Yes, There is Racism in America

How else do you explain 91% support for Obama among blacks?

With poverty rates at an all-time high, black unemployment numbers at daunting levels, and Obamacare bringing no change on killing black babies, stunningly, black support for Obama is up.

In fact, black approval of President Obama is virtually unchanged at 91 percent since his inauguration.

Now, unless we believe that 91 percent of blacks are truly as radical as Obama (and every indication is that blacks are far more conservative than he is), then what explains how Obama could have 91% approval, when even among Democrats as a whole, that number is lower at just 79 percent?

Worse, black poverty is higher now than under President Bush.

In fact, during the Bush years, black unemployment was actually lower than during Clinton’s terms (you know, "the first black president"), at an average of 9 percent and certainly lower than the 16.3 percent it stands at today.

Indeed, under Obama, black unemployment rose from 12.6 in January 2010 to 16.3 percent as of August 1 2010. An almost 30 percent increase.

So far, President Bush has a better track record on black upward mobility than Clinton or Obama.

Regardless, Bush only enjoyed an average of about 32 percent approval amongst black voters two years into his first term. And we haven't even mentioned Bush’s historic cabinet level appointments of blacks or his unprecedented AIDS funding in Africa. Much to Kanye West’s chagrin, it turns out President Bush did, indeed, care about black people.

Still, some argue that black support of Obama is merely a function of "black solidarity”; that birds of a feather flock together. But that in itself is racist. After all, can you imagine white voters lining up 9 out of 10 to stand in "racial solidarity" with an elected official who was the equivalent of a wrecking ball slamming through their lives?

Read the rest of the piece here. For a group that is constantly alleging racism in others, blacks are amazingly monolithic in their support for Obama. Racism will finally be a thing in the past when black support for candidates and parties shows the same kind of numbers you see in other ethnic groups.