Since Barack Obama has been elected as the first African American president of the United States there has been a substantial increase in race-related hate crimes. I do believe that there that there is a substantial subconscious psychological shift in all Americans on how they feel about people from other ethnic / racial groups whether it is positive or negative since Obama was elected president.


I believe that a hidden paradigm of thinking in the Republican Party is that if people apply themselves regardless of their cultural or financial circumstances, to a strong work ethic and unmoving belief in their own ability to achieve success – any person can improve their economic position beyond their grandest imagination. I think an unspoken, yet potent underlying philosophy of the Republican Party is the Darwinism theory of survival of the fittest—the party of economic winners.


Whether or not a person is racist or not has nothing to do with their political party; however it matters even less to Republicans because they have a take no prisoners- let the best person succeed philosophy of self-actualization. Some Republicans believe that Obama’s success is proof that anyone can achieve their goals if they are willing to do the work. Republicans don't always take into account institutionalized racism and other social, economical and political factors that create an un-leveled and unequal playing field; however, they see the individual's level of ambition as the major agent of change.


I believe that prejudiced democrats are more likely to be racist because their negative feelings about minorities are more likely to be based on their physical traits and no matter how wealthy or successful a minority becomes- they will still feel innately and biologically superior to them; whereas prejudiced republicans are more likely to be classist because they are more likely to discriminate on people of all races and ethnicities based on their level of income and when a person moves up the economic ladder wealth transcends their race to green.


I think that the mentality of racists democrats has a much more profound negative impact on the long-term institutional success of African American and Latino minorities than conservative republican racist because the Democrats see themselves in two major categories: competitor or savior. They are either the symbolic modern day “saviors” who see themselves philosophically as superior to minorities and that it is their calling or duty to save minorities from poverty by increasing taxes and creating government programs or; they see themselves as being in competition with minorities for government grants, contracts and funding that they feel that they deserve because they are biologically superior human beings and do not want minorities to be economically and educationally equal in social status.


The impact of racism in the Democratic Party is so deeply destructive because increasing jobs and pouring money into a non-money problem—is not the solution. Money is a band-aid that slows down the bleeding, but the deep historical wounds that divide the races bleed at the first sign of trouble because true healing over past racial oppression and discrimination has never taken place.