This past week has been quite an ironic turn of events. Jeremiah Wright, Obama's mentor of the past 20 years, has been shown to the world as a man who clearly regards the United States as an utterly evil nation deserving of hatred. He is also a racial bigot who considers white people the root of all that's wrong with the world.
However, Barack Obama claims that Reverend Wright does not speak for him. In a comparison Tuesday that many were taken aback by, he analogized him to his white grandmother, whom he claimed is prejudiced and afraid of black people.
Well, to paraphrase Spike Lee, eventually it always comes out.
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"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."
A typical white person.
Well, this white person, and many others he knows, have no inherent problem with being on the street alone with black people we don't know. Been there and done that many times, both in Detroit and my current home of New York City. We're not bigots.
You, Senator, are.
By the way, I make no bones about supporting Hillary Clinton's candidacy for the presidency.
I do not support Obama, and, even before today, would have to carefully consider whether or not to vote for him in the general election. His history shows him to be a timid, undistinguished public official who avoids principled stands and controversy like the plague.
He has used race as a weapon in this campaign every time he loses a round. Like the disgraceful Mayors Kwame Kilpatrick and Coleman Young of Detroit, he and his proxies yell racism every time things don't go his way. Whether it's calling Bill Clinton a racist for pointing out Obama's conveniently shifting views on the Iraq War, or telling African-American voters that they're being "hoodwinked" and "bamboozled"--dog whistles, taken from Malcolm X, that signify don't trust white people--Barack Obama has cynically used racial tensions to divide and conquer the electorate.
And now, to quote the aforementioned Malcolm X, "the chickens are coming home to roost."
UPDATE
For those who missed the point, Obama's statement "a typical white person" indicates a bigoted view of white people. Saying whites automatically regard black people they don't know as people to be afraid of is prejudiced. I do believe views like that inform some of the hateful rhetoric we have encountered from Revrend Wright. My statements in this diary are polemical, but they are not dishonest.
For those who feel I should be banned, I ask them to look to themselves and their fellow posters. I have not addressed anyone here or in diaries I have written or commented on with anywhere near the level of abusive language many commenters have directed towards me.
I have no affiliation whatsoever with redstate.org or other right-wing sites. I am a Democrat and have voted all but exclusively Democratic for 20 years now.
By the way, the Greeks had a term for people who have no interest in viewpoints other than their own: idiotia. Those who are happy about the so-called "strike" by Clinton supporters, and who otherwise wish me to go away, would do well to consider that and--again--look to themselves.
That said, you're going to be hearing Obama's statement today for as long as he remains a candidate for President. Get used to it.