Obama Speech Injects Racism into the Election

Some perspective on the speech....

Barack Obama's speech on Tuesday was a turning point for his campaign for the presidency.  The outrageously racist and anti-American remarks of his longtime friend and spiritual and political mentor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, stalled his momentum and entangled his campaign in a dead-end debate about racism.  He set the date and time to go before the American people and formally denounce his pastor's hatred and proceed to campaigning.  What happened instead was a monumental political blunder and the most offensive form of covert race-bating that I have ever seen.

His friendship and spiritual relationship with Bigot Wright is apparently so permanent that instead of condemning the reverend's bigotry, Obama decided to lash out against racists on both sides, including Geraldine Ferraro and Obama's own "white grandmother."  What should have been a clear rejection of the divisive hatred injected by Wright's YouTubed sermons became a scolding of white Americans for not getting it.  In the process of defending Bigot Wright, Obama has brought himself to the brink of a race-dominated candidacy that he had luckily steered clear of since his campaign began early last year.

Not only has Obama compared his grandmother and Ferraro to the Bigot, but he has also thrown the American people, specifically white Americans, under the bus in order to dignify the racist comments that brought us to this point.  White people need to understand where Wright is coming from, he said.  In his slick speaking fashion, Obama identified what was wrong with people like Rev. Wright and those white bigots out there and he justified Wright's bitterness by going back to the days of slavery, to Jim Crow and separate but equal, and to Brown v. Board of Education.  He did his best to address white people's anger about busing their kids across the state after desegregation laws took effect and the unfairness of affirmative action.

Unfortunately, Obama and the people who witnessed his speech as the greatest and most courageous speech on race relations ever missed the point.  We don't need Obama telling any of us about race relations, especially in the form of a political speech intended to save his campaign.  No courage, just bulls***.

So, how divided are we?  Do our divisions really need to be healed like the Messiah claims?  Let's look at some exit polls from some of the Democratic Primary contests in the past few months:

The numbers don't lie.

I think Barack Obama owes an apology to the white Americans who voted for him despite the deep racist hatred that he claims they harbor against black people.  And to be honest, if anything can be said of the demographic split in this election, black voters seem to harbor the deepest racism.  An average of 84% of black voters have voted for Obama; only 14% have chosen Clinton, on average.  Contrast that with the breakdown of the white vote.  Obama received an average of 40% compared to Clinton's 54%.

Based on these numbers, whites, despite their anger about affirmative action and desegregation (according to Obama) look as though they are voting with open minds these days.  Jesse Jackson must not like these numbers because they threaten his job.  And it looks like we didn't need Obama after all to save us from our racist selves.

The point was absolutely clear, Barack.  Your reverend and mentor of 20 years, Jeremiah Wright, was caught on video spewing the most outrageously racist, anti-American and anti-Semitic statements imaginable and instead of denouncing his words fully, you turned your speech Tuesday morning into a race-bating affair and distributed the blame equally among the races.  It was shameful.

Judging from the exit poll data above, you, Barack Obama and Rev. Wright must be living in a different America than the rest of us.  Apparently we have moved on but you two want to pull us back and open up those old wounds for which many of us are not responsible.  What is stunning is that you have run the risk of your presidential run, maybe not in the primaries but in the general election, coming to a tragic end.

If you are indeed the racist that Barack Obama has painted you as or even if you're not, the real question you should ask yourself, after listening to Barack Obama's recent speech is:

How am I responsible for Jeremiah Wright saying "God damn America" and that the 9/11 attacks were all about America's "Chickens coming home to roost?"

Watch this video and tell me if Obama responded to the issue in question or did he make up his own question to respond to: