Election of the First Black President (2008) - Hiding America's racial obsession

President Barack Obama was elected in 2008 and reelected in 2012. During his first term commentators claim that this represented the dawn of "post-racial" America. This delusion was promoted by both white liberals and white conservatives. White liberals tried to present it as the success of their policies and ideology. White conservatives used it as a justification to attack affirmative action and mask their agenda for complete white supremacy. The Obama administration has made major errors, which deserve criticism. However, most of the objection to his rule comes from the fact that whites despise a black person with power. President Obama's electoral victories were the result of a population frustrated with eight years of irresponsible conservative government. Wars, economic collapse,  and chronic corruption put the population to a breaking point. Whites who still think low of low of blacks, were willing to  vote for one because there was little alternative. John McCain was willing to continue the policies of George W. Bush. This would only make him popular among neoconservatives, social conservatives, and some fiscal conservatives. That base was not large enough to win the entire country, which was gradually becoming center left politically. Demographic shifts and economic turmoil has caused the white population to react violently. African Americans are subject to police brutality and extrajudicial killings. Immigrants live in fear of vigilante extremists on the border states and are threatened constantly with deportation. The Arab and Muslim population faces a huge wave of xenophobic hatred. America as one can see, is face from "post-racial."President Obama's image has now been used to mask the hateful nature of this society. The myth of a free and tolerant United States is a meme that transferred to generations. The myth will soon be unraveled by the very venom it spreads.