Posted on 03/19/2008 3:13:50 PM PDT by Syncro
THROW GRANDMA UNDER THE BUS
March 19, 2008
Obama gave a nice speech, except for everything he said about race. He apparently believes we're not talking enough about race. This is like hearing Britney Spears say we're not talking enough about pop-tarts with substance-abuse problems.
By now, the country has spent more time talking about race than John Kerry has talked about Vietnam, John McCain has talked about being a POW, John Edwards has talked about his dead son, and Al Franken has talked about his USO tours.
But the "post-racial candidate" thinks we need to talk yet more about race. How much more? I had had my fill by around 1974. How long must we all marinate in the angry resentment of black people?
As an authentic post-racial American, I will not patronize blacks by pretending Obama's pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, is anything other than a raving racist loon. If a white pastor had said what Rev. Wright said -- not about black people, but literally, the exact same things -- I think we'd notice that he's crazier than Ward Churchill and David Duke's love child. (Indeed, both Churchill and the Rev. Wright referred to the attacks of 9/11 as the chickens coming "home to roost.")
Imagine a white pastor saying: "Racism is the American way. Racism is how this country was founded, and how this country is still run. ... We believe in white supremacy and black inferiority. And believe it more than we believe in God."
Imagine a white pastor calling Condoleezza Rice, "Condoskeezza Rice."
Imagine a white pastor saying: "No, no, no, God damn America -- that's in the Bible for killing innocent people! God damn America for treating our citizens as less than human! God damn America for as long as she acts like she is God and she is supreme!"
We treat blacks like children, constantly talking about their temper tantrums right in front of them with airy phrases about black anger. I will not pat blacks on the head and say, "Isn't that cute?" As a post-racial American, I do not believe "the legacy of slavery" gives black people the right to be permanently ill-mannered.
Obama tried to justify Wright's deranged rants by explaining that "legalized discrimination" is the "reality in which Rev. Wright and other African-Americans of his generation grew up." He said that a "lack of economic opportunity among black men, and the shame and frustration that came from not being able to provide for one's family, contributed to the erosion of black families."
That may accurately describe the libretto of "Porgy and Bess," but it has no connection to reality. By Rev. Wright's own account, he was 12 years old and was attending an integrated school in Philadelphia when Brown v. Board of Education was announced, ending "separate but equal" schooling.
Meanwhile, at least since the Supreme Court's decision in University of California v. Bakke in 1978 -- and obviously long before that, or there wouldn't have been a case or controversy for the court to consider -- it has been legal for the government to discriminate against whites on the basis of their race.
Consequently, any white person 30 years old or younger has lived, since the day he was born, in an America where it is legal to discriminate against white people. In many cases it's not just legal, but mandatory, for example, in education, in hiring and in Academy Award nominations.
So for half of Rev. Wright's 66 years, discrimination against blacks was legal -- though he never experienced it personally because it existed in a part of the country where he did not live. For the second half of Wright's life, discrimination against whites was legal throughout the land.
Discrimination has become so openly accepted that -- in a speech meant to tamp down his association with a black racist -- Obama felt perfectly comfortable throwing his white grandmother under the bus. He used her as the white racist counterpart to his black racist "old uncle," Rev. Wright.
First of all, Wright is not Obama's uncle. The only reason we indulge crazy uncles is that everyone understands that people don't choose their relatives the way they choose, for example, their pastors and mentors. No one quarrels with idea that you can't be expected to publicly denounce your blood relatives.
Read more at AnnCoulter.Com
So, it’s mainly about Wright, but the subtext, well written as usual, is about B.Rocko Bama.
Sure enough.
I adore this woman!Hammers the nail right into the board.
” First of all, Wright is not Obama’s uncle. “
That`s right Ann, Barry Hussein ADOPTED Wright
as his uncle AFTER hearing his hate filled racsit
rants !
How`s that !?
Imagine if your pastor was Rev Ann Coulter!
runs away....
I was hoping of the three dems running, Hillary, Obama and McCain, that Obama was the most sane, guess I was wrong.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Also, if you check the sidebox at left, excellent recapping of a prank call by UCLA right to life students to Planned Parenthood - which paints Planned Parenthood as....wait for it....RACIST!!!
Oh, honey, I’d be in the front row every Sunday!
{lifts hand with index finger pointed east}
That way to Liberia ————>
Ping! (Two threads already . . . )
BUMP to Coulter’s weekly column
That's some good stuff right there.
as his uncle AFTER hearing his hate filled racsit
rants !
How`s that !?
I agree with you! I'm still plenty mad over what Wright said and the way that Obama has defended him! IF a white pastor had said the same thing about blacks, he would be arrested and charged with "hate crimes!"
If Ann wants to move on so she can get back to campaigning for Hillary, then she should just do it. Personally, I'm not ready to get over it.
The more I listen, the more John McCain comes of as the SANEST one of the bunch.
Well, at least until he goes off on something or another.
And he will.
Makes me long for the days of Jimmy Carter. At least then, we knew that our days were SURE to be filled with malaise.
But Jimmy was always so calm and reasonable.
Throw Grandma Under The Bus
(Ann Coulter: Let's Move On From Race Talk Alert)
ANN COULTER: THROW GRANDMA UNDER THE BUS
(Wright Good, Gramma Bad)
Yuck!
What’s really disturbing about this whole business is how many black ministers may be stirring up hatred and sending black kids into gangs, drugs, and killings because of this hatred. “It’s all whitey’s fault.” Not a good thing to teach kids.
I had always thought that if anything could help black youngsters turn their lives around, it was the black churches. Now I’m wondering if they aren’t a major part of the problem.
It’s a pretty sickening thought, to think that the poverty pimps have bought out many or most of the churches as well as the so-called “leaders.”
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