When President Obama dared to share this thoughts and concerns following events like the arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates or the murder of Trayvon Martin, the near universal response from the Right was to blast him for supposedly forcing himself into the situation and exacerbating racial tensions.
But in the case of the situation in Ferguson, Missouri, the response from the Right seems to be to blast Obama for not having spoken out sooner and more forcefully, with Bryan Fischer declaring today that Obama seems to think that his presidency is nothing more than a game of “Sim City” in which he doesn’t care about the people who are hurt by his complete and utter disinterest because there is not an ounce of humanity within him.
The black community, Fischer asserted, must be especially disgusted that Obama “just doesn’t seem to care” about them.
“Here’s the first black president,” he said, “the black community had so much hope. A post-racial president, he’s going to heal all of these racial divisions. Here is a black president who seems blissfully unconcerned that a largely black community is going up in flames. He has to be dragged to the podium after three days and riots to say a word about the situation. And so it would seem to me that they would have a hard time not thinking, look, this is a president, despite his skin color, despite the fact that he may identify with us ethnically, he just doesn’t seem to care”:
