Racism and the Obama Presidency

It is difficult for America to truly deal with its racist past. So many times we seek to deny the impact that race has played on the collective American identity. The way that blackness has been criminalized in every aspect of American society and inherently categorized as Un-American. This has been accepted into the National consciousness of America. Whether it is politically, economically or socially blacks have been demonized to keep them powerless and the continuous outsiders in American society. The racist underpinnings of this systematic attack on black people has been relegated to the sidelines or ignored because it is a continuous contradiction to the grandiose ideas that this country espouses. However, the degradation of blackness is now on full display with the blatant race-baiting and Hate speech that categorizes much of the rights attacks against the Obama Administration.The political right has exploited the fear that lies at the core of white America that a time of retribution would arrive in which blacks would extract revenge on white America for the injustices of the past. President Obama is the manifestation of this fear and the critiques of his presidency are cloaked in this incessant fear.