Barack Obama, a black presidential aspirant, really stepped in it when he didn’t denounce the racist ranting of his pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright.
It got worse.
Obama tried to equate that to white racism, and his example was his elderly grandmother because she’d “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 (Obama) cringe.”
If that’s white racism, what does Obama say about Jesse Jackson who once famously told an interviewer that if he’s walking on a dark street and hears people behind him, he’s relieved when he turns and sees that they are white?
Obama’s slam against his grandmother in his race speech – the woman who raised and cared for him – caused an uproar, so in a follow up radio interview in Philadelphia, he backed off.
Obama said his grandmother doesn’t have any racial animosity but “she is a typical white person“ who has certain reactions to situations that have “been bred into us.”
WHAT? “Typical white person”? “Bred into us”?
Could Obama be more insulting and divisive?
It’s become open season on whites in particular, and non-blacks in general. They’re the targets of insult and blame by black politicians and so-called black leaders who’ve worked for years to perfect their shakedown of guilty, white liberals.
They blame whites for all the failings of blacks, demand more and more for “equality” and “restitution” and refuse to acknowledge any black responsibility.
It’s always whitey’s fault.
But since the civil rights movement, laws and customs have changed, and, in fact, circumstances are dramatically different. There is no question blacks have equal rights.
Unfortunately, affirmative action has made it “legal” to discriminate against whites and others to the point that any mention of black responsibility for social problems is denounced as racism.
Blacks in this country, whether their families date back to slavery or not, have more freedom, rights and opportunities than in any other country in the world.
Yet, many complain. Self-appointed leaders, like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, perpetuate the mantra of “never enough.” And unfortunately, black preachers like Jeremiah Wright spread the hate of whites in their churches and poison the minds of millions.
And of course, they’re helped by liberal politicians, usually white, who feed the hate and envy in their never-ending search for votes.
Rodney King lamented plaintively after the L.A. riots, “Can’t we just get along?”
He’s still waiting for an answer. So are the rest of us.
But what’s different now is that Americans – white Americans, in particular – are slapped in the face with insinuations and accusations of blatant and persistent racism against blacks.
Is this a presidential campaign or the civil rights battle redux?
Obama either didn’t hear Rodney King’s question or he’s ignoring it because it doesn’t suit his agenda, part of which is to be elected president.
But what is the rest of his agenda?
We can only surmise, but based on what Obama has done to race relations in this country in just two weeks, Americans had better take off their rose-colored glasses.
The senator who presents himself as a young, innocent, idealist savior who would bring “change” – saving us from ourselves, correcting all our faults, making us safe from life’s vicissitudes and protecting us from world dangers by talking to our enemies – has turned out to be just another crass, manipulative politician.
It’s clear Obama is on the road to perdition as he continues to scrape raw the wounds of racism that millions of American thought had been healed during the last 40 years.
When the venomous, anti-American, racist preaching of the man who was Obama’s pastor, friend and political adviser for more than 20 years became public, Barack took flak.
He also he took quick advantage to give a major speech on race. The implication was that because Americans objected to the anti-white, anti-Semitic venom spewed by his pastor, we needed a lecture.
How fortunate for all those red-neck, bigoted Americans to have this young, inexperienced politician – son of a white American mother and a black Kenyan father, who had a privileged upbringing and education and who benefited from all the progress blacks have gained since the civil rights movement – tell them how miserable, selfish and bigoted they were and are.
The pot boiled over for me when Obama attempted to justify his excuses for the ranting of Rev. Jeremiah Wright, saying he was like an “old uncle” you can’t disavow.
Then, in a lame attempt to balance that with a white, he deliberately used his grandmother to shore up his damaged political campaign.
That backfired as did his defining the “typical white person” who’s “bred” to be racist.
Clearly, Obama believes non-black Americans are intrinsically racist, and despite decades of integration and equality, nothing’s changed.
What would he do as president? How would he change things? What kind of judgment would he have in his appointments, legislative support, judicial appointments and foreign affairs dealings?
Where would his sympathies lie? Remember, his political adviser, friend and pastor, Jeremiah Wright, said nothing good about this country, accused it of devious intent to kill blacks and urged that “God d–n America.”
In a bizarre twist, Barack Obama lectured the country on race and said, in a nicer way than Rev. Wright, that America is racist.
What does that say about him?
Is it racist to exploit racism and liberal guilt to get votes?
Does that make him a racist?
Think about it.
Our future depends on it.
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