CBC Staffer: Opposition to President Obama is Racially Motivated
Everyone knows that a subset of the American electorate is racist, and will never be happy with President Obama’s performance, no matter what 
he does, but just how big is that force? Just how much of an impact does it have?
Angela Rye, Executive Director of the Congressional Black Caucus, argued that President Obama has struggled during his first term due to a racially motivated bias in the electorate.
“This is probably the toughest presidential term in my lifetime,” Rye said duringCSPAN’s Q&A yesterday. “I think that a lot of what the president has experienced is because he’s black. You know, whether it’s questioning his intellect or whether or not he’s Ivy League. It’s always either he’s not educated enough or he’s too educated; or he’s too black or he’s not black enough; he’s too Christian or not Christian enough. There are all these things where he has to walk this very fine line to even be successful.”
She went so far as to say that even calling President Obama “cool” could be deemed racist.
“There’s an ad, talking about [how] the president is too cool, [asking] is he too cool? And there’s this music that reminds me of, you know, some of the blaxploitation films from the 70s playing in the background, him with his sunglasses,” Rye said. “And to me it was just very racially-charged. They weren’t asking if Bush was too cool, but, yet, people say that that’s the number one person they’d love to have a beer with. So, if that’s not cool I dont know what is.”
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