Here is some alternative views toward Obama. Maybe African Americans aren't so sure about him after he sold out by Condemning Rev Wright.
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I have absolutely no respect for Obama. It is obvious that he, internally, agrees with Wright, and it would be hard NOT to agree with Wright, that is unless you are willing to sell out your principles for political gain. Wright, who has shepherded Obama through many major life events was not out of line, not inaccurate, and not extreme. But Obama must give his pound of flesh and show that he is willing to sacrifice a black man, a man who helped build him, to the white political establishment. This is the definition of selling out, so that you can have something much greater than your own integrity.
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On the other end, we've heard my former pastor, Reverend Jeremiah Wright, use incendiary language to express views that have the potential not only to widen the racial divide, but views that denigrate both the greatness and the goodness of our nation; that rightly offend white and black alike.
And it gets even better:
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But the remarks that have caused this recent firestorm weren't simply controversial. They weren't simply a religious leader's effort to speak out against perceived injustice. Instead, they expressed a profoundly distorted view of this country - a view that sees white racism as endemic[/i], and that elevates what is wrong with America above all that we know is right with America; a view that sees the conflicts in the Middle East as rooted primarily in the actions of stalwart allies like Israel, instead of emanating from the perverse and hateful ideologies of radical Islam.[/b]
(Emphasis mine)
He spits in the face of Islam and throws a bone to the true radicals, the Israeli lobby and those that support our puppet in the region. It's as if he is deliberately trying to sacrifice the TRUTH of the matter, that Israel is CENTRAL to the issues in the Middle East, and that US foreign policy is CENTRAL to the issues in the Middle East, in exchange for the support of the US foreign policy establishment and its pro-Israel wing.
But then he goes on to spout some essentialist nonsense:
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Like other predominantly black churches across the country, Trinity embodies the black community in its entirety - the doctor and the welfare mom, the model student and the former gang-banger. Like other black churches, Trinity's services are full of raucous laughter and sometimes bawdy humor. They are full of dancing, clapping, screaming and shouting that may seem jarring to the untrained ear. The church contains in full the kindness and cruelty, the fierce intelligence and the shocking ignorance, the struggles and successes, the love and yes, the bitterness and bias that make up the black experience in America.
And he speaks about things he does not know in depth, simply to assuage white liberals:
[quo]Like other predominantly black churches across the country, Trinity embodies the black community in its entirety - the doctor and the welfare mom, the model student and the former gang-banger. Like other black churches, Trinity's services are full of raucous laughter and sometimes bawdy humor. They are full of dancing, clapping, screaming and shouting that may seem jarring to the untrained ear. The church contains in full the kindness and cruelty, the fierce intelligence and the shocking ignorance, the struggles and successes, the love and yes, the bitterness and bias that make up the black experience in America.
And it seems, at least to me, that he is blaming the victim. It is so obvious that he DESPERATELY wants white America to trust him. An all black school IS NOT INHERENTLY INFERIOR! Stop perpetuating myths that white people must be present for quality to be present! Stop propping up myths of white supremacy!!!!!
But it gets even BETTER!
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A lack of economic opportunity among black men, and the shame and frustration that came from not being able to provide for one's family, contributed to the erosion of black families - a problem that welfare policies for many years may have worsened. And the lack of basic services in so many urban black neighborhoods - parks for kids to play in, police walking the beat, regular garbage pick-up and building code enforcement - all helped create a cycle of violence, blight and neglect that continue to haunt us.
That's just straight up propaganda. Blame welfare for the systematic failures of American society. Pull the welfare card out and blame poor people for not being empowered to effectively compete in capitalism. And the sexism inherent in this little diddy is mountainous! It's the fault of black women, implicitly, that all of these horrors exist. If the patriarch wasn't emasculated by white society, then he would have put the black house in order. Give me a break. This might as well be coming from the mouth of Ronald Reagan.
*IRONY ALARM INCOMING*
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Even for those blacks who did make it, questions of race, and racism, continue to define their worldview in fundamental ways. For the men and women of Reverend Wright's generation, the memories of humiliation and doubt and fear have not gone away; nor has the anger and the bitterness of those years. That anger may not get expressed in public, in front of white co-workers or white friends. But it does find voice in the barbershop or around the kitchen table. At times, that anger is exploited by politicians, to gin up votes along racial lines, or to make up for a politician's own failings.
Yeah, you know, racism is totally something in the past. It doesn't go on right this minute. The people in the church were upset over the PAST, but not the here an now? This is revisionist history of the most perfect kind. The irony of the last line is tangible, touchable and sickening. How can he use this last line and not acknowledge that his whole strategy with black voters is to do the very same thing!?
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Their experience is the immigrant experience - as far as they're concerned, no one's handed them anything, they've built it from scratch. They've worked hard all their lives, many times only to see their jobs shipped overseas or their pension dumped after a lifetime of labor. They are anxious about their futures, and feel their dreams slipping away; in an era of stagnant wages and global competition, opportunity comes to be seen as a zero sum game, in which your dreams come at my expense. So when they are told to bus their children to a school across town; when they hear that an African American is getting an advantage in landing a good job or a spot in a good college because of an injustice that they themselves never committed; when they're told that their fears about crime in urban neighborhoods are somehow prejudiced, resentment builds over time.
Ok, blame affirmative action and not the conditions that forced it to come into existence. If white people want a world where they don't have to complain about affirmative action, then they need to fight white supremacy. But of course Obama mythologizes Affirmative action as the reality is that THE BIGGEST BENEFICIARIES OF AFFIRMATIVE ACTION ARE WHITE WOMEN!!! And what's sad is that this very part of the speech is the absolute TRIPE that is used by many people here. That they did it themselves, that their skin color meant nothing, that if they could overcome economic hardships then so should black and brown people. This is absurd. It is easily destroyed. It is exactly what white America WANTS to hear instead of what white America NEEDS to hear.
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For the African-American community, that path means embracing the burdens of our past without becoming victims of our past. It means continuing to insist on a full measure of justice in every aspect of American life. But it also means binding our particular grievances - for better health care, and better schools, and better jobs - to the larger aspirations of all Americans -- the white woman struggling to break the glass ceiling, the white man whose been laid off, the immigrant trying to feed his family. And it means taking full responsibility for own lives - by demanding more from our fathers, and spending more time with our children, and reading to them, and teaching them that while they may face challenges and discrimination in their own lives, they must never succumb to despair or cynicism; they must always believe that they can write their own destiny.
How can you honestly say that black Americans can write their own destinies in this country!? That is crap and you allude to it in this very speech! It's a paradox Barak and you really have to be blind to not see it.
Then he ends in the cumbaya populism that will probably carry him into the White House. Nice sacrifice to the alter of white guilt.[/quote]
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was way out of line - however true. The thing you quited seemed fine to me... But Obama was left with a choice of distancing himself from a potential grenade of bad PR. If he's supported Wright he may be encouraged to come out next week and claim the honkeys did this etc or something even more pointed/antagonistic.. which is why it's probably better for Obama to steer well clear of him now.
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