CNN iReport

Manufacturing Political Hate

Ultimately the attacks on and minimization of Obama has been connected to the historical negative aspects of the civil rights movement, the terrorist resistance of the Vietnam war, and the radical ideology that motivated the 9/11 attacks on our country. Even though Obama has not been accused of participating in that history destructively, he is being associated with it in order to taint him as a radical and a threat to good god fearing Christian white Americans.  And, now it seems many are loosing their minds are perhaps showing their minds were never present.

A critical analysis of media, say on FOX regarding his connection to Ayers, Rev. Right, communism, Russia, the Black Panthers, etc etc would indicate a barrage of negative messages in the media associated with being black, being Muslim, or being self-reflective on the issues of race, particularly as they may affect a mixed race family in America. Furthermore, the focus on these individuals is entirely negative, as if the media’s description of these ideas and people is complete and unquestionable.  I suspect even Joe the Plumber might take issue with the light cast by media.  Remember folks the goal of a media source is revenue not moral enlightenment.

The effort in these "news specials" has been to cast Obama as a radical, an angry black man who is willing to oppress or harm white god fearing Americans (Which is right wing fear mongering). This is neither fair nor balanced rather it is political marketing at its most sophisticated and I contend, evil and manipulative.

The right is using all of the negative vestibules of racial conflict and doing their best to have Obama embody those ideas.  What’s most subtle and deceptive of this right wing negative smear is their goal is to avoid being pined as enflaming racial tension while stirring bigoted fear and hate. The idea here for the right isn't to say that Obama has no right to be an angry white hating black man, who seems to have ties to domestic and foreign terrorists by the way but rather he needs to be that somewhere other then the Whitehouse. This is the underbelly rhetoric of the snake of the right. Its ignorant and deplorable.  I do not think all members of the republican party share these same values.

Our country has a history of slavery, genocide Native Americans, and abject reactionism in times of crises, e.g. McCarthyism and placing Chinese Americans in camps during the war.  Our country also has an amazing ability to reflect on those moral transgressions publicly and advance the civility of our culture and the civility of the free world.

It is a shame, that at the point in our history that an individual of color, who has proven himself to be a formidable, intelligent, inspirational government servant can not run on the issues but rather must contend with a political strategy that manufactures fear and hate.  Fear and hate based on fabricated meanings and projected on associations.   Fear based on a horrendous racist history that was largely perpetrated by individuals in the party shared by those who are currently crying wolf, and currently orchestrating fear.  How ironic is it that the Republican part has usurped the notion of right moral character as their own?  It is interesting that now, the opposition is indeed a man of color and he has risen above history.  He is the future of our great land and the symbol of hope for our country.  There is nothing here to fear, accept fear itself… indeed!