Posted on 03/29/2007 6:50:58 AM PDT by meg88
Free Obama's White Grandmother Andy Martin Wednesday, March 28, 2007
CHICAGO -- If anyone else running for president locked his granny away and refused to allow her to be seen, would the media complain? You betcha.
But America's media have supinely allowed Barry Obama to pretend he has no white relatives. He has paraded his step-grandmother in Kenya, who never saw him until the 1980s, as his "granny," and locked the grandmother who actually raised him away in a closet.
Now, the Chicago Tribune reports "the Obama campaign declined to make [his white grandmother] available."
Is she sick? Not apparently. Bedridden? Hospitalized? Not apparently. She is the "Prisoner of Obama," and of Obama's racist myth that he is "Black" and not "Black and White."
What a disgrace.
And like whimpering puppies the media do not protest, complain or demand access.
Free Granny Madelyn Dunham [Obama]!
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Barack Obama is one of the most racist politicians in America today. And we let him get away with it. We are afraid to confront Obama's reality, so we pretend that reality is not there, even though it is staring us in the face. Anyone remember "Miss Lillian?" Or Barbara Bush? Or Bill Clinton's mom, drinking, gambling card-playing gal that she was?
Noone else but Obama could get away with pretending that his paternal grandfather's second or third or fourth wife was his "granny" when she wasn't.
Maybe that's the core of the antipathy between grandson and grandmother. Maybe that's why Obama's white grandmother is locked in purdah. She is offended that Obambi shamelessly highlights his black relatives in Kenya and, equally shamelessly, pretends his white relatives in Hawaii who actually raised him do not exist. It would hurt me.
No one could get away with pretending his white grandmother didn't exist except a media witch doctor such as Obama.
I have been attacking Obama for months because of his racist exclusion of his white relatives from the campaign trail.
We finally smoked out a picture of Obama's sister in the Chicago Tribune. She had said she was his "adviser" but refused to be photographed. Did she plan to enter the White house with a paper sack over her head?
But the "segregation" of Madelyn Dunham, Obama's white grandmother, and only real grandmother, has to be one of the cruelest and most mendacious political kidnappings this nation has ever seen.
Mrs. Dunham lives alone in the same apartment where she has lived for many years. Thus, it is reasonable to assume she is not incapacitated or an invalid.
Granny Dunham told the New York Times she was not well enough to speak, but in reality the Obama campaign maintains Stalinist "control" over potential interviewees. Obama's minions tried to control access to Obama's friend who was recently released from prison. Since he became a candidate for U.S. Senator, Obama has locked his white relative away in his racist closet.
Madelyn Dunham raised Barry Obama. It was probably her money that got him admitted to the prestigious Punahou School in Hawaii and paid his fees. Her efforts were formative, perhaps even more so than those of Obama's mother Ann, Madelyn's daughter. And yet Madelyn is being hidden away.
All because she is white and Barry Obama is a "black" candidate for president.
What a lie. What hypocrisy. What cowardice. And this man wants to sit in the Oval Office?
Ironically, locking Madelyn away is going to hurt Obama more with African-Americans than with whites. Whites delight in drinking Obama's Kool-Aid. Reason and reality will only gradually descend on them.
But blacks are a lot smarter than whites when it comes to slights, because they have experienced racial slights all their lives. Blacks know who Obama is, and they know how he is trying to "pass" and ignore his past.
During the decade when crack devastated the African-American community it was the "Black Grannies" who were and are the backbone of the community. These grandmothers helped stabilize disintegrating families ravaged by drugs. Black grannies will not like the fact that their white counterpart is being treated badly by Obama.
Black and white grandmothers? My guess is they will stick together on this one. They will be offended by the way Obama is treating the woman who really raised him and was the stabilizing factor in his life, Madelyn Dunham.
I repeat: Free Granny Madelyn Dunham [Obama]!
Chicago-based Internet journalist, broadcaster and critic Andy Martin is the Executive Editor and publisher of ContrarianCommentary.
© Copyright, Andy Martin 2007
Okay. . .typically the 'real' here; when 'step' is introduced; is to who was in fact; the reality in the person's life. Often it is the 'step-parent' who IS in fact; the real parent; by virtue of their presence in that child's life'; and a real parent's absence of influence. An adoptive parent is unquestionably the 'real' parent versus the 'sperm-donor'. . . In Obama's case it IS his REALl his blood Grandmother who raised him; so she earns the title on both counts. The black Grandmother is not authentically 'real' as a 'Grandmother'; as she did not even know him until recently. . .never raised him as a Grandmother; or influenced him as a Grandson'. . .
Names mean things; and so do titles; and they are earned. . .
Click on the pick. I took the caption straight from the caption below the article's photo. No correction or retraction. However, the text of the article itself reads, "...his Kenyan grandmother, Mama Sarah Obama..."
I will correct "myself" however. I should not have implied the photo was not "of" one of his real grandmothers. It wasn't until after I posted that particular reply that I later read other articles (w/photos) that identified that woman as Sarah Obama. My mistake.
"It was way back in 2002, but I'm trying to remember if she even ~acknowledged~ her mother. I remember at the time thinking she was gushing about her paternal heritage while all along it was her white mother in the audience, not her absentee father."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/entertainment/2002/oscars_2002/1892608.stm
"I want to thank my Mom who's given me the strength to fight every single day to be who I want to be and given me the courage to dream that this dream might be happening and possible for me. I love you Mom so much."
"Barack" spelled backwards is, "kcarab". "Kcarab" sounds like "carob". Carob is fake chocolate. ;)
Ah, thanks for that, I do remember it now. Odd that I found an edited version of her remarks.
Still, Mom was certainly not the main focus.
Where's his white mama? Dead?
Surely more to the truth of the matter. . .
Most of the time famous people when pictured with a steprelative it's identified as such.
I had 2 stepgrandmothers growing up. Was close to both of them. Called them borh Grandma Firstname. I was lucky to have 4 grandmas growing up (sadly only 1 grandfather lived past my 5th birthday)
But they were a big part of my childhood not someone I met when I was in my 20s.
IF it would help his campaign he'd probably make one up.
Or if his parents are no longer married by either his mothers death or a divorce he'd buy off his dad to marry a black woman.
You're absolutely right. There's a huge differnce between a stepparent who married the real parent when someone was a child and one when the child was an adult. And also a difference in age of child when the parent married.
My parents were divorced when I was 4. My Dad married my stepmother was I was 7 and my mom my stepfather when I was 8. So they were a huge part of my childhood.
But my husband's mom remarried when he was 25. While he loves and respects her second husband and the kids call him "Grandpa Bob" it's a lot different.
The kind of crude and juvenile Obama bashing that this article represents is pretty much immune to facts.
Besides, this particular low-blow is win-win. If Obama ever insists that his grandmother be available for interviews, he'll be "trotting her out in a racist attempt to pander to white voters." And if he doesn't so insist, he's "hiding her in a racist attempt to pander to black voters."
"Finding oneself" is the task of early adulthood. Obama apparently doesn't feel "black" enough at this stage of his life.
Sad.
Does Grandma see her great-grandchildren ?
If Granny Obama is out there, Hillary and her HINO will find her. Her secret police are still in operation in case you hadn't noticed.
Yeh. And if it had been a white grandfather they could do the slave-descendent thing.
And I wouldn't give a flying xxxx.
I looked it up. Apparently, Barack Obama used to be known as Barry.
Oh. . .thanks. . .guess I need the 'photo-album tutorial' - again.
Will go back and start over. (Easy to see how all this is slipped around, for sure. . .)
Nope, there is no bias in the press. the press is objective and treats each candidate equally..
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