Go Ann Go!
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’m not a big Hannity fan, but I listen here and there. He said something that struck me the other day. I think he was talking about Obama’s website linking to the Black Panthers, about how the media won’t dig any of this stuff up and so forth. Anyway, I’m paraphrasing, but he said we have a crisis of information in this country. You are right, it’s looking kinda scary.
True. In my city, we get more than to just hear about black resentment, almost every day. There is a stabbing, shooting, car-jacking or a home-invasion almost every night. And 95% of the time, guess what race the perps are?
Flame away...
Go Ann Go!
Me too!!!!
I would miss Ann if she was not there.
You can bet that there will be riots WHEN he loses, whether its the nomination or the presidency.
Obama's followers are essentially mindless ,. emotive cultists who believe in Utopia and the totalitarian authority necessary to impose it.
A pox on every last one of them!
Reading the article skimming the thread almost caused me to miss Zionist Conspirator's GRRRREAT post!
BUMP-TO-THE-TRUTH!
Jim Rob needs to mark this day down in FR history! I’ve actually said something some people thing is smart!
I can't believe this! I shoot my mouth off here all the time, and generally say ten foolish things for every wise one.
Anyway, thanks for the kind words!
“I had always thought that if anything could help black youngsters turn their lives around, it was the black churches. Now I’m wondering if they aren’t a major part of the problem.”
I don’t know much about it, but I read several years ago that many Christian churches really do lead black youth away from crime and into productive, happy lives. Those would be the churches that preach actual Christianity rather than some politicized, Leftist excuse factory.
There’s a difference between claiming that if a nation continues to defy God, God will withdraw His blessing and His hand of protection from it and allow another nation to be used as a judgement against it- - - and preaching that because of our policies toward other nations, somehow the terrorist attacks are deserved or justified.
Big difference.
Clearly there are some wonderful black Christian churches, and there are some racist black churches, whose primary purpose is politics and fundraising.
What I don’t know is what the numbers are. I had always assumed that these racist, unChristian churches were the minority. Now, I’m wondering.
Heavens knows there are a lot of sick white churches out there, so I guess it shouldn’t be a surprise about the black churches. But at least there aren’t many openly racist white churches around any more. Black churches, I don’t know.
Yeah, what worries me are these claims I’ve heard recently that we shouldn’t make such a big deal about Wright because he is typical of black preachers. If that’s true, we have a big problem. We can only hope that the firestorm over Wright has knocked some sense into a few of them and their followers.
Nope no difference. Falwell and the rest blame american’s for bringing the wrath of the jihad down upon us.
Same sh*t different pile.
Anyways Coulter can drag her scrawny butt and go vote for her hero Hilary....good luck to her.
“Nope no difference. Falwell and the rest blame american’s for bringing the wrath of the jihad down upon us.”
You’re kidding, right?
In case you’re not, let me try to explain the difference.
First of all, Falwell was talking about sinful *behavior* — not race. As far as I know, Falwell has *never* tried to link any particular behavior with any particular race. Pastor Wright, on the other hand, does so routinely.
Second, open your eyes and consider the styles of delivery. Falwell talks in a more or less normal tone of voice. Pastor Wright, on the other hand, talks like Adolph Hitler.
I think Falwell’s remarks were ill advised. Although they may have contained a grain of truth, he should have known that they were inappropriate public statements. But they are not in the same category as Wright’s. Not even close.
Ann is right as usual.
That is a truly excellent post. I’m glad others pointed it out because I wasn’t going to read every post on this thread.
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