Responce to Carter article

I agree with Carter’s statement about racial inclination in regards to the President. Racial prejudice has been present since the creation of the United States of America and has continued to be a problem; clearly this racism is not going to end on a whim because the current president happens to be African American. Over the course of President Obama’s time in office and during his presidential campaign, there have been many statements and judgments made about his race and his ability to run our country in the correct way in order to benefit our people. But does his skin color really alter his ability to run our government in any way different than that of our other former presidents and political leaders?
It may be that Obama’s administration is “playing the race card... from the bottom of the deck." But it is not for sympathy. There is no way to deny that Obama has received a lack of respect from many people of the country, but is it really any worse than the criticism that Bush received as president? Or for that matter almost every other president. Obama has only begun to implement and achieve the goals he is looking to accomplish during his term, so why be so tough on him now? We do have his as the leader of our country for the next three and a half years and he has done a very good job in keeping his promises regarding health care and the war in Iraq. I believe, that the conflicts that have arisen in the past 8 months, were not solely the fault of Obama’s choices, but more so the disagreements between our top political parties. This was shown during Obama’s speech when South Carolina’s senator had the audacity to yell. “you lie” to the president. Thanks to his outbreak, I am given the perfect example to show the lack of respect towards the president these days.
But the truth is, is that our people, the people of the US, are the ones that voted him as president. Regardless of who personally voted for who, the fact is that the majority of the people in our country voted for, to be blunt, a black man. This only shows one thing, how far our country has actually come since the creation, since the time when each white plantation owner owned dozens of slaves, since the people of country were not able to sit together on a public bus, and since it was absolutely unheard of to assume that an African American man would be voted, by all American citizens, as President of our country.
There is no doubt in my mind that it will take a far longer amount of time to overcome racism and there is no guarantee that all racial ties will ever be cut.

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