the 'experience' that his gramma had, according to what he wrote in his first book, was being accosted at a bus stop by a panhandler asking for a dollar.
She gave him a dollar but instead of going away, he continued badgering her for more money, getting more agressive by the minute...the bus came and she was able to get out of the situation.
When she got home, she was visably upset and upon questioning, she related the story. Upon further questioning to describe the panhandler, she said he was black.
How racist of her!
For Obama to now skip these details as he labels her a 'Typical White Person" is a total misrepresentation of facts.
And even absent all this - what about what Jesse Jackson said back in the 90's?
""There is nothing more painful to me ... than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery, then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved." "
Thanks for the extra information, especially since Obama failed to expound on his grandmother’s actual experience. He seems to only include certain tidbits of events to point out the racism in whites, then complains when he perceives the media is doing the same thing to him or his mentor, Rev. Wright. This guy is scary, in that he doesn’t even realize when he’s contradicting himself, or can’t see his own inconsistencies.