"The call to judge people by the content of their character rather than the color of their skin is really code for racism."

What? Isn't judging people by their character the opposite of racism?

And that is just one part that confused me. The article seems to be saying that everything is racism?

Can someone simplify this for me? I've got the stupids this morning.

MLK was a Republican, Lincoln was a Republican, several Democrats were high level in the KKK. If those facts could not break the stranglhold the Democrats have over the Black vote, what can?

"Republicans make little effort to get it."
Attempts to get it get labled as racist. They have finally given up, that there is no winning votes against those who control what 'racist' means this week.

"And that is just one part that confused me. The article seems to be saying that everything is racism?

Can someone simplify this for me?"

Nope. You've put it in it's simplest terms.

"Who really elected Obama to the Presidency? It surely wasn't black people. Of the 69 million votes that Obama received in the 2008 election, I doubt whether even 7 or 8 million came from blacks. That means white people put Obama in office, and that means he is beholden to white people, not black people"

This is completely wrong. Look up the numbers and do the math. Obama got 69,456,897 votes (52.9%) & McCain got 59,934,814 votes (45.7%). But Obama generated an all-time record turnout of black voters - they were 13% of the electorate, or about 17 million of the total turnout of 131 million. And they voted 96% for Obama. That means Obama got 16.3 million black votes, leaving only 700,000 black votes for McCain (and some of that tiny portion of blacks who didn't go for Obama must have voted for Nader or McKinney or maybe Barr instead).

So that leaves Obama with about 69.5-16.3 million = 53.2 million non-black votes, and McCain with about 59.9-0.7 = 59.2 million non-black votes (if you're generous & assume that McCain got all the blacks who didn't vote for Obama). That means Obama got only 47.3% of the non-black vote, while McCain got 52.7% of it. Now suppose that those 17 million black voters had split 50-50 for Obama, and that everyone else had voted the same. He would have ended up with 53.2 + 8.5 = 61.7 million votes, and McCain would have 59.2 + 8.5 = 67.7 million. Even if blacks had split 60/40 for Obama, the results would have been 63.4/66 million in McCain's favor. So yes, the big turnout & monolithic support from blacks put Obama in office.

"Can someone simplify this for me? I've got the stupids this morning."

Effectively it is a comment that the definition of racism is being manipulated on a daily basis for political purposes. So that whatever any non-Democrats say or do = racism, and no matter what Democrats say or do it is by this weeks definition not racist. No matter how racist it is by any objective viewing.

In the quote given, any who don't support this tax bill = racist, if you don't vote for Obama = racist.

Rangel's ramblings are about the clearest example of Doublethink one can find today.

Essentially, anything is racism, if it means that a member of a minority is not getting whatever he or she wants.

I loved a comment I read elsewhere: a black woman was in an emergency room, faking pain and demanding free narcotics. When she was refused, she said to the nurse "you won't give them to me because I'm black". The nurse answered, "you're only saying that because I'm white - who's the racist now?".

Joe J - the article makes somewhat more sense now - in a "are they really living on the same planet" way.

Rangel ought to know. His tax fraud would have put a person of pallor in prison.

That article makes absolutely no sense. I'm a racist because I didn't vote for Obama because I didn't like his policies?

According to his standards, I would be racist for not saying "Hi" daily to all my co-workers who are black while I don't say "Hi" daily to the rest of my-coworkers.

Once he can create a logical thought -- please let me know.

Blacks, asians, and middle easterns have a higher tendencies to accuse white people of racism because nonwhites are more prone to hurt feelings and even though their own nonwhite leaders/communities are to be blamed for all the prevalent inferiority, unfairness and exploitation caused by their own nonwhites.

"I'm a racist because I didn't vote for Obama because I didn't like his policies?"

It's certainly what you were supposed to think, though no one close to a position of power ever said so. Liberal Guilt filled in the spots that couldn't be said. I've seen signs on Facebook reading "If you voted for Obama to prove you're not a racist, can you vote against him this time to prove you're not an idiot?"

The term racism has been used so many times, at and by so many people, that the only definition of racism that can apply in every case is "You disagree with me".

So many words have been used to the point that they no longer hold weight, or even meaning. As a result, when a clear case of racism (or any overused term) comes along, the perpetrator can roll their eyes and wave it off, and too many people will agree.

Soon, people would get tired and fed-up pandering to nonwhites extremely manipulative ways. Those nonwhites want to get ahead, fine, but those nonwhites should not use the race card to extract pity or special treatment.
Racism as a word had been so inappropriately tossed around and inappropriately used that it is time people should not feel offended if people don't like their characters or their colours or in any disagreements.