, social, political, financial. All predicated on the general acceptance of the great myth, not just the acceptance by its purported victims, but by the guilty oppressors themselves.

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"... There have just been too many other stories in this unfair world of ours, stories of true victims, who have quietly and courageously overcome even greater odds and succeeded in creating a fulfilling life. You who choose to remain fixated on your anger and on your pain will never succeed in bettering your lot, you will only succeed in wreaking more havoc on a already weary world, and crushing the nascent spirit of your innocent children."

Hie thee forth and read the post.

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