Shaeffer: The Slow lynching of Barack Obama

[Nonhlanhla]

I tend to find Frank Shaeffer interesting, since I myself come from an evangelical background, and find myself a liberal as a result of my faith (no longer evangelical though). I thought his analysis of the responses to Barack Obama's presidency is spot on. And this says it all about what it means for our understanding of the race problem in this country:

"I’ve watched liberal and right wing commentators alike blame the president for being lynched. They say “he’s not reaching out enough” or “he’s too cold.” It’s the equivalent of assuming that the black man being beaten by a couple of thug cops must have “done something....if this country will lynch a brilliant, civil, kind, humble, compassionate, moderate, articulate, black intellectual we’re lucky enough to have in the White House, we’ll lynch anyone. What chance does an anonymous black man pulled over in a traffic stop have of fair treatment when the former editor of the Harvard Law Review is being lynched?"

And find myself agreeing with Schaeffer in this sentiment:
"And I’m still rooting for the best, smartest and most decent man who has been president in my lifetime."

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/frankschaeffer/2013/12/the-slow-motion-lynching-of-president-barack-obama/

[Thinkingabout]

1. The same who rant and rave about President Obama are some if the same who praised

George Bush and my oh my this was the one which should have been packed up and shipped out. No President Obama does not have the experience of leading two companies to their deaths but George did. President Obama did nit have to retaliate against Saddam "because he threatened my daddy" but George did.

[giftedgirl77]

2. Great article!

Thanks for sharing.

[freshwest]

3. Agreed.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

4. He's right about this, too!

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/frankschaeffer/2013/11/to-obama-haters-the-actual-evidence-of-obamas-achievements-shows-youre-on-the-wrong-side-of-history-again/

K&R!!!!!!

Haters gon' hate!!