Barack Obama's brilliant speech regarding race in America
I got a question here. Lets say, for random example....... Huckabee, attended a racist, KKK church, and then told his supporters something to the effect that his minister has always been in his corner yadda yadda yadda like Obama said, and he then went and told people "I don't agree with everything he says but I'll still support him".... What do you think the public reaction would be like?
Is it possible that Obama is a lot like Bill CLinton, that he is just a charming, charismatic deciever? He certainly attends a lot of CFR meetings. he could merely be an up-graded sharpton or Farakhan. I don't think Obama himself is racist, but he is a politician, who has played the fiddle for big business organizations such as the CFR, like a fluff. So I don't think he's racist, but I wouldn't put it past him to use his race as a divisive political tool either.
It just doesnt make any sense to me to compare Rev Wright and the KKK. The KKK wants segregation and possible annihilation of anyone they dont like, but Rev Wright, it seems to me that he just doesnt like American foreign policy. What is so inflammatory about that? We've heard the same rhetoric a million times that our foreign policy caused 9-11, so why is it so surprising?
However I will take back anything I have ever said in defense of Rev Wright (his age, attacking foreign policy)if someone can show me where he claims to hate whites like the KKK claims racial superiority ordained by Jesus.
Well he never claimed to be part of any organization like that, but he has still rallied hate speech. let me rephrase that then.... What if huckabee had a minister who was openly racist and espousing hate speech, and Huck stated "I don't support all his views but I'll continue to support his efforts?". I just used Huckabee as a random though.
Bill Cosby grew up during segregation, but he's moved on, and he's the most positive black leader I've seen to date in a long time. I've got loads of respect for that man.
Of National Lies and Racial America by Tim Wise
I also don't agree that Wright's views are comparable to the KKK. I was at first taken aback by his words, but after looking at it more closely I realize that he was not blaming the victims of 9/11. He was saying that 9/11 was the tragic but predictable result of American foreign policy. Have we become so hypersensitive that we will immediately brand dissent as offensive?
Like Obama said, Wright's views may be misguided at times but they come from entirely justifiable feelings of marginalization. Apparently Bill Cosby is one of the only black people who discusses these issues which white America can completely accept. Guess what? Many blacks don't agree with Cosby, and that is entirely understandable.
Just by reading that long transcript, this speech does not appear to be anything too out of the ordinary in terms of a politician who is running office speech. I'm told Obama is charismatic, so the same speech/rhetoric somehow gets bonus points for him. It somewhat vague tried to address the issue while trying to get both sides to like him (which is pretty normal for politicians running for office), but has lots of Obama's "inspirational" wording in it, along with occasional attacks on corporations/capitalism. I don't particularly see why people are saying this is an amazing and groundbreaking speech.
Bill Cosby grew up during segregation, but he's moved on, and he's the most positive black leader I've seen to date in a long time. I've got loads of respect for that man.
John McCain, the current Republican nominee, embraced Jerry Falwell in 2006 and spoke at Jerry Falwell's university.
After the World Trade Center attacks, Falwell said
Is it possible that Obama is a lot like Bill CLinton, that he is just a charming, charismatic deciever? He certainly attends a lot of CFR meetings. he could merely be an up-graded sharpton or Farakhan. I don't think Obama himself is racist, but he is a politician, who has played the fiddle for big business organizations such as the CFR, like a fluff. So I don't think he's racist, but I wouldn't put it past him to use his race as a divisive political tool either.
I think if you know the man, and heard the speech with an open mind, you might find some of it factually incorrect, but I don't think it was racisit or offensive to anyone on a personal level.
But whenever Barack doesn't have his trustee teleprompter, he's the cure for insomnia. "Um, we have to, um, pull together as a nation, um, and we, uh, need to remember our history, ah, and of course hope in, ah, the future..." ZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...........
I will give him one thing: He pronounces words better than George W. Bush, and Bush would probably be the first to admit that, if he already hasn't. But, see, I want more than a president who can read well from a teleprompter. Reading is a good skill. But still, I find myself wanting more.
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