March 21st, 2008 at 06:00pm Matt Margolis
A “typical white person?”
Obamaniacs can try to claim that Jeremiah Wright’s sermons are irrelevant, but this comment, Obama’s own words, cannot be written off. Obama essentially implied that white people are racists. As a white person, Obama must have meant me as well when he suggested that white people are immediately afraid when they see a black person walking down the street. All I can say is “wow.” What an incredibly bad thing for Obama to say.
11. Jeremiah | March 21st, 2008 at 7:44 pm
Rev. Wright complains as if white people are getting special treatment in the school system, and blames white people for black childrens education…Well, whose fault is that? White people? Of course not! White school teachers? No. The black children themselves? No. Then whose is it? The black childrens parents!!! They don’t want to take the time to see to it that they get an education. And the same goes for white children who don’t get an education. We have a major morality and parenting problem in America, and one of the greatest things that parents are neglecting to teach their children is the Bible and taking them to church, where they will be given the traditional moral standards that make family and civilization work….They way it’s supposed to!
–Jeremiah–
23. NeoClown | March 21st, 2008 at 8:26 pm
Obama is definitely a typical black person.
38. Jeremiah | March 21st, 2008 at 9:28 pm
Say the Bible was taught in our schools. What if a steudent stood up and said the Bible was all a lie and that everyone should follow another religion: say Buddihism? What if this student did this every time the teacher said the Bible was the word of God? What should happen to this child? Just curious?
What?
Well, you’ve got it sort of backwards.
If you take it on the merits of what Christ taught, through Love and Forgiveness, then there should be no problem with all students of every background being able to share their particular points of view on religion, and what their faith teaches. Faith is a great thing, especially when it is in Jesus Christ, the Redeemer of mankind.
But these days, teachers don’t want any Faith or Forgiveness and the traditional morals that come with it. I can’t stress to you enough how good it is for society ….. yet, our teachers want to teach non-believing trash, with no substance to it. This is why we have the racial divide in America.
If you’ve ever read Robert Bork’s book, you can see that our colleges and universities are racially biased to a high degree - like when he said, and I remember this clearly from reading his book–something to the effect, If a white male doesn’t get into Harvard or Yale then he doesn’t get into Harvard or Yale ever, and likely that he won’t get into any famous college ever.
He puts it into context when he says this - “Despite the incessant talk about raism, by white liberals as well as blacks, racism has never been at a lower ebb. Yet black anger seems at its zenith.” And it’s true!
Instead of using one’s race as a crutch, and paranoid conspiracy theories, why don’t they strive toward greatness?
Paranoia is another thing many are going to have to get over, people like Lewis Farrakhan and Al Sharpton, and that other guy that runs the New Black Panther Party! They are only feeding this monster of racial division, and it needs to stop!
Come together as one in Christ, who sees us all the same!
True, no two people are going to think alike, or act alike, but if society is ever going to work better it’s going to have to accept Jesus’s teachings as their source for hope, their ONLY hope!
–Jeremiah–
53. js | March 21st, 2008 at 11:18 pm
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.
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=25634
74. js | March 22nd, 2008 at 7:56 am
58. What?,
Read “Native Son” by Richard Wright. It will change you.
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A novel about the self convcted black ego converging on the realization that thier white masters enslaved them and refuse to let them free?
I dont think so.
You should move up into the real world. Novels just dont get it. Appreciating the self conviction of free men only tends to encourage thier self image of slavery instead of encouraging them to assimilate into the society as free men.
These people telling blacks that whitey is so evil are believing it, and that what holds them back. Thier dream, ambitions, goals, all of them are shapped by the belief that white men keep them down and poor and weak and addicted to drugs.
Its an excuse. Get them out of the ghetto, assimilate them with society and you will do them more good in the eyes of God to teach them to be equal in stance as well as word instead of comiserating the injustices that thier ancestors went through. Over half of a million white men died so that they could do that.
Now they need to step up to the plate and behave like free people, instead of listening to racist eulogies of the long lost past.
81. NeoClown | March 22nd, 2008 at 12:41 pm
The typical white person had to build bigger prisons, and pass three-strike laws to keep our streets safe from crack dealers, thugs, and gang-bangers. The typical white person had to defend themselves after the al Qaeda’s attacks of 9/11. The typical white person bombed Hiroshima, we bombed Nagasaki, and we ended the war the Japanese started on December 7, 1941. The typical white person fought state terrorism and supported black South Africans and helped put and end to apartheid, now we are indignant because the Rev Wright preaches hatred of typical white people and he preaches hatred of America. We are indignant because Barack Obama agrees with the Rev Wright. We are indignant and we say No, no, no, God damn Rev Wright, and God damn Barack Obama.
90. Matt Margolis | March 22nd, 2008 at 3:18 pm
It never ceases to amaze me how liberals will defends the worst of the worst from their fellow liberals, spinning the most offensive and racist comments of their own to justify it as reasonable.
The double standard is sad. But, you know when Democrats realize they are in a hole when they give you the typical “This is all they can talk about because they don’t want to talk about issues” line.
Please. I’m still waiting for Democrats to keep things on the issues. They are the party that made this campaign about race. They are the party that has turned political attack into an art form.
Barack Obama’s longtime pastor and his comments about his grandmother are indeed important issues because they tell us a lot about Obama’s character. He’ll sit in the pews and cheer to a pastor who says the government created AIDS and gave guns to minorities to destroy black communities, and who says “God damn America.” Obama will make racist comments like “typical white person.”
If the Obamaniacs want to pretend this stuff doesn’t matter, they can live in their dream world for as long as they want, but they shouldn’t be surprised when Obama ultimately doesn’t get the nomination.
If you hadn't noticed, the fringes of the right-wing truly fear Barack Obama.
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This is my favorite post from the discussion:
67. What? | March 22nd, 2008 at 1:27 am
BG writes,
“There is no excuse for the ignorance of racism and
it should not be tolerated in any aspect of society.”
Sorry, but I think this is too dismissive. Telling Rev Wright he is bad doesn’t address the racial problem in this country.
What needs to be understood is the underlying frustration that created Rev Wright and makes him a popular preacher in Chicago’s black community.
It is the same frustration poster js expresses in comment 53.
Simply put, there is persistent inequality in this country between blacks and whites. There also continues to be persistent prejudice against blacks in this country.
Black America is angry about this inequality and white America is angry about being blamed for it.
Js and Rev Wright are voices of that anger.
Their statements, however, don’t do any good towards solving the problem. But just denouncing them as racists and calling them ignorant really fails to address the problem, either.
To eliminate the anger and frustration and those that voice them you have to eliminate the cause, namely the ineqaluity and prejuidce.
Obama, above all, preaches a desire to do this. He preached it in his speech this past week. He has done so throughout the campaign.
Yes, Obama probably shares some of Wright’s frustration at the inequality and prejudice experienced by blacks. What is wrong with that?
What is important is that he wants to use that frustration in a positive way.
MLK was angry at segragation and those who practiced it. Others around him pushed for more militant action. MLK rose above this anger and united people to his cause. I see Obama doing the same thing.
This entire post is meaningless if one doesn’t accept that inequality and prejudice exist and that, as “Native Son” points out, are not capable of being sourced to any living one person or group. They are part of a lingering condition that goes back centuries and still infects us all to differnet degree. But Obama, like MLK, believes this condition is not a permanant ailment but one that can be overcome.
These people know more about being black than you do. Amazing.
What's that supposed to mean, Count?
Short and sweet Jonathan. These blogs for douche bags racists think they know everything about everything and yet they know nothing at all.
They have no clue what they are talking about.
That's what I meant.
They are trying to talk about something that they have no clue about.
I hope that clears it up.
Meaning,I take it Count,they're talking like a man with a paper asshole.
Exactly. By the way did you see the idiot trying to peddle his T-Shirts?
Nah,I didn't see that.
But it figures. Those sumbitches would go watch a murder and try to make a buck off it.
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