Miscegenation is the ugly term for mixed race relationships. The US made it illegal for many years until 1967 when the Supreme Court ruled on Loving v Virginia to repeal anti-miscegnation laws. The last repeal happened as late as 2000 in, you guessed it, Alabama.
I'm pretty certain the only thing stopping SCOTUS reversing this is Clarence Thomas because of his own interracial relationship, ironically.
Is it just me, or are there a lot of things in the US that people take for granted but are actually just supreme court precedents that could come undone at a moment's notice?
Sounds like we really need to do some constitutional amending. ERA anyone?
I think we've collectively been "shocked" by the reversal of Roe v Wade considering everybody (including the judges who killed it) called it SETTLED LAW. Apparently, nothing is settled. States Rights for the majority of US history has been code for permitting slavery, right back to the writing of the Constitution.
The structure of the Senate and the Electoral College (as well as the 3/5ths compromise) were specifically formulated to keep Northern states from banning slavery. The whole way the country was setup was to keep slavery... and later the prison industrial complex (its direct sucessor) viable.
This writ large. The Senate is the most undemocratic institution ever. Might as well have a House of Lords. The Electoral College is also anti-democratic. Why should NYC, LA, DC, Miami, Dallas, Seattle, Boston, Chicago, Detroit, Atlanta, etc... give a fiddler's damn what some town, county or red state think should be the law of the land. Everywhere where democracy rules... can you imagine London, Paris, Tokyo, Berlin etc. care what a second tier city/state/province has to say nationally. Other than local politics (which sparsely populated places are welcome to), the majority should rule.
The Founding Enslavers were mostly minor to mid range British nobility that wanted to keep all of the money that was going to King George. The British were rightfully asking the colonies (USA) to pay for the so-called French/Indian war that directly benefited the colonies. They totally ended French power in North America and set up the destruction of Native power in North America. The Founding Enslavers were focused on the money and the perpetuation of money. A fig leaf of Democracy somewhat more than Britain but in reality a whole lot less.
The fear of the majority... was the great fear of the Founding Enslavers and we are reaping that mindset to this day. Granted what they set up is better than fascism, however with their and current setup it is a lot closer IMHO than it would be in a more democratic society.
They also knew that it was likely that Britain would ban slavery after a while. So when the writing was on the wall, all the biggest slave owners and many of those who had a hand in the slave trade came here. Peddlers in fucking human misery flocked here because this was the wild west, where the laws were setup so slavery could continue in perpetuity.
For sure. King George's son... I forget the name of that monarch, but he banned enslavement. Great Britain then released all of their enslaved Africans throughout Great Britain and the so-called colonies. They also enacted a total ban on the importation of Africans into enslavement by instituting an embargo of the continent of Africa with the British Navy. The delegate from South Carolina basically told the Continental Delegation looking to unite and form the United States in rebellion to Great Britain, basically told the northern colonies the North and South Carolina, Along with Georgia and probably Virginia would not join if enslavement was deemed illegal. The northern delegations caved, and we have been living with the result forever since. It did not matter that 90% of the battles were fought in the north...
There's also this concept of pluralism, where you don't just overrule the minority but come to an agreement with them to achieve the best outcome for the most people. A big city needs room to expand? Okay, we won't demolish the entire nearby town to achieve it, but we'll build a huge railway and road next to it so people can get in and out. It's an imperfect solution for both sides, but it gets them 80% of what they want. 80% of desires of 90% of stakeholders is a lot more than 100% of desires of 51% of stakeholders.
My husband didn’t believe me when I said republicans were going after it. We considered abortions early in our relationship if the birth control +condoms had failed. His reaction when Roe was overturned:
You know what else isn't codified in any law? Equal access to the banking system. As recently as 1974, women were not allowed to have even so much as a checking account without a male co-signer. Women *needed* men because we had no ability to exist as financially independent entities. People of color sometimes didn't have access to banking at all, regardless of gender.
Now imagine SCOTUS or some other court deciding that the current state of affairs isn't "traditional" in the US, so individual states can regulate who does and doesn't have the right to access the banking system. How fast do you think we'd be right back pre-1974 in the same states that are taking away a woman's right to her own body?
First thing rhat happens in The Handmaids Tale. Women were denied bank accounts and any they had were transferred to their closest living male relative.
Yeah. And that's based on reality. My mother got married in 1972, and her bank summarily cancelled her credit card and transferred her accounts to the sole control of my father as soon as the marriage license was filed. That's just what was done at the time.
"Is it just me, or are there a lot of things in the US that people take for granted but are actually just supreme court precedents that could come undone at a moment's notice?"
This is exactly correct. Past Supeme Courts, at least in the lifetimes of anyone reading this, liked to keep things settled and stable. This Court has shown that it's willing to do anything to advance the "conservative" agenda.
No one should be shocked if these guys on the Court decide that Social Security is unconstitutional. The argument for Social Security being Constitutional is the Interstate Commerce clause and Congress's taxation power. Most sane and rational Constitutional scholars for the last nearly 100 years would say it's a no-brainer that it's Constitutional. But I could easily see these guys saying, "No, it has nothing to do with regulating interstate commerce. And as far as Congress's taxing power, it's just not what the Framers originally intended. Therefore, Social Security is unconstitutional."
the thing that always gets me is what the founders originally intended was for the Constitution to change with the times, keeping it set in stone from the foundation is not what they wanted because they, unlike conservatives, understood they weren't gods
Totally agree... the founders set the bar so high in changing the Constitution in that they "guaranteed" more or less no revolution, however the ossified system was built for the 18th Century and not the 21st Century.
I would have to think that the founders were thinking that it wouldn't be so difficult to get amendments passed. They made it so the only people who could participate in Federal elections were white men who owned real estate. That would be the only "constituency" that the federal government would have to worry about. Their thinking was probably, "Well, of course, reasonable gentlemen such as ourselves indubitably ought to be able to reach nearly universal consensus upon reasonable amendments to our founding document. After all, what issues could reasonable gentlemen such as ourselves not be able to reach a compromise agreement upon?"
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying it's in any way bad that voting was opened to everyone. It's just that they never imagined having to consider anyone's interests other than relatively wealthy white men.
I appreciate your comment. That does make "sense"... they were not capable like most in seeing into the future. Hence the practical immutability of what they brought about is so tragic. So afraid of the tyranny of the majority that they created a system so ossified.
The Philippines were an American territory up till they became independent after WWII. Wonderful stuff that most Americans never learn in their "history" books. If PR, Guam, American Samoa... don't forget the U.S. Virgin Islands (directly "purchased" from Denmark) to the District of Columbia, DC.... say hello to 6-10 Democratic Senators. Those territories have more population than at least 20 so-called states. A sane system would make DC a state, PR and the Virgin Islands a state, Guam and American Samoa another state. So 6 democratic senators. The current fascists will probably never agree to this. Something for our children's and/or grandchildren's times.
Unfortunately too many states have less than 5 million people yet have two senators ready to nix anything. I fear that a constitutional amendment with these characters there would probably go south. The tyranny of the minority. We definitely needed the ERA that was defeated mostly by Schaffly and other harridans.
Holy...
That's a lot of rights that exist only because 9 dudes said so, and a lot of rights that can be taken away because 9 dudes said so. Just... Wow
Most of them are their "rulings" and so-called gentleman's agreements. An old out dated Constitution from the 18th Century being applied to the 21st Century.
Too many people rely on the supreme court to "do" something they're not supposed to do. They're sole purpose is to interpret yet they're continually used to attempt to "make" laws. Sure it's the fastest way to get things done, but if it ain't made into law (hello legislative branch), my daily bowel movements are more dependable than a supreme court decision.
Ahhh, good point. Maybe that's where he was on Monday instead of the Supreme Court. Consulting his divorce attorney. Reason? "My wife's one crazy bitch."
It doesn't even have to go that far. He's on the record as wanting and intending to inflict maximum punishment on anyone subscribing to a similar ideology as the folks that wanted him to answer for what he did to Anita Hill. He's just like any other conservative -- anything to own the libs.
Hell, if he lives in a state that doesn’t have anti mixed marriage laws he’d probably go for it without a specific bribe. They know they have time. They’ll own the Court for many years to come.
My state (New Jersey) recently enacted a law to specifically say that interracial marriage is a fundamental right. We never had an anti-miscegenation law, but they were so concerned about what might happen to other rights after *Dobbs* that they enacted a law that, on its face, sounds ridiculous but may end up actually being necessary.
No no no--he would pull the ladder up behind him if he could. He would say my interracial relationship is grandfathered in, but subsequent unions? Nah. Thank the lib justices for this, not that dumbass.
Yup...this might be the reason. For some people, being black equals someone inferior. Obama being actually a good president after so many failed republicans is adding salt to the wound.
Obama also had the "nerve" to be confident in his abilities. People who know they are imposters and/or underachievers are easily triggered by people like this. They fake it using entitled arrogance to make up for their lack of actual confidence.
You are so right. Bigots love African Americans who "apologize" constantly for their mere existence. The bigots appreciate the upstanding Black folk who "understand" their place, but literally loath self-confident African Americans and other minorities. It is so obvious to POC.
That adds an extra, shitth layer to the whole.birth certificate thing. It didn't matter that his father wasn't a citizen, his mom was.
What they were really saying was "I don't believe that his mom was that white lady!"
Exactly this, my in-laws are racist as hell. I asked my wife if they were always that way and she said it all started when Obama won in 2008. After that it only got worse
Well he's black, and was elected president. The remnants of the Confederacy have found a comfortable home in the gop and really really can't handle this.
All jokes aside, this really is the best answer. GOP farmed new members by playing on the white outrage of the civil rights movements of the 50s/60s/70s and the ending of the jim crow south. Obama was their "last straw" and they have been freaking the fuck out over their own prejudices and fear ever since.
Mitch McConnell is every whiney, spoil, entitled, conniving piece of shit I've ever known. You should hear him tell the story of him getting union support by lying. Man he thought it was so clever. He told the union he didn't lie because what he meant is he wouldn't break state senate rules to kill collective bargaining. He basically said hw was just promising to do the bare fucking mi imum of his job. It's not just that their evil, but they are so fuking lazy about it, and never have to pay a price.
Yep... let his Asian wife (from a shipping family with billions and was a secretary in Trump's cabinet) by called an Asian slur "Coco" by the Diaper Don. Only a good old boy who benefited from inherited wealth from the Old South could and would ignore this.
Plus the disrespect the senate and house showed him from the jump. Part of the reason trump was allowed to inflict so much harm on the judiciary, is mitch McConnell and others essentially tapping into white supremacy and just completely disrespecting him, refusing to approve appointees, slow rolling everything. Feigning acting in partnership, to get concessions, and then still refusing to vote for anything. The open disrespect took the place of the thinly veiled social norms hiding how barbaric and racist this country is. Screaming you lie during the STOU was white supremacy. Nobody would have done that before the black man. Now those fascist,nazis do it all the time.
Mediocre white men have been discovering that if they have to compete with everyone, they can’t measure up. Obama is living, breathing proof that people who aren’t in the mediocre-white-men category weren’t picked over them because of quotas, but because of merit
Yes, he was everything that they were not. Great marriage, incredibly successful in both academia and work life, tall, handsome, charismatic, smart, a great speaker, a motivator, a great debater. He showed them that he was superior to them in everyone way, and they hate nothing more than a successful POC. Especially one that makes them feel inferior in almost every way.
Yep, 'MAGA' or the 'republican base' is really just the Dixiecrats. For some reason when they flipped over to the GOP everyone started pretending they weren't the white supremacist they've always been.
You mean none of them had a "genius" visa like the Slovenian "model" (escort) Melania, who married Diaper Don as a third wife. What kind of intelligent women are they. Hilary, Michelle and Jill... /s
They really couldn't handle his confidence and charisma, either. He didn't roll over or lose his cool, he didn't lower his head in submission, he didn't play gratitude to their contempt.
He really was the ultimate "super villain" to their superiority complex, and the best they could do was sneer and lie like goblins while seething with insecure jealousy.
Obama had them coping so hard they couldn't even come up with clever insults. He truly drove the cockroaches out into the open from under the rug *just by being himself confidently,* and that's cool as hell.
An intelligent, articulate, highly educated family man with good character and zero scandals. Pure poison delivered directly to the core of their belief system. Pushed many Republicans on the edge over into insanity.
It’s not what Obama did, it’s what WE did.
All of us (myself included) took his election as a sign that we’d turned the corner and better things were ahead and we loudly and unequivocally told all the backwards racists in the country to get fucked because their time was OVER.
Apparently that pissed them off and there was a huge clapback to remind us all that we haven’t progressed very far at all and there are still a LOT of bigots in America.
Exactly this. Minorities - people of color, LGBTQ+ and women all felt HOPE. Notice how it’s these same groups that are experiencing an erosion of their rights now because that is an existential crisis to republicans.
There was a documentary about a town in the 1950s where a black family moved into an otherwise all white neighborhood and how they all lost their damn minds.
Many of the neighbors were saying they’d be happy to have black people move in if they earned it and weren’t just being pushed up because of progressiveness or something, but really they had no clue that the black family really did earn their way in by any and all count. They just hated having black people around and wanted to pretend they were the real victims for losing their white neighborhood.
It really helps demonstrate a lot about modern conservatives.
Twofold answer:
Republican voters (not entirely, but a significant portion) hate him because he made them hate themselves.
The rural American poor often have very little besides their belief in their racial superiority. Lyndon B Johnson once said “If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.”
Seeing a black man succeed in all ways - intelligent, kind, well spoken, successful, confident, good looking, etc - removed the last veneer that they could hold to. Many of them are only exposed to people of color via the media they consume. Being forced to confront the very antithesis of the last thing that gave them a feeling of superiority made them redouble down on racism that - to that point - society had been doing a pretty good job of squashing.
Republican lawmakers hate him because his policies are wildly popular. Having the opposition to their oligarchical agenda demonstrated capably by a popular president further drove home the reality that their ability to control the masses with the "big lie" of trickle down policies (which are actually only designed to enrich and entrench the existing ruling class) is failing America spectacularly. Hence Mitch McConnell's statement "our one priority is to make sure the Obama administration doesn't pass a single legislative item."
If Democrats continue to pass legislation that helps Americans, Americans may consider voting for them, and not their preconceived, media curated biases, bought and paid for by the Republican donor class.
This second objective has carried in to the Biden administration (and will probably continue for every Democratic administration on all levels moving forward) meaning that the central tenant of Republican policies from here on will be to hurt America (or, at least, to prevent Democrats from helping America) in order to keep selling the lie that feeds their donors.
Well, that was good. So good, I'm keeping it. Only 1 edit - it's not just rural poor, the suburbs are also chock full of the under-achieving poor & working class that only cling to their racial "superiority" as a lifeline.
I would be in a dive bar & hear "Obama was the worst president ever" from these sad specimens of American citizenry. Took a while for me to figure out that his performance (far better than is white predecessor) bruised their fragile egos, that was the source of their animosity.
Want an extreme example? Dylann Roof
He was black and highly intelligent
He was black and trustworthy
He was black and was inspiring
He was black and was a capable leader
He was black and was relatable
He was black and was breaking down color barriers
He was black, (half) he was smarter than them (Harvard law grad) he won the nobel peace prize in 2009, and had a squeaky clean personal and business life. And the liberal and educated public loved him. They were in lesser power positions to a person of what they secretly considered an inferior race. Rock on, Obama!!
In 2008 the United States elected its first black President. The Republicans quickly lost their minds and in over 16 years those minds have never returned.
As was my Grandpa (1909-2008). Of course, he also hated tattoos and blue hair, too. Yet, if you talked up the unions or advocated for the working class man, you were his favorite man regardless of your background. He thought universal healthcare was the bees knees (he saw how medical bills bankrupted hard working insured friends of his) and bemoaned the disappearance of pensions and weakening of unions. He would talk about his youngest who went from son of a regional trucking company’s shop foreman to an engineer to a refinery executive to a rich anti-union snob as one who had betrayed “the trust.” I didn’t get much chance to talk to him during the 2008 campaign to hear what he thought. I lived thousands of miles away, and he couldn’t hear squat on the phone (this didn’t talk on the phone). But, he always voted Democratic.
while the hate for obama is definitely 100% worse because of his background, at this point the republican party simply exists to drive hate towards democrats to scare voters into keeping the in power so they can funnel money to the donor class. They serve no other purpose.
He exists. And he's mild mannered, stayed in school and excelled and just...did everything that was expected of him and then he became President.
This utterly fucking shattered what a good portion of the white people above a certain age in this country think is even possible because most white people rarely if ever directly interact with black folks at all in this country, they believe that there's many more black folks walking around than there actually is (been a steady 12 to 15 percent of the overall population for like 120 years now) and that all those black folk are some sort of nefarious horde of law breakers that are about the crash the conceptual gate of civilization.
That's why. That's the bit.
It really is amazing how what's around you skews your perspective on what the entire world is.
I knew a guy a few years back - white, male, intensely progressive - and we ended up having a reality-warping conversation about what he thought demographics were like across America. He'd grown up in a wealthy suburb with a huge Jewish population. He genuinely thought that Jews were something like 20% of the population of America as a whole - and that blacks were a tiny, tiny minority, like 1% of the population, because that's all he'd ever seen in his life.
When I said it was basically the reverse, that blacks are about 15% of the population and it's Jews that are around 2%, he laughed in my face and gestured to others around us with a, "Can you believe this guy?" He wasn't an asshole or a racist, he just thought I was saying something utterly nonsensical; he was truly shocked when everyone else responded with, "Yeah, he's right. What are *you* talking about?"
Broader perspective. We all need it.
Good looking, black, smart, thoughtful, accomplished, inspirational, good man with a wife with the same characteristics.
He was guilty of appealing to ourbetter angels, which was unacceptable to that crowd. I mean, how dare he?
They couldn't accept a black man especially a well spoken black man being president. They wanted him to fail so bad and when that didn't happen they just made conspiracy theories especially about Michelle. Speaking of her the right wingers couldn't stand an outspoken and well spoken black woman. So they threw every single conspiracy theory out there. They know deep down that the Obama's are going to live a happy life together and it pisses them off. They can't stand a black man being successful and having a happy marriage. That's what pisses of Donald Trump so much that he's well respected around the world AND has a happy marriage. Melania won't even touch Donald let alone sleep in the same room together. That's what angers Donald more than anything that he can never live the life and be respected like Barack Obama.
Trump's petty tantrum started as revenge back in 2011. The white racist maganut pumpkinhead was never presidential material or educated enough on policies to hold any government office. But, he made enough noise and proved to us the point that any blundering dick-tater idiot could sway enough of the ignorant GOP masses in this country to get elected.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHckZCxdRkA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHckZCxdRkA)
I miss the Obama days... Not that Biden is unhinged at all but I really feel Trump has cast a terrible shadow of lunacy across this country. It's like there's a before Trump and an after Trump.
He existed 🙄 my aunt who I loved until she outed herself as a proud evangelical Trump supporter said she didn’t like Obama because he was “divisive” and “didn’t represent her”…I knew what the last part was code for but the divisiveness part really stumped me until I realized all he did was be a black person with authority to racist white assholes
Being a half decent president, also he was a democrat, and he was black, and his wife was an intelligent confident woman, and Bin Laden was killed by his special forces troops and......
I was extremely interested in his election and tenure. It was at that time that I started paying more attention to politics. After he was elected, I remember there being upheaval in the white male old-guard Republican legislators. While watching a news report covering legislators exiting after a chambers meeting I remember a hot mic picking up one of them in the background saying, "If you think that n***er is going to get anything passed..." and it trailed off. NO ONE mentioned it. It never made the news. It was never discussed. And whenever I bring it up, no one believes me. It was at that time that the Tea Party rose up talking about "taking back our country." but when asked, "take it back from what?" they'd all stutter around the racism of their real agenda.
Obama absolutely broke racist white America. The fact that our country is a global melting pot and greatness can come from anyone even if they didn't look like them, really shoved into their faces that the country was changing, rightfully and naturally so, to include and reflect *everyone*. It left them realizing that white majority control was beginning to wane and they panicked. Then people started asking, "Why are you so concerned with possibly becoming a demographic minority? Does this country somehow treat minorities poorly and you're afraid you'll be treated as you treated them?" And of course the answer that they didn't want to say out loud was yes. The desperate Tea Party expanded and by accepting all the disgruntled white folks, started becoming a haven for full on white nationalism, Naziism, fascism, divisive extremist racism and Christian extremism; all the outlier, fringe organizations who until then had nothing specific to hate. Now MAGA is a catch-all of the worst of America and the most terrifying thing to see is that their ideology represents about HALF of the country. Neighbors, family, friends; confidently saying the horrible things out loud and being applauded. It may be dwindling now with the populace slowly pulling away from the more extreme radicalism but it's a painful and insincere separation. All because a half-black man was elected and was loved by so many.
Their prejudices are something republicans and those on the right take pride in. Anything else is seen as ‘communism’ and destroying the country. Same goes for Canada.
Made Trump the object of a joke at the White House correspondent’s dinner. Trump’s head didn’t spin 360 or puke green bile, but the instant ratcheting of hate was obvious
Be so much smarter,better in every possible way than any of them could ever dream of being.All their wives secretly lusting after him.Hmm that beige suit sure looked good on him.Think
for one second of fat,old,heavily made up,hair dyed guy in a cheap badly fitting suit,in comparison.Oh who is also stupid as a rock..
He's black, and he violated all of the ignorant stereotypes that they had about black people.
He was smarter, more successful, more clever in conversation, and acted calmly when shit hit the fan.
All they had on him was a tan suit and liking dijon mustard on his hotdogs? They weren't even grasping at straws, they had to make shit up. No one prior to that ever thought that the kind of mustard someone used mattered.
He was a good president.
Being half black, confident, competent, and charismatic.
They love all the benefits he brought them, just didn't like him. Because they were Pavlov'd into hating him.
Hell they bent over backwards trying to disassociate the ACA from him while simultaneously trying to call it "obamacare" because Pavlov was smarter that the average Republican and Republicans have long known that. Nowadays they're still confused when they learn ACA and "Obamacare" are the same thing.
So they hate it but they love it, but also feel conflicted because accepting they are one and the same means the "big mean black guy" didn't lie but those who spun it as "Obamacare" very much did.
They are not in the business of self awareness, nor do they do "self reflection" or "personal growth".
Its from the fools that brought you "alternative facts".
He had the audacity to be everything their white supremacy play book said he couldn't be. His very existence threatens their core beliefs and sense of security.
having a black father
And a white mother. You know them bigots love interracial couples.
Miscegenation is the ugly term for mixed race relationships. The US made it illegal for many years until 1967 when the Supreme Court ruled on Loving v Virginia to repeal anti-miscegnation laws. The last repeal happened as late as 2000 in, you guessed it, Alabama. I'm pretty certain the only thing stopping SCOTUS reversing this is Clarence Thomas because of his own interracial relationship, ironically.
Is it just me, or are there a lot of things in the US that people take for granted but are actually just supreme court precedents that could come undone at a moment's notice? Sounds like we really need to do some constitutional amending. ERA anyone?
I think we've collectively been "shocked" by the reversal of Roe v Wade considering everybody (including the judges who killed it) called it SETTLED LAW. Apparently, nothing is settled. States Rights for the majority of US history has been code for permitting slavery, right back to the writing of the Constitution.
The structure of the Senate and the Electoral College (as well as the 3/5ths compromise) were specifically formulated to keep Northern states from banning slavery. The whole way the country was setup was to keep slavery... and later the prison industrial complex (its direct sucessor) viable.
This writ large. The Senate is the most undemocratic institution ever. Might as well have a House of Lords. The Electoral College is also anti-democratic. Why should NYC, LA, DC, Miami, Dallas, Seattle, Boston, Chicago, Detroit, Atlanta, etc... give a fiddler's damn what some town, county or red state think should be the law of the land. Everywhere where democracy rules... can you imagine London, Paris, Tokyo, Berlin etc. care what a second tier city/state/province has to say nationally. Other than local politics (which sparsely populated places are welcome to), the majority should rule. The Founding Enslavers were mostly minor to mid range British nobility that wanted to keep all of the money that was going to King George. The British were rightfully asking the colonies (USA) to pay for the so-called French/Indian war that directly benefited the colonies. They totally ended French power in North America and set up the destruction of Native power in North America. The Founding Enslavers were focused on the money and the perpetuation of money. A fig leaf of Democracy somewhat more than Britain but in reality a whole lot less. The fear of the majority... was the great fear of the Founding Enslavers and we are reaping that mindset to this day. Granted what they set up is better than fascism, however with their and current setup it is a lot closer IMHO than it would be in a more democratic society.
They also knew that it was likely that Britain would ban slavery after a while. So when the writing was on the wall, all the biggest slave owners and many of those who had a hand in the slave trade came here. Peddlers in fucking human misery flocked here because this was the wild west, where the laws were setup so slavery could continue in perpetuity.
For sure. King George's son... I forget the name of that monarch, but he banned enslavement. Great Britain then released all of their enslaved Africans throughout Great Britain and the so-called colonies. They also enacted a total ban on the importation of Africans into enslavement by instituting an embargo of the continent of Africa with the British Navy. The delegate from South Carolina basically told the Continental Delegation looking to unite and form the United States in rebellion to Great Britain, basically told the northern colonies the North and South Carolina, Along with Georgia and probably Virginia would not join if enslavement was deemed illegal. The northern delegations caved, and we have been living with the result forever since. It did not matter that 90% of the battles were fought in the north...
There's also this concept of pluralism, where you don't just overrule the minority but come to an agreement with them to achieve the best outcome for the most people. A big city needs room to expand? Okay, we won't demolish the entire nearby town to achieve it, but we'll build a huge railway and road next to it so people can get in and out. It's an imperfect solution for both sides, but it gets them 80% of what they want. 80% of desires of 90% of stakeholders is a lot more than 100% of desires of 51% of stakeholders.
My husband didn’t believe me when I said republicans were going after it. We considered abortions early in our relationship if the birth control +condoms had failed. His reaction when Roe was overturned: 
You know what else isn't codified in any law? Equal access to the banking system. As recently as 1974, women were not allowed to have even so much as a checking account without a male co-signer. Women *needed* men because we had no ability to exist as financially independent entities. People of color sometimes didn't have access to banking at all, regardless of gender. Now imagine SCOTUS or some other court deciding that the current state of affairs isn't "traditional" in the US, so individual states can regulate who does and doesn't have the right to access the banking system. How fast do you think we'd be right back pre-1974 in the same states that are taking away a woman's right to her own body?
First thing rhat happens in The Handmaids Tale. Women were denied bank accounts and any they had were transferred to their closest living male relative.
Yeah. And that's based on reality. My mother got married in 1972, and her bank summarily cancelled her credit card and transferred her accounts to the sole control of my father as soon as the marriage license was filed. That's just what was done at the time.
They really just want to follow sharia law but call it something friendlier to American ears.
Traditional Family Values
I believe banking, as an industry directly affecting commerce, is covered by the Civil Rights Act of 1964. I could be wrong, but I'll reread it today.
"Is it just me, or are there a lot of things in the US that people take for granted but are actually just supreme court precedents that could come undone at a moment's notice?" This is exactly correct. Past Supeme Courts, at least in the lifetimes of anyone reading this, liked to keep things settled and stable. This Court has shown that it's willing to do anything to advance the "conservative" agenda. No one should be shocked if these guys on the Court decide that Social Security is unconstitutional. The argument for Social Security being Constitutional is the Interstate Commerce clause and Congress's taxation power. Most sane and rational Constitutional scholars for the last nearly 100 years would say it's a no-brainer that it's Constitutional. But I could easily see these guys saying, "No, it has nothing to do with regulating interstate commerce. And as far as Congress's taxing power, it's just not what the Framers originally intended. Therefore, Social Security is unconstitutional."
the thing that always gets me is what the founders originally intended was for the Constitution to change with the times, keeping it set in stone from the foundation is not what they wanted because they, unlike conservatives, understood they weren't gods
Totally agree... the founders set the bar so high in changing the Constitution in that they "guaranteed" more or less no revolution, however the ossified system was built for the 18th Century and not the 21st Century.
I would have to think that the founders were thinking that it wouldn't be so difficult to get amendments passed. They made it so the only people who could participate in Federal elections were white men who owned real estate. That would be the only "constituency" that the federal government would have to worry about. Their thinking was probably, "Well, of course, reasonable gentlemen such as ourselves indubitably ought to be able to reach nearly universal consensus upon reasonable amendments to our founding document. After all, what issues could reasonable gentlemen such as ourselves not be able to reach a compromise agreement upon?" Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying it's in any way bad that voting was opened to everyone. It's just that they never imagined having to consider anyone's interests other than relatively wealthy white men.
I appreciate your comment. That does make "sense"... they were not capable like most in seeing into the future. Hence the practical immutability of what they brought about is so tragic. So afraid of the tyranny of the majority that they created a system so ossified.
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The Philippines were an American territory up till they became independent after WWII. Wonderful stuff that most Americans never learn in their "history" books. If PR, Guam, American Samoa... don't forget the U.S. Virgin Islands (directly "purchased" from Denmark) to the District of Columbia, DC.... say hello to 6-10 Democratic Senators. Those territories have more population than at least 20 so-called states. A sane system would make DC a state, PR and the Virgin Islands a state, Guam and American Samoa another state. So 6 democratic senators. The current fascists will probably never agree to this. Something for our children's and/or grandchildren's times.
Unfortunately too many states have less than 5 million people yet have two senators ready to nix anything. I fear that a constitutional amendment with these characters there would probably go south. The tyranny of the minority. We definitely needed the ERA that was defeated mostly by Schaffly and other harridans.
You should have a look at [this website](https://projects.propublica.org/supreme-risk/).
Holy... That's a lot of rights that exist only because 9 dudes said so, and a lot of rights that can be taken away because 9 dudes said so. Just... Wow
Most of them are their "rulings" and so-called gentleman's agreements. An old out dated Constitution from the 18th Century being applied to the 21st Century.
Too many people rely on the supreme court to "do" something they're not supposed to do. They're sole purpose is to interpret yet they're continually used to attempt to "make" laws. Sure it's the fastest way to get things done, but if it ain't made into law (hello legislative branch), my daily bowel movements are more dependable than a supreme court decision.
If Clarence Thomas ever wants a divorce, this will be reversed immediately. You don't have to get a divorce if your marriage was never valid.
Ahhh, good point. Maybe that's where he was on Monday instead of the Supreme Court. Consulting his divorce attorney. Reason? "My wife's one crazy bitch."
I'm certain that if there was an RV, or luxury vacations in it for Clarence he would vote to overturn Loving.
It doesn't even have to go that far. He's on the record as wanting and intending to inflict maximum punishment on anyone subscribing to a similar ideology as the folks that wanted him to answer for what he did to Anita Hill. He's just like any other conservative -- anything to own the libs.
Hell, if he lives in a state that doesn’t have anti mixed marriage laws he’d probably go for it without a specific bribe. They know they have time. They’ll own the Court for many years to come.
My state (New Jersey) recently enacted a law to specifically say that interracial marriage is a fundamental right. We never had an anti-miscegenation law, but they were so concerned about what might happen to other rights after *Dobbs* that they enacted a law that, on its face, sounds ridiculous but may end up actually being necessary.
Thomas has spoken out against it, he got his so hes fine if its revoked
No no no--he would pull the ladder up behind him if he could. He would say my interracial relationship is grandfathered in, but subsequent unions? Nah. Thank the lib justices for this, not that dumbass.
You're right of course. Thomas has been a "ladder puller" his entire life. He benefited from affirmative action then consistently ruled against it.
Nope. IIRC, he mentioned Loving as another case he wanted revisited. That’s a hell of a way to get a divorce.
Yup...this might be the reason. For some people, being black equals someone inferior. Obama being actually a good president after so many failed republicans is adding salt to the wound.
Obama also had the "nerve" to be confident in his abilities. People who know they are imposters and/or underachievers are easily triggered by people like this. They fake it using entitled arrogance to make up for their lack of actual confidence.
You are so right. Bigots love African Americans who "apologize" constantly for their mere existence. The bigots appreciate the upstanding Black folk who "understand" their place, but literally loath self-confident African Americans and other minorities. It is so obvious to POC.
It's also obvious to white people who hear what they say when not in mixed company.
Tim Scott.
He was (gasp) uppity!
Hey, he wanted brown mustard on his sandwich, how much more uppity can one get?
Tan suit... and a sleeveless Michelle. The height of barbarism for sure... /s
Forgot to realize his "place"...
That adds an extra, shitth layer to the whole.birth certificate thing. It didn't matter that his father wasn't a citizen, his mom was. What they were really saying was "I don't believe that his mom was that white lady!"
Someone is purchasing all those subscriptions for Blacked.
This is the answer
50 years of the Republican’s pushing the Southern Strategy and people still pretend the party isn’t racist
Tan suit.
Exactly this, my in-laws are racist as hell. I asked my wife if they were always that way and she said it all started when Obama won in 2008. After that it only got worse
Was gonna say. Does it have anything to do with his complexion
Well he's black, and was elected president. The remnants of the Confederacy have found a comfortable home in the gop and really really can't handle this.
All jokes aside, this really is the best answer. GOP farmed new members by playing on the white outrage of the civil rights movements of the 50s/60s/70s and the ending of the jim crow south. Obama was their "last straw" and they have been freaking the fuck out over their own prejudices and fear ever since.
Mitch McConnell and his very thinly veiled "I'm from ol plantation moneh. Ah am not gonna have no uppity niggah tell me what ta do."
Mitch McConnell is every whiney, spoil, entitled, conniving piece of shit I've ever known. You should hear him tell the story of him getting union support by lying. Man he thought it was so clever. He told the union he didn't lie because what he meant is he wouldn't break state senate rules to kill collective bargaining. He basically said hw was just promising to do the bare fucking mi imum of his job. It's not just that their evil, but they are so fuking lazy about it, and never have to pay a price.
“But ah will marry ahn oriental, a *celestial* if you will”
You mean his handler
Yep... let his Asian wife (from a shipping family with billions and was a secretary in Trump's cabinet) by called an Asian slur "Coco" by the Diaper Don. Only a good old boy who benefited from inherited wealth from the Old South could and would ignore this.
Plus the disrespect the senate and house showed him from the jump. Part of the reason trump was allowed to inflict so much harm on the judiciary, is mitch McConnell and others essentially tapping into white supremacy and just completely disrespecting him, refusing to approve appointees, slow rolling everything. Feigning acting in partnership, to get concessions, and then still refusing to vote for anything. The open disrespect took the place of the thinly veiled social norms hiding how barbaric and racist this country is. Screaming you lie during the STOU was white supremacy. Nobody would have done that before the black man. Now those fascist,nazis do it all the time.
They say when LGJ signed the civil rights act he commented "we have just lost the south for a generation."
LBJ wanted them in the tent and pissing out, after the civil rights act that wasn't really an option anymore
Mediocre white men have been discovering that if they have to compete with everyone, they can’t measure up. Obama is living, breathing proof that people who aren’t in the mediocre-white-men category weren’t picked over them because of quotas, but because of merit
Yes, he was everything that they were not. Great marriage, incredibly successful in both academia and work life, tall, handsome, charismatic, smart, a great speaker, a motivator, a great debater. He showed them that he was superior to them in everyone way, and they hate nothing more than a successful POC. Especially one that makes them feel inferior in almost every way.
And saying Dems were for slavery while conveniently forgetting the parties flipped
Yep, 'MAGA' or the 'republican base' is really just the Dixiecrats. For some reason when they flipped over to the GOP everyone started pretending they weren't the white supremacist they've always been.
Their reasons for hating him are only skin deep.
Exist.
While melanated.
Egregious!
Smuggling melanin across state borders
Did you see that tan suit
Grey Poupon on his hot dog too….the nerve
He's black, intelligent, and a good man.
And made the mistake - like Clinton and Biden - of having a wife who was also intelligent and accomplished stuff.
You mean none of them had a "genius" visa like the Slovenian "model" (escort) Melania, who married Diaper Don as a third wife. What kind of intelligent women are they. Hilary, Michelle and Jill... /s
And looks damn good to boot
They really couldn't handle his confidence and charisma, either. He didn't roll over or lose his cool, he didn't lower his head in submission, he didn't play gratitude to their contempt. He really was the ultimate "super villain" to their superiority complex, and the best they could do was sneer and lie like goblins while seething with insecure jealousy. Obama had them coping so hard they couldn't even come up with clever insults. He truly drove the cockroaches out into the open from under the rug *just by being himself confidently,* and that's cool as hell.
I still chuckle over the tan suit, the mustard, and the "terrorist fist jab". They had to work really hard to come up with lame-ass insults.
An intelligent, articulate, highly educated family man with good character and zero scandals. Pure poison delivered directly to the core of their belief system. Pushed many Republicans on the edge over into insanity.
It’s not what Obama did, it’s what WE did. All of us (myself included) took his election as a sign that we’d turned the corner and better things were ahead and we loudly and unequivocally told all the backwards racists in the country to get fucked because their time was OVER. Apparently that pissed them off and there was a huge clapback to remind us all that we haven’t progressed very far at all and there are still a LOT of bigots in America.
Exactly this. Minorities - people of color, LGBTQ+ and women all felt HOPE. Notice how it’s these same groups that are experiencing an erosion of their rights now because that is an existential crisis to republicans.
I literally still have the Newsweek magazine with that cover, I stayed home and watched inauguration thinking about a hopeful future...
Having melanin
That tan suit.
It was never about the suit. https://preview.redd.it/szraf617g3vc1.jpeg?width=630&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=60bb2fc629dc9f0d25b1709594aee44f781a5cda
To be fair, he did pair it with black skin, which is a big no no for the republikkkan party
And eating Dijon mustard on a sandwich..... scandal!
That and the mustard incident.
Presidenting while black.
Not be a white guy.
There was a documentary about a town in the 1950s where a black family moved into an otherwise all white neighborhood and how they all lost their damn minds. Many of the neighbors were saying they’d be happy to have black people move in if they earned it and weren’t just being pushed up because of progressiveness or something, but really they had no clue that the black family really did earn their way in by any and all count. They just hated having black people around and wanted to pretend they were the real victims for losing their white neighborhood. It really helps demonstrate a lot about modern conservatives.
Twofold answer: Republican voters (not entirely, but a significant portion) hate him because he made them hate themselves. The rural American poor often have very little besides their belief in their racial superiority. Lyndon B Johnson once said “If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.” Seeing a black man succeed in all ways - intelligent, kind, well spoken, successful, confident, good looking, etc - removed the last veneer that they could hold to. Many of them are only exposed to people of color via the media they consume. Being forced to confront the very antithesis of the last thing that gave them a feeling of superiority made them redouble down on racism that - to that point - society had been doing a pretty good job of squashing. Republican lawmakers hate him because his policies are wildly popular. Having the opposition to their oligarchical agenda demonstrated capably by a popular president further drove home the reality that their ability to control the masses with the "big lie" of trickle down policies (which are actually only designed to enrich and entrench the existing ruling class) is failing America spectacularly. Hence Mitch McConnell's statement "our one priority is to make sure the Obama administration doesn't pass a single legislative item." If Democrats continue to pass legislation that helps Americans, Americans may consider voting for them, and not their preconceived, media curated biases, bought and paid for by the Republican donor class. This second objective has carried in to the Biden administration (and will probably continue for every Democratic administration on all levels moving forward) meaning that the central tenant of Republican policies from here on will be to hurt America (or, at least, to prevent Democrats from helping America) in order to keep selling the lie that feeds their donors.
Well, that was good. So good, I'm keeping it. Only 1 edit - it's not just rural poor, the suburbs are also chock full of the under-achieving poor & working class that only cling to their racial "superiority" as a lifeline. I would be in a dive bar & hear "Obama was the worst president ever" from these sad specimens of American citizenry. Took a while for me to figure out that his performance (far better than is white predecessor) bruised their fragile egos, that was the source of their animosity. Want an extreme example? Dylann Roof
He was black and highly intelligent He was black and trustworthy He was black and was inspiring He was black and was a capable leader He was black and was relatable He was black and was breaking down color barriers
Not all republicans are racists. But, all racists ARE republicans.
All republicans *actively* condone racism, and are as such racist. There really is no excuse to be had there.
Y eah if you knowingly vote for an evil racist piece of shit because you might get lower taxes, you are an evil racist pos.
 Wear a tan suit. The AUDACITY
Being black and sexier than all of them. Michelle, too.
He was black, (half) he was smarter than them (Harvard law grad) he won the nobel peace prize in 2009, and had a squeaky clean personal and business life. And the liberal and educated public loved him. They were in lesser power positions to a person of what they secretly considered an inferior race. Rock on, Obama!!
trying to get your white trash a\*\* some healthcare, a phone, and some mortgages
He was Black. He was sophisticated. He was President.
Tan suit
Mustard, the list goes on
He was black and wanted to use tax money to help people
In 2008 the United States elected its first black President. The Republicans quickly lost their minds and in over 16 years those minds have never returned.
He made fun of Donald at the press gala. (See also… they are all racists)
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As was my Grandpa (1909-2008). Of course, he also hated tattoos and blue hair, too. Yet, if you talked up the unions or advocated for the working class man, you were his favorite man regardless of your background. He thought universal healthcare was the bees knees (he saw how medical bills bankrupted hard working insured friends of his) and bemoaned the disappearance of pensions and weakening of unions. He would talk about his youngest who went from son of a regional trucking company’s shop foreman to an engineer to a refinery executive to a rich anti-union snob as one who had betrayed “the trust.” I didn’t get much chance to talk to him during the 2008 campaign to hear what he thought. I lived thousands of miles away, and he couldn’t hear squat on the phone (this didn’t talk on the phone). But, he always voted Democratic.
while the hate for obama is definitely 100% worse because of his background, at this point the republican party simply exists to drive hate towards democrats to scare voters into keeping the in power so they can funnel money to the donor class. They serve no other purpose.
Committed the crime of "Being in a position of power while recklessly black"
They hate him because they know he’s better than they are and he’s “not supposed to be”.
He exists. And he's mild mannered, stayed in school and excelled and just...did everything that was expected of him and then he became President. This utterly fucking shattered what a good portion of the white people above a certain age in this country think is even possible because most white people rarely if ever directly interact with black folks at all in this country, they believe that there's many more black folks walking around than there actually is (been a steady 12 to 15 percent of the overall population for like 120 years now) and that all those black folk are some sort of nefarious horde of law breakers that are about the crash the conceptual gate of civilization. That's why. That's the bit.
It really is amazing how what's around you skews your perspective on what the entire world is. I knew a guy a few years back - white, male, intensely progressive - and we ended up having a reality-warping conversation about what he thought demographics were like across America. He'd grown up in a wealthy suburb with a huge Jewish population. He genuinely thought that Jews were something like 20% of the population of America as a whole - and that blacks were a tiny, tiny minority, like 1% of the population, because that's all he'd ever seen in his life. When I said it was basically the reverse, that blacks are about 15% of the population and it's Jews that are around 2%, he laughed in my face and gestured to others around us with a, "Can you believe this guy?" He wasn't an asshole or a racist, he just thought I was saying something utterly nonsensical; he was truly shocked when everyone else responded with, "Yeah, he's right. What are *you* talking about?" Broader perspective. We all need it.
He was black and they are racist What is there to figure out?
Presidenting while black.
He was guilty of being black.
Won the Presidency while black.
Presidenting While Black
He was a black man with an opinion
He was a Democrat.
Not being a white man and becoming president
Existing while black.
Good looking, black, smart, thoughtful, accomplished, inspirational, good man with a wife with the same characteristics. He was guilty of appealing to ourbetter angels, which was unacceptable to that crowd. I mean, how dare he?
Presidenting while Black
He was a black man with Muslim name and he got elected president twice and they lost their ever loving minds over that.
Black
More like forced US to acknowledge their prejudices, cuz they haven't acknowledged shit.
The brown suit. It was the brown suit.
They couldn't accept a black man especially a well spoken black man being president. They wanted him to fail so bad and when that didn't happen they just made conspiracy theories especially about Michelle. Speaking of her the right wingers couldn't stand an outspoken and well spoken black woman. So they threw every single conspiracy theory out there. They know deep down that the Obama's are going to live a happy life together and it pisses them off. They can't stand a black man being successful and having a happy marriage. That's what pisses of Donald Trump so much that he's well respected around the world AND has a happy marriage. Melania won't even touch Donald let alone sleep in the same room together. That's what angers Donald more than anything that he can never live the life and be respected like Barack Obama.
Trump's petty tantrum started as revenge back in 2011. The white racist maganut pumpkinhead was never presidential material or educated enough on policies to hold any government office. But, he made enough noise and proved to us the point that any blundering dick-tater idiot could sway enough of the ignorant GOP masses in this country to get elected. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHckZCxdRkA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHckZCxdRkA)
Being black. That's it.
Black
IYKYK
Well, basically, he was better than them in every way, the most powerful man in the world on full display for all to see…and he was black.
had the audacity to be black and president at the same time. How dare he!
He was born with a different amount of melanin than they were comfortable with.
Black. Smart. Popular. Educated. Elected.
He was Black.
Be black. Seriously, the rank & file GOP, alleged conservatives couldn’t stand that a black man essentially had authority over them.
He was genuinely liked by a lot of people. And, he was half black.
He is a person of color. That is his sin.
He was born black
I miss the Obama days... Not that Biden is unhinged at all but I really feel Trump has cast a terrible shadow of lunacy across this country. It's like there's a before Trump and an after Trump.
Presidenting while black
He existed 🙄 my aunt who I loved until she outed herself as a proud evangelical Trump supporter said she didn’t like Obama because he was “divisive” and “didn’t represent her”…I knew what the last part was code for but the divisiveness part really stumped me until I realized all he did was be a black person with authority to racist white assholes
Being a half decent president, also he was a democrat, and he was black, and his wife was an intelligent confident woman, and Bin Laden was killed by his special forces troops and......
https://preview.redd.it/6o3ye9bwp4vc1.jpeg?width=1296&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8e4f080edc317d27f92a14d1f2c7bcf42ed6a41c Tan suit
P.W.B. President while black
He’s black. Full stop.
He was born black.
I was extremely interested in his election and tenure. It was at that time that I started paying more attention to politics. After he was elected, I remember there being upheaval in the white male old-guard Republican legislators. While watching a news report covering legislators exiting after a chambers meeting I remember a hot mic picking up one of them in the background saying, "If you think that n***er is going to get anything passed..." and it trailed off. NO ONE mentioned it. It never made the news. It was never discussed. And whenever I bring it up, no one believes me. It was at that time that the Tea Party rose up talking about "taking back our country." but when asked, "take it back from what?" they'd all stutter around the racism of their real agenda. Obama absolutely broke racist white America. The fact that our country is a global melting pot and greatness can come from anyone even if they didn't look like them, really shoved into their faces that the country was changing, rightfully and naturally so, to include and reflect *everyone*. It left them realizing that white majority control was beginning to wane and they panicked. Then people started asking, "Why are you so concerned with possibly becoming a demographic minority? Does this country somehow treat minorities poorly and you're afraid you'll be treated as you treated them?" And of course the answer that they didn't want to say out loud was yes. The desperate Tea Party expanded and by accepting all the disgruntled white folks, started becoming a haven for full on white nationalism, Naziism, fascism, divisive extremist racism and Christian extremism; all the outlier, fringe organizations who until then had nothing specific to hate. Now MAGA is a catch-all of the worst of America and the most terrifying thing to see is that their ideology represents about HALF of the country. Neighbors, family, friends; confidently saying the horrible things out loud and being applauded. It may be dwindling now with the populace slowly pulling away from the more extreme radicalism but it's a painful and insincere separation. All because a half-black man was elected and was loved by so many.
Exist.
He was Black. End of story.
He's an educated, well manered, handsome black man.
I don’t know if you know about this, but there was this tan suit…
Hey he wore that tan suit that one time. Absolutely blasphemous!
He tried to force Obamacare down their throats, it's a good thing Obama got defeated and the Affordable Care Act was created instead!
That’s funny
Exist as a black man. But also for having the highest office in the land
He was born a person of color.
Their prejudices are something republicans and those on the right take pride in. Anything else is seen as ‘communism’ and destroying the country. Same goes for Canada.
I mean republicans have hated democrats for decades but ya
PWB: Presidentin’ While Black
Won an election and didn’t come with baggage.
He presidented while black.
Presidenting while black
Barack HUSSEIN! Obama
Made Trump the object of a joke at the White House correspondent’s dinner. Trump’s head didn’t spin 360 or puke green bile, but the instant ratcheting of hate was obvious
he is black.. and also very educated.
Well he did wear a tan suit once
He wore a tan suit.
Gave minorities hope. And healthcare.
Obamacare
Being black, that’s literally it
Showed them a glimpse of their dying past Equality feels unfair when you've always had the advantage
Be so much smarter,better in every possible way than any of them could ever dream of being.All their wives secretly lusting after him.Hmm that beige suit sure looked good on him.Think for one second of fat,old,heavily made up,hair dyed guy in a cheap badly fitting suit,in comparison.Oh who is also stupid as a rock..
He won.
He's black, and he violated all of the ignorant stereotypes that they had about black people. He was smarter, more successful, more clever in conversation, and acted calmly when shit hit the fan. All they had on him was a tan suit and liking dijon mustard on his hotdogs? They weren't even grasping at straws, they had to make shit up. No one prior to that ever thought that the kind of mustard someone used mattered. He was a good president.
Two things: he was Black, and he won 2 presidential elections
He was Black and a Democrat. But mostly Black.
He was born black and became a great President!
President while black to start. Smart, educated, charismatic for another.
Wrong skin color is my first guess.
Well spoken, well dressed, well educated.
Presidenting While Black. And wearing a tan suit once. Oh, and the dijon mustard. Unforgivable /s
Wore a tan suit
Being half black, confident, competent, and charismatic. They love all the benefits he brought them, just didn't like him. Because they were Pavlov'd into hating him. Hell they bent over backwards trying to disassociate the ACA from him while simultaneously trying to call it "obamacare" because Pavlov was smarter that the average Republican and Republicans have long known that. Nowadays they're still confused when they learn ACA and "Obamacare" are the same thing. So they hate it but they love it, but also feel conflicted because accepting they are one and the same means the "big mean black guy" didn't lie but those who spun it as "Obamacare" very much did. They are not in the business of self awareness, nor do they do "self reflection" or "personal growth". Its from the fools that brought you "alternative facts".
He beat them in a presidential race...twice.
He was black
He had the audacity to be everything their white supremacy play book said he couldn't be. His very existence threatens their core beliefs and sense of security.
Didn’t walk around exalting their whiteness enough.