Obama may "claim" to be post racial, but in fact he has made race a center issue in his campaign and just may have done more to ignite racial tensions in America than any person or event in recent memory. This, juxtaposed with the fact that he is indeed the most liberal Senator in Congress (see record on issues here), makes it clear that Obama is not only far-removed from the mainstream of America and the true face of American life, he is also ignorant of certain Department of Justice statistics on Black crime and Black victims.

The painting of Blacks as victims of White America on the part of Obama, his wife, their pastor, and others, is not only not helpful to Black Americans, it just happens to be inaccurate. For 20 years, Barack and Michelle Obama have drank the poison Kool-Aid of Black theology, never seeing the real problem - a Black subculture of victimhood and street/ghetto culture. This makes Obama himself part of the problem.

As pointed out at Government Is Not Your Daddy, "African Americans who embrace the street/ghetto culture have defined themselves (and all African Americans) as victims, and perpetuate a subculture steeped in resentment and entitlement. People who define themselves as victims don't aspire to success, because they've already conceded failure and placed the blame on someone else:

Perceived victimization engenders resentment, which justifies a sense of entitlement. Instead of aspiring to rise higher with each successive generation, they sink deeper into the culture of poverty and recrimination, accepting the ghetto as their fate and entitlements as their due.

Participants in the street culture look down on those who work to achieve something better, sneer at education, and prey on those who live according to traditional values. They prey on each other, too. The street culture glorifies violence, drugs, and crime. It thrives on hatred -- hatred of whites, hatred of the country in which they live, hatred of other races, and hatred of other African Americans. It's a culture of self-victimization and false entitlement, and it will forever resist assimilation because its values are antithetical to the values of mainstream America.

This subculture, exploited by the media, and pandered to by black leaders, makes it much harder for those who want to rise up, who want to participate in the opportunities of mainstream American culture, and who want to leave a legacy of success for their children instead of a legacy of failure and resentment.

There is no question that African Americans have suffered from persecution and discrimination in this country. But, throughout human history, cultures have overrun, oppressed, abused, enslaved, and persecuted other cultures. (See What about the Jews?) That doesn't make it right. It's wrong. But history goes on. The survivors survive and adapt, and cultures change and evolve. But individuals don't succeed, and cultures don't evolve, by clinging to victimhood or by accepting/demanding entitlements to sustain the status quo. They survive, succeed, and evolve by overcoming and, by overcoming, becoming stronger.

As I've previously blogged, look at the years and years that the "Black victim" subculture has been wallowing in self-pity and victimhood (no disrespect meant to the great achievements of the great number of successful Blacks in America who have made great contributions to our country - BO and his wife, included), and failed to even come close to achieving the successes as a whole of the Asian, Indian, Arab, Cuban and the myriad other communities that have succeeded in American society - most of whom didn't even know our language when the began their pursuit of the American dream ?

Again, Barack and Michelle Obama, and every other Afro American that has drank the poison Kool-Aid of Black theology, Black nationalization, and Black victimhood, never seeing the real problem - a Black subculture of victimhood and street/ghetto culture - are themselves the part and parcel of the problem. Not White America and not anyone but themselves.

Much related: Ed Kaitz On 'Obama's Anger'