More dishonesty from Powerline, this time it’s almost funny. They say he “slandered” his grandmother. Nobody with more than two brain cells who listened to that speech believes he “slandered” his grandmother. The right-wing cave dwellers are eagerly making things up, but that doesn’t make them true.
Onegro did slander her. He equivecated her natural and healthy fear, of a raw buck Negro panhandler, who harrassed her, after she gave him a dollar at a bus stop. She feared she would have been physically attacked, had the bus not arrived. READ THE FREAKING CRIME STATS. Black on White crime is outrageous - and has been for decades.
Her vile husband chided her for espressing her HEALTHY fear, and refused to drive her to work. That’s the episode behind the episode that “made him cringe”........
She was the bread winner at that time. The “husband”, Commie daughter, and mulatto grandson were being supported BY HER. She should have walked out on ALL of ‘em right at that moment. Let ‘em STARVE.
At any rate - Onegro is a lying piece of RACIST garbage. White America is getting a taste of racial REALITY. I can’t wait until that blue-gummed freak disappears from view.
For Obama to stereotype the “typical white person” as someone who stereotypes people is hypocrisy and stupidity. No reasonably bright person could have said something this inane nor could a reasonably bright person excuse this kind of statement.
This reminds me of the Yogi Berra-ism that there are two kinds of people in the world; those who separate people into two groups and those who don’t.
What’s worse; Obama’s racial stereotyping statement or the fact that he doesn’t have the sense to realize that he is racially stereotyping while he complains about racial stereotyping.
This statement can’t be chalked up as a simple slip-of-the-tongue. I don’t know who could take Obama’s criticism of the “typical white person” seriously or at this point continue to take Obama’s candidacy seriously.
For Obama to stereotype the “typical white person” as someone who stereotypes people is hypocrisy and stupidity. No reasonably bright person could have said something this inane nor could a reasonably bright person excuse this kind of statement.
This reminds me of the Yogi Berra-ism that there are two kinds of people in the world; those who separate people into two groups and those who don’t.
What’s worse; Obama’s racial stereotyping statement or the fact that he doesn’t have the sense to realize that he is racially stereotyping while he complains about racial stereotyping.
This statement can’t be chalked up as a simple slip-of-the-tongue. I don’t know who could take Obama’s criticism of the “typical white person” seriously or at this point continue to take Obama’s candidacy seriously.
More dishonesty from Powerline, this time it’s almost funny. They say he “slandered” his grandmother. Nobody with more than two brain cells who listened to that speech believes he “slandered” his grandmother. The right-wing cave dwellers are eagerly making things up, but that doesn’t make them true.
Onegro did slander her. He equivecated her natural and healthy fear, of a raw buck Negro panhandler, who harrassed her, after she gave him a dollar at a bus stop. She feared she would have been physically attacked, had the bus not arrived. READ THE FREAKING CRIME STATS. Black on White crime is outrageous - and has been for decades.
Her vile husband chided her for espressing her HEALTHY fear, and refused to drive her to work. That’s the episode behind the episode that “made him cringe”........
She was the bread winner at that time. The “husband”, Commie daughter, and mulatto grandson were being supported BY HER. She should have walked out on ALL of ‘em right at that moment. Let ‘em STARVE.
At any rate - Onegro is a lying piece of RACIST garbage. White America is getting a taste of racial REALITY. I can’t wait until that blue-gummed freak disappears from view.
Wow! You must be a LifeLong Democrat!!! I haven’t read that kind of hate speech since the last time I saw Al Sharpton defend Tawanna Brawley…
Makin’ a heckuva splash for your first post, huh?
Like the 98 year-old man on his honeymoon with the 23 year-old blonde, I fear someone had to put you “up to it...”
Anyone who thinks what would be characterized as a racial slur if used on a minority carries the same disrespectful connotations when used on a member of the majority needs to refresh their memory of the Fightin’ Whities. Hint: It just ain’t the same.
He’s just like the typical black person, or the typical hispanic person, or the typical oriental person (whatever the heck oriental means)…
Since we don’t know everybody, then each persons “typical” is a combination of similar traits observed in dealing with others in same/similar groups. Over time, we form an idea of how all people in one of the groups will behave, based on our experience.
The above is a description of the one word that nobody - especially nobody who is white - dare accuse Obama of:
stereotyping
So what about the hatred by many at the flood of Irish immigrants. Was that white on white stereotyping.
You rightwingers are so predictable.
How do integrate the drinking fountains, that were segregated by ‘coloreds’ and ‘whites’ without creating resentment.
You can’t. Obama acknowledged that the resentment was real, has been real, but that both sides are participants.
If you are angry about years of being unjustifiably labeled as racist, your typical right wing response is not moving this notion forward.
So what about the hatred by many at the flood of Irish immigrants. Was that white on white stereotyping.
Yes. That was religious bigotry, protestant on catholic.
You rightwingers are so predictable.
And you leftists aren’t?
How do integrate the drinking fountains, that were segregated by ‘coloreds’ and ‘whites’ without creating resentment.
Likewise, how do you institutionalize “affirmative” preferences and set-asides for 50 years, on the basis of skin color--without creating resentment? You can’t.
You can’t. Obama acknowledged that the resentment was real, has been real, but that both sides are participants.
Then he’s shortsighted. There are way more than 2 sides. Always talking about white/black is to ignore the other races as if they don’t count. We all count equally.
If you are angry about years of being unjustifiably labeled as racist, your typical right wing response is not moving this notion forward.
By the same token, years of “typical” leftwing moonbats labeling people as “racist” simply because of the color of their skin is, quite obviously, racist on its face and not moving peace forward.
I am a first time poster to PL and jumping into a thread that has been hashed over quite a bit.
I was surprised when Obama used the term “typical white person” and tied it to “a reaction that has been bred into our experiences”.
Obama didn’t even seem to understand that many people would react negatively to such a characterization. And that his basic premise was just, stupid. He couldn’t disown his grandmother even though she was “a woman who once confessed her fear of black men who passed by her on the street”. I am glad he cut her some slack on such a terrible confession.
It does say a lot about how strongly Obama is tied to Wright that he would say he could no more disown Wright than disown his grandmother.
There is a certain arrogance in Obama’s use of the race card – as if people would not react and say of course a woman might be fearful of black men on the street. Even Susan Estrich said that every woman she knows fears young black men in gangster attire.
Equally absurd was Obama’s implied concern about his grandmother’s utterance of racial or ethnic stereotypes (on more than one occasion no less). You don’t have to listen to Wright sermons too long to get your fill of racial and ethnic stereotypes, so it seems odd that the grandmother gets judged harshly.
I guess “typical white person” doesn’t fall into the category of a racial or ethnic stereotype.
thugz,
My last sentence was an (unsuccessful) attempt at sarcasm.
I do consider “typical white person”, as Obama used the term, to be a racial / ethnic stereotype.
It was ironic and strange that after Obama criticized his grandmother for uttering racial/ethnic stereotypes, he came back with such a phrase himself.
Bingo. I have found that the biggest racists are invariably those who claim that other people are being racist.
For the record, I am fifty-two, and I have lived in the Deep South (Mississippi and Texas) for over thirty years. I have yet to run into the stereotypical white redneck racist. I have encountered racists, most of them non-white - look up MALDEF, La Raza, and their various “fellow travellers” for examples.
It is astounding to see how unfairly and viciously some radio and TV commentators are reacting to Barack Obama’s speech on race. It is simply inexcusable to say, as they do, that Obama “threw his own [white] grandmother under the bus.”
Rather, contrary to what everyone expected, he didn’t throw anyone under the bus, neither his regrettably hate-filled pastor, nor his own partially prejudiced grandmother who herself admitted that she sometimes struggled with such feelings (as Obama makes clear in his book, Dreams of My Father). He didn’t throw racially resentful blue collar workers under the bus, nor did he throw angry unemployed black radicals, nor you or me under the bus.
Instead, he pointed out that we are all part of this wonderful but in some ways still flawed America, and that there are legitimate reasons for some of the hurtful black and white anger that divides us—anger which, nonetheless, we should all strive to overcome.
Never since Lincoln has a politician spoken to our nation with greater candor, dignity, and truthfulness. Obama stands tall above all the carping talk show hosts who—resentful at being confronted by a person so utterly sincere, honest and, quite simply, good—try in vain to pick him to pieces.
His speech will stand the test of time because it represents something new—not politics as usual, but something that lies at the root of all right-minded religion. I begin to wonder if America is worthy of this person of such uniqueness, stature, integrity, and amazing magnanimity.
His speech will stand the test of time because it represents something new—not politics as usual, but something that lies at the root of all right-minded religion. I begin to wonder if America is worthy of this person of such uniqueness, stature, integrity, and amazing magnanimity.
Rev. Jim Boswell
Yo Rev. Jim!
It’s called SPAM when you copy and paste the same post across several threads.
Obamaspam???
Yeah, racism and bigotry are ok so long as it’s a Black thing, huh?
Does that mean George Wallace was correct and justified in expressing his angry white, racist attitudes? It must be so if you say the same for Obama!
