What Wright Revealed

I posted an essay on FreeRepublic that examined an insipid editorial in the Virginian Pilot on Barack Obama’s speech in which he tried to both repudiate Jeremiah Wright’s racist language while embracing his philosophy.

Wright’s exposure and Obama’s speech led to some soul searching in the white community. Here is a perfect example.

I'm not the typical white person (female) either. I grew up in the inner-city of Rochester, NY, went to a racially mixed highschool in the early 60's, and have worked with and for many black people over the years. I spent many years researching the black Civil War units from Massachusetts, tracked down family members of the enlisted men, and still correspond with those I've met over the years.

I don't see color or ethnic background when I meet people. That's never been an issue with me. Thus, I never viewed Obama as being of any color. It wasn't the color of his skin that turned me off, it was his political beliefs. When he started making excuses for Rev. Wright's comments, telling us we needed to understand Wright's animosity stemmed from the inequities of the past, and that those same inequitities that stirred the good Reverend on, really weren't all in the past, I began to see him in a different light. He was the one who decided to delineate himself as being black and being different. When he stepped away from just being an American, to being a black man, and lecturing us on race, how white behavior towards blacks is predictable, and how racism is still rampant in this country and needs to be addressed, he proved to me that he's the one who has the racial problem, not me.

That is Obama’s problem and it’s not one that he can solve. He has embraced the racist positions of Wright even as he claims not to have heard him make his most inflammatory statements.

He is now identified, classified and fixed. He’s no longer an American with a deep tan. He’s a Black activist who wants to be president. We will see how that sells to Middle America. A Middle America that has a lot more in common with Obama’s white grandmother than with Obama.

UPDATE:

THE LEGACY OF THE 'TYPICAL' LEFTIST

The only legacy that the candidacy of Barack Obama is going to leave with the American people is one of racial polarization ;divisiveness; and identity politics taken to the nth degree. Amazingly, this could have been predicted at the very start of the campaign as the two Democrat-approved victim groups lined up to do battle for the nomination, each believing they represented the purist victims of the evils of the white male capitalist oppressors.