Racism. Still Ugly. Still Effed up.

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How classy is this guy? He’s never going to publicly acknowledge that there is a group of Americans who not only disagree with his politics, but are becoming so unhinged—mostly because of the complete and total bullshit being spun by their “leaders”—that they can no longer hide their bigotry, if they ever tried to hide it at all.

Ever since Jimmy Carter dared to say, Hey! If you all hadn’t noticed, some of this criticism of the president has become nothing more than an excuse for bigots to come knuckle-dragging out of their caves, and it needs to stop. … It’s like a floodgate has been opened. It’s like a whole bunch-a people were thinking it, but were afraid to say it out loud. (Conservatives are right on one point: Progressives can be such pussies.)

Of course, the hard right is circling its wagons, denying everything, just like they always do. Here’s the thing, though, folks, being a white lady, sometimes I’m in the room when these assholes say the racist things they do. Out in public, though, they’ll deny until they die.

Let’s analyze some of their recent claims denying racism on the right, shall we?

Any criticism of this president is being characterized by the left as racism.

Wrong. Though I know it might make some people on the hard right’s heads explode, if they’d care to mosey on over to some of the progressive publications and websites, they’d find that progressives are criticizing their president as well. Genuine criticism of the president’s policies is fine. That’s what America is all about. But there’s more than that going on here.

President Obama hates white people. (Glen Beck said, and I quote, that Obama has a “deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture.”)

What a fucking stupid thing to say. Like every other black person in this country, Obama has to deal with white people. That’s just a given. He has white people in his family, for god’s sake. People he loves. And does every black person carry at least a tiny bit of annoyance toward some white people in this country? Probably. So what? Christ, can you blame them? Black people have learned to be so patient with us white folk. And in return, we can be such ass holes.

All presidents are criticized. What’s happening to Obama is nothing different than any other president.

Wrong. Sure, all presidents are criticized, sometimes mercilessly. But according to this news story from the Canadian Press, this past summer Barack Obama “reportedly had more (death threats) leveled against him than any commander-in-chief in history.” The article continues: A new book, "In The President's Secret Service," says Obama receives as many as 30 death threats a day, 400 percent more than those made against his predecessor, George W. Bush.

Well, liberals voted for Barack Obama only because he’s black, and so that’s racism.

Wrong. People voted for Barack Obama because he’s articulate, smart, younger than dead, and charismatic. He was like the anti-Bush. The antidote to Bush. After the previous administration, this country needed Barack Obama.

People are carrying guns to Town Hall Meetings because they’re fearful of losing their rights and their guns, not because they’re violent.

Okay, whatever. When Clinton was president and tried to reform health care, nobody started packing heat. Nobody started waving guns around. Nobody. This is about intimidation. For some Americans, a black president and now a Hispanic Supreme Court Justice has become nothing more than a thin excuse to pull the old white hoods out of dusty trunks.