He’s clearly speaking for his own imagery of guilt on the subject, although he’s blind to the fact that that a lot of the steps taken to address the evil of slavery has caused its own resentment and lasting harm. Many would say that blacks would have been accepted sooner if not for Radical Reconstruction projects which caused a Southern Backlash. Conservatives today have misgivings about the use of the issue of slavery to fuel an expansion of federal power (under the idea of positive liberty), activist judges in the Warren court, and affirmative action programs. Finally, a lot of people are reactive to an attempt to completely recast the history of America and Europe as a history of bigotry and warfare; in a stereotype so bad that rivals how some Europeans viewed Africans and Native Americans.
Can we not say then, that someone might not want to vote for Obama, not specifically because he’s black, but he’s tied himself to liberal to radical black politics in Chicago through figures like his wife and Rev. Wright?
The emotions Mr Rausenbaum is projecting on all Americans smells too much like emotions projected when people say ‘everybody agrees that Bush is the worst president ever’, and ‘the international community hates Bush’. They’re bouncing things off their own echo chamber. Most Europeans didn’t like Bush before he ever became elected, for one simple reason: European politics is more liberal than American politics. Most Europeans didn’t like Bush for the same reason most Democrats didn’t like Bush. They didn’t agree with him.
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