He's a moron, and proud!

What was all of that "He's a A-rab" and "He's a terrist" and the plans of white pinheads for killing eighty-eight blacks!?

Racists just don't have to feel guilty about it anymore.

because Obama was elected. He was elected DESPITE the republican party. If anything, they should be a little more introspective. The Democratic party is a party of diversity and inclusion. The Republican party is a party with serious issues regarding race. Just look at the crowds at the Republican Convention. It's hard to find someone who isn't white. So Republicans, please just stop your phony rejoicing that racism is over because you did not elect Obama.

need to hang their heads in shame for the past thirty years of ruining our whole bleeding and bruised country.

That is not likely to happen either.

They're doing the same thing that they did after the Vietnam debacle and the Watergate shitstorm...

..."We need to stop dwelling on the past and look to the future!"

Wellll... that's a pretty goddamm convenient thing to do when your guilty and oughtta be convicted and imprisoned until you are turned over to the Hague.

I suggest that one of the major reasons that we got into this giant mess in the first place was that we let the masterminds of Watergate and Iran Contra etc get away with their crimes.

That served to embolden the white collar criminal element to bigger and "better" crimes than ever before.

We need to put these doughy white guys on trial and sentence them as though they are blacks who burglarised a gas station or youth who smoked marijuana, you know; criminals.

Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to be the Democratic Party.

Tom Adkins’ comment, “A very liberal black man who spent his early career race-hustling banks, praying in a racist church for 20 years, and actively working with America-hating domestic terrorists”, is in it self racist. I’m sure he thinks telling someone that for a fat man you don’t sweat much is a compliment

legitimate opposition...."

This fool wouldn't know an intellect if it hit him on the head with a two by four.

Uh sorry Mr. Pompous Asshat, but it sounds distinctly like you're trying to clear your own personal conscience of any lingering roadblocks of decency that stand in the way of a new wave of "Blacks ur lazy 'n stoopid 'n ur tuh blame fer ther' own po'ness" attacks.

You would just be tickled pink if institutional racism could no longer be offered as an "intellectually legitimate" retort to your self-serving hate speech, wouldn't you? Well, survey says - bzzzzt!

You lowlifes tried fanning every racist ember that exists in this nation's consciousness to try to keep Barack Obama from being elected, and the reason it failed is not because the nation is no longer racist.

The reasons are many. I can think of one that alone refutes your argument. Do you think that if Barack Obama still had Barack Obama's qualifications but looked more like Willie Horton that he still would have been elected? Yeah, enjoy your millstone a while longer...

That would be the war criminals who have worked for many years to bring about the disasters we now have, I guess. It would definitely be a good idea to bring them before a court and have them put away where they can't return, another time, to bring this country down again.

Ridiculous things I just learned from Tom Adkins:

1. Racism is dead (except for this article)
2. White guilt is finished (although Tom's white guilt was more like white fear)
3. 1960's liberals are responsible for the racial divide that existed before this recent election. (acknowleding an issue = creating and prolonging an issue)
4. A black church = a racist church
5. Obama is a very liberal man (the 35th most liberal person in the Senate)
6. Tom can now feel better about his own racism since a black man can overcome people like Tom.

"I'm the white half of a sham biracial lesbian marriage."

That was until it was taken away.

For anyone curious about race in this election... I'm a white man and I voted for Obama because he's black. I'm sick of the white folks screwing this country up the last 8+ years.

If racism was dead, we wouldn't be jumping up and down and feeling all warm and fuzzy about Barak Obama being ELECTED, and we'd let the guy get in office, do something RIGHT, or do something WRONG, and react accordingly, JUST THE SAME AS WE WOULD ANY OTHER POLITICIAN!!

I mean, sure, rah rah! Hooray for our side! We took back the office of the Presidency, and for the first time in 8 years the office will be held by the actual CHOICE OF THE PEOPLE. Great.

But being happy that we have a minority president is no better than being happy that we don't.

The end of racism is not indicated by some arbitrary degree of racial diversity. It's indicated by the fact that the question of race no longer even comes up.

Every political attitude w/ adherents holds a kernel of truth. Otherwise, it wouldn't be followed. Indeed, those kernels usually are wrapped in layer upon layer of BS. The task of any critical thinking person is to wipe away the BS to understand the truth, why these people think this way. Writing them all off as haters does no good.

What I gather from the above post is the rejection of guilt. Which is a good thing. The sins of the past should not be forgotten, but we should not feel guilty over them. Guilt is a terrible scourge upon humanity, an emotion whose use is only to manipulate others. Another, and far more insidious fallout, is that people, desiring to be free of it, will turn their heads away from the object of that guilt. Thus we have people hating the homeless, the disenfranchised, the poor. Why? Because to accept them for what they are brings along the feelings of guilt. The perpetuation of racism is fueled in part by that denial of guilt. Instead of saying "It wasn't my fault," the response becomes "There is no fault." Thus the legion of pseudo-intellectual theories like The Bell Curve, which puts the blame back onto the 'other.'

The solution, here, is not to assign blame at all, in any circumstance. Take responsibility for your society, yes. We are all in this together, but don't take on guilt, and don't waste time assigning blame. Everyone wants to be free of guilt, but most often, the reaction is to blame others, instead of freeing yourself from the entire wheel of blame/guilt. To do that, you imagine the world you want, the society you'll work for, for to get hung up on the past is to indulge in the endless wheel of blame/guilt.

Make no mistake: Racism, bigotry, prejudice, is a problem every human society suffers from. It is very real, very insidious, and one of it's most destructive aspects is how it recreates itself into the consciousness of those it oppresses. It is not enough to discover it in the speech of your fellow men & then cry "Racist!!!" We also need to reach out to those who are the object of this racism, to demonstrate that the oppressor (in this case, 'whitey') is not the rule, but an aberration.

perhaps if youd stressed obama was only half black instead of he was an african american , its my understanding obamas half white, or is that racisim? i cant tell anymore,

...stuff go Tyree...unless you are willing to take well warranted credit also when half white people do bad things too.

He writes to what, absolve himself? I can't tell. Regardless, there will never be a shortage of dicks from the "right", that's for certain. I sure hope ol' Jebus is ready; there are an awful lot of pathetic fucks to forgive.

Step 1: make up an arbitrary litmus test that has just been achieved.
Step 2: use that arbitrary benchmark to justify your claim.

Basically, they are using an exception to prove a rule. Which is a fallacy, no wonder so many conservatives fail at science.

Alas, another thing that I find astounding is the ability for a lot of people in this country (and most of the ones I know with this "disorder" tend to subscribe to conservative ideals) to make up their own reality by simply saying that something is.

how does the election of a black man forgive your family's racist and cruel history?

IT DOESN'T!!!!

You should still feel guilty because your family IS STILL GUILTY and will be forever.
Unless you've paid reparations to formerly owned slaves or AT LEAST APOLOGIZED you're not off the hook buddy.

think Bush was too liberal. I have 4 brothers (I'm female) two of us voted for Barack and of course the others for Mccain. We are all boomers. The funny thing is the three that vote republican are very poor and me and the brother that voted for Barack are always bailing them out financially. Do you need flash cards to figure it out? It's amazing they vote against their best interest, but as long as them terrorist don't get us, as they say and republicans are the antidote to that. I don't know what happened to them, maybe they were dropped on their heads. In fact, my mother is a republican and had to drop some of her medical coverage under Bush but doesn't get it. She couldn't afford it anymore. I'm sure it was Clinton's fault, you know the years she had more money.

well if were going to ask for repreations fow wrongs done in the past then i must insist that tennesee and the carolinas be returned to the choctaw and cherokee nations and compensation be made from all profits that were made off these lands , decendents of the cherokees who owned farms confiscated by the government be restored to thier decendents and compensations be made for the deaths that occoured by the deaths that happend to thoes who perrished on the trail of tears to oklahoma!

Corruption of blood?

From California to Maine, 'hundreds' of incidents reveal...

...racism in America.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27738018/

Neoconservatives also will use Obama's victory to argue that Affirmative Action is not needed since a black man (biracial, actually) became an accomplished lawyer and U.S. Senator before winning the highest office in the land.

Than blacks voted for him.

I love how Adkins makes the point that a high percentage of Blacks voted for him, and that means THEY'RE racist. Sadly, the candidate the ENTIRE WORLD sees as the more qualified, intelligent, well-spoken, more presidential candidate would never would have won without that high of a black vote.

All you have to do is do a quick Google of Adkins to realise he's a shill who'll say anything to make a buck. He also claimed on the eve of the '07 new year that the real estate market would go up 10% and that there was nothing wrong with all-interest loans.

Talk about putting the cart before the horse. To assume that the "era of white guilt" is over, it would first be necessary to assure that the bigotry upon which the guilt is based is completely gone. Any cognitive person alive knows that is nowhere near today's reality. This man's millstone must be very heavy indeed for him to grasp at such illogical straws for some analgesic rationalization to relieve the pain of his guilt.

I'm no longer religious, but I do remember that I was taught absolution comes only after an honest contrition, and a resolution to not repeat the sin. Some of us might have come to that resolution, but to assume we are all now there is completely delusional.