Posted on 10/28/2008 1:11:53 PM PDT by Harvard Alum
News flash: Obama is "biracial," according to his top adviser on race issues, Harvard law professor Charles Ogletree, during an Oct. 25 panel discussion at Harvard on race and the 2008 election: http://www.archive.org/details/OgletreeSaysObamaIsbiracial
Ogletree's point is that because of pervasive racism which he expects will last decades, white America won't vote for blacks and other minority candidates. The expected heavy white vote for Obama doesn't disprove this thesis, Ogletree says, because Obama's not black; he's "biracial." So it looks like, according to Ogletree (and Obama?) that white America will have to do lots more for blacks after electing Obama to atone for past sins; it will get little if any credit for electing Obama.
If it wasn't already obvious, it's pretty clear which campaign is playing the race card: Obama's campaign keeps bringing up issues of race; McCain's campaign has not initiated any such discussion.
Note that Ogletree can't be dismissed as some fringe Obama kook like Jeremiah Wright. Ogletree's a tenured professor at Harvard Law School. According to the ABA Journal, Ogletree (who was a mentor during law school to both Barack and Michelle Obama) has a very good chance of being appointed as the top Department of Justice official in charge of civil rights enforcement in any Obama Administration: http://abajournal.com/magazine/the_lawyers_who_may_run_america_obama
Wondering whether this snippet was perhaps taken out of context? There's a full audio of the entire Harvard panel discussion here: http://www.archive.org/details/Oct.252008HarvardLawTownHallOnRaceAndThe2008Election
Other audio snippets from the program of possible interest:
1. Ogletree jokes about the mysterious disappearance of Jeremiah Wright until after the election; apparently, the Obama campaign forced him to call off his book tour, and into hiding: http://www.archive.org/details/CharlesOgletreeOnJeremiahWrightOct.252008
2. Ogletree says some voters view Barack Obama as white and others view him as black: http://www.archive.org/details/CharlesOgletreeOnObamaSeemingBothWhiteAndBlackOct.2520 08
3. More from Ogletree on his prediction that white racism will persist for many more decades: http://www.archive.org/details/OgletreeOnPersistentRacismOct.252008
4. 1978 Harvard law grad Olara Otunnu (formerly a U.N. official, now a nonprofit head) knew Obama's dad, and says Obama's a lot like his dad: http://www.archive.org/details/OgletreeQuestionsOlaraOtunnuOct.252008_637 http://www.archive.org/details/OtunnuRemembersBarackObamaSr.Oct.252008
5. Otunnu reflects on Obama's Muslim and Arab roots, and opines that the Muslim world will be quite happy with a U.S. president with an Arab name who's personally answered the morning call to prayer: http://www.archive.org/details/OttunuOnObamaMuslimAndArabRoots
6. Otunnu notes the oddity that a member of Kenya's Luo tribe may become president of the United States before one becomes president of Kenya, and that Obama had a better chance of becoming president of his country growing up in the U.S. than he would have growing up in Kenya (of which he was a citizen from birth): http://www.archive.org/details/OtunnuOnLuoTribeMemberBeingElectedPresidentOct.252008
7. Neal Chayet (Harvard Law, 1963) discusses the problem with the Bible-belt folks, particularly as to their "judgmental" nature -- I suppose the problem is they're bitter: http://www.archive.org/details/NealChayetOnTheProblemWithBible-beltFolks.
Oh yeah. I was going to vote against him based on his socialst past and policies, but then I realized he was half-white, so I’ve got to reconsider.
Not from time to time. Constantly, until the end of time
If there’s anything harder for Obama to find than his birth documents it’s his white self.
“Now nobody needs to feel any pressure to vote for him.”
How much you wanna bet this same fella will blame racism if Obama loses?
Most African-Americans are biracial. Can the crap, Ogletree, we’ve heard it enough times.
Where is Vlad the Impaler when you need him? Ogletree needs an attitude readjustment.
Tagline material!
It's no great surprise that Charles Ogletree..would do a proposed pre-strike..to protect his turf.
Race disruption is how he makes his bones.........
Old kiddie riddle: What’s black and white, but red all over? Answer: a newspaper. New answer: Barack Hussein Obama, the New York Times, the LA Times and assorted other newspapapers.
No doubt about it.
My favorite part is the author's claim that Ogletree isn't a "fringe Obama kook" since he's a professor at Harvard Law.
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