Posted on 03/19/2008 3:13:50 PM PDT by Syncro
THROW GRANDMA UNDER THE BUS
March 19, 2008
Obama gave a nice speech, except for everything he said about race. He apparently believes we're not talking enough about race. This is like hearing Britney Spears say we're not talking enough about pop-tarts with substance-abuse problems.
By now, the country has spent more time talking about race than John Kerry has talked about Vietnam, John McCain has talked about being a POW, John Edwards has talked about his dead son, and Al Franken has talked about his USO tours.
But the "post-racial candidate" thinks we need to talk yet more about race. How much more? I had had my fill by around 1974. How long must we all marinate in the angry resentment of black people?
As an authentic post-racial American, I will not patronize blacks by pretending Obama's pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, is anything other than a raving racist loon. If a white pastor had said what Rev. Wright said -- not about black people, but literally, the exact same things -- I think we'd notice that he's crazier than Ward Churchill and David Duke's love child. (Indeed, both Churchill and the Rev. Wright referred to the attacks of 9/11 as the chickens coming "home to roost.")
Imagine a white pastor saying: "Racism is the American way. Racism is how this country was founded, and how this country is still run. ... We believe in white supremacy and black inferiority. And believe it more than we believe in God."
Imagine a white pastor calling Condoleezza Rice, "Condoskeezza Rice."
Imagine a white pastor saying: "No, no, no, God damn America -- that's in the Bible for killing innocent people! God damn America for treating our citizens as less than human! God damn America for as long as she acts like she is God and she is supreme!"
We treat blacks like children, constantly talking about their temper tantrums right in front of them with airy phrases about black anger. I will not pat blacks on the head and say, "Isn't that cute?" As a post-racial American, I do not believe "the legacy of slavery" gives black people the right to be permanently ill-mannered.
Obama tried to justify Wright's deranged rants by explaining that "legalized discrimination" is the "reality in which Rev. Wright and other African-Americans of his generation grew up." He said that a "lack of economic opportunity among black men, and the shame and frustration that came from not being able to provide for one's family, contributed to the erosion of black families."
That may accurately describe the libretto of "Porgy and Bess," but it has no connection to reality. By Rev. Wright's own account, he was 12 years old and was attending an integrated school in Philadelphia when Brown v. Board of Education was announced, ending "separate but equal" schooling.
Meanwhile, at least since the Supreme Court's decision in University of California v. Bakke in 1978 -- and obviously long before that, or there wouldn't have been a case or controversy for the court to consider -- it has been legal for the government to discriminate against whites on the basis of their race.
Consequently, any white person 30 years old or younger has lived, since the day he was born, in an America where it is legal to discriminate against white people. In many cases it's not just legal, but mandatory, for example, in education, in hiring and in Academy Award nominations.
So for half of Rev. Wright's 66 years, discrimination against blacks was legal -- though he never experienced it personally because it existed in a part of the country where he did not live. For the second half of Wright's life, discrimination against whites was legal throughout the land.
Discrimination has become so openly accepted that -- in a speech meant to tamp down his association with a black racist -- Obama felt perfectly comfortable throwing his white grandmother under the bus. He used her as the white racist counterpart to his black racist "old uncle," Rev. Wright.
First of all, Wright is not Obama's uncle. The only reason we indulge crazy uncles is that everyone understands that people don't choose their relatives the way they choose, for example, their pastors and mentors. No one quarrels with idea that you can't be expected to publicly denounce your blood relatives.
Read more at AnnCoulter.Com
I wrote something about this a couple of days ago:
Hussein Obama has permanently screwed up the Angry Black Gravy Train forever. God Bless whoever unearthed the Right Reverend Idiot, because the entire Black Shakedown Enterprise is now toast.
Ann adds to this by pointing out that for the last 30 years, we’ve lived in a country where it is LEGAL to discriminate against whites!
As such, if we are to end discrimination, let it begin with black people discriminating against white people.
Your comment innocently underscores how the country has suffered from increasingly lackluster candidates since 1988. It's been steadily downhill since Bush-41 vs. Dukakis...and at that time, I couldn't imagine there ever could be a more miserable pair of contenders. Oh, how wrong I was.
Only to learn that they have been doing the complete opposite, in church no less!
And those blacks who have not, surely in the last few days have made it clear that they support this Wright, and Hussein, so they must agree with both men. (Newsweek called a dozen black ministers, and none would condemn Wright)
Why do you think Al Sharpton, who has wet dreams about an Obama presidency, won’t come out and endorsement him directly? He’s afraid his endorsement would sink Obama and him too. In other words, Sharpton’s chickens would be coming home to roost.
Interesting that this comes up at this time.
It's not only women
And it's not only whites
Some time ago the Irreverent Jesse Jackson made almost the same statement.
I wonder if when Obama finds out about that if it will make him cringe as much as his white Grandmother did.
Somehow I doubt it
It's downright that a person would express his racism against his own family, let alone a little old white lady that brought him up when his black/arab father deserted him.
btt
(and why can't you be on TV analyzing, instead of hacks:)
Wow . . . a compliment! Don't see many of those!
Thanks, but to me the whole situation is so freakin' obvious that it shouldn't have to be pointed out at all. Too bad it ain't. That's how religion gets swallowed up by ethnicity.
This reminds me of the mosques.
Of course poor blacks and whites are intentionally aimed at each other. It’s a conspiracy and your screen name shows you’re part of it.
Just kidding, really. But there are quite a few people who actually think that way.
No Annie forgets some points...she says:
“Wright referred to the attacks of 9/11 as the chickens coming “home to roost.”
Jerry Falwell said, “The ACLU has got to take a lot of blame for this. And I know I’ll hear from them for this, but throwing God...successfully with the help of the federal court system...throwing God out of the public square, out of the schools, the abortionists have got to bear some burden for this because God will not be mocked and when we destroy 40 million little innocent babies, we make God mad...I really believe that the pagans and the abortionists and the feminists and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People for the American Way, all of them who try to secularize America...I point the thing in their face and say you helped this happen.”
BOTH stupid statements.
Coulter misses this.
I’m neither a fan of OB and am truly not a fan of vote for Hilary Coulter. She fudges the facts on this one.
Also, if you actually listen to the speech he talks about getting past race to deal with the issues that affect all people.
Wow I don’t believe I’m actually defending the guy, but this article is garbage.
Just kidding, really. But there are quite a few people who actually think that way.
Actually there are a lot of Leftists who claim they want poor Blacks and whites to unite. Then they make love to a Bible (KJV no less!) in a Black church and then go to a white one and tear one to shreds and spit in the people's faces.
Wonder why this hasn't worked?
Please add SAD in this sentence: It’s downright SAD that a person would...
"Mr. Karns, please pick up the white phone"
Thank goodness for the Internet.
(Anyway, I'll be adding you to my list of favorites to read here, for sure.)
See Post # 55 please
Someone commented that BO answered all the questions except those that were being asked. The first thing that he made clear was that he opposes slavery. Okay. Then he got around to the fact that his white granny who “sacrificed” for him made him “cringe” because she was a bigot. At that point I concluded that BO is the vilest politician of our time.
Islam is just a different context for the same anger. But it allows them to ally with the powerful.
It was totally unnecessary to make the remark about “Edwards dead son” in this.
If he’s in bad taste, why double it in spades by using it against him. She should have used another of his annoying claims—like the millionaire talking about his father in the mills.
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