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Psychological Warfare on The Notion of a Black President; Playing On Black Fear and White Lunacy – Between the Lines

By Dr. Anthony Asadullah Samad, PhD Columnist

John McCain’s codification, while not as damning as Clinton’s, is not much better. To suggest that Obama’s “inexperience” doesn’t make him suited for the Presidency, infers that Obama is not “smart enough” to be President. It’s on record that McCain has a real distain for what he touts as Obama’s lack of experience, but experience…

June 5, 2008 2 min read Free to read

John McCain’s codification, while not as damning as Clinton’s, is not much better. To suggest that Obama’s “inexperience” doesn’t make him suited for the Presidency, infers that Obama is not “smart enough” to be President. It’s on record that McCain has a real distain for what he touts as Obama’s lack of experience, but experience is just one criterion for a leader. Both Clinton and McCain have very heavy “negatives” that most acknowledge are problematic across the electorate, yet they run even with Obama. Largely because some white people can’t get over their “inferiority complex” as it relates to black people – any black person – and their fears play against supporting an obviously superior candidacy in Barack Obama. McCain dismissive statements combined with Clinton and Huckabee’s impolitic statements (both know threats against Barack life are real) send subliminal messages to some lunatic that thinks they are being patriotic or standing up in some other symbolic way to save “the American way” of life. Assassination has played an all too real role in American history and to even infer that one is possible sends the wrong “signal,” if we say times have changed. Or sends a “right” signal to some lunatic waiting for a cue.

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