Barack Obama poses at Columbia University in New York City during a visit by his grandparents Stanley and Madelyn Dunham. Full emergence in Hawaii
Posted on 03/22/2008 6:51:51 AM PDT by moneyrunner
Barack Obama says his grandmother is a typical white person, which in his words, means that if she sees somebody on the street that she doesn't know, she gets scared. He then explains that is the nature of race in our society.
Virginian Pilot Editors: To Paraphrase Obama = "Typical White Liberals"
Barack Obama was asked about his use of his white grandmother as an example of white racism. He replied
"The point I was making was not that my grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She doesn't. But she is a typical white person who, uh, if she sees somebody on the street that she doesn't know there's a reaction that's been been bred into our experiences that don't go away and that sometimes come out in the wrong way and that's just the nature of race in our society."
Obama shamelessly uses his grandmother and compares her to the racist rants of J. Wright.
During his speech on race Obama said his grandmother was "a woman who helped raise me, a woman who sacrificed again and again for me, a woman who loves me as much as she loves anything in this world," but he then qualified that description by noting she was also "a woman who once confessed her fear of black men who passed by her on the street, and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe."
Charles Krauthammer critiques Obama’s speech HERE and the reaction to it.
White guilt. Obama's purpose in the speech was to put Wright's outrages in context. By context, Obama means history. And by history, he means the history of white racism. Obama says, "We do not need to recite here the history of racial injustice in this country," and then proceeds to do precisely that. And what lies at the end of his recital of the long train of white racial assaults from slavery to employment discrimination? Jeremiah Wright, of course.
This contextual analysis of Wright's venom, this extenuation of black hate speech as a product of white racism, is not new. It's the Jesse Jackson politics of racial grievance, expressed in Ivy League diction and Harvard Law nuance. .
The group who loved it?
That's why the speech made so many liberal commentators swoon: It bathed them in racial guilt, while flattering their intellectual pretensions. An unbeatable combination.
What was delicious was that the Virginian Pilot's editors then printed an exact illustration of the sort of Liberal mash note that, when analyzed is fully as satisfying and designed to rot your intellectual teeth as cotton candy for the mind.
Detailing the racial make-up of the Tidewater Virginia area, the Pilot's cracked editors bleat again for a "dialog" on race. Well, J. Wright certainly revived the talk of race. Is that what they want? Well, no.
That conversation isn’t just about finding a way to get past our own bigotries, small and large. It’s about finding our way in a smaller world.
What? What does that mean?
Embracing differences — and leveraging them to compete — is already a key characteristic of successful corporations across the world; as that globe shrinks, it will also be the defining characteristic of its most successful nations.
So the racism and hatred of America expressed by Reverend Wright should be leveraged (how?) to make us a more successful nation? Wright's diatribes should be used to appeal to America's haters throughout the world to show that they are not alone in their hatred of America, we have our very own America haters right here in the United States? I'm confused, will that make them hate us more or hate us less?
As Americans, we may not like Wright’s bombast, but that neither makes it disappear nor leaves it without a significant audience. Such views are as much a part of our world as religious leaders blaming homosexuals for 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina, or dismissing the Mormon and Catholic churches as cults.
Ah, yes, Wright is simply bombastic when he accuses Americans of inventing aids to wipe out blacks. When he accuses (FDR's) America of knowing in advance of the attack on Pearl Harbor. If I may paraphrase J. Wright "NO! NO! NO!" That's not bombast, those are racially charged lies. That is blood libel.
Newt Gingrich has it right when he says:
For 20 years, he was a member of a church where he now says his pastor, a public figure, was saying things ... forget that they were hateful, forget that they were divisive: They were wrong. They were fundamentally, factually wrong."
And let me point out to the Pilot's cracked editors that when certain preachers blamed homosexuals for 9/11 and Katrina they were not invited in for a dialog, they were denounced! Would the Pilot like to call for a dialog those who call Mormons a cult? Regarding Catholics I have never heard anyone call them a cult, although I could imagine certain members of the looney atheist Left do so.
The Pilot then pauses to accuse those who question J. Wright's racial hatred and Obama's cynical opportunism of wishing to divide us:
Some — churches and ethnic groups, universities and politicians — are trying to take up Obama’s invitation to a larger conversation on race in America. Obama’s opponents refuse to hear his message because they choose not to, because a dialogue rooted in common hopes unwinds their hopes of dividing the nation for political gain.
Tell me, Pilot, what common hopes do I have with J. Wright and his cheering parishioners as he asks God to damn America? What common hopes do I have with the man who supported that hate speech for twenty years with his attendance and his money? I know he hopes to be president; I fervently hope he does not.
Right now, this nation is undergoing an enormous demographic earthquake. In a few years, whites will no longer make up the majority. In a few decades, they may no longer be the largest ethnic group.
It seems as if the Pilot's editors are looking to make their peace with race baiters whose skins are not white. The Pilot's staff wants to be on the side of the coming majority and if that majority wants to have God damn America, the Pilot will find a way of being there for them.
Well folks, that was the windup, here's the pitch:
We’re on that road. We got there, in part, by knowing this isn’t entirely about race and racism. It’s about citizenship. At its core, the contention over Obama’s pastor is about something deeper to our experience, our history, to our health as a nation now and to come: Who is an American? And what does that have to do with the color of our skin?
The poor Pilot; the poor, poor, pitiful Pilot. You may not like them, but there is something pitiful about people whose analytical skills arrive at this piece of intellectual detritus.
Barack Obama poses at Columbia University in New York City during a visit by his grandparents Stanley and Madelyn Dunham. Full emergence in Hawaii
Is Grandma still alive or is he stomping on her grave for political convenience?
Do they care about grammar if you're a "typical" angry liberal or "typical" angry black, much less both?
the 'experience' that his gramma had, according to what he wrote in his first book, was being accosted at a bus stop by a panhandler asking for a dollar.
She gave him a dollar but instead of going away, he continued badgering her for more money, getting more agressive by the minute...the bus came and she was able to get out of the situation.
When she got home, she was visably upset and upon questioning, she related the story. Upon further questioning to describe the panhandler, she said he was black.
How racist of her!
For Obama to now skip these details as he labels her a 'Typical White Person" is a total misrepresentation of facts.
And even absent all this - what about what Jesse Jackson said back in the 90's?
""There is nothing more painful to me ... than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery, then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved." "
Hang around FR a while. There are plenty of right-wing fundamentalists who consider Catholicism a cult and the Pope a cult leader likely to whip out the Koolaid at a moment's notice.
Looney atheist Leftists consider all religions to be dangerous cults, with the most dangerous being fundamentalist Protestantism.
Thanks for the extra information, especially since Obama failed to expound on his grandmother’s actual experience. He seems to only include certain tidbits of events to point out the racism in whites, then complains when he perceives the media is doing the same thing to him or his mentor, Rev. Wright. This guy is scary, in that he doesn’t even realize when he’s contradicting himself, or can’t see his own inconsistencies.
She's still alive, but we'll never see or hear from her. She's obviously an embarrassment to him. Can't let the constituency see that he has any white relatives out there.
Like no black woman or man has ever been concerned about the possibility of being a victim when walking down the street, or in a dark parking lot at night.
If you poll Hispanics whether they consider themselves white or persons of color the majority of Hispanics self identify with white. In a few decades blacks will be an even smaller minority. Notice that even Democrat Hispanics mostly support the white woman over the black man.
Since he likes to steal exact statements from Deval Patrick and use them as his own, maybe Patrick helped write his papers for him. Afterall, they're both from Chicago, and both went to Harvard Law School.
Notice how we've never heard anything about his grades or school averages in school? Yet, the press continually brought up Dubya's grades, even trying to make Gore and Kerry appear brighter, even though both had lower grades in school than Bush.
It be inbred.
What the Osama/Reverend Wright flap has revealed is the 900 pound gorilla in the room that the media and the politically correct have been refusing to see or hear and that is black racism. It does exist and is expressed openly by blacks and it is just as evil as any other form of racism. Only the controllers of our society have decided for the nation as a whole to tolerate it until now that it has become intolerable. Do not forget that Sharpton has promised riots if Osama does not get the nomination.
That is the implications, that black people don’t fear others when walking down the street.
It is Darwinian.
Hybridization results in weakening of varietal strengths.
The push for diversity is in effect selection by man and contradicts the natural order of natural selection.
I don't see color or ethnic background when I meet people. That's never been an issue with me. Thus, I never viewed Obama as being of any color. It wasn't the color of his skin that turned me off, it was his political beliefs. When he started making excuses for Rev. Wright's comments, telling us we needed to understand Wright's animosity stemmed from the inequities of the past, and that those same inequitities that stirred the good Reverend on, really weren't all in the past, I began to see him in a different light. He was the one who decided to delineate himself as being black and being different. When he stepped away from just being an American, to being a black man, and lecturing us on race, how white behavior towards blacks is predictable, and how racism is still rampant in this country and needs to be addressed, he proved to me that he's the one who has the racial problem, not me.
“There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery. Then look around and see someone white and feel relieved.”
—Rev. Jesse Jackson, 1993
Which they are. They are only put on the side of "people of color" when the jesse jackson factions want to get them riled up = but these obamarama, Rev. Bullfrog militant blacks despise Hispanics as much as they do whites....
The jac*ass, Richardson, has made a deal with the devil: I believe it goes like: "You put me on as your VP (Hilderbeast must've already refused) and I'll bring you Hispanics votes." Richardson has a long-consuming dream of the WH
They ought to have this guy on a shorter leash!
He's not too smart when not scripted, IMO.
If I ever run into Oblabi, Obambi, O’Baloney’s granny, I’m going to give that racist white bitch a good beating.
This is a big sarcasm alert here folks. I’m just funning.
Why would anyone in that situation feel relief at seeing a white person? I wouldn’t. Criminals come in all colors and both genders and situational awareness and preparedness is what can make a difference in keeping yourself safe- not a fear of any race, color, or even gender. I wouldn’t feel relief at seeing anyone if I felt that fear, unless I knew the person or was confident I could handle whatever that person could deliver.
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