(The following is an excerpt from a commentary by radio host Derek Hunter.)

"I’m talking, of course, about the really big story of the last week – the scourge of racism exposed by a simple rodeo clown at the Missouri State Fair. The aftermath of what happened there should disturb every American interested in equality.

The racist act was not some unnamed guy wearing a Barack Obama mask and lampooning the president. Nor was it Tuffy Gessling, the now “banned for life” rodeo performer who was on the microphone. No, the racist act isn’t a single act; it’s a constant series of acts committed by progressives, Democrats and their allies. It’s the insistence President Obama not be held to the same standards, not be treated the same way as other presidents and other politicians simply because of race.

It’s not breaking news the president is black. Most people, especially those of us born after the babyboomers, couldn’t care less. It was indeed a much bigger deal 40 years ago, but we are not our grandparents’ generation. The world has changed. Peoples have stopped caring about race. We’ve stopped caring about a lot of things the people in charge still obsess over, but none more than race.

This burgeoning revolution has left some people adrift in a world that soon no longer will exist. Their mind still resides in a place with separate water fountains, George Wallace ruling Alabama and the KKK marching in the streets. These people can’t let go. It is the basis of their power, their politics, their wallets. It’s sickening, and it’s un-American.

Merriam-Webster defines racism as “a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race.” That can be boiled down to treating people differently, having different expectations, different standards for someone because of race. And this is how progressives treat President Obama."

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Here is my response to the above-quoted commentary:

I have went on record claiming that it is wrong for politics to be injected into any rodeo. It doesn't matter to me what the political party is of any lampooned politician. I find it disgusting for any such lampooning to be a featured of a rodeo. If President Obama were a white Republican, then I still would object to him being lampooned the way that he was in that aforementioned rodeo.

What radio host Derek Hunter is objecting to is the apparent double-standard that some people are using when it comes to the lampooning of politicians.

White politicians both Democrats and Republicans have been lampooned in rodeos, but did progressives and supporters of the racial-grievance industry complain when those white politicians were lampooned in rodeos? No, not to the best of my knowledge.

It was only when a black politician was lampooned that people on the political left objected.

Note the definition of racism that Derek Hunter cites: "a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race."

That definition of racism says nothing about one party being oppressed by another. In order for racism to occur, one only has to believe that one's own race is superior in some way to another race.

Such a belief in superiority is what Hunter is addressing. It appears that Obama's supporters are saying this: "A black American President cannot have bad policies and make bad decisions. President Obama is black. Therefore, anyone who criticizes President Obama's policies and decisions must be a racist because a black American President cannot have bad policies and make bad decisions."

In the above-mentioned rodeo, President Obama was treated the same way that his predecessors have been treated. Even Hillary Clinton has been treated the same way.

So, why is it acceptable to treat white politicians that way but not acceptable to treat President Obama that way? Are we to believe that President Obama is superior to those other politicians both Democrats and Republicans. Apparently, that is what President Obama's supporters want us to believe.

they all share the same backgrounds criminality masked as political expediency and how to get along and go along otherwise known as business as usual in Washington..

sad thing is that it really started with bush... obama's screw up was the "change" promise, and then one lie after another...

barry is getting what he deserves

Obama gets held to a different standard by the media because he's slow.
So they feel they have to cheer him on and hope that he'll make the right decisions if they kiss his a word for long enough even if it means the country gets burned to the ground by his policies.

Obama is not a leader.
He's an idea guy with a lot of bad ideas.

and Mountain Dew.

name ONE dodo,, name ONE sitting president who , DURING HIS TERM, had an act at a STATE SPONSORED Event call for violence against him who was in no way reprimanded,,,

I will be shocked if you come up with one,, seriously

it wasn't about his BLACKNESS< it was about the calling of VIOLENCE AGAINST A SITTING PRESIDENT<<,, at a GOVERNMENT sponsored event,,(State or otherwise)

of course Obama isn't superior,, he isn't too superior to have his birth place questioned, his college attendance questioned, his sexuality questioned, his religion questioned,,

must I continue? a double standard,,,? certainly not the one being alluded to here,,,,,,

I can remember all the violent, hate filled rhetoric about Bush. There were posters of him with a Hitler mustache, there were videos about his assassination, There were mainstream "journalists" who commented that Dick Cheney should die of his heart ailments. There are many more instances including Nixon and others.
Please don't be so blind as to think Obama is the only President to be demonized.

omg, omg, omg , omg!!!!!!

it was never claimed that all presidents don't face public scrutiny

what is at issue is a SITTING PRESIDENT

invoking violence against a SITTING PRESIDENT

and doing it as a PAID act in a GOVERNMENT SPONSORED EVENT,,,,

Bush was the sitting president!!! And there were videos showing his "hopeful" assassinations. OMG if that isn't worse then a rodeo clown wearing a mask

was the state paying the parties who posted the videos?


free citizens do a lot of 'worse' things in their free time

but employers have some stake in the behavior they accept from employees,,,

I doubt the "employer" purchased the mask or knew anything about it till after the damage was down....Stupid people do stupid things but if Bush was president you would not have heard a peep from the mainstream media...maybe I'm wrong...they would probably have gotten a good laugh about it!

what people notice and what happens are not always one in the same


http://www.theguardian.com/media/2004/jul/15/advertising.uselections2004


as her employer, I don't see the problem it was their prerogative to determine if they would accept her behavior

just as it was the prerogative of those holding the fair

He doesn't have any.
He has no cookie traps to stop the Mountain Dew stealing aliens.

The media is gaga about promoting an air of racism. It's headlines.

Besides, Obama is not really "black." He is more white than black. He was totally raised in a white family and the only thing 'black' about him is his darker skin, (and you can get that at any tanning salon or out of a bottle.)

If he had been culturally black, from a black neighborhood, or raised by black parents, he would never have been elected president. Count on that. Also, I'm quite certain he has Jewish bloodlines on his mother's side.

I disagree

the idea that Obama is even held to a double standard that FAVORS him,,,and that such barely existent favoritism is some racist movement of democrats and progressives,,,

is just the topic of this thread, I have otherwise not seen such a story

but , it is laughable, to try to equate coverage of that event with some racist movement,,,lol

Obama , except in his family circle, I guarantee, has been seen and treated more as a 'black man' than a white one,,,

and I think , regardless of those factors,, he would have been elected

I don't know what 'culturally' black is?

is it speaking broken English and wearing droopy pants?

what makes him not 'culturally' black?

oh come on MH,,, even you can see the double standard...

sorry to say, I really believe she's not capable of seeing it

lol... true, shes been the same since 2008... good for her, she believes in barry... not sure why, but she does...