NEW VIDEO: top Obama advisor pushes massive reparations for past slavery

Thanks to audio of a top Obama adviser, Harvard law professor Charles Ogletree, saying last weekend that Obama is "biracial," and thus by electing him white America won't be proving it's moved beyond racism, we already know there's lots that an Obama Administration will expect white Americans to do to atone for past racial sins. Summary and links to audio clips here:

For blog coverage of Ogletree's "biracial" comment, and related comments at Harvard Law School's alumni weekend, see here:

Given Ogletree's current notoriety, I thought I'd look through the "video vault" and see what I could find on him, and especially to see what Ogletree might have in mind in terms of how white Americans might be expected to atone for past racial sins. I found an interesting speech he gave in 2001, one month after 9/11, which you can view in its entirety (no chance of anything being taken out of context) here:

1. Ogletree claims that massive reparations for past slavery are necessary because the U.S. basically has never done ANYTHING for poor blacks. I guess Ogletree forgot about the New Deal, the Great Society, and the hundreds of billions, if not trillions, of dollars spent during the past century to help poor blacks. Ogletree explicitly makes this claim at about 4:15 into this excerpt, which covers the end of his speech in addressing two questions on reparations (I've included everything so Ogletree can't claim he's being quoted out of context):

Note (as he discusses in the video) that Ogletree has been a major advocate of litigation to force the U.S. government to make reparations for slavery, even though (as he confesses in the video) many blacks think the effort is silly and counterproductive:

2. Ogletree says post-9/11 patriotism in America is "superficial" (because, apparently, it isn't defined proactively as involving massive reparations for blacks to give them a better standard of living; it's only defined in terms of resolve against the enemies who attacked us) -- I guess NOW WE KNOW why Michelle Obama, Ogletree's student, wasn't really proud of America until this year:

4. American are too dumb, too ignorant of world affairs, to realize they helped cause 9/11 by arming bin Laden in Afghanistan. Seriously -- he explicitly talks about the stupidity of Americans, and about how few Americans realize that we set up Osama bin Laden's operation in Afghanistan:

5. Colin Powell lied as to why the U.S. didn't attend the world conference on racism:

6. Clarence Thomas is a disgrace, Anita Hill was a victim, and Ogletree's colleagues at Harvard liked what Ogletree did in 1991 to savage Thomas:

7. Ogletree readily agrees that white Christians have been racists, even in the 21st Century, but he won't say one way or the other whether Zionist Jews have been or currently are racist:

There's an article just published in the Harvard Law School newspaper which identifies Ogletree (who likely will serve as a top Justice Department official in any Obama Administration) as a "senior advisor" to the Obama campaign, and covers his close ties to Barack and Michelle Obama (he mentored both as law students):

If the sort of analysis found in Ogletree’s 2001 speech is what we get from a "senior adviser" to Obama, I'd hate to see a "junior adviser" in action. This 2001 speech raises doubt about Obama’s judgment in the selection of advisors even setting aside the notorious plagiarism/ghostwriting scandal which engulfed Ogletree a few years ago, a mess ably summarized elsewhere:

If the above isn’t enough for your reading and viewing pleasure, you can find some interesting video of Barack Obama speaking at Harvard Law in 2005, in which he's introduced with ribbing about his having committed voting registration fraud as a “community organizer,” about his drug use, and about his habit of aggressively shaking down people for money, and in which Obama confesses that as a Senator in the minority he had no real power or influence, here:

And, BE SURE NOT TO MISS all the Harvard Law videos of top Obama advisor Cornell West (praised by Obama as a "genius," and his "oracle"), summarized and linked to here:

Enjoy all this reading, and viewing, over the weekend -- and please spread the word!

Lest we forget......Pat Buchanan summarizes the real story!

March 21, 2008

PJB: A Brief for Whitey
By Patrick J. Buchanan

How would he pull it off? I wondered.
How would Barack explain to his press groupies why he sat silent in a pew for 20 years as the Rev. Jeremiah Wright delivered racist rants against white America for our maligning of Fidel and Gadhafi, and inventing AIDS to infect and kill black people?
How would he justify not walking out as Wright spewed his venom about “the U.S. of K.K.K. America,” and howled, “God damn America!”
My hunch was right. Barack would turn the tables.
Yes, Barack agreed, Wright’s statements were “controversial,” and “divisive,” and “racially charged,” reflecting a “distorted view of America.”
But we must understand the man in full and the black experience out of which the Rev. Wright came: 350 years of slavery and segregation.
Barack then listed black grievances and informed us what white America must do to close the racial divide and heal the country.
The “white community,” said Barack, must start “acknowledging that what ails the African-American community does not just exist in the minds of black people; that the legacy of discrimination — and current incidents of discrimination, while less overt than in the past — are real and must be addressed. Not just with words, but with deeds … .”
And what deeds must we perform to heal ourselves and our country?
The “white community” must invest more money in black schools and communities, enforce civil rights laws, ensure fairness in the criminal justice system and provide this generation of blacks with “ladders of opportunity” that were “unavailable” to Barack’s and the Rev. Wright’s generations.
What is wrong with Barack’s prognosis and Barack’s cure?
Only this. It is the same old con, the same old shakedown that black hustlers have been running since the Kerner Commission blamed the riots in Harlem, Watts, Newark, Detroit and a hundred other cities on, as Nixon put it, “everybody but the rioters themselves.”
Was “white racism” really responsible for those black men looting auto dealerships and liquor stories, and burning down their own communities, as Otto Kerner said — that liberal icon until the feds put him away for bribery.
Barack says we need to have a conversation about race in America.
Fair enough. But this time, it has to be a two-way conversation. White America needs to be heard from, not just lectured to.
This time, the Silent Majority needs to have its convictions, grievances and demands heard. And among them are these:
First, America has been the best country on earth for black folks. It was here that 600,000 black people, brought from Africa in slave ships, grew into a community of 40 million, were introduced to Christian salvation, and reached the greatest levels of freedom and prosperity blacks have ever known.
Wright ought to go down on his knees and thank God he is an American.
Second, no people anywhere has done more to lift up blacks than white Americans. Untold trillions have been spent since the ’60s on welfare, food stamps, rent supplements, Section 8 housing, Pell grants, student loans, legal services, Medicaid, Earned Income Tax Credits and poverty programs designed to bring the African-American community into the mainstream.
Governments, businesses and colleges have engaged in discrimination against white folks — with affirmative action, contract set-asides and quotas — to advance black applicants over white applicants.
Churches, foundations, civic groups, schools and individuals all over America have donated time and money to support soup kitchens, adult education, day care, retirement and nursing homes for blacks.
We hear the grievances. Where is the gratitude?
Barack talks about new “ladders of opportunity” for blacks.
Let him go to Altoona and Johnstown, and ask the white kids in Catholic schools how many were visited lately by Ivy League recruiters handing out scholarships for “deserving” white kids.
Is white America really responsible for the fact that the crime and incarceration rates for African-Americans are seven times those of white America? Is it really white America’s fault that illegitimacy in the African-American community has hit 70 percent and the black dropout rate from high schools in some cities has reached 50 percent?
Is that the fault of white America or, first and foremost, a failure of the black community itself?
As for racism, its ugliest manifestation is in interracial crime, and especially interracial crimes of violence. Is Barack Obama aware that while white criminals choose black victims 3 percent of the time, black criminals choose white victims 45 percent of the time?
Is Barack aware that black-on-white rapes are 100 times more common than the reverse, that black-on-white robberies were 139 times as common in the first three years of this decade as the reverse?
We have all heard ad nauseam from the Rev. Al about Tawana Brawley, the Duke rape case and Jena. And all turned out to be hoaxes. But about the epidemic of black assaults on whites that are real, we hear nothing.
Sorry, Barack, some of us have heard it all before, about 40 years and 40 trillion tax dollars ago.

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