Are President & First Lady Obama victims of Racism?

Is President & First Lady Obama a victim of racism?

One could certainly make an argument for it.

First off, let me say that I personally think every person on Earth is a racist. BUT, I believe there is a complete spectrum of racism. To the far left of the spectrum are the people who understand that racism exists but they have such an evolved self-awareness that they are innately incapable of allowing any personal and/or professional decisions be influenced by any bias. To the far right are the people who are acutely aware of every difference in every individual and purposefully make all personal and/or professional decision based on their selective prejudice. And in between the two extremes are all the rest of the people who consciencelessly, or subconsciencelessly, allow some decisions to become effected by some bias.

I saw a headline in the last day or two which read , "From Slavery to the White House: The first lady's complex roots." I shook my head in dismay. The article was nothing interesting or dynamic. There was a 6 year old slave girl torn from her family. Raped as a young teenager and produced a child; thus began the road to the White House. I found the article distasteful and unnecessary.

Every other President and First Lady have been presented with their genealogy. Michelle Obama was presented with her "slave roots". Why haven't we read any articles about any modern day President's ancestry involved in the slave trade? Could it be that they were white and the slave trade is viewed from a totally different perspective because of that?

With 2 President Bush's, we didn't see articles about their "Nazi roots". It is a documented fact that the Bush fortune was made by doing business with the Nazis. Their money was even frozen by the government for profiting from selling wares to the Nazi Army. But I never heard Rush Limbaugh mention that little fact. No, but Rush has spent plenty of air time discussing how President Obama won the Nobel Prize for "emasculating America".


Our President has won the Nobel Peace Prize. Why can't we be proud as a nation for it? Instead, scores of Americans are trashing him and the Nobel Prize Committee. I saw an on-line poll that showed 62% (212,675 votes) thought "No, he has no significant accomplishments." People seem to be freaked out that he was nominated just 2 weeks after he took over the Oval Office. Well, they way I see it is that long before he took the Oath of Office, Obama's influence reached the world. At a time when people in this Country, and the world, needed it, Obama provided a calm, rationale, attitude towards some very terrifying circumstances. Obama has done more to improve the U.S. standing in the world in 8 months than in 8 years under President Bush. The United States hasn't been "emasculated" by any standards; we have begun regaining our leadership role in the world.

There are plenty of people in this Country that believe China, Iran, North Korea and a cast of other countries should be pressured into playing nice with the rest of the world. But when it comes to the United States, they believe we should thumb our noses at anyone who insinuates we should fall in line with everyone else...they think everyone else should be falling in line with us. That is a very arrogant and hypocritical attitude. If we expect other Countries to cooperate within the world, then we'd better be leading by example.

Why are people all of the sudden afraid of this man? Fear...that's what it boils down to. The sale of guns and ammo have skyrocketed since his election. What are they afraid of? and why?

Of all of the things Michelle Obama has accomplished in her life, I think journalists can find something more interesting to write about; or should every Black American that ever accomplishes something great expect to read about their "slave roots" on the front page?