Ebony and Irony, What Barack Thinks About Race

So, how did this happen and what does it mean for Barack, the 2008 race for the White House, and the country? Our New Media Alliance writers have some things to say that you will certainly find interesting and insightful.

First off, Peter Lemiska establishes where Barack now stands and what he needs to do to hold on to his leader status.

No one can defend the sermons in question as anything but hateful, racist, and inflammatory. Obama’s defense hinges on three premises: first, that he should not be held accountable for what someone else says; second, that he never heard any of those particular sermons; and third, that he has publicly repudiated them.

His rejection of those remarks is of no significance. Anyone in his position would have no other option.

But Obama’s self-described long-time close relationship with his minister is very problematic. He asks us to believe that his core philosophical views were diametrically opposed to the man considered to be an uncle, a confidant, and mentor, the man who conducted his marriage ceremony, and baptized his children, and who was given a position in his campaign. More than that, he asks us to believe that he was never present during any controversial sermons, and that this whole issue is a complete surprise to him.

If he fails to convince enough Democratic voters, he will lose the nomination. The irony would be that white America seemed willing to embrace the first viable black candidate, until the anti-white bigotry of Rev. Jeremiah White brought him down.

I fail to see why Obama is being singled out, considering the recent history of Democrat presidential nominees. Most notably, Bill Clinton’s self-described “mentor,” Sen. William Fulbright, was outspokenly anti-American, and was a fervent segregationist as well. As governor, Clinton dedicated a statue to Fulbright, and as president, he awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and he’s never had to publicly answer for it.

In addition, John Kerry slandered his fellow soldiers in false Senate testimony. He also authored a book whose cover featured anti-war activists hoisting an upside-down American flag in a mock Iwo Jima pose, and he secretly met with the Vietcong in Paris.

Al Gore has become the leader of a grossly anti-American environmentalist movement, and Jimmy Carter thinks he’s building a legacy by trashing the United States every opportunity he gets. Now the “how dare you question our patriotism” party is getting a pass, by having Obama’s patriotism questioned, as if he represented the exception in their party, rather than the rule.

This newly emerged Barack Obama is not the one generally portrayed to the public. This Obama knew before joining that this church was both part of a separatist movement and highly racist in its preached viewpoints.

With Barack Obama looking more and more like the Democratic candidate for the 2008 election, people are finally beginning to pay attention to what “change” looks like for the Illinois Senator. Following the primaries, I harbor no illusions about Obama and I’m glad that his bubble has finally begun to burst. Kathryn Jean Lopez, getting right to the heart of the issue, quotes the Rev Jeremiah Wright, “a.k.a. Barack Obama’s pastor,” …who compared Obama to the Christ child. “Barack knows what it means living in a country and a culture that is controlled by rich white people. Hillary would never know that.”

The bottom line is that if we truly want to eradicate racism, we don’t want to elect a man to office whose beliefs embrace racism. If we are to believe that Obama’s preacher does not embody Obama’s beliefs, and/or that Obama was truly unaware that his preacher believed these reverse racist notions, then he would seem unqualified to be president because he should be surrounding himself by people who are looking out for everyone in the country, not just black people. He should be surrounding himself by advisors who make sure he has all the information he needs to make decisions. A person qualified to be president should make use of all information available.

Throughout the past several decades, liberals have embarked on one “moral crusade” after another, lumped together in recent years under the inane heading of “political correctness.” Yet the liberals were never really interested in the causes they espoused, but only the opportunity to use them as social/political leverage against their often unwitting conservative opponents. Liberals “cared” about racism when they could bludgeon conservatives (Republicans) with concocted guilt over past sins, that ostensibly needed to be addressed by furthering liberalism. Liberals “cared” about sexual harassment when they could use the issue drive Republican Senator Bob Packwood out of office, or possibly derail the nomination of Supreme Court Clarence Thomas. Yet when Bill Clinton proved to be far worse on this front, liberals somehow found ways to excuse his behavior. In other words, they never cared about the ill treatment of women in the first place, only its use to put conservatives on defense while advancing their agenda.

So it should come as no surprise that when true racism, either from “Pastor” Wright or Senator Robert Byrd, is exposed, liberals are not disturbed by it in the least. Since dealing with it would not help, and might possibly harm their efforts at political dominance, they will simply find a way to overlook it. No Republican could survive the sort of intimate relationship with a hatemonger like Wright that Obama and his wife have had. But that’s because in the minds of the leftists, this isn’t about race, it’s about liberalism. And liberalism goes hand-in-hand with hypocrisy. The most unfortunate aspect of all of this is that the Republicans have stupidly attempted to play by these constantly changing liberal “rules.”

Just briefly: The really scary part of it is not so much the hate-filled rant by someone who is supposed to be espousing the word of Jesus; Irreverent Wright is a lost cause. Take a look at the hundreds and hundreds of young people behind him, swaying to the message, smiling at his rants, and shouting, “Amen.” THAT’s the scary part.

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