Obama “fellow-traveling with a little race hatred”
The Obama Bargain by Shelby Steele in the Wall Street Journal, and worth reading.
Thus, nothing could be more dangerous to Mr. Obama’s political aspirations than the revelation that he, the son of a white woman, sat Sunday after Sunday — for 20 years — in an Afrocentric, black nationalist church in which his own mother, not to mention other whites, could never feel comfortable. His pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, is a challenger who goes far past Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson in his anti-American outrage (”God damn America”).
How does one “transcend” race in this church? The fact is that Barack Obama has fellow-traveled with a hate-filled, anti-American black nationalism all his adult life, failing to stand and challenge an ideology that would have no place for his own mother. And what portent of presidential judgment is it to have exposed his two daughters for their entire lives to what is, at the very least, a subtext of anti-white vitriol?
What could he have been thinking? Of course he wasn’t thinking. He was driven by insecurity, by a need to “be black” despite his biracial background. And so fellow-traveling with a little race hatred seemed a small price to pay for a more secure racial identity. And anyway, wasn’t this hatred more rhetorical than real?
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Who are you to decide someone’s identity for them? You have no right and not place at all to say.
@me: Who are you to decide that we have no voice, no opinion and no leverage or power? No Right and Not Place at all to say? Bullshit! You know exactly who I am, where I live, and my phone number.
The only think I know of you is that you are a coward of little consequence with a failed understanding of the individual. Bah! Bah! is all I hear you say, go follow your flock.
Have the balls to sign your pathetic name.
~Chad T. Everson