I believe in my fellow. My president is committed to a perpetual war on so-called 'terror', a passing glance towards unfunded liabilities, and a passion for increasing his (white, hello) predecessors tendency to making this country a debtor nation, and therefore he deserves a fair amount of criticism on these issues. What "color" is the current CEO of the U.S. again? Did it matter?

Do you folks not pay attention to wars, or numbers? A creationist forum have we?

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Once again Jimmy Carter speaks truth to power with his words and he's saying something that a lot of white people are afraid to admit, but the writing is clearly on the wall.

What makes this entire situation sad is that those who have legitimate issues in regards to taxes and the healthcare debate are being co-opted by the radical fringe element who are undeniably racist. Moderate voices in the Republican party have been either silenced, or in the case of Arlen Spector, break ranks.

The irony is that in spite of racism's many roadblocks, Barack Obama still became President of the United States. There are black CEOs, professors and even a Supreme Court judge. White supremacy has long held that blacks were INCAPABLE of any higher learning, which probably explains Dr. Benjamin Carson, the famous pediatric neurosurgeon.

White supremacy is dying and I for one will be thrilled for its demise.

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And he also knows that, just like when he compared the state of Israel to the apartheid government of South Africa and was called anti-Semitic, he will be labeled a "racist" for saying this.

Mark my words. It will happen within the first few posts right here!

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What's happening to the progressives and liberals? Are they losing their marbles on race? This isn't the 1960s when race was actually an issue. Subtle racism can be handled via economic populism. If Carter had been an economic populist instead of allowing everyone in his cabinet and his party in Congress to muck everything up, Raygun wouldn't have defeated him in 1980. Jimmy Carter did real well in the South in 1976 but not in 1980 so race wasn't the reason why the South votes the way it does. It's class and without economic populism, it's an Atkin's diet which is unstable. I think Carter has entered the nether world ! What's the matter with these people ?!?

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I do remember Jimmy Carter being critiqued as one of the "worst" presidents in history, so why would anyone care about his opinion???

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Carter's presidency suffered because he was viewed as an outsider in Washington and, frankly, he was in the way of Ted Kennedy's and Ronald Reagan's ambitions. Yet, he never complains, and he has every right to speak the truth as he sees it.

One reason he can speak the truth is that he has the humility to understand that the South in which he grew up was rigged in the white man's favor, that the faith in which he fervently believes refused to accept people of color and women of any color as full participants in the beloved community.

Joe Wilson's son says his father hasn't a racist bone in his body. This either demonstrates complete dissemblance or profound ignorance of the consequences of his behavior.

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I agree only half-way with Carter. Yes, when it comes to the Rightwing, many of THEM are indeed racists. That is obvious.

But me, on the other hand, I voted for Obama. I had "hope" for "change" just like most Americans. But now Obama has proven himself to be far right of center on lots of issues. (Just yesterday, for example, he said he likes the Patriot Act just the way it is for the most part. There obviously are many more examples of his right-wing-ism.)
I mean, it would be racist to be a liberal in this country and LIKE Obama as much as some liberals do. I'm sorry, but there are many legitimate and non-racist reasons to not like Obama.

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This is nothing new. Perceptive people have recognized that the right wing animosity against Obama (we're not talking issues here) is totally racist. It's just that Jimmy Carter gets national press for saying it. Thank you President Carter! Look at the composition of the (what do we call them now?) birthers-deathers-screamers. Half the electorate voted against our president. The "Republican base" haven't accepted the results, and they never will. They're still about "breaking him." We're not "playing the race card," were recognizing what's happening.

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them, read this. It's like a volcanic eruption. Obama bailed out Wall Street last year and while the public was upset, they held their noses and voted. Both Mccain and Obama did it but we voted for them anyway. Well, it's getting worse and the public anger is burning up like lava. If the lava can't blow up in one place, it finds another place where everything in its path can be burned. Since most people feel powerless, they're gonna buy more guns and ammo, get lulled into joining organizations that are racist, sexist, homophobic, religious-cultist, etc... because it simply makes them "feel good" temporarily and they feel "proud" to burn anyone or anything in their paths. Obama has nothing to lose by being an economic populist and leading the way which he's not doing. As a result, of course the PUBLIC LAVA is burning and likely to turn this country RED starting with this year's gubernatorial races. Even New Jersey shows Corzine 9 points behind which is certainly very bad news for a very liberal state. What we're seeing are very very bad omens. If you watched Omen 1-3, Pet Cemetary 1 and 2, Dante's Peak, Volcano, Tremors 1 - 3, and the likes, you'd get the picture.

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has surmized for years that there is systemic racism in the American south but after living through the last eight years of Bush incompetence how could anyone question President Obama's ability to lead? I personally would expect better leadership from a monkey than from the totally discredited Bush who as a white man proves the foolishness of southern racist ideas.

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Jimmy Carter needs to shut his mouth. Does he realize what he is doing. Picking a large group of people like whites and saying something this inflammatory only leads to bad things. Very bad things. So the flavor of the day is white people are racist, greedy, evil people. So what is next putting a code on our wrists and rounding us up into boats to ship us to concentration camps? Progressives are using Alinksy "pick a target and polarize it" This is what is destroying America.

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using voter intimidation tactics all over this country? Both parties (Democrat and Republican) are misusing unfair lumpsums of campaign cash to screw up the elections every time. To president Carter, democracy needs to be brought to America first.

Another issue I have with Carter's speech is he mentions nothing about Obama's refusal to repeal the "Patriot" Act which gave us more racial profiling and has done nothing to stop the real terrorists.

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Since you people have all eaten the propaganda soup of the day I thought I would shed some light on the facts about Republicans and democrats.

Abe Lincoln was a republican and fought for civil rights.
Martin Luther King was a Republican and hated dixiecrats light LBJ.
The 1964 Civil Rights bill was written and passed by those racist republicans.
Margaret Sanger a Liberal Progressive was a eugenicist who started the 1939 eridicate blacks initiative because she said "Blacks are like weeds" She cofounded the Planned parenthood to eliminate as many black babies as possible. Something progressives are proud of today.
Frankline D Roosevelt a liberal progressive said "I will never take pictures with a Negro".
Trumen another liberal was the Grand Wizard of the KKK.
The democrats started the KKK to intimidate republicans the party that blacks were affiliated with.
Lynchings were utilized by democrats to intimidate republicans and killed 4800 people 1200 white and the rest black.
Robert Bird on the Senate committee a democrat was a KKK grand wizard. Strom Thurman was a democrat before becoming a republican.
So these are just some of the facts folks!!!
Woodrow Wilson a progressive liberal made propaganda films to pass legislation to segregate blacks.

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Race based quotas otherwise known as affirmative action is racist which
has a negative effect on black and poor people. Why? Blacks get into medical school based on race; their scores are much lower than asians and whites. When they graduate they have the lowest scores on licensing exams.
And where do such incompetents end up working? Not where I live but in poor communities; and so it is the ppor and blacks who end up with most incompetent doctors.(By the way I had a black surgeon replace my hip in one of the ten best hospitals in the country; such hospitals don't hire incompetents but incompetents go to rural areas and non university hospitals; you better pray when you go to emergency room that the black doctor you see coming to attend you got in thru the front door in med school rather than the back door.

OF course progressives and liberals will practice dissonance reduction and ignore this. No way will they admit that race based quotas screw the poor. Idealogy trumps reality.

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Race based quotas otherwise known as affirmative action is racist which
has a negative effect on black and poor people. Why? Blacks get into medical school based on race; their scores are much lower than asians and whites. When they graduate they have the lowest scores on licensing exams.
And where do such incompetents end up working? Not where I live but in poor communities; and so it is the ppor and blacks who end up with most incompetent doctors.(By the way I had a black surgeon replace my hip in one of the ten best hospitals in the country; such hospitals don't hire incompetents but incompetents go to rural areas and non university hospitals; you better pray when you go to emergency room that the black doctor you see coming to attend you got in thru the front door in med school rather than the back door.

OF course progressives and liberals will practice dissonance reduction and ignore this. No way will they admit that race based quotas screw the poor. Idealogy trumps reality.

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If the Blacks are inferior how did they survive for centuries under the White rule and oppression to get where they are today? If anything in order to overcome all of the obstacles placed before them they would have to be considered superior!

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Without Ronaldus Magnus, the liberals would have gotten away with Carter's failed policies. Carter failed to curb inflation and he left the hostages in Iran. Ronald Reagan stimulated the economy and brought us the greatest revolution in the 20th century. Get lost Jimmy Carter !

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The president seems to be trying to prove that he cannot indeed govern. Challenge him– any old challenge will do– and he'll back down. He's very like Nancy Pelosi, in that, like the first woman Speaker, the first Black president has the spine of a jellyfish. Either that or they're both totally-owned corporate subsidiaries. Or both.

Be angry, Americans, be very angry, only let it be a considered anger. No one's looking out for you if you don't.

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It is so pathetic in this country that we have
a former President making remarks such as this.
As we see it, Mr. Carter hails from the South
and accordingly espouses generational guilt for
his ancestors' having owned slaves. His remarks
slap of apolgetic rhetoric, which do a huge
disservice to all Americans by perpetuating the
race card, which is dealt to us on a daily basis now,
by progressives and left wingers alike.
African Americans are being used and
manipulated by the left for nothing less than
political agendas, and that fact is nothing short of insidious.
The black people of America
are Americans but until they wake up to this
cruel attack on their racial heritage by both
political parties, then the race card will
continue to be played.
As one Alternet commentary cited recently:
we need to remember that there is only one race: the human race.

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What a ridiculous, inflated statement. The angst & anger out there on what high-fallutin' pundits call "Main Street" is about jobs, their houses, cost of higher education, taxes, the increasingly vanishing middle class, hence, the "American Dream". Anyone who uses race is using a foil to divert our attention from the recession/depression we're in.

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I disagree strongly with all of you who have concluded that the President was NOT well served by Carter's calling-out those racist red-necks for what they are. In fact, the country was well served.

By simply sticking your heads in the sand when you hear these racists comments or signs, or whatever, you are once again giving a pass to the extreme right by pretending that their complaints are valid and agenda is credible instead of based on their racial prejudices. Nothing could be further from the truth.

We all must call out and condemn racism whenever it rears its ugly head, but it is especially important in this case for white folks to do it.

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