[Williams]

Am I the only one ticked off that Obama used his white grandmother's "racism" to justify not distancing himself from Rev. Wright's racist left wing statements?

Obama's mother was a leftist who married two black men, so Obama did not hear any racism from her. Is he seriously comparing a woman who must have been born in the early 1900's with the public statements of a leading black figure in the 21st century? Didn't Obama learn anything more positive about race from his mother? Does he really think a woman of an entirely different America, maybe raised in the 1920's, justifies his tolerance of public racism in 2008?

[TheThinker]

Is he seriously comparing a woman who must have been born in the early 1900's with the public statements of a leading black figure in the 21st century?

The old woman was afraid of some blacks on the street. But some blacks on the street are violent and racist just as some white thugs are violent and racist.