Congressional Black Caucus Director: Opposition To Obama Is Racist [Really? MLK: Content of Character]

[FrontPorchPolitics.com]

Written on June 14, 2012 at 6:47 pm by Tim Brown

The Executive Director of the Congressional Black Caucus, Angela Rye, claims that Barack Obama’s first term has languished because of racially motivated opposition from conservatives who don’t like having a black president.

Appearing on CPAN, Rye said, “I think that a lot of what the president has experienced is because he’s black. You know, whether it’s questioning his intellect or whether or not he’s Ivy League,” she continued. It’s always either he’s not educated enough or he’s too educated; or he’s too black or he’s not black enough; he’s too Christian or not Christian enough. There are all these things where he has to walk this very fine line to even be successful.”

“There’s an ad, talking about the president is too cool, is he too cool? And there’s this music that reminds me of, you know, some of the blaxploitation films from the 70s playing in the background, him with his sunglasses,” Rye said. “And to me it was just very racially-charged. They weren’t asking if Bush was too cool, but, yet, people say that that’s the number one person they’d love to have a beer with. So, if that’s not cool I dont know what is.”

The director claims that she has no idea if black support and enthusiasm is lower since 2008. She also didn’t mention the Obama campaign’s own urban styled radio spot.

The fact that this woman is in charge of anything making silly statements about the use of the word “cool” as racist demonstrates only one thing: Angela Rye is a racist.

She also wanted to try and make the point concerning voter ID laws and says that Democrats have to explain how they are racist.

“I think that there is a lot of work that needs to be done to educate people on the issues with voting rights this time,” she told CSPAN. “A lot of our members feel that the voting rights bills that have been passed on voter ID . . . is going to create a barrier whether there’s an enthusiasm gap or not. You have a situation where it’s a modern-day poll tax.”

Is it that they have to explain it because it doesn’t actually exist? The leader of the NAACP tried that, but he forgot one thing and that is there are poor white people too. In fact there are all types of ethnicities in our country that are poor, not just blacks.