These are some comments posted from: http://theroot.com
It's funny how dumb people really are. It's funny that people are still racist and some people are in denial.
Anyone that knows me, knows that I am always on the lookout. I can't be surprised by racism.

Anyhow, the comment was posted by a white person....

Ever since Barack Obama became president, white people seem to have developed a new kind of resentment toward blacks that I think is a direct result of these new issues of unemployment, homelessness and the credit crunch. These were always mostly "minority problems", but now that the chickens have come home to roost, whites seem madder than ever that we now have to pick at the scraps just like everyone else. That special "first dibs entitlement" that we got used to no longer exists and someone needs to be blamed. Of course, only the biggest fools will point to a president who's only been in office for three months, instead of the numerous WHITE men who came before him. Go figure!

Race has always been a factor in everything we do in this country and it won't go away just because a black man is president. And yes, he is black. If you knew nothing of his background you would not think, "there goes a half white man". I don't understand why we MUST assign some "level" whiteness to any black person that is even moderately successful. Of course, if OJ were half white, no one would say a word - LOL!

And as far as slavery being abolished by a white man. Abraham Lincoln also said if he could save the union without freeing one slave, he would do it. His primary objective was not to abolish slavery, it was to preserve the union that was divided on the issue of slavery, among many other factors. So enough about the glorious white man who saved blacks from something they should never have been forced to do in the first place. It's like asking someone to thank the rapist for not killing them afterward.