Not if his only credible white opponent is a woman… (you’re crazy if you think the republicans had any chance after 8 years of Bush).

Also, “we elected a (half)-black president, so we’re not racist” sound like those comments about black friends that judge was making there….

No black Canadian has ever been Prime Minister or led a federal party, but Canada’s current Governor General, the appointed representative of Queen Elizabeth II, is a black woman.

Canada has different demographics than the United States. Blacks are about 2.5% of Canada’s population while they are 13.4% of the US population.

What I will say, though, is that many of the people who answered that they didn’t find the skit offensive weren’t actually answering about the skit. What they were concerned with was that an American called us racist. It’s one thing for someone from a country to call that country racist, for a foreigner to call a country racist is something that many people will not take.

I will point out that, while they Hey Hey skit was performed by private citizens aired by a private network, which caused huge emotional offence but no direct legal or economic harm, the denial of a marriage licence was performed by a government official and caused direct legal and economic harm.

Was the skit better or worse than the denial of a marriage licence? It’s a pointless question. Is Australia more racist than America? Maybe. I would say that there is probably more low-level racism, which the poll results show, but less extreme racists. It’s fairly academic question anyway, they both have come a long way and both have a long way to go.

When you mention your favourite target, the liberal media, you seem to be missing that Canadians think that Canada is the least racist and Australians think Australia is the least racist and, yes, Americans think that Americans are the least racist. My question is this, T. Had our positions been reversed, would you be pointing at the denial of a marriage licence as uncontrovertible proof of America’s racism, and be saying that the Hey Hey skit was bad but could have been worse? When discussing how racist America is, are you more concerned with the truth, or protecting your ego?

1. The certificate would not satisfy them any more than NASA’s photos of the “face on Mars” satisfied UFOlogists. They’d declare it fake but celebrate that the president bowed to their demands.

2. There is no reasonable doubt about the issue. Even if you believe every single authority in the U.S. entered into a conspiracty to lie about the certificate, public records show Obama’s birth announcements in Hawaii. Unless his mother could see the future or had access to a time machine, she would have had no reason to submit it.

3. If Obama bows to the Birthers’ demands, he sets himself up for the rest of the loons. One of the claims against him involves a detailed description of his penis. The office of the president should not have to jump to the demands of the Birthers much less the rest of the pack.

Wilson also created the Federal Trade Commission, the Clayton Antitrust Act, the Revenue Act of 1913 (the first progressive tax in the country), supported and promoted the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment (women’s suffrage), and tried to create a world body that would prevent future world wars (the League of Nations). His Fourteen Points are about as far from fascism as one could get, and he actively believed in and fought for them; he wasn’t merely paying lip service to peaceful ideas. He also created Mothers Day. In short, he is a very difficult president to fairly gauge; many of his policies were abhorrent but he did do a great deal of good and was successful in achieving most of his goals.

Oh, and acts similar to the anti-free speech laws passed during WWI were also passed by John Adams (at a time when the U.S. was not in a war though it feared one). Lincoln suspended habeus corpus, blockaded the South and imprisoned 18,000 on suspicion of Confederate sympathies without Congressional approval, too.

I’m thinking it’s probably easier, or at least there’s less baggage, to be black in Canada. Or Australia

If you listen to liberal propaganda in this country about how every single other western country is more enlightened than the US, sure. But if you objectively judge evidence I’ve never seen any evidence that Canada is any better to blacks than the US currently is. Not any worse either, but nothing to show they treat them any better. And no black politician to my knowledge has come close to Barack’s heights in Canada.

And as for Australia, have you been following the news lately?

A talent show in Australia recently had Harry Connick Jr on as a guest judge, and one of the performances they had was a bunch of impersonating Michael Jackson in full blackface and afro wig attire and they called themselves “The Jackson Jive.” And do you know what? The Australian audience was loving it and saw nothing wrong with it. When Harry Connick Jr, the only American on panel, found it disgusting and tasteless and “gonged” them, many in the audience even BOOED.

http://www.dlisted.com/node/34259

The best is what Harry said next:

Harry said, “I just wanted to say on behalf of my country, I know it was done humorously, but we’ve spent so much time trying to not make black people look like buffoons, that when we see something like that, we take it really to heart. I know it was in good fun, and the last thing I want to do is take this show to a down level—because you know how much I love this show and this country—but I feel like I’m at home here, and if I knew that was going to be part of the show, I probably—I definitely wouldn’t have done it.”

Harry Connick threatened to quit the show on the spot backstage and had to be soothed into returning on the condition that he was allowed to openly speak out against it. Even afterwards, the people partaking in it still didn’t feel it was racist at all. The host dismissed it as a “storm in a teacup” and defended it later. And best of all, if you check the link below, a MAJORITY of people polled by Australian media felt the skit was totally fine and not racist or tasteless in the least:

http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,26182444-952,00.html

An overwhelming 69 per cent of readers who voted in online News Ltd polls across Australia said the skit – which featured four men with blackened faces wearing afro wigs miming to the Jackson Five’s Can You Feel It – was neither racist nor tasteless. The strongest reactions came from readers of PerthNow.com.au, where 81 per cent said the skit was not racist, and adelaidenow.com.au, where 80 per cent supported the skit…

Results from other News Ltd sites were:

• News.com.au – 72.2 per cent said the skit wasn’t racist/tasteless
• Dailytelegraph.com.au – 77 per cent said the skit wasn’t racist/tasteless
• Heraldsun.com.au – 76 per cent said the skit wasn’t racist/tasteless
• Couriermail.com.au – 53 per cent said the skit wasn’t racist/tasteless.

So basically, if an American wasn’t there to get offended and turn it into world news, chances are the skit would have just aired in Australia, laughed at and life would have just carried on and it wouldn’t have been made into world news. And one last thing, one of the participants of the blackface skit, who was avidly defending the skit and saying he didn’t think it was racist? Check out what he said below:

Asked if he would have done the same skit in America, Dr Deva replied, “Absolutely not”.

Think about it, after all his defending of his own skit, even he admits without hesitation that he’d never have the nerve to even think of trying such a stunt in the USA.