Posted on 10/28/2008 1:11:53 PM PDT by Harvard Alum
News flash: Obama is "biracial," according to his top adviser on race issues, Harvard law professor Charles Ogletree, during an Oct. 25 panel discussion at Harvard on race and the 2008 election: http://www.archive.org/details/OgletreeSaysObamaIsbiracial
Ogletree's point is that because of pervasive racism which he expects will last decades, white America won't vote for blacks and other minority candidates. The expected heavy white vote for Obama doesn't disprove this thesis, Ogletree says, because Obama's not black; he's "biracial." So it looks like, according to Ogletree (and Obama?) that white America will have to do lots more for blacks after electing Obama to atone for past sins; it will get little if any credit for electing Obama.
If it wasn't already obvious, it's pretty clear which campaign is playing the race card: Obama's campaign keeps bringing up issues of race; McCain's campaign has not initiated any such discussion.
Note that Ogletree can't be dismissed as some fringe Obama kook like Jeremiah Wright. Ogletree's a tenured professor at Harvard Law School. According to the ABA Journal, Ogletree (who was a mentor during law school to both Barack and Michelle Obama) has a very good chance of being appointed as the top Department of Justice official in charge of civil rights enforcement in any Obama Administration: http://abajournal.com/magazine/the_lawyers_who_may_run_america_obama
Wondering whether this snippet was perhaps taken out of context? There's a full audio of the entire Harvard panel discussion here: http://www.archive.org/details/Oct.252008HarvardLawTownHallOnRaceAndThe2008Election
Other audio snippets from the program of possible interest:
1. Ogletree jokes about the mysterious disappearance of Jeremiah Wright until after the election; apparently, the Obama campaign forced him to call off his book tour, and into hiding: http://www.archive.org/details/CharlesOgletreeOnJeremiahWrightOct.252008
2. Ogletree says some voters view Barack Obama as white and others view him as black: http://www.archive.org/details/CharlesOgletreeOnObamaSeemingBothWhiteAndBlackOct.2520 08
3. More from Ogletree on his prediction that white racism will persist for many more decades: http://www.archive.org/details/OgletreeOnPersistentRacismOct.252008
4. 1978 Harvard law grad Olara Otunnu (formerly a U.N. official, now a nonprofit head) knew Obama's dad, and says Obama's a lot like his dad: http://www.archive.org/details/OgletreeQuestionsOlaraOtunnuOct.252008_637 http://www.archive.org/details/OtunnuRemembersBarackObamaSr.Oct.252008
5. Otunnu reflects on Obama's Muslim and Arab roots, and opines that the Muslim world will be quite happy with a U.S. president with an Arab name who's personally answered the morning call to prayer: http://www.archive.org/details/OttunuOnObamaMuslimAndArabRoots
6. Otunnu notes the oddity that a member of Kenya's Luo tribe may become president of the United States before one becomes president of Kenya, and that Obama had a better chance of becoming president of his country growing up in the U.S. than he would have growing up in Kenya (of which he was a citizen from birth): http://www.archive.org/details/OtunnuOnLuoTribeMemberBeingElectedPresidentOct.252008
7. Neal Chayet (Harvard Law, 1963) discusses the problem with the Bible-belt folks, particularly as to their "judgmental" nature -- I suppose the problem is they're bitter: http://www.archive.org/details/NealChayetOnTheProblemWithBible-beltFolks.
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Welcome to FR today. No one here ever expected for “racism” claims to go away with an Obama election. In fact, I expect them to increase....everytime the 50% who didn’t vote for him speaks up.
His real parents are Mr Clean and Aunt Jemima
/rhut-rhoo
How dark would he have to be?
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Some of us called this a while back.
See, America only voted for a biracial guy with an Ivy League education.
Only if Mr. DoggyDog wins will the racism end.
Predictable. And not surprising. The first post racial candidate (how quaint that sounds) will create more division than virtually anything else.
Well, that’s a relief.
Now nobody needs to feel any pressure to vote for him.
Sure he is- He is half white and half Arab.
“Ogletree can’t be dismissed as some fringe Obama kook like Jeremiah Wright. Ogletree’s a tenured professor at Harvard Law School.”
Those aren’t mutually exclusive.
If Obama were uni-Racial and white, he’d lose more states than Dukakis.
Ruh-rho. Your link doesn’t go to where it says it goes. It goes to archive.org streaming media. Could this be an equivocation?
I’m glad that’s cleared up. So, going forward, will any criticism of The One be considered bi-racism?
He may be biologically biracial, but didn’t he make a conscious choice in college to self identify as black?
Wasn’t going to help anyway that he will lose the election.....
Okay by me. Just need to tell all of his black supporters that he’s not black and they don’t have to vote for him. In fact, they can vote against the white half.
Or perhaps he would had to have grown up with ancestors who lived the struggles faced by black Americans in the 18-20th Century. Or perhaps he should have grown up in America himself, rather than Indonesia.
But by whatever standard is chosen, he probably does not meet the criteria by the black establishment.
He’s right. Obama’s election will only mean America is only half racist. We’ll be halfway there!
Then why bother voting for Obama if it proves nothing? I'm so glad this adviser cleared this up.
-PJ
Of COURSE it won’t.
As Booker T Washington said:
“There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs. There is a certain class of race-problem solvers who don’t want the patient to get well.”
Same with these “economic reparative changes” - ie, REPARATIONS. It will never be enough, it will never actually even be CALLED “reparations”, because once they do, they can’t “go back to the well” again.
I guess I can only speak for myself but this seems kinda crazy to me. I am a country-southern-white guy, that more or less fits the redneck, good ol boy stereotype(at least visually). I guess a lot of people would look at me and think that I would never vote for a black candidate.
The thing is, it is simply not true, I could easily vote for a black candidate. Just not Obama, or Al Sharpton, etc. I could have happily voted for Keyes, or JC Watts, etc. Jeeze louise, I would get out and campaign if only a Walter E Williams or Thomas Sowell would run.
Not happy at all to have to pull the lever for Mccain. In fact I probably would not have had he not picked Palin. She ROCKS!!!
But, thats just me.
Hmm reminds me of a Clint Eastwood’s Josey Wales:
We catch Wales and it is over
Over? Texas, there are alot of Rebels in Texas..
This will never end, the real point is, will we listen to their complaints or laugh them off for the clowns and scoundrels they truly are?
The Obamaloon had to dig deep to find folks even dumber than he. He succeeded.
I wasn’t even 8 years old when that stuff happened and I certainly doesn’t endorse such activity. I shouldn’t have to pay. Barack Obama is more personally connected to vile establishments and that is his excuse for such associations.
Racism over? What? End the shakedown? LOL! Neva happen.
So what? Most American blacks have some white blood. And for some strange reason, many of the most radical "black" racial demagogues, like Jeremiah Wright, Julian Bond, and the late Adam Clayton Powell, are even paler than Hussein.
There is some merit to this article; Obama’s not “black” in the usual American sense.
His mother was white, of course. Family owned slaves, apparently.
His father was of an African tribe that historically captured other Africans, enslaved them, and sold them to fellow muslim slave traders, who then sold them to Europeans.
Obama has no connection to slavery, at all, other than being the beneficiary of it.
Ironic, in that the 96% of American blacks — descendants of the people his ancestors enslaved -— will vote for Obama, overwhelmingly because of the melanin content of his skin, in some sort of mistaken color allegence.
And, like his ancestors, Obama will enslave these blacks with government programs that destroy the family, morals, and work ethic, so as to keep them on the Democrat plantation, mired in the poverty and ignorance.
Generation after generation being used by Obama and his ilk.
Amazing sad.
It's no great surprise that Charles Ogletree..would do a proposed pre-strike..to protect his turf.
Race disruption is how he makes his bones.........
That’s just great. So even if America does exactly what they want and elects Obama, it won’t be enough to compensate for past racial sins. Nothing will ever be enough, that is the real truth. They want to reserve the right to continue to use the bludgeon of white guilt to beat us with from time to time whenever necessary.
To hell with these nasty black communist bastards. My family fought on both sides of the civil war. We’re done paying or feeling guilty.
I already paid my dues. I voted for Lynn Swann.
funny you mentioned this, remember hit piece scum liberal wallst journal reporters did on Justice Thomas? they claimed he was obsessed over Anita Hill because she was a lot lighter than he
funny you mentioned this, remember hit piece scum liberal wallst journal reporters did on Justice Thomas? they claimed he was obsessed over Anita Hill because she was a lot lighter than he
funny you mentioned this, remember hit piece scum liberal wallst journal reporters did on Justice Thomas? they claimed he was obsessed over Anita Hill because she was a lot lighter than he
Well, that’s one more reason not to vote for him.
Over 40 years ago the first research by scholars such as Melville J. Herskovitz showed conclusively that only about 10% of American blacks are not multi-racial. It makes onw wonder why the desire to fabricate nonsense about African heritage (such as Swahili, the language of Arab slaver traders of blacks) rather than boast of the accomplishments of all of those from whom one is descended, much as the blacks who claim descent from one of the Jefferson family do. Is racism the answer to racism?
Why I’m shocked...shocked to discover that blacks should want to continue demanding that whites feel guilty about slavery. Shocked that an excuse has been created for the purpose of continuing the extortion of countless trillions more in welfare, food stamps, free medical care, affirmative action...Say, wait a minute. Why don’t whites all quit working and demand that blacks support them! What do you think Jesse would say? (And who in the world would he be able to shake down then??)
Oh yeah. I was going to vote against him based on his socialst past and policies, but then I realized he was half-white, so I’ve got to reconsider.
Not from time to time. Constantly, until the end of time
If there’s anything harder for Obama to find than his birth documents it’s his white self.
“Now nobody needs to feel any pressure to vote for him.”
How much you wanna bet this same fella will blame racism if Obama loses?
Most African-Americans are biracial. Can the crap, Ogletree, we’ve heard it enough times.
Where is Vlad the Impaler when you need him? Ogletree needs an attitude readjustment.
Tagline material!
It's no great surprise that Charles Ogletree..would do a proposed pre-strike..to protect his turf.
Race disruption is how he makes his bones.........
Old kiddie riddle: What’s black and white, but red all over? Answer: a newspaper. New answer: Barack Hussein Obama, the New York Times, the LA Times and assorted other newspapapers.
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