Recently, former President Jimmy Carter suggested, “because Barack Obama is the nations first African American President, much of the resistance to his administration was due to race, and the inability of some to except a black man as being president”. President Carter attributed some of the anger, and confrontation, at town hall meetings, at so called Republican sponsored “Tea Parties”, and the most recent outburst, and breach of Congressional decorum, by South Carolina Representative Joe Wilson when he shouted out “You Lie!” during President Obama’s address on Health Care Reform to congress, to latent racism.
President Obama received nearly 53% of the American vote to become President, which means an overwhelming amount of white voters voted for Obama in order for him to win the nomination. Is this then an indicator that America is now a post-racial society? Or, could racism still lurk in a small remnant of the 47% who did not vote for him?
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President Carter – Is Race a Factor? (part 1)
President Carter – Is Race a Factor? (part 2)
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