Barack Obama may not share the same point of view of Rev. Wright, but the country doesn't believe him.
Obama's speech on Tuesday convinced the left wing media that it was a monumental turning point in US black/white relations. The right is not so convince.
America on the other hand is not only skeptical. The people of America are turning their backs on Obama in droves.
The lily white part of the country like Wyoming and Idaho which voted for Obama is sure to think twice about Obama. Along with white people everywhere.
The left wing media is dumbfounded by the overwhelming uprising against Obama. Left wing media outlets trying to convince America that Obama hit a home run are being bombarded with calls and emails questioning their intelligence. The word on the street is that Obama is a anti-semitic white hater.
Live by the soundbite, die by the soundbite. Obama used to give a charismatic speech when he was talking about nothing and gave several good soundbites for the left wing media to swoon over.
Unfortunately, the soundbites of Rev. Wright are much more impressionable. Those visions are stuck in America's mind.
Obama by staying at a racist church for over 20 years has not brought this country together, he's legitimized racism. Obama has implicitly by turning a blind eye to the racism that was going on underneath his nose and in front of his children.
Thursday, March 20, 2008
Obama's Speech Failed
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I thought McCain's speech Tuesday was amazing. I completely agree with John McCain's repudiation of Glenn Beck for torturing and killing all those dogs (pit bulls). Of course, some pundits are bound to say McCain didn't go far enough, or that he really didn't distance himself from Beck. But I disagree: it was an excellent speech.
Though it is obvious which side of the line you are on I believe that there are some grave misconceptions about Reverend Wright and his relationship with political candidates through out the last ten years.
He has been a well known guest of the White House for one. On second thought I believe we have to look at his speech in context of the history of African Americans in this country. My personal belief is that the anger is justified. Two hundred years of oppression, the result of which is now demise of the family unit which is at the root of so much of the socio-economic issues in the African American community, resulted from slavery, no restitution and years of segregation, and being thought of as second class citizens, as well as the refusal of many to see that freeing the slaves and subsequently desegregation alone was not enough to mathematically take care of a situation which was not theirs in the making.
It is the total disregard the white community has for their anger that makes them angrier. I go to grad school with several African Americans, some much more conservative than I, but even they admit that the invalidation of their anger, and what they see happening in the African Community as a whole is a result slavery and non restitution and the treating of African Americans as second class citizens for generations makes them angry.
This can not be taken care of with one or two policies, cumulative affect , as you probably know, statistically makes some of these problems almost insurmountable. Then there is the urban education which has long been ignored. The very capital of our country has public schools most of the people on Capital Hill would not let their dogs attend.
If after desegregation we had validated the right of African American's to be angry, instead of pushing it all under the rug and thinking we had finally done the right thing some of this problem would have been alleviated.
Nice to see you back blogging.
Although Wright has been a guest of the White House it doesn't justify preaching hatred.
I've too many dignified African American friends to believe their hatred is justified.
Until you've lived in the south, you understand very little about race in the US. It is much like other experiences that are indescribable.
I once took an hour and a half taxi ride from Birmingham to Montgomery with an African America driver. Within five minutes I asked, "You're not from the south are you?" He wasn't, he was from Pittsburgh. We talked about race for an hour and a half and how there south people, black and white, are different and it is noticeable.
The one thing that the taxi driver told me is that the only thing black people were denied was opportunity and that isn't the case anymore.
I've talked with black officers and when in the south they identify to their neighbors that they are in the military (I'm not a southern black man and don't treat me like one and we'll get along fine).
As for inner city schools, my son and daughter went to them in Montgomery. But they went to MAGNET schools. Again, there is an opportunity to better yourself if you are willing to do the work.
However, on the bus ride to school my son had to endure racial slurs for an entire year and he never said a word back to the offenders. I'm proud of him and the dignity he held much like the year of silence Jackie Robinson adhered to. One of the problems is that the black youth of America have lost that dignity that Bill Cosby, John Lewis (I read about John Lewis in John McCain's book PROFILES IN COURAGE) James Meredith and Jackie Robinson displayed. The only thing the black youth have displayed as experienced by my son is that they are just as capable of being taken in by hatred as the white people who threatened the dignified black civil rights leaders of the past generation.
The problem with your justifiable African American anger is that it once was, but dignified black (and white, one of the people killed on the Selma to Montgomery march was a white woman-I personally have driven this route and over the bridge on several occasions) overcame this. To fall back into undignified behavior is an insult to these magnificent role models.
If you go to the Rosa Parks Museum in Montgomery you can't help but applaud the efforts of black people who were truly oppressed versus the current generation that wallows in hatred.
That brings us to today and Jeremiah Wright and why he isn't good for the African American population. Creating scapegoats, which is what Wright does, puts you on the level of Hitler, anti-semitic Middle East governments and the Klan.
As for the invalidation of their anger...oh, it is validated, and they are up front about it in the south.
I agree with you that their anger was once justifiable, but that has been erased by a better generation than this one.
By your reasoning white males have every right to be angry at this point because of archaic affirmative action laws and policies that have been denying us opportunities for our entire lives.
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