Obama Blames Racism For Low Polls. Is racism the town that we grew up in but never like to visit?

Should Obama remind us of  black and white America?

For many years, Barack Obama carried the duty to usher in the notion of a post racial society in order to convince enough white people, whom he desperately needed to win the white house, that he would not be the guy to remind them of this shame.

Black media pundits across the spectrum screamed at the notion of a post racial America and even balked at the term, but there is both a legitimacy and a  fallacy to this notion.  I recently watched a host on  the 5pm Fox news program admit that to be called a racist these days is so hurtful to whites that it often will end the conversation before it starts.  At that moment, I started to understand the extent of white guilt relative to race.

We are in post racial America, but only to the extent that political correctness demands.  The anger towards any person who invokes the issue of race is something that works to silence the conversation in more ways than the Fox host realizes.  It is unfair to be judgmental of white America for the tendency towards this anger because they are inspired by the same spirit that divides us all through racial intolerance.  These divisive spirits work to keep most blacks FAR away from their real feelings about race in fear that they will be accused of using the race card when expressing genuine concerns.

Black Americans have been forced into skillful expressions of  feelings on racism because it is clear that most white people are still incapable of objectively dealing with it. The most insecure of whites have learned how to turn the mirror of racism around towards race accusers pointing out another absolute truth to deflect from their own shortcoming.

What I have learned in marriage is that there are a lot of issue's that legitimately deserve to be addressed, but it simply isn't smart to try and cover them all in one sitting.  If black racism towards whites is an issue that requires conversation (and it does) in order to freely turn the mirror around as the president has done, then lets finish one of these conversations and stop pretending that two wrongs makes it not worth discussing.

If America did not experience financial meltdown, would we have voted for a black man?  If a white man had achieved similar accomplishments since the days of the meltdown, would he have gained better poll numbers?  These feel like legitimate questions, but maybe only because my skin is brown as well.  Maybe the mere election of Obama is enough of a transcending of race to say that race is no longer enough of an issue to reference anymore.  Maybe there is a new post racial reality that deserves a legitimate examination to help advance black America out of needless contempt.

What I know for sure is there are some people who do not wish to travel down this road ever again and are enraged that the president would dare take us into the black and white neighborhood of our past.  It simply is a town that some just don't care to visit anymore.