“If I criticize Obama, I’m racist?!”

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Every time I follow a link from the Drudge Report to an article that allows comments, I inevitably find some indignant Drudge poster writing “if I criticize Obama, I’m a racist?!” Having been accused of racism myself for odd reasons (drawing a cartoon condemning racism makes you racist in some people’s eyes), I don’t automatically dismiss the sentiment. But then those posters usually go on to call Obama “Kenya’s favorite son,” or to say something else that demonstrates why their Obama criticism is suspect.

I bet this cartoonist indignantly says “if I criticize Obama, I’m racist?!” all the time.

David Cohen
Asheville Citizen-Times
Feb 9, 2009

Discussion¬

  1. Ken says:

    If your “criticism” of the President of the United States is to associate him with a street criminal when the only connection is the color of their skin… you might be a racist.

    If you don’t understand the concept “post-racial”… you might be an idiot.

    If the cartoonist understood “post-racial” he would have shaded the CEO (those are the corporate welfare cases having their salary capped) black. The fact that the cartoonist didn’t consider making the business person anything other than a white guy in a suit probably tells us something.

    Of course, most Americans would draw the cartoon differently with the wealthy CEOs doing the robbing. With the finance system being held hostage I don’t think most Americans think that the biggest criminal in the country is a guy on the street with a handgun. These “welfare kings” (to take liberties with some old conservative labels) have wrung the competition out of free enterprise and getting by on $500,000 for a couple of years isn’t the worst thing that could happen to them. There are plenty of people who worked hard for those companies and have no salary.