BARACK OBAMA AS A RACIAL ACCELERANT

Under President Barack Obama, we have become more racially divided than at any time in recent memory.

Is this anecdotal?  Coincidental?  Or does President Obama bear some – maybe a lot – of the blame?

Before you answer please read this excerpt from Jed Babbin’s latest article at American Spectator – then use the link to read the rest:

After he murdered five Dallas police officers and wounded seven others, Micah Johnson kept a SWAT team at bay for more than three hours. As they tried to talk him into surrendering, he told them that he wanted to kill white people, especially white policemen.

Johnson’s horrific attack on police is the most recent evidence of one of the worst divisions in our society, that between law enforcement people and the civilians they are sworn to protect. That division has been created and is exacerbated daily by President Obama and the rest of the pure-as-ivory-soap ideological liberals he has led for eight years.

Obama has pushed American blacks along the road to Dallas. The path he charted began in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In 2009, a Cambridge officer saw a black man apparently trying to break into a house. After an argument with the man, who reportedly refused to step outside to speak to him, the officer arrested Henry Louis Gates.

Gates was a Harvard professor and one of Obama’s personal friends. Before he knew the facts, Obama said the Cambridge police “acted stupidly” and “…that there’s a long history in this country of African-Americans and Latinos being stopped by law enforcement disproportionately.”

At each instance since, Obama has continued to widen the racial divide between black Americans and police.

Mr. Babbin goes on to enumerate time after time when, all too often, instead of calming and unifying us during racially incendiary events, Mr. Obama, along with officials who follow his lead, pour gasoline on the flames instead…and then piously lament what their inflammations result in.

There are many reasons I count the seconds until Barack Obama is out of the White House.  This is among the most significant of them.