If Obama is the Tar Baby then who is Brer Rabbit?

If you know the story, the Bear tricked Brer Rabbit into attacking the tar baby. Brer Rabbit was trying to be friendly, saying "hello", but was rebuffed by the silent tar baby, which made him mad. Although his anger was righteous, he struck out, and paid for it. The moral of the story is, don't get mad about what other people do.

If Obama was the tar baby (not a good analogy, since the tar baby was a prop created by the Bear), then someone behind Obama is hoping Brer Rabbit will attack him.

This starts to sound like reality. Because everything white people, conservatives, Republicans, or Tea Partiers, say about Obama's policies are treated as though they are an attack on the Tar Baby, and they get in trouble for it even though there intention was honorable.
 
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