(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.

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,,,,,,

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

the double standard of being more highly scrutinized,, sure

not a double standard that gives him more consideration than other presidents though,,,

yeah, right,


he owns all the networks and their subsidiaries,,,,

bush was worse...when people started speaking out about the war, they were blacklisted, harassed, and made to look dumb... Dixie Chics ring a bell?

thats why i'm mad at barry, he promised to make things better, and nothing has changed at all.. bush could still be in office for all i see...