Barack Obama and Tom Metzger on Race Mixing
by Bill Levinson
We recently visited Tom Metzger’s White Aryan Resistance Web site to examine its impressive collection of racist and anti-Semitic hate propaganda. Despite the pictures’ loathsome messages, they are actually well drawn and must be taken very seriously in terms of their ability to persuade the less intelligent elements of society; the elements to whom Joseph Goebbels said a good propagandist should appeal. One in particular came to our attention; it includes outlines of men and women of opposite colors with a red line through them, and it then advocates actual violence toward interracial couples (e.g. Damon and Jan in Chris Muir’s “Day by Day” comic strip).
Barack Obama admittedly never advocated violence toward interracial couples, but his Dreams From My Father (pp. 101-102 (paperback, ISBN 978-1-4000-8277-3) shows that he otherwise agrees with the White Aryan Resistance about miscegenation or race mixing: “Tim was not a conscious brother. Tim wore argyle sweaters and pressed jeans and talked like Beaver Cleaver. …His white girlfriend was probably waiting for him up in his room, listening to country music.” This comes from an individual who would not exist if a Black man had not had a Caucasian girlfriend. There is no accounting for the mental processes of racists like Metzger and people like Barack Obama who consort openly with racists such as Jeremiah Wright, a church that applauds a remark like “There were a whole lot of white people crying,” and most recently Al Sharpton, but these mental processes belong on the lunatic fringe and not in any position of public trust or responsibility.