Obama's "typical white person" speaks up
Bucking The System - TampaBayStart.com
by Anne Money Buck
By now, anyone who hasn’t heard the building controversy surrounding Barak Obama has had their head under a rock. It’s everywhere. Open up a newspaper, turn on TV, log onto the internet, listen to the radio. You can’t escape the damage that Barak Obama’s associations and his own words have done to this country over the past few weeks.
First, we saw the incendiary, anti-white, anti-America rants of the pastor of his church, Rev. Wright. This pastor, who Obama has stated is like an “uncle” to him, has been Obama’s close confidant and spiritual advisor for 20 years. He presided over Obama’s marriage and the baptism of his children. He was an advisor on his campaign staff until the tapes of Rev. Wright’s sermons were made public and created an overwhelming stir of controversy.
Obama was quick to address the controversy with his speech, but, in my opinion, it did him more harm than good. He turned what should have been an apology for his pastor’s hysterical rants into a race speech saying how we need to all come together.
How can we come together when the man so many thought was the new great leader able to put this country back on the right path, attends a church where the pastor says the U.S. government created HIV to kill off the black and Hispanic communities? How can we trust a man who sits and listens to his preacher state, “God bless America, no, no, no, God DAMN America.”? Who among us wants to elect a leader who is a follower of someone preaching hate for America?
In Obama’s speech, he stated he could no more disown Rev. Wright, who is like family to him, than he could disown his own white grandmother. News flash, Obama: You can choose your pastor -- you can’t choose your grandmother!
That statement about his grandmother seems to have bothered quite a few people, so Obama decided to go on to a sports talk radio show, probably to try to win back some of those “white men” that were running over to Hilary at NASCAR speed, but instead, his own underlying racist beliefs came out loud and clear.
When asked about the statement in his speech referring to his grandmother, he responded by saying, she is like a “typical white person”.
“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 - there’s a reaction in her that’s been bred into our experiences that don’t go away and sometimes come out in the wrong way and that’s just the nature of race in our society.”
I can’t explain my shock upon hearing that interview. This man who runs a campaign based on the “power of words” and “change” has done more in the past few days to set this country back decades in race relations.
What seems to be developing now is that Obama is losing a large percentage of his previous white support, while his African-American support is wavering only slightly. But the bigger picture is that instead of bring the races together, he has them both splitting off into their respective corners.
The damage he has done to himself and to this country isn’t going away. If the DNC is dumb enough to give him the nomination after all of this mess, then they will assure McCain is our next president. If Obama had any sense, he would realize this is the course he has set for this country and gracefully bow out. He should step down and put his support behind a “typical white person” who has a fighting chance against McCain. Obama has stepped in it big time, and is sadly mistaken if he thinks he has any chance of winning the general election.
If Obama gets the nomination, I will jump party lines and vote for McCain because I will do whatever it takes to keep a man who surrounds himself with these people out of the White House. According to recent polls, many democrats share my feelings.
If his judgment is this bad about the company he keeps, what will he do to this country if elected?
This “typical white person” is afraid of only one black man, and his name is Obama!
