Blame Obama

I’ve seen the online discussions. There are people who believe all the racial problems and tensions began with Obama. It's all Obama's fault. They say he is a racists and favored black people over white people. They argue everything was fine until he became president.

Well, in a way they are right but just not in the way they think or feel. Race tensions did increase when he was elected but the reason was because he was elected and not due to any policies or statements he made. The problems were that so many conservative racists took the election of a black man as president as a reason to suddenly express all their racists views that they now believed was OK because now America was suddenly in a post-race society.

The racists came out of the woodwork with the election of a black man as president. They saw everything as race motivated and whenever someone called them out on their bigoted hate speech they claimed that liberals were just playing the race card.

For eight years the racists and the people in Congress who cater to them have done everything in their power to block and belittle the accomplishments of the president. After eight years of having a black man in the White House these racists bigots were shocked at the prospect of the next president being a woman so they rallied behind another racist bigot running on the birther platform. With help from the Russians Trump became president and immediately started blaming Obama for anything and everything. He also made racism a part of the Republican party and his hate speech became the new normal that allowed anyone to make similar comments and get away with it.

Now after three years of the blame game he has turned up the hate rhetoric even more and continues to loudly blow racist dog whistles over and over day after day. The new normal on steroids. His followers still blame Obama for anything they don't like about race relations in America. Unbelievable.