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FROM CNN’s Jack Cafferty:
Despite the election of America’s first black president more than three years ago, the nation still has a long road to travel when it comes to race relations.
The New York Times reports that race remains a powerful factor among a small minority of voters – particularly in poor areas with a lot of white working-class people.
That includes places in the battleground state of Ohio, where a few votes could make a big difference.
In 50 interviews in one such Ohio county, five people raised race directly as a reason they will not vote for President Obama. Some of them said the only reason the president won in 2008 is because many blacks voted for the first time.
Others didn’t mention race directly, but indirectly hinted at suspicions of Obama’s background and faith.
The president recently described race in America as still “complicated.” He says he never bought into the idea that the country was entering a post-racial period by electing him.
Maybe so – but a lot of people did. More than half of Americans in 2008 said that race relations would improve as a result of Obama’s election.
Fast forward to 2012 and that view has changed dramatically.
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J Killion
May 8, 2012 at 6:11 pm
President Obama has effected changes in race relations, but unfortunate it mostly been negative.
Right now just about every scumbag that still lives in the 1930′s, 40′s, and 50′s have come out and let their feelings be known. No matter how intelligent, rich, or well-spoken the President might be, he is still a n*gger to them and they don’t want him in their WHITE house.
David2001
May 8, 2012 at 11:44 am
@Sandra Booker. Sounds like you’re spewing some of the same black self hatred you’re ranting about. I would agree that black people need to look in the mirror at ourselves but we shouldn’t make sweeping generalization about black people the same way many white racist do.
Sibyl Nesmith
May 7, 2012 at 10:58 pm
It has brought it to the forefront; not hidden anymore, and I witnessed that on my job the day after he won. You could hear a pin drop, and when a few black people went to lunch, we were followed just to see if we would talk about it. You could see the steam rise off of their heads.
Aaron Young
May 7, 2012 at 8:52 pm
@Sandra Amen!! Very well said
Gina Williams-scott
May 7, 2012 at 8:41 pm
None at all!
Joe Owens
May 7, 2012 at 7:47 pm
None… He ducks race issues like Bush was ducking the guy who threw a shoe at him!
Shereen Hart
May 7, 2012 at 7:45 pm
That long road started about 500 years ago, what was supposed to change in four years? If them emeffers haven’t said it one way, they’ve said it about 10,000 — they don’t give a shyte if black folks all drop dead at once. What does it take? A ton of bricks and a steel wall to fall on our heads?