Barack Obama, Top Strategist of a "War on Whites?"

U.S. Representative Mo Brooks (R-Alabama)

In a recent interview with conservative radio host Laura Ingraham, U.S. Representative Mo Brooks (R-Alabama), spoke about immigration reform and censored President Obama for fighting a war against America's white population. 

He said, "This is a part of the war on whites that's being launched by the Democratic Party.  And the way in which they're launching this war is by claiming that whites hate everybody else.  It's part of the strategy that Barack Obama implemented in 2008, continued in 2012, where he divides all on race, on sex, greed, envy, class warfare, all those kinds of things."

what eye thynk:   I am in awe of the convoluted thinking that Mr. Brooks must have used to get to his opinion.  Somehow, he has twisted the GOP's anti-immigration stance into a Democratic anti-white crusade.  He doesn't seem to care that Hispanic voters may be turned off by his party's immigration policies.  Instead, he appears to believe it is more important that immigration reform be seen as part of a "war on whites" implemented by our first minority President specifically to hurt white Americans, who, it must be interpreted, he secretly hates.

Stay with me on this, because I realize I'm treading perilously close to aluminum hat theorist territory.

In our recent history, positions on social issues have been decidedly partisan. With that in mind, ask yourself who are the "whites" that Mr. Brooks claims Democrats are using as targets?    Then look at the quote again, and this time change one word:  "And the way in which they're launching this war is by claiming that  whites  Republicans hate everybody else."

The only way I can interpret his statement is that he sees the GOP as a party for whites only.  By supporting the rights of minorities, LGBT citizens and the poor, Democrats have become a home for minorities from which they are "launching a war" against an embattled white majority--the white majority that Mr. Brooks sees as solely Republican.  And so, conversely, the Republican Party, by fighting to keep minorities from voting, by promoting the wholesale deportation of Hispanic minorities, by continuing to repress the rights of LGBT citizens and by choosing to bend to the rich rather than assist the poor, has become the sole champion and welcoming home for white Americans.  

To add credence to his belief, he feeds Southern white prejudice by blaming President Obama for forcing the GOP to take on the job of protecting the Caucasian population.

Can he really view our political  ideologies as, quite literally, black vs. white? How lost in the 1960s is this guy?

It's interesting to me, that, while the modern GOP has proudly been the party of big business and social conservatism, it wasn't until we elected a black President that they began to identify our political money/social activism divide as an issue of race rather than principle. 

And that says more about the party still clinging to 1960s racist coattails than any statement Mr. Brooks or his fellow Republicans can come up with.