So former President Jimmy Carter thinks the American public resents President Obama because he is a black man.

At one time he also assumed that Americans were suffering from a grand malaise when in fact it was his own overwhelming, depressing and parochial world view that perpetrated the unsuccessful domestic policies and disastrous foreign relations that characterized the Carter presidency.

His own antebellum attitude toward blacks is not shared by the majority of American citizens. We voted for Obama because he is a personable, well educated and idealistic person who promised to change the country and break down all the racial barriers that stand in the way of any child in America who aspires to be president of the United States.

Obama handily won the election. He does not need Carter telling him that the voters do not like him because he is black. Indeed, it is Carter who has a problem!

Anne D. Germeroth

Williamsville