Obama and "Post Racist" America

Despite all the documentation of its success, the ACA, aka Obamacare continues to draw frenzied opposition from the Republican party base.  The number of uninsured Americans is down, rates have not skyrocketed.  Indeed, the growth of medical spending seems to have slowed.  There is no "death spiral" of older, sicker people dragging the whole system down.  So, what's not to like?  The answer is not a pretty one.  The only thing that seems to drive most people to reflexively oppose this President is racism, pure and simple.  For politicians to say that is to play the "race card" and to be dismissed as rabble rousers.  But for those of us down on the street, it is easy to see with the amount of racist jokes and cartoons circulating that fear and anger towards blacks has not dwindled by nearly the amount the pundits would have us believe.  What passes for wisdom on the Georgetown cocktail circuit, namely we are over the Jim Crow south (and North) of the 20th century is dismissed on a regular basis in most areas of the country.  If you don't laugh at racist jokes regarding the president, you are dismissed as a N lover.  We have come a long way, but we have miles to go to get to a post racial America.