'We want our country back' is not racist

'We want our country back' is not racist

Date published: 7/29/2010

'We want our country back' is not racist

Racism is alive in America. However, this time it appears that the race of people who suffered from this abomination in the past are now inflicting it upon those with whom they disagree.

These folks, who identify themselves as African-Americans, are now interpreting a tea party sign that reads "We want our country back" as racist. That very concept brings to the light of day just how racist people who think this way are.

The simple fact is that many of us want our country back from a socialist-leaning government. However, we would no more vote for a person based on race or gender than we would vote against them because of it.

While 95 percent of people who identified themselves in exit polls as black voted for Obama, 43 percent of people who identified themselves as white did also.

To put that in perspective, in 1984, when Walter Mondale lost to Ronald Reagan by 18 percent, 91 percent of blacks and 34 percent of whites voted for Mondale, the Democratic candidate.

The only role race plays here is that people who identify themselves as black overwhelmingly vote for Democrats.

But now we live in a country where expressing dissatisfaction with the policies of the Obama administration is met with accusations of racism. How petty and ridiculous.

If Samuel Johnson were alive today, he would say, "Racism is the last refuge of a scoundrel," and I would agree completely.

Rex A. Hoover

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