Posted on 03/19/2008 3:21:15 PM PDT by goldstategop
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.
But Wright is not a relative of Obama's at all. Yet Obama cravenly compared Wright's racist invective to his actual grandmother, who "once confessed her fear of black men who passed by her on the street, and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe."
Rev. Wright accuses white people of inventing AIDS to kill black men, but Obama's grandmother -- who raised him, cooked his food, tucked him in at night, and paid for his clothes and books and private school -- has expressed the same feelings about passing black men on the street that Jesse Jackson has.
Unlike his "old uncle" -- who is not his uncle -- Obama had no excuses for his grandmother. Obama's grandmother never felt the lash of discrimination! Crazy grandma doesn't get the same pass as the crazy uncle; she's white. Denounce the racist!
Fine. Can we move on now?
No, of course, not. It never ends. To be fair, Obama hinted that we might have one way out: If we elect him President, then maybe, just maybe, we can stop talking about race.
NRA2BFree
Sounds like a great idea! Real conservatives kicking McLame in the groin where it hurts him most, voting for Hillary!
Sorry, FRiend. Ann does nothing for me. Does that make me a "kook?" :o)
When minorities from other nations can come to this country and through their hard work and acceptance of American values make it, the question needs to be ask, why can not native born minorities make it?
If this nation was racist, why is one of the richest woman in this country black (Oparh)?
If this nation was racist, why do our young people try to emulate the culture of the ghettos (hip hop, rap, and everything that goes with it)?
If this nation was racist, why are many of our top military people black?
There are countries within this world that really know what racism is. Try being an outsider in Japan (assuming you could even emigrate). Look at the caste system in India where it is almost impossible for someone born within one caste to move out of it.
There are very few nations in this world like the United States where if you work hard you can succeed.
I will concede there may be isolated, individual acts of racism within this nation, but it is not state sanctioned, it is not the law, nor is it the custom.
If we were to be really honest with ourselves we would ask the one question that never gets asked. Are blacks better off today then they were before the civil right movement?
Before the 1960 there was a large black middle class society within this nation. If the civil rights movement would have stopped with making it illegal for any government agency to descriminate, we all would be better off today. Instead we got the "Great Society", and affirmative action, and a whole host of laws that can do nothing but create resentment from one side towards the other.
Blacks have opportunities today they did not have before but many have choosen not to make use of those opportunities. Their failure is not because of white racism, but a choice they or someone in their life made.
Men impregnating girls then abandoning them.
Declaring getting an education, or speaking correct english as beng an "uncle tom" and putting peer presure on others not to try.
Using drugs.
And the list goes on.These problems are not caused by racism, but by decisions made by individuals.
I am with Ann on this, it is time that individuals take responsibility for their action and not blame other for their misfortune.
Tell them to get over it.
I was denied a few job opportunities because of the color of my skin back in the 1970s.
That is so despite the fact that I grew up in neighborhoods where I was the minority. I don't care if anyone believes that to be so or not.
I simply think that this business of accusing all white folks of being racist is simply a tactic of left wing radicals who are patently dishonest about the nature of this country as things currently stand.
I'm glad you said that. I've been thinking about that very thing ever since this whole Wright thing started. I used to think that all those kids needed was Christ in their lives and they would straighten up, but after hearing Wright and about the other black pastors who preach the same thing, I realized that many of them may very well have picked up their hatred right in the church. Those churches are holding their youth back by telling them they are never going to have anything in America because of the "rich white KKKAmericans." I think they have hurt those kids more than they've ever helped them.
Throw Grandma Under The Bus
(Ann Coulter: Let's Move On From Race Talk Alert)
ANN COULTER: THROW GRANDMA UNDER THE BUS
(Wright Good, Gramma Bad)
That is whats taking place here, unfortunately, we had to wait for the PIAPS to do it.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Brilliant stuff from Ann Coulter. Just when you think she’s too crazy to take seriously, she hits another home run.
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