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Religion See other Religion Articles Title: Throw Grandma Under The Bus Obama gave a nice speech, except for everything he said about race. He apparently believes we're not talking enough about race. This is like hearing Britney Spears say we're not talking enough about pop-tarts with substance-abuse problems. By now, the country has spent more time talking about race than John Kerry has talked about Vietnam, John McCain has talked about being a POW, John Edwards has talked about his dead son, and Al Franken has talked about his USO tours. But the "post-racial candidate" thinks we need to talk yet more about race. How much more? I had had my fill by around 1974. How long must we all marinate in the angry resentment of black people? As an authentic post-racial American, I will not patronize blacks by pretending Obama's pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, is anything other than a raving racist loon. If a white pastor had said what Rev. Wright said -- not about black people, but literally, the exact same things -- I think we'd notice that he's crazier than Ward Churchill and David Duke's love child. (Indeed, both Churchill and the Rev. Wright referred to the attacks of 9/11 as the chickens coming "home to roost.") Imagine a white pastor saying: "Racism is the American way. Racism is how this country was founded, and how this country is still run. ... We believe in white supremacy and black inferiority. And believe it more than we believe in God." Imagine a white pastor calling Condoleezza Rice, "Condoskeezza Rice." Imagine a white pastor saying: "No, no, no, God damn America -- that's in the Bible for killing innocent people! God damn America for treating our citizens as less than human! God damn America for as long as she acts like she is God and she is supreme!" We treat blacks like children, constantly talking about their temper tantrums right in front of them with airy phrases about black anger. I will not pat blacks on the head and say, "Isn't that cute?" As a post-racial American, I do not believe "the legacy of slavery" gives black people the right to be permanently ill-mannered. Obama tried to justify Wright's deranged rants by explaining that "legalized discrimination" is the "reality in which Rev. Wright and other African-Americans of his generation grew up." He said that 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." That may accurately describe the libretto of "Porgy and Bess," but it has no connection to reality. By Rev. Wright's own account, he was 12 years old and was attending an integrated school in Philadelphia when Brown v. Board of Education was announced, ending "separate but equal" schooling. Meanwhile, at least since the Supreme Court's decision in University of California v. Bakke in 1978 -- and obviously long before that, or there wouldn't have been a case or controversy for the court to consider -- it has been legal for the government to discriminate against whites on the basis of their race. Consequently, any white person 30 years old or younger has lived, since the day he was born, in an America where it is legal to discriminate against white people. In many cases it's not just legal, but mandatory, for example, in education, in hiring and in Academy Award nominations. So for half of Rev. Wright's 66 years, discrimination against blacks was legal -- though he never experienced it personally because it existed in a part of the country where he did not live. For the second half of Wright's life, discrimination against whites was legal throughout the land. continued... Discrimination has become so openly accepted that -- in a speech meant to tamp down his association with a black racist -- Obama felt perfectly comfortable throwing his white grandmother under the bus. He used her as the white racist counterpart to his black racist "old uncle," Rev. Wright. First of all, Wright is not Obama's uncle. The only reason we indulge crazy uncles is that everyone understands that people don't choose their relatives the way they choose, for example, their pastors and mentors. No one quarrels with idea that you can't be expected to publicly denounce your blood relatives. But Wright is not a relative of Obama's at all. Yet Obama cravenly compared Wright's racist invective to his actual grandmother, who "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 cringe." Rev. Wright accuses white people of inventing AIDS to kill black men, but Obama's grandmother -- who raised him, cooked his food, tucked him in at night, and paid for his clothes and books and private school -- has expressed the same feelings about passing black men on the street that Jesse Jackson has. Unlike his "old uncle" -- who is not his uncle -- Obama had no excuses for his grandmother. Obama's grandmother never felt the lash of discrimination! Crazy grandma doesn't get the same pass as the crazy uncle; she's white. Denounce the racist! Fine. Can we move on now? No, of course, not. It never ends. To be fair, Obama hinted that we might have one way out: If we elect him president, then maybe, just maybe, we can stop talking about race. Ann Coulter is the legal correspondent for Human Events and author of Godless: The Church of Liberalism
Poster Comment: Obama hinted that we might have one way out: If we elect him president, then maybe, just maybe, we can stop talking about race. In other words, he just labeled anyone that doesn't vote for him a "racist". This is nothing but guilt mongering and playing the race card to get in a position that he hasn't earned, and he calls himself the "post racial" candidate. This is exactly why I say that he will be the affirmative action president if elected, and this is proof that Ferraro was right on the money that he got this far because he is "black". Some poor poor discriminated negro. Also I like the points she made about wright, when she exposes the fact that wright spent his younger days in a desegregated system full of opportunities, and has spent his latter years in a system with quotas that discriminate whites. Then talks about how obama tried to be slick about calling his granny a bigot, even though she's the one that helped to take care of him and put him through private school. Negroes are dumber than the average bear, because they love to bite the very hand that tries to feed them, just look at how they have turned on the clintons. Dirty filthy untrustable animals. ~Comment by Flaming Sword of Truth People like Ann Coulter are white America's problem because she is an ardent Zionist. ~Comment by Save Whitey If a white pastor had said what Rev. Wright said -- not about black people, but literally, the exact same things -- I think we'd notice that he's crazier than Ward Churchill and David Duke's love child Decent article, But why must Dr Duke's name be brought up I have never heard such racist tripe coming from Dr Dukes mouth. ~Comment by MArtyTheMan I'm just glad that these mixed, muds claim their black part instead of claiming to be white. That alone proves that they are only out for one thing, to get in on some free social programs. And, to be able to play the race card when life doesn't deal them a fair hand. ~Comment by nappyheadkev Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest Begin Trace Mode for Comment # 3.
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Oy Vey. My German "grandma-in-law" always says "Jew me down". As in "the baker tried to Jew me down on how may dounuts I could get..." In polite company, she says "blacks" but in a whisper. As in "Well, the teller at the bank was (whisper) black, and he tried to jew me down (interestingly, she doesn't whisper the 'jew' part) on the loan... When it's just family around this sweet old German lady will talk about how there's "too many niggers on that side of town, you can't walk around safely..." Am I "throwing her under the bus" by talking about her? I love her. She's a great woman who has been through tremendous difficulties. That's just the way typical white people from that era in that part of the country talk. If that's a truth nobody can handle, so be it. But there wasn't anything fake or disloyal in what Obama said, and there wasn't anything "atypical" about his white grandmother's fear of blacks. And every time my grandmother in law says "Jew me down" I cringe a little bit. But not a lot.
I agree with you (see post #2).
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