Posted on 03/20/2008 12:48:01 PM PDT by milwguy
Tim Rutten's column, "Obama's Lincoln moment" and The Times editorial, "Obama on race" both miss the mark.
In my considered judgment as a race and civil rights specialist, I would say that Barack Obama's "momentous" speech on race settled on merely "explaining" so-called racial differences between blacks and whites -- and in so doing amplified deep-seated racial tensions and divisions. Instead of giving us a polarizing treatise on the "black experience," Obama should have reiterated the theme that has brought so many to his campaign: That race ain't what it used to be in America.
I waited in vain for our hybrid presidential candidate to speak the simple truth that there is no such thing as "race," that we all belong to the same race -- the human race. I waited for him to mesmerize us with a singular and focused appeal to hold all candidates to the same standards no matter their race or their sex or their age. But instead Obama gave us a full measure of racial rhetoric about how some of us with an "untrained ear" -- meaning whites and Asians and Latinos -- don't understand and can't relate to the so-called black experience.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
By the way, did anyone see Morning Joe this morning? I woke early and turned him on and he seems to have regrown his balls. He had Tucker and Mika there, and Joe just ripped Mika apart about the Obama speech. She actually seemed shocked at how strong Joe was coming across. She tried to refer to a column by NY Times Nichola Kristoff about how whites can't 'understand' people like Pastor Wright, because we have not lived the same experience as he. Joe said white liberal columnists for the NY Times should go to Scranton Pa and talk to working class whites about that. He said Kristoff was full of BS. Then he told Mika she what she wass arguing was some of the most rediculous arguments he had ever heard. You could see her getting pissed, but he would not let her get a word in edgewise. I was thinking maybe somebody put Viagra in old Joe's coffee, because he finally got stiff with her. Also, I wanted to post the video for all to see and cheer, but PMSNBC does not have a link up to it on their website. I am sure somebody form the Obama campaign called Joe's bosses and demanded they destroy the tape, because Joe destroyed Obama on live TV. The link to see Pat Buchanan destroy Obama is still up though, I highly recommend watching Pat get angry about the BS Obama is spewing....
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/23707930#23707930
I have to say it....MCCAIN THREW A STAFFER UNDER THE BUS FOR EMAILING AN OBAMA/WRIGHT VIDEO TO SOMEONE,SOMEWHERE.
I am starting to think mccain is really looney and crazy and unfit. Praying for a really good VP.
To the Farrakans, Wrights, Sharptons, Jacksons, etc. -->
Get off the cross. Somebody needs the wood.
I think the reason Obama blew it is because he really does believe much of that garbage. So he didn’t know how to respond to it to disarm the situation. Which I believe was possible.
Of course I am delighted he blew it. His level of libearlism is frightening.
I don’t think McCain is what I ordered! I ordered a hot dog and a slice of apple pie! What I got was a bean barrito and a humble pie!
Good for Mike.
These views are his own.
You can say that again. Not a popular perspective among blacks.
It’s postmodernism main tenet: there are multiple realities (not perspectives), and unless you are part of ‘us’, you will never understand what we have experienced. As a result, there is actually no meaningful discussion.
You see, to McAmnesty, it is actually more important to continue to win accolades from the Joe Kleins and the Jonathan Alters than it is to defeat your Democratic opponent.
'Cause in the end, that's what really matters.
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