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Jon Burack (not verified) says:
It's amazing. The speech could have given Obama a chance to distance himself from Wright as well as to show a bit of humility and climb down off that idiotic pedestal he and the media have him on. Instead, he used it to blame the rest of us (whites especially, blacks less so) for the general problem of racism. This launches a debate? Where have Obama and his media minions been since 1954 anyway? In truth, the issue justifying this speech was NOT the general problem of racism at all, or race in any form for that matter. It was about a rank and vile anti-American hatred of the sort I have seen most often and most up close from white radicals -- which is in fact where Wright and his black liberation theology academicians got it all in the first place.
In other words, Wright is OBAMA's problem, not mine, or yours, or anyone else's. And OBAMA needs to account for HIS problem, not mine, or yours, or anyone else's. (Something he most certainly did not do in his speech.)
A good deal of criticism has focused on the unparallelism of Obama's comparing Wright's lunatic ravings about AIDS and KKKAmerica to his, Obama's, own white grandmother, who on Obama's testimony alone may have uttered a stereotype or two and expressed fear of black men in the street. It is thoroughly offensive to use granny this way, I agree. However, there was a larger purpose here I find even more offensive. It was to show the world that Obama contains within HIMSELF, all
the contraditions, those of blacks as well as those of whites, and that HE ALONE will lead the nation to resolve them. So to you whites who still seethe about forced busing, and to you blacks who still seethe about segregation (both long dead, of course), Obama says, "believe in me and redemption will be yours." Think I am too harsh? Look closely at the speech and you will see that Obama says the PRIME evidence that America is not as Wright describes it is, surprise, surprise, the popularity of the OBAMA campaign! Not only is Obama playing on his blackness, he is also playing on his whiteness. I half expect him to start handing out waffers and wine and telling all us racist sinners to eat and drink -- "body and the blood, body and the blood" -- and then go vote.
And by the way Richard Wells, you seem to think it's wonderfully brave and liberated of you to re-program yourself so as not to make absolutely reasonable judgments about who is more likely and less likely to be a threat to you on a dark street. Keep in mind, Jesse Jackson made the same assessment. Given the relative incidence of violent crime by young black males compared with any other segment of the population, I'd not walk too far from home at night, anyway, if I were you.
It's amazing. The speech could have given Obama a chance to distance himself from Wright as well as to show a bit of humility and climb down off that idiotic pedestal he and the media have him on. Instead, he used it to blame the rest of us (whites especially, blacks less so) for the general problem of racism. This launches a debate? Where have Obama and his media minions been since 1954 anyway? In truth, the issue justifying this speech was NOT the general problem of racism at all, or race in any form for that matter. It was about a rank and vile anti-American hatred of the sort I have seen most often and most up close from white radicals -- which is in fact where Wright and his black liberation theology academicians got it all in the first place.
In other words, Wright is OBAMA's problem, not mine, or yours, or anyone else's. And OBAMA needs to account for HIS problem, not mine, or yours, or anyone else's. (Something he most certainly did not do in his speech.)
A good deal of criticism has focused on the unparallelism of Obama's comparing Wright's lunatic ravings about AIDS and KKKAmerica to his, Obama's, own white grandmother, who on Obama's testimony alone may have uttered a stereotype or two and expressed fear of black men in the street. It is thoroughly offensive to use granny this way, I agree. However, there was a larger purpose here I find even more offensive. It was to show the world that Obama contains within HIMSELF, all
the contraditions, those of blacks as well as those of whites, and that HE ALONE will lead the nation to resolve them. So to you whites who still seethe about forced busing, and to you blacks who still seethe about segregation (both long dead, of course), Obama says, "believe in me and redemption will be yours." Think I am too harsh? Look closely at the speech and you will see that Obama says the PRIME evidence that America is not as Wright describes it is, surprise, surprise, the popularity of the OBAMA campaign! Not only is Obama playing on his blackness, he is also playing on his whiteness. I half expect him to start handing out waffers and wine and telling all us racist sinners to eat and drink -- "body and the blood, body and the blood" -- and then go vote.
And by the way Richard Wells, you seem to think it's wonderfully brave and liberated of you to re-program yourself so as not to make absolutely reasonable judgments about who is more likely and less likely to be a threat to you on a dark street. Keep in mind, Jesse Jackson made the same assessment. Given the relative incidence of violent crime by young black males compared with any other segment of the population, I'd not walk too far from home at night, anyway, if I were you.