Typical
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According to Former French President Jacques Chirac, Senator Barack Obama had a wonderful opportunity in his hands after his stem-winder regarding the Le Affair Jeremiah Wright. He could have zipped his soup cooler for a week and let the media go print salacious details of New York Governor David Diggler-Paterson’s extracurricular activities. He didn’t and he just might have taken Bill Buckner off the hook for the worst error to be run on SportsCenter many years later.
When a candidate gives a high-profile, dangerous political speech, that candidate should never seek to clarify much of anything. A lot of times, you don’t want your political opponents to actually get it. They’ll make a point of getting it up on You-Tube ASAP.
When asked why he made reference to his grandmother, he should have lied further. It’s the truth and the sordid details of the candidate’s inner beliefs that put the bastard sword through feel good talk of hope and change. Obama could have said his grandmother was the perfect example. Instead, he said she was typical.
His actual words were the following.
Read on . . .
"The point I was making was not that my grandmother harbors any racial animosity, but that she is a typical white person. If she sees somebody on the street that she doesn't know (pause) there's a reaction in her that doesn't go away and it comes out in the wrong way."
We all do our best. We try to make those allowances. But what can you do. She’s one of them.
And what exactly did Grandma do that made Barack have to be so understanding and indulgent of her pseudo-sapient status? Here is the damning bill of particulars in the Senator’s own words.
“a woman 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.”
Fellow Chicagoan, Reverend Jesse Jackson offered similar observations once in 1993. He confessed grief over the fact that he could hear a stranger approach him on the street from behind and feel relief from anxiety when he ascertained that the individual was white. I doubt the Reverend, who spent much of the 1960’s helping Martin Luther King Jr. march for civil rights, was indulging any contextual reference-based conditioned racism.
During the First Gulf War, Former Virginia Governor Douglas Wilder gave a speech which presaged Jackson’s remarks in 1993. Wilder pointed out American soldiers in Kuwait were in less actuarial mortal danger than children walking on the streets of African-American neighborhoods of Richmond, Virginia at night. In fairness to black Richmonders, it wouldn’t be too much wiser to go for an evening stroll through Oregon Hill.
What the examples provided by Jackson and Wilder go to show is that Barack Obama’s grandmother was typical of far more than just a white misconception. If she was guilty of anything, it was that she believed what she saw on the local TV news.
President George W. Bush used to hector us about a concept known as “the soft bigotry of low expectations.” This involved any type of thought pattern or statement that went along the lines of “Wow, that was really bright. When you consider the author was one of them.”
Perhaps Barack Obama is absolutely not the right messenger of American racial reconciliation. Perhaps he is too caught up playing the identity politics game that has plagued his party of choice. What I hope he learns the hard way from this is that typical is really stereotypical. In a society that really healed all of its racial divisions, there would be no such thing as a typical American.
here. He really is just a race baiter.
Ya'll can think whatever you want about his flowery speech yesterday. I say bunk!
Barack Hussein Obama has shown his true colors and thrown his grandmother under the bus in the process.
Shameful, young man, shameful!
"typical whites" of being racist?
If so, good luck in asking said "typical whites" for their votes in November.
For whom would a "typical white person" vote in a presidential race between a white man and a (half-)black man, Obama?
Riddle me that, please.
Proudly supporting John S. McCain for President (McCain/Romney?)
I could learn to like Geraldine Ferraro, now that she isn't afraid to speak her mind about Obama:
"To equate what I said with what this racist bigot (Wright) has said from the pulpit is unbelievable....good speech...but he did not address the fact that this man is up there spewing hatred."
"An unarmed man can only flee from evil, and evil is not overcome by fleeing from it.“--Jeff Cooper. From Bill Coffey's collection of military quotations
So let me get this straight, Obama's Mom was basically brainwashed, racism being "bred" into her. But Obama can attend a church for 20 years with a preacher that spews hate and Obama is resistant to any racist influence?
Ask not what I can do for my country, ask what my country can do for me. Washington Elected Elite
Obama's campaign is already spinning for damage control. Why do Dems always have to have a clean up crew come in and mop up with "What he/she REALLY meant was........."
Ask not what I can do for my country, ask what my country can do for me. Washington Elected Elite
What's typical is how guilt-ridden liberals give blacks a virtual pass for boorish and extreme behavior.
What's typical is that liberals expect that white folks have to treat black folks with kid gloves. Otherwise they get called racists--or even worse, give blacks an excuse to start rioting. I grew up in New York City, and saw black demagogues like Al Sharpton using that form of extortion again and again.
But black folks can get away with any attacks on white folks they desire (verbal or even physical). They can wallow in paranoia and conspiracy theories about whites and Jews. Or even launch genuine pogroms, as they did against Jews in Crown Heights Brooklyn in 1991. Blacks have been allegedly "oppressed" for so long that anything they do is viewed by liberals as justified payback.
Situational ethics of this sort--contextualizing and rationalizing hate on the part of official victims like blacks and Palestinians--is typical of left-wing ideology. Been that way as far back as I can remember.
That makes Barack Obama a kind of David Dinkins scaled up to national level.
Barak's father can marry a white woman (among others), but in his book Barak says he must reject a white girlfriend because of the race difficulties. Barak is more racially "pure" than his father? (And his mother?)
to continue objectively toning down my increasing distaste for Barack Obama as both an intellectual and a human being.
"I believe we must adjourn this meeting to some other place." - The last recorded words of Adam Smith.
behave like this, too?"
That was my wife's response to Obama's "typical white person" comment.
and refer you to my response to the question skorrent asked above. Where does BHO get off?
"I believe we must adjourn this meeting to some other place." - The last recorded words of Adam Smith.
Just reminds me of this years presidential campaign. You have the Half White vs The Half Woman.
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-Thomas Paine: The American Crisis, No. 4, 1777
around 2001-2002 and he's still my favorite famous person to have actually met, and I've met a lot of once-famous, has-been and forgotten household names.
Or is that still verboten(j/k)
"I believe we must adjourn this meeting to some other place." - The last recorded words of Adam Smith.
Mike DeVine’s Charlotte Observer columns
http://thehinzsightreport.com
www.theminorityreportblog.com
www.race42008.com
"One man with courage makes a majority." - Andrew Jackson
Passportgate will be the new topic to paint Obama as a victim of the VRWC to take the heat off his racist comments.
Ask not what I can do for my country, ask what my country can do for me. Washington Elected Elite
Mike DeVine’s Charlotte Observer columns
http://thehinzsightreport.com
www.theminorityreportblog.com
www.race42008.com
"One man with courage makes a majority." - Andrew Jackson
I don't think the passport story will have the legs (& video clips) to take the racism of "Rev." Wright off the front burner. Obama is really not doing well with this stuff, is he???
he owes his grandmother more respect? I'm sure that in her time she was a victim of cruel comments concerning the dark skinned grandson she had at her side. I doubt his "old uncle" Rev. Wright ever was the object of discrimination because of his "family" relationship to Obama. How do we get past all of this if one race chooses to continually see itself as a victim?
The more I think about it, the more negative I respond toward Obama's treatment of his grandmother. I have interracial cousins, & can tell you that the parents & grandparents did endure some nasty comments - many from people who were their "friends."
Typical? Isn't such a remark what we call a stereotype? And isn't a stereotype always wrong? Answer: Not when it's stated by a black person.
make that phrase read "liberal"
That makes your statement seem so much less unpalatable.
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It may be unpalatable to some, but isn't race what this discussion is all about? Wright's sermons certainly are, and I have seen more than enough opinion about how great Obama's "speech on race" was. Would it make you feel better to know that, as a group, I find black people much less disagreeable than liberals?
What concerns me at the moment is the fact that an inexperienced black liberal racist huckster may well become POTUS.
Wasn't BHO's original point to draw an equivalence between Rev. Wright and his grandmother? By extension can I assume he believes Rev. Wright is a "typical" black person and his views are that of a "typical" black person?
If a man I did not know walked up to me on the street I would have a internal gut check. It would not matter what color he was. Well, if he was green or purple I might be even more concerned because he obviously was involved in some strange behavior.
Years ago I lived in Dallas. There was a black man who was abducting women as the exited their cars. Forcing them into their homes, raping them and then forcing them back into their cars to drive them to the ATM to withdraw money. One night I returned home and noticed a man hanging around the parking lot. As I already had some training on how not to be a victim he did not approach me. However, I did call the police and they showed up with the bank camera photo of the guy standing behind the very terrified woman. It was the same guy. A few days later he kidnapped a woman off the street behind mine.
Did I take a second look at all black men I saw on the street after than event. You bet I did.
Does that make me a typical white woman and my actions akin to the hatemongering anti-patriotic statements of Reverend Wright? NO.
I only wish more of those women who were kidnapped, raped, and robbed had been typical like me and knew a little bit about being aware of their surroundings and exercising an non-victim (Model Mugging) posture. Maybe it would have saved some of them.
Now tht criminals are more violent I am not sure the same glares would have been enough to save me in this day and age.
M Penny
"The City Too Busy to Hate," but it was the murder capital of the Country at the time. I hardly knew a white woman that worked downtown that didn't have a pistol in her handbag and it wasn't that uncommon to see a woman approaching her car in a downtown parking lot with a drawn pistol.
I had a shop in Underground Atlanta, just south of "Sweet Auburn," and I'd much rather have made the two block walk to make my bank deposit without my pants than without my pistol; I'd have had some hope of making it alive with no pants.
In Vino Veritas
In the early 80s I worked downtown ATL. If I worked past 5 then the security guard would walk me out to my car. If I worked past 7 then I had to take the security guard my keys and he would walk over to the parking lot 2 blocks away and bring my car into the building garage. After 7 he did not feel safe making the two block walk. The parking garage was modified so that chain link was installed over what had previously been open space and a turnstile door was added that went floor to ceiling. The garage was virtually sealed and the only way to enter or exit was if you had a pass.
M Penny
a few years ago for a few days. Normally, I just get a rental car at the airport and hit I-75 South as fast as I can, but my wife had never been there and had never seen a Braves game, so we came back to ATL a few days early. The place is simply abandoned after five or six o'clock! It is literally a ghost city except for the strip clubs, apparently now its greatest attraction. There's a line of limos and gangsta cars all around them.
In Vino Veritas
Consider its purpose and target audience. Liberals fashion themselves as unique, distinctive somehow superior and above the herd. To be characterized as typical well thats just declasse. They would much rather than be consigned to being typical
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