Miami Herald columnist Leonard Pitts Jr. said President Obama faces opposition not because of his policies, but his race. Pitts gave the lecture, “The Education of Barack Obama: What our first Black President is Learning About Race, Politics, and the Media,” Thursday at the University of Texas. The Daily Texan reports:
Pitts said many thought the election of Barack Obama in 2008 marked the beginning of a “post-racial” America, the notion that America has moved beyond race, but that notion is not entirely accurate. Pitts said Obama’s political opponents use race as a motive, though not explicitly stated, in their opposition against him.
“[Obama] has failed to understand how the opposition is always his political opponents,” Pitts said. “When you’re black, you need to factor that into whatever you’re doing.”
Pitts said that Obama was like Jackie Robinson, “trapped when he promised not to do anything when people [threw things at him] on the field.”
He said Obama is the first black president and he has to be above the norm, as any other black person who is the first black anything — having been raised by a white mother in Hawaii, he didn’t know racism like other black people and doesn’t know how to respond to the slander and opposition he now faces.
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