It's simply a matter of Barack trying to hide his true feelings about America and race...plain and simple. He's trying his hardest to keep from sounding too extreme in order to salvage as much of the white vote as possible. What the he** is "black nationalism"? I thought nationalism had to do with loyalty to your country, not to a skin color, and they wonder why racism is alive and well.
<...The idea is that black people should just shut up and accept him as the prize of racial advancement with nothing given in return except him being the president...>
This isn’t Africa. When the leader of a tribe wins the top government position in some African nations, it seems to be the habit of that tribe to then strip the nation of its wealth, to the detriment of everyone else. Is that what is meanst here in this statement?
If so, it is one damn scary moment!
I think the notion that black voices have been “silenced” in modern American politics is laughable.
Really? Other than Thomas Sowell's whispers, all I've heard from the "black community" is
. The crickets sound pretty, though.
It's simply a matter of Barack trying to hide his true feelings about America and race...plain and simple. He's trying his hardest to keep from sounding too extreme in order to salvage as much of the white vote as possible.So if, God forbid, Obama wins, he’ll be expected to have a government for the black people, by the black people? This is why voters would be hesitant to vote for a black man-there, I said it. Even if his intent was to be the President for all Americans, there is a group of blacks who would always expect his primary loyalty to be to “the black community”, rather than Americans as a whole, and they would be relentless about it. He would be expected by some blacks to weigh every decision in the balance of how it might affect blacks, and damn the rest of Americans. Maybe the second and third times we ever have a black President, this won’t be this case, but not this time nor with this candidate. He made that loud and clear, no matter how he tries to distance himself too late, by his long-standing relationship with and support of the likes of Wright.
OMG...and who would those AA's be? HuH? Show me one person in the hood who doesn't spend more time running their mouths than they do working! What BS!
.....But his e-mail identified something else he said made him uncomfortable: “Some supporters are so focused on the importance of Sen. Obama being the Democratic nominee for president,” Calderon wrote, “that they want to gloss over any controversy, with the attitude being, ‘Let’s get him nominated, then in office, and after that we’ll deal with the issue of race.’”
Indeed, “There’s a lot of winking going on in the Obama campaign,” said Glenn Loury, a Brown University economist who writes frequently about race......
These comments seem to describe what I’ve been observing. Obama hopes he can get through the primaries without being identified as a BLT advocate, but I don’t think he’s going to make it, even if the MSM won’t ask him directly. (They may in the near future.) When the mask is removed, his game will be over.