Obama to Letterman: “I was black before the election”

  President Obama, thankfully, is finally trying to put an end to all of the talk within his own party that the majority of the people who oppose his healthcare reform efforts are just racists and don’t have legitimate concerns about the reform.

  Healthcare reform protesters have faced insinuations from the likes of high ranking Democrats such as Nancy Pelosi that we are Nazis and Jimmy Carter has gone of record as saying a majority of the protesters are racists. The president had remained silent on the issue leading many to believe that he condoned such outrageous accusations. But then last week he finally spoke about the accusations of racism being levied against his opponents when he said that he did not believe a majority of those who oppose healthcare reform are doing so because he is black.

  Tonight President Obama took this position one step further on David Letterman’s show when he reiterated a point that I have tried to make in the past. When asked by Letterman if the protests were founded in racism he replied:

I think it’s important to realize that I was actually black before the election

  I had tried to make the point in previous posts that while there is still some racism and racists out there that a majority of Americans have moved past race as an issue. I used Barack Obama’s election as proof that most Americans do not look at a person and see race first. In these posts I have been told that I can not use the one example of Barack Obama to prove that racism doesn’t exist. (Although I never claimed that it doesn’t exist.) My point was that as a whole Americans have moved past race and no longer look at people through a prism of race. And tonight Barack Obama has seconded my position.

 A majority of white Americans voted for Barack Obama, they did not care about his color. They voted for the man and his positions not for or against his color. Barack Obama would never have been elected if racism was as prevalent as the left would have you believe. To try and paint these same Americans as racists for opposing one of his positions is nothing more than an attempt to smear people just for having a difference in policy.

  President Obama has tried to put an end to the name calling that has been going on in his party so the question is, will the members of his party follow his lead and stop calling the protesters racists? President Obama has taken the high road, will the other Democrats do likewise?

  It is time to put the focus back on the issue at hand– healthcare reform.