Racial healing

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is not a healer of racial differences.  In many ways Obama is aggravating the problem of racial differences in America.

Survey data shows that the greatest antagonism between ethnic groups in America is not white antagonism toward blacks, Jews, Latinos or Asians but the antagonism of blacks toward all other groups.

While there is serious antagonism of Latinos and Asians (particularly Chinese and Koreans) toward blacks, the black hostility towards Latinos and Asians is as great or greater.  Looking at the age and income democraphics, as Latinos and Asian succeed in assimilating their antagonism towards blacks declines.

No such data supports a similar pattern among blacks because blacks are very slow to assimilate and move to non-black neighborhoods.

This is the real problem of race in America. 

Obama doesn't help it for three reasons.  One, he is an old line labor Democrat hack who regularly attacks foreign workers and NAFTA.  All minorities, Latino and Asian, know that Obama's policy ideology is pure racism at its worst. Blame Chinese workers, Indian call centers, and Mexican factories for American labor problems and you are both blind, manipulative and bigoted.

Two, Obama belonged to Trinity Church that promotes racial hated and he never, never for one moment, suggested that that particular part of Trinity is an abomination.  He has never attacked Trinity or Farrahkan for their racism.  Nor has he said publicly that Trinity and Farrahkan are far outside the norms of black church life.

Lastly, as Christopher Hitchens has pointed out, Obama's campaign champions the idea that he would be the first black president and always allows his supporters to call Obama opponents racists.  That is a racist dichotomy if anyone ever saw one.

Obama is not a healer.