Posted on 03/22/2008 6:51:51 AM PDT by moneyrunner
Barack Obama says his grandmother is a typical white person, which in his words, means that if she sees somebody on the street that she doesn't know, she gets scared. He then explains that is the nature of race in our society.
Virginian Pilot Editors: To Paraphrase Obama = "Typical White Liberals"
Barack Obama was asked about his use of his white grandmother as an example of white racism. He replied
"The point I was making was not that my grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She doesn't. But she is a typical white person who, uh, if she sees somebody on the street that she doesn't know there's a reaction that's been been bred into our experiences that don't go away and that sometimes come out in the wrong way and that's just the nature of race in our society."
Obama shamelessly uses his grandmother and compares her to the racist rants of J. Wright.
During his speech on race Obama said his grandmother was "a woman who helped raise me, a woman who sacrificed again and again for me, a woman who loves me as much as she loves anything in this world," but he then qualified that description by noting she was also "a woman 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."
Charles Krauthammer critiques Obama’s speech HERE and the reaction to it.
White guilt. Obama's purpose in the speech was to put Wright's outrages in context. By context, Obama means history. And by history, he means the history of white racism. Obama says, "We do not need to recite here the history of racial injustice in this country," and then proceeds to do precisely that. And what lies at the end of his recital of the long train of white racial assaults from slavery to employment discrimination? Jeremiah Wright, of course.
This contextual analysis of Wright's venom, this extenuation of black hate speech as a product of white racism, is not new. It's the Jesse Jackson politics of racial grievance, expressed in Ivy League diction and Harvard Law nuance. .
The group who loved it?
That's why the speech made so many liberal commentators swoon: It bathed them in racial guilt, while flattering their intellectual pretensions. An unbeatable combination.
What was delicious was that the Virginian Pilot's editors then printed an exact illustration of the sort of Liberal mash note that, when analyzed is fully as satisfying and designed to rot your intellectual teeth as cotton candy for the mind.
Detailing the racial make-up of the Tidewater Virginia area, the Pilot's cracked editors bleat again for a "dialog" on race. Well, J. Wright certainly revived the talk of race. Is that what they want? Well, no.
That conversation isn’t just about finding a way to get past our own bigotries, small and large. It’s about finding our way in a smaller world.
What? What does that mean?
Embracing differences — and leveraging them to compete — is already a key characteristic of successful corporations across the world; as that globe shrinks, it will also be the defining characteristic of its most successful nations.
So the racism and hatred of America expressed by Reverend Wright should be leveraged (how?) to make us a more successful nation? Wright's diatribes should be used to appeal to America's haters throughout the world to show that they are not alone in their hatred of America, we have our very own America haters right here in the United States? I'm confused, will that make them hate us more or hate us less?
As Americans, we may not like Wright’s bombast, but that neither makes it disappear nor leaves it without a significant audience. Such views are as much a part of our world as religious leaders blaming homosexuals for 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina, or dismissing the Mormon and Catholic churches as cults.
Ah, yes, Wright is simply bombastic when he accuses Americans of inventing aids to wipe out blacks. When he accuses (FDR's) America of knowing in advance of the attack on Pearl Harbor. If I may paraphrase J. Wright "NO! NO! NO!" That's not bombast, those are racially charged lies. That is blood libel.
Newt Gingrich has it right when he says:
For 20 years, he was a member of a church where he now says his pastor, a public figure, was saying things ... forget that they were hateful, forget that they were divisive: They were wrong. They were fundamentally, factually wrong."
And let me point out to the Pilot's cracked editors that when certain preachers blamed homosexuals for 9/11 and Katrina they were not invited in for a dialog, they were denounced! Would the Pilot like to call for a dialog those who call Mormons a cult? Regarding Catholics I have never heard anyone call them a cult, although I could imagine certain members of the looney atheist Left do so.
The Pilot then pauses to accuse those who question J. Wright's racial hatred and Obama's cynical opportunism of wishing to divide us:
Some — churches and ethnic groups, universities and politicians — are trying to take up Obama’s invitation to a larger conversation on race in America. Obama’s opponents refuse to hear his message because they choose not to, because a dialogue rooted in common hopes unwinds their hopes of dividing the nation for political gain.
Tell me, Pilot, what common hopes do I have with J. Wright and his cheering parishioners as he asks God to damn America? What common hopes do I have with the man who supported that hate speech for twenty years with his attendance and his money? I know he hopes to be president; I fervently hope he does not.
Right now, this nation is undergoing an enormous demographic earthquake. In a few years, whites will no longer make up the majority. In a few decades, they may no longer be the largest ethnic group.
It seems as if the Pilot's editors are looking to make their peace with race baiters whose skins are not white. The Pilot's staff wants to be on the side of the coming majority and if that majority wants to have God damn America, the Pilot will find a way of being there for them.
Well folks, that was the windup, here's the pitch:
We’re on that road. We got there, in part, by knowing this isn’t entirely about race and racism. It’s about citizenship. At its core, the contention over Obama’s pastor is about something deeper to our experience, our history, to our health as a nation now and to come: Who is an American? And what does that have to do with the color of our skin?
The poor Pilot; the poor, poor, pitiful Pilot. You may not like them, but there is something pitiful about people whose analytical skills arrive at this piece of intellectual detritus.
But...but...don’t you understand it is the white people’s fault? All of it, every bad thing that has ever happened to any of them- any good thing that has not happened to them- it is all white people’s fault. If followers of people like Wright did not believe everything is the white people’s fault then that would mean they would have to face their own problems and find their own solutions.
Black people, and other minorities, and even all people for that matter use beliefs such as this as a way to avoid responsiblity. The ones that don’t believe this way are already taking responsibility for their actions, and finding their own solutions to their problems. The leadership of these groups don’t really believe all this crap they shovel out to the masses- it is their way of keeping control of the little people. There are of course leaders of many groups that try this crap.
I have hung around FR a lot, although not as much as formerly now that I have my own blog. In general the comments denigrating religion come from aggressive atheists, not fundamentalist protestants, although I acknowledge that some protestants dislike Catholicism.
I am white and I had numerous situations like that occur to me only the perps were WHITE!And I most defintely don’t go around scared of white folks.
And,for the record,I have also had several bad incidents occur where the perps were black,Mexican and Asian at various times in my life.
I hate those individuals but I know they don’t represent the entire race.
Thanks for your thoughts. This is exactly Obama’s problem now. He was viewed as being nonracial: simply an American with a deep tan. Now he is revealed as the acolyte of a racist America-hater.
You are certainly right that the bad apples don’t represent the whole race. I’ve got lots of friends and colleagues from many races and from many countries. These lessons DID teach me to be aware of my surroundings and potential danger, whatever quarter it may originate from.
Is that anything like a typical Black person who's usually getting arrested for drugs, shootings, has children out of wedlock or can't hold a job?
Obama exposes his racist, narrow-minded and bigoted inner self.
What a POS.
Thanks much!
Jesse Jackson probably is aware of these stats:
(Excerpts)
52.82% of all murders in 2005 were committed by blacks even though they represent 13% of the population.
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/homicide/tables/ovracetab.htm
Most murder victims — 93 percent of blacks and 85 percent of whites — were killed by someone of their own race.
African-Americans are victims of nearly half the murders committed in the United States despite making up only 13 percent of the population, a report published Thursday showed.
Around 8,000 of nearly 16,500 murder victims in 2005, or 49 percent, were black Americans, according to the report released by the statistics bureau of the Department of Justice.
Broken down by gender, 6,800 black men were murdered in 2005, making up more than half the nearly 13,000 male murder victims.
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=070809202217.9us2orhu&show_article=1
“In the United States in 2005, 37,460 white females were sexually assaulted or raped by a black man, while between zero and ten black females were sexually assaulted or raped by a white man. What this means is that every day in the United States, over one hundred white women are raped or sexually assaulted by a black man.”
http://frontpagemagazine.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID={F3E3CD97-197F-4D31-BF36-A4CBA45FCB13}
Even if I knew 99% of the murders were committed by Blacks- I would still be cautious of all races. People get all caught up in how a “bad guy” looks- that is dangerous. Bad guys can look like anyone.
bttt
Obama is a racist...even against his own grandmother.
I agree!Watch your back wherever you are.
Small example-I have had the battery stolen twice out of my car-once in the ghetto of New Orleans and the second time outside my parents house in a rather exclusive San Francisco suburb.
Odds would have it that the New Orleans perp was black and the Millbrae Hills perp was white.
ha ha ha! I’ve never seen that quote before!
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