NEWSWEEK BY Raina Kelley...."Let me say this clearly so there are no misunderstandings: some of the protests against President Obama are howls of rage at the fact that we have an African-American head of state. I'm sick of all the code words used when this subject comes up, so be assured that I am saying exactly what I mean. Oh, and in response to the inevitable complaints that I am playing the race card—race isn't a political parlor game. It is a powerful fault line in a nation that bears the scars of slavery, a civil war, Jim Crow, a mind-numbing number of assassinations, and too many riots to count. It is naive and disingenuous to say otherwise."
****many people are unhappy with president obama. raina is pulling the race card here by making it appear that all the people who are against him are racists. raina knows that this is simply not true. she is the racist. this is the trick she pulled while he was running for office and it is the trick she is going to use until he is either thrown out of office by the public or retires at the end of two terms.
raina's entire professional career has been determined by her color. if she were white, she probably would be selling shoes in macy's.
by her remarks, she diminishes president obama into a black man rather than what he is. he is the president of the united states. it is raina who is black with a very black heart.
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