BETWEEN THE LINES

THE DEFINITION OF 'RACISM' IN 2017

Exclusive: Joseph Farah indicts those 'reaching way outside the strike zone'

racism – a belief or doctrine that inherent differences among the various human racial groups determine cultural or individual achievement, usually involving the idea that one’s own race is superior and has the right to dominate others or that a particular racial group is inferior to the others.

— Dictionary.com

“Racism” has taken on some twisted new meanings of late – far from the dictionary definition, which I, for one, embrace.

Racism to me is abhorrent, detestable, idiotic, nonsensical and loathsome.

But according to some – including a Fairfield University professor – questioning Barack Hussein Obama’s constitutional eligibility for president is enough to have the label hurled at you. Oh, and by the way, so is simply using his legal middle name, Hussein. (At least we think it’s his legal middle name. Who knows with Obama?)

Why would this be so?

Does it mean questioning the ideas, conduct and behavior of anyone who is black is racist?

And why would using a middle name Obama himself uses on occasion be a racial slight?

Here we are in 2017, six months after Obama left office, and these kinds of assertions, which were common during his eight-year presidency, are still being made.

The latest one to label at least half of Americans racist for questioning Obama’s eligibility as a “natural born citizen” is communications professor Audra Nuru who lodged these accusations at a “diversity” conference earlier this month. Right off the bat, I have to wonder how many Republicans, conservatives, or Trump supporters were invited to speak at the event. 

Of course, diversity only goes so far on college campuses, these days. These folks don’t ever consider the kind of diversity than can actually make a meaningful difference – ideological and philosophical diversity. Wouldn’t it be nice to have a smidgeon of that in academia, the media and other key cultural institutions?

Nuru may have gotten one thing right in his address. He did acknowledge that the Obama presidency actually led to more racial polarization in the U.S., rather than the kind of reconciliation Obama promised and many assumed would follow the first black president’s term of office.

“I’m not saying by any means that Barack Obama incited racism,” Nuru said. “I’m saying that him being in office, people who were already racist got a platform to address this publicly and reify it.”

How did racists express their contempt for Obama?

As examples, Nuru mentioned the birtherism movement and people who used Obama’s middle name.

The result of these incidents, Nuru said, “was that explicitly racist messages have steadily increased since 2010.”

You know what I have to say about that? If those are real examples of the kind of racism Obama faced during eight years of being in the White House, I would have to conclude that America’s race problems are over. The only other conclusion I can draw is that certain people are so vested in institutional racism for their own reasons, that they are reaching way outside the strike zone to find it.

And I’m not drawing these conclusions based on one obscure professor of communications at an obscure university.

I remember what I went through from 2008 through 2016 as a prominent investigator of Obama’s constitutional bona fides.

I’ll never forget one NPR interviewer who, after exploring the case against Obama’s eligibility, concluded in apparent frustration, unable to refute a single thing I said, “But, at the end of the day, Mr. Farah, doesn’t this all just come down to racism?”

Until that moment, I don’t ever recall anyone accusing me in public or private of being a racist.

I had marched with Martin Luther King in the 1960s. Indeed, later, I had been a misguided but, nevertheless, enthusiastic supporter of the Black Panther Party in the 1970s. 

The very idea of racism to me was so repugnant, it never even occurred to me that someone would ever hurl that epithet at me.

But, that’s the way things are in 2017.

Thank you, Barack Hussein Obama.

http://www.wnd.com/2017/06/the-definition-of-racism-in-2017/

My comments: A Muslim name brings to account all that Islam stands for. It is a False and Evil Religion--The most Anti-christ Religion on Earth. That is the banner Obama's name elicited. And he proved himself to be the most Anti-Christ President in the History of the Nation. It is not Racist to be suspect of those against Christianity, it is Prudent.