President Obama appeared on The View the other day and observed African-Americans "are sort of a mongrel people." 
You KNOW what the reaction would be.
I can't hold White conservatives to one standard and suddenly go deaf, dumb and blind when a Black liberal says something this...well...DUMB.
I know Obama had no malicious intent when he said it, but the way Jim Webb was jumped on for debunking the idea of "White privilege" doesn't mean he's a racist. He just doesn't like affirmative action programs. Guess what? A lot of White folks don't.
Obama needs to apologize. RIGHT NOW and not a news cycle or two later. You don't need to be a Rush Limbaugh Dittohead or a Fox News freak to know if Obama gets a complete pass on this the charge that the mainstream media covers for Obama and that there is a double racial standard for liberals and conservatives really sticks.
Maybe he's been hanging around Joe Biden too long, but this is the kind of brain fart I'd expect from him, not Obama. My two kids are NOT mongrels. I get it that there are few if any blue bloods in this melting pot society, but man, he really could have stated that so MUCH better.
My jaw dropped when I heard that. What would be the reaction of Black folks if Rush Limbaugh or Glenn Beck or Sarah Palin had said the exact same thing? Or if a member of the Tea Party showed up at a rally with those remarks written on a sign?NEW YORK — President Obama waded into the national race debate in an unlikely setting and with an unusual choice of words: telling daytime talk show hosts that African-Americans are “sort of a mongrel people.”
The president appeared on ABC’s morning talk show “The View” Thursday, where he talked about the forced resignation of Agriculture Department official Shirley Sherrod, his experience with race and his roots.
When asked about his background, which includes a black father and white mother, Obama said of African-Americans: "We are sort of a mongrel people."
"I mean we're all kinds of mixed up," Obama said. "That's actually true of white people as well, but we just know more about it."
The president's remarks were directed at the roots of all Americans. The definition of mongrel as an adjective is defined as "of mixed breed, nature, or origin," according to dictionary.com.
Obama did not appear to be making an inflammatory remark with his statement and the audience appeared to receive it in the light-hearted manner that often accompanies interviews on morning talk shows.
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You KNOW what the reaction would be.
I can't hold White conservatives to one standard and suddenly go deaf, dumb and blind when a Black liberal says something this...well...DUMB.
I know Obama had no malicious intent when he said it, but the way Jim Webb was jumped on for debunking the idea of "White privilege" doesn't mean he's a racist. He just doesn't like affirmative action programs. Guess what? A lot of White folks don't.
Obama needs to apologize. RIGHT NOW and not a news cycle or two later. You don't need to be a Rush Limbaugh Dittohead or a Fox News freak to know if Obama gets a complete pass on this the charge that the mainstream media covers for Obama and that there is a double racial standard for liberals and conservatives really sticks.
Maybe he's been hanging around Joe Biden too long, but this is the kind of brain fart I'd expect from him, not Obama. My two kids are NOT mongrels. I get it that there are few if any blue bloods in this melting pot society, but man, he really could have stated that so MUCH better.
