procession to coronation for the world’s self-proclaimed queen has turned into one of the great political melees of the century. The Hildabeast vs Obamessiah.
While there is little difference in Clintonian and Obamaminian liberal socialism, the differences in the candidates are as stark as black and white (pardon the obvious pun).
While Hillary has dragged around more baggage over her “35 years of experience” than a similarly tenured Red Cap, Obama now finds himself stranded on the tarmac with his own set of Samsonite; that being one Rev. Jeremiah Wright.
- Pledge allegiance to all Black leadership who espouse and embrace the Black Value System
- Personal commitment to embracement of the Black Value system.
- Pledge to Allocate Regularly, a Portion of Personal Resouces for Strengthening and Supporting Black Institutions.
- A congregation with a non-negotiable COMMITMENT TO AFRICA.
- A congregation committed to the HISTORICAL EDUCATION OF AFRICAN PEOPLE IN DIASPORA.
- A congregation working toward ECONOMIC PARITY.
If Barack Hussein Obama is to be the candidate for president who can transcend race, be above it all; like his DNA, blend all of
As Charles Krauthammer, in his column, “The Speech: A Brilliant Fraud”, puts it:
Obama's 5,000-word speech, fawned over as a great meditation on race, is little more than an elegantly crafted, brilliantly sophistic justification of that scandalous dereliction.
His defense rests on two central propositions: (a) moral equivalence, and (b) white guilt.
(a) Moral equivalence. Sure, says Obama, there's Wright, but at the other "end of the spectrum" there's Geraldine Ferraro, opponents of affirmative action and his own white grandmother, "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." But did she shout them in a crowded theater to incite, enrage and poison others?
"I can no more disown (Wright) than I can my white grandmother." What exactly was grandma's offense? Jesse Jackson himself once admitted to the fear he feels from the footsteps of black men on the street. And Harry Truman was known to use epithets for blacks and Jews in private, yet is revered for desegregating the armed forces and recognizing the first Jewish state since Jesus' time. He never spread racial hatred. Nor did grandma.
Yet Obama compares her to Wright. Does he not see the moral difference between the occasional private expression of the prejudices of one's time and the use of a public stage to spread racial lies and race hatred?
(b) White guilt. Obama's purpose in the speech was to put Wright's outrages in context. By context, Obama means history. And by history, he means the history of white racism. Obama says, "We do not need to recite here the history of racial injustice in this country," and then proceeds to do precisely that. And what lies at the end of his recital of the long train of white racial assaults from slavery to employment discrimination? Jeremiah Wright, of course.
Obama may be right. There is, still today, racism in
As Ricky Ricardo would have stated, “You have a lot of ‘splaining to do, Barak!”
