Trying Not to Be White
Barack Obama continues to rationalize his relationship with Jeremiah Wright. On The View yesterday he said: “Had the Reverend not retired… I wouldn’t have felt comfortable staying there at the church…”
About twenty years ago, my wife and I were invited to hear a speech. The meeting’s organizers seemed friendly enough and we felt comfortable in their presence. But as the speaker began to describe the importance of racial purity I raised my hand, stood next to my dark-skinned Indian wife, and asked for clarification. When the speaker reiterated his point, my wife and I got up and left. We never returned to the meeting place, nor did we associate with those who attended. We had nothing in common with those people.
It’s hard to understand why Obama exposes his wife and daughters to such people, UNLESS we accept that he exploits his family and congregation to gain the black racial authenticity that his white mother could not deliver. While I defend his right to associate with anyone, it’s hard to consider someone as a legitimate candidate for ANY public office who willingly exposes his children to the hatred celebrated by Wright’s congregation. It also explains his wife’s racial volatility and unexplainable shame of being American.
But to be a legitimate Democrat Party candidate, Obama (and other race-baiters) must implicate Republicans for the Democrat Party’s own racial history, and forgive guilt-ridden whites who submit to, and collaborate with, the Democrat Party’s patriarchal endorsement of black racial authority.
Without Jeremiah Wright and his primitive congregation, Democrats would dismiss the Obamas as just another high achieving black family trying to be white.
March 30th, 2008 at 12:10 am
Your title is “trying not to be white” and you ended it with “trying to be white.” Why, could it be that Obama, as half black and half white, could perhaps be both? (Answer: Yes)
If he disowned Wright, it would have alienated his base and ultimately hurt his supporters. By confronting the realities of the black community, he did whatever he could in his situation to move this country forward on honest ground. People who disagree (1) focus only on the word “typical” out of a 4,000+ word speech, (2) continue to bash Wright with the desperate hope to cause residual damage to Obama, and (3) repeat 1 and 2 ad nauseum. The funniest part is when white people start getting indignant.
But hey, good on ya for your choice. You have your reasons and Obama has his, so I don’t really get the point of this post.