That’s what ABC News was discussing the other day
Deciding whom we will trust, especially with our money, may be shaped more by unconscious racial biases than many of us would like to admit, according to new research published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
See? We’re all racists deep in our minds. We’re all, at our core, big meanies. And probably to that guy in the picture at the link who looks suspiciously like Obama…..oh, wait
In Monday’s study, researchers focused on the extent to which unconscious racial biases may affect explicit preferences when we make decisions about whom to trust. Researchers measured implicit and explicit racial bias among 50 racially diverse participants using an Implicit Association Test (IAT) and questionnaires assessing self-reported racism.
Fifty people determine that over 300 million are supposedly secret raaaaacists?
Now, I never got around to posting this the other day. Normally what I’ll do is post two in the AM, then set up a few for the day, which I may never get around to, or find something more interesting and easy to post with my iPhone during the work day. Yet, the above leads to this hoot from Rachel Rose Hartman from Yahoo “News”
Birtherist response highlights racial undertones of ‘debate’
So what’s fueling the dogged questioning of Obama’s origins? Many critics of the birther movement say its core tenets–and its stubborn resistance to evidence disproving those beliefs–can be traced to racial hostilities. The fundamental birtherist conviction, these critics say, is that an African-American can’t have legitimately won the presidency–and that his elevation to power therefore has to be the result of an elaborate subterfuge.
“There is a real deep-seated and vicious racism at work here in terms of trying to de-legitimate the president,” Peniel Joseph, a professor of history at Tufts University, told The Ticket.
“This is more than just a conspiracy,” Joseph added. “I think this is fundamentally connected to a conception of white supremacist democracy in this country.”
The article keeps going on and on and on about how the whole thing is “raaaaacist.” Essentially, that’s the Leftist fall back argument for most things. Or killing Grandma. Hating the poor. But, mostly, raaaacist. None of them provide proof, just their “feelings”
Birthers emphatically deny such criticism. But it’s difficult to apprehend the ongoing resistance to proof of Obama’s citizenship without crediting racial fear as a significant factor.
See, it’s so easy! But, of course, Rachel and the other nuts can’t “apprehend” why people are so virulently against Obama and his destructive and foolish policies which are destroying America, raising prices, destroying the dollar, putting us in enormous multigenerational debt, and you know the rest. Nope, must be raaaaacism of a guy who’s half white.
Clue for you, Rachel and assorted nuts: most do not care if he is half Black. They care about his policies. Most on the right are not caught up in the politics of race. But, then, I don’t expect her to understand, considering she completely misunderstands what the Constitution says about “natural born” in her first paragraph, and slyly suggests that McCain wasn’t eligible.
