article_snippet: Is the lack of respect being shown toward President Obama about race, as some have suggested?
article_snippet: Certainly, for a segment of the country, it really is about being uncomfortable with a black president.
article_snippet: But beyond that hopefully shrinking share of the population that is explicitly racist, there is a far wider issue of implicit racial bias -- an unconscious, yet nonetheless real tendency, to subject President Obama to extra scrutiny because of the color of he skin.
article_snippet: None of this is to suggest that all of the criticism aimed at President Obama stems from implicit racial bias.
article_snippet: But such bias appears to be a factor in the ease and extremity of disrespect aimed at America's first black president.  
article_snippet: And this disrespect mirrors the disrespect shown against black Americans in general.