The Atlantic: [The Whites] Fear Of A Black President!

With a smile like this, how could they not like you?

Tina Brown's Newsweek magazine cover.

I added the paraphrase. Look here I couldn't resist clicking on a news link from the Huffington Post. It lead me to The Atlantic. The Republicans are working hard to make the president look like a Black criminal. And it's working.

Mitt Romney overwhelmingly carries the White vote by a healthy margin. 58% - 39% , 3% undecided.

The Atlantic writes a piece in regards to the controversial shooting Sanford, Florida in which unarmed Black teenager Trayvon Martin was killed by White man George Zimmerman.

The president offers his take on the shooting and conservatives went totally crazy.

Ta-Nehisi Coates, a reporter for The Atlantic describes the fears of a Black president.

One piece that sought my interest was this one here:

[President Barack] Obama has pitched his presidency as a monument to moderation. He peppers his speeches with nods to ideas originally held by conservatives. He routinely cites Ronald Reagan. He effusively praises the enduring wisdom of the American people, and believes that the height of insight lies in the town square. Despite his sloganeering for change and progress, Obama is a conservative revolutionary, and nowhere is his conservative character revealed more than in the very sphere where he holds singular gravity—race.

Part of that conservatism about race has been reflected in his reticence: for most of his term in office, Obama has declined to talk about the ways in which race complicates the American present and, in particular, his own presidency.

The irony of Barack Obama is this: he has become the most successful black politician in American history by avoiding the radioactive racial issues of yesteryear, by being “clean” (as Joe Biden once labeled him)—and yet his indelible blackness irradiates everything he touches. This irony is rooted in the greater ironies of the country he leads.

That got me thinking! You remember that I wrote a month ago about your White friends, co-workers or family members. Ask them if they think President Barack Obama could win reelection. Most would say no!

Roughly 40% of the White vote goes to President Barack Obama. Mitt Romney carries strongly among White males and White voters over 65. The president carries Black votes over 90% and Hispanics over 70%.

Morgan Freeman donated to the Pro-Obama Priorities SuperPac this year. Freeman criticized the Tea Party and President Obama. He believes that President Obama should acknowledge the issues of race in America.

The fact that conservatives believe the president is talking about is race is ridiculous. This month when Vice President misquoted Republicans by saying they'll put "ya'll back in chains", a firestorm of villianazation by the conservative media. They believe that the vice president has stated something to rile up Black voters. They maybe right, but they're wrong on the aspect. President Barack Obama avoids talking about race. He knows that he has to do more than a White president. He knows that White voters are the most pessimistic about issues surrounding the economy.

President Obama knows the situation. He rather let this issue be the last thing brought up. Conservatives and White supremacists openly ridicule the policies, his race and his family. He is a Harvard-educated scholar and yet his critics still look at him as a Nigger.

They question his patriotism by suggesting he's not an American or not patriotic enough! They think he spends [taxpayer money/government funds] like a rapper or celebrity.

They refuse to give the president credit for bring the stock market back from the brink, ordering the killing Osama bin Laden and breathing life in the struggling Ford, GM and Chrysler industries.

They see the president as something of the 19th or 20th Century. They believe he's a "Socialist" or "Communist".

Let's take a look at Morgan Freeman. Freeman portrayed roles a Black president and leader. ABC's The View looks into his thoughts.