Posted on 03/20/2008 1:49:40 PM PDT by Notwithstanding
It seems the more Barack Obama tries to explain the peculiar statement he made Tuesday concerning his white grandmother's "fear of black men who passed by her on the street," the more he's assuring attention regarding the matter.
"The point I was making was not that my grandmother harbors any racial animosity...But she is a typical white person. If she sees somebody on the street that she doesn't know . . .inbred...reaction in her that doesn't go away and it comes out in the wrong way."
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Granny listens to country "music", you can tell from the inbreeding.
don’t know why people call black people ‘colored’.
White people are born red and wrinkly, they grow up and turn white, sit out in the sun and turn red and bubbly, then they turn brown as they tan, get older and start turning gray and wrinkly, turn green when htey eat somethign bad, turn blue when they run our of oxygen, and finally end up ashen colored. The nerve of some people!
I wonder if Michelle is still proud of America?
I don’t think the fear of black men by white women is “inbred.” Rather it’s just common sense, a rational reaction to the horrific incidence of violent crime committed by black men.
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I guess it would be racist of me if I mentioned that she may have a reason for her fear, but I'm gonna say it anyway. The percentage of young Afro-Americans among young men of all races in prison for street type crimes is several times higher for young Afro-American males than for young men of all races even though the A-A population is only 13% of the overall US population. That is no doubt a result of factors such as poverty, living in public housing projects, dropping out of school, absent fathers, etc, and not due to any A-A racial tendency to commit crime.
But whatever the cause, the fact that the Afro-American segment of the population commits a highly disproportionate percentage of all street crimes naturally causes whites to fear and avoid young A-A men on the street or anywhere street type crime is likely to occur. Even Jesse Jackson says he would be more afraid of a group of young A-A men following him on a dark street than a similar group of young whites.
OK, here's the proper place to accuse me of racism and hatred of all Afro-Americans. But the truth is that I'm not a racist and I don't hate anyone of any race, not because I'm such a good person but because Jesus Christ owns me lock, stock, and barrel and he won't allow it.
Her heart must be broken. I feel so sad for her. What an ungrateful grandson Obama has shown himself to be.
First rule when you see your probable opponent in a hole. Go to a foreign country and don't say anything stupid.
What a dip.
If he gets the Democrats nomination McCain is going to roll over him like Reagan did to Carter and Mondale.
Hilarious that Hillary Clinton is the Democrats only realistic choice.
The lesson from all of this is not either of those things.
Yikes...now Bill O. is saying he has sympathy for Barry.
He’s sandbagging him. Just wait...
he’s not fooling the press, they like him just the way he is.
Bam Bam’s Defense #1: “When you pick on my pastor, you pick on my Grandma! Leave Gramma alone!!”
Defense #2: “She can’t help it. They’re ALL like that!”
“Typical”? Amazing!!! My jaw dropped open when I heard that. Couldn’t believe it!
As a “typical” college teacher, I teach dozens of kids from different countries and backgrounds every day. It never occurs to me to run in “fear” from a subset of any them.
The Democrats are totally delusional. This strange remark has GOT to hurt BO, big-time.
Keep digging, Dems!
“The more he talks the more we know what he really believes.”
That is where political correctness and speech codes really get it wrong. When you gag someone out of fear of offending people, you don’t change that person’s attitude, you merely hide what he or she is really thinking. Far better to let some fool blather on and let us know his or her real self.
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Can someone please ask this Muslim racist and his friends in the media (Hissy, OBOdope, and Gay Cooper) what exactly is a “typical black person’? Can you imgaine if Imus, Bill O., or Trent Lott asked this question. Screw the NAZI MEDIA. ! Now it is all about his stupid passport files ,what is the muslim racist hiding now ? This Malcolm X supporter seems to have a far more raching agenda then Hildabeast ,amazing.
Never gonna happen as long as race pimps like Jackson, Sharpton, Wright, Farakan, et al, are manning the crash cart and ready to revive it at a moments notice. They have way too much at stake.
I’m surprised that hasn’t been pulled...or at least Obama should have made a speech about it by now.
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