The issue of “RACE” has been raising its ugly head and not in a way you would imagine.
Barack Obama’s Christian pastor was shown on a tape giving one of his sermons. The sermon was as racist as they come. He decried Hillary Clinton as a privileged white person that has never been called a “nigger” and therefore is somehow less suited to be president. The pastor went on to harangue the “white people” that run this country and how it’s time for “black people” to step in.
Barack had to quickly disavow the pastor’s words, thoughts and feelings but the damage has already been done, in my opinion.
I have been pleasantly surprised up to now that Obama has been able to get such a broad base of support in this country; it makes one think that race and racism may no longer be a factor in our politics. So you imagine my chagrin when the only blatantly racist remarks came from the black side and specifically from the Christian black side.
I was suspicious early on in the election process when 99.9% of blacks were voting for Obama. To me, that means they were not voting for the best candidate but specifically they were voting skin color with the hope that once in office, the black candidate would somehow help fellow blacks.
This voting pattern among blacks is dangerous to the Obama campaign when whites get it into their heads that Obama is a black candidate and not an American candidate.
Another big racial incident happened right here in Detroit. Everyone knows by now that our lying, cheating and generally despicable mayor of Detroit, Kwame Kilpatrick, is being investigated for possible illegal activities. In his speech to the Detroit people he loudly proclaimed that he is tired of being called a “nigger” and putting up with all these attacks on him and his family, ostensibly by white people.
Kilpatrick joined many prominent blacks in the area some time ago in sponsoring and attending a “funeral” for the “N-word”. I guess when your back is against the wall you play the “race” card; it has always worked in the past so why not now.
Yet another racial issue here in Detroit, concerned the City Council who passed a law mandating that 51% of the people serving on boards of charitable organizations engaged in helping Detroiters, must be from Detroit, in other words, blacks and not suburban whites.
The absurdity of this situation is just now slowly entering into people’s consciousness. The unpaid board seats at charitable organizations usually are generously filled with people that donate their time, expertise and money to better run these charities which benefit mainly Detroiters. So why in the hell would this council of blacks want to kick these generous suburban whites (not all are white) off the boards?
One black council member defended the council’s vote by saying they will not put up with this “master – slave” arrangement – huh? The unpaid boards members are masters and the people they are helping are slaves? What kind of fucked-up logic is that?
Just when I am thinking that red-necked racism may be dead or near dead, it raises its ugly head again but this time in the guise of red-necked blacks!
More later…
Barack Obama’s Christian pastor was shown on a tape giving one of his sermons. The sermon was as racist as they come. He decried Hillary Clinton as a privileged white person that has never been called a “nigger” and therefore is somehow less suited to be president. The pastor went on to harangue the “white people” that run this country and how it’s time for “black people” to step in.
Barack had to quickly disavow the pastor’s words, thoughts and feelings but the damage has already been done, in my opinion.
I have been pleasantly surprised up to now that Obama has been able to get such a broad base of support in this country; it makes one think that race and racism may no longer be a factor in our politics. So you imagine my chagrin when the only blatantly racist remarks came from the black side and specifically from the Christian black side.
I was suspicious early on in the election process when 99.9% of blacks were voting for Obama. To me, that means they were not voting for the best candidate but specifically they were voting skin color with the hope that once in office, the black candidate would somehow help fellow blacks.
This voting pattern among blacks is dangerous to the Obama campaign when whites get it into their heads that Obama is a black candidate and not an American candidate.
Another big racial incident happened right here in Detroit. Everyone knows by now that our lying, cheating and generally despicable mayor of Detroit, Kwame Kilpatrick, is being investigated for possible illegal activities. In his speech to the Detroit people he loudly proclaimed that he is tired of being called a “nigger” and putting up with all these attacks on him and his family, ostensibly by white people.
Kilpatrick joined many prominent blacks in the area some time ago in sponsoring and attending a “funeral” for the “N-word”. I guess when your back is against the wall you play the “race” card; it has always worked in the past so why not now.
Yet another racial issue here in Detroit, concerned the City Council who passed a law mandating that 51% of the people serving on boards of charitable organizations engaged in helping Detroiters, must be from Detroit, in other words, blacks and not suburban whites.
The absurdity of this situation is just now slowly entering into people’s consciousness. The unpaid board seats at charitable organizations usually are generously filled with people that donate their time, expertise and money to better run these charities which benefit mainly Detroiters. So why in the hell would this council of blacks want to kick these generous suburban whites (not all are white) off the boards?
One black council member defended the council’s vote by saying they will not put up with this “master – slave” arrangement – huh? The unpaid boards members are masters and the people they are helping are slaves? What kind of fucked-up logic is that?
Just when I am thinking that red-necked racism may be dead or near dead, it raises its ugly head again but this time in the guise of red-necked blacks!
More later…
I think you're being a little reductive here on the Obama/Pastor thing, along with the whole Right. It's not simply "racist" to say the "whites" are still the privileged class in our society, in many ways it's the truth. There's still such a huge divide racially in this country, no matter how "colorblind" we all want to be. Colorblindness, if that's the goal, isn't achieved overnight, you need to work at it as a society. And the Right has historically been out of touch with justified "black anger," and they still are. They never set foot in the neighborhoods, let alone churches, so they respond defensively and fearfully when they hear certain snippets of it in the media and they don't take any interest in trying to understand where it's coming from, but rather they dismiss it immediately as "hateful" and ridiculous. I don't think Wright was making as much an issue out of the actual whiteness of anyone's skin, but rather our government's role fostering inequality. 1964 wasn't THAT long ago, and you're old enough to remember that.
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