"African-Americans For Obama"

[drblasphlemy.livejournal.com]

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/02/02/obama_announces_2012_launch_of_african-americans_for_obama.html

I got an email this afternoon telling me about this new Obama campaign tactic.

How is this ok in America today?

How is this not racist? What do you supposed would happen if Romney announced a “White Americans for Romney”?

He’d be crucified yet it’s perfectly acceptable for Obama?

Please explain to me why this is ok for a black president but no white in this country could ever do this?

Comments

[foreverbeach.livejournal.com]

I am as anti-affirmative action and political correctness and all this shit as anyone, but I have forced it all way way way down low on the hierarchy of outrages so as to be virtually negligible. Why? Because if you gave me the option of which race I could be in the United States, I'd choose white 10/10 times and twice on Sunday. I'd also choose Male. I used to think I'd choose Straight, but now I think I'd choose gay, just so as to be free of women. That one is still up in the air. And I'd choose Southern, because the North is a shithole for assholes.

So I look the other way on this shit. I don't feel threatened by it at all. There are more urgent battles to fight (the fucking debt is almost $16 Trillion, for instance), and this is just not that big a deal right now.