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Thinking While Black: Barack Obama, Race and the Politics of Conservative Smears
Forget Barack Obama’s praise for legal scholar Derrick Bell.
Never mind his decades-long association with the Reverend Jeremiah Wright.
Neither of these connections will matter once you get a load of what I’ve uncovered: a linkage between the president and someone at least as radical if not more so than either of those. A man whom President Obama has openly praised, and not just twenty-two years ago at some fairly innocuous law school protest, but regularly, in his books, in his speeches, repeatedly, over the course of his political career. Someone whom he has still never repudiated, as he did with Wright, no matter the many statements this individual is on record as making, and which line up rather nicely with many of Wright’s views.
What does this militant, for whom the president shows so much love, say about white folks and race in America? Only that “Racism is a way of life for the vast majority of white Americans, spoken and unspoken, acknowledged and denied, subtle and sometimes not so subtle — the disease of racism permeates and poisons a whole body politic,” and that whites largely refuse to acknowledge “the debt that they owe a people who were kept in slavery,” for hundreds of years.
What is the position of this dangerous subversive to whom Barack Obama is clearly tethered, when it comes to the role of the United States in the world? Only that, “We’ve committed more war crimes almost than any nation in the world, and I’m going to continue to say it. And we won’t stop it because of our pride and our arrogance as a nation.”
There is more, much more in fact: pointed condemnations of white racism and arrogance, trenchant critiques of American nationalism and patriotism, and withering bromides against the wealthy, all from a man whom Barack Obama praises often, and apparently regards as something of a national role model.
Indeed, he said as much a few months ago, when he dedicated a monument to this man on the Mall in Washington — the recently unveiled statue for Martin Luther King Jr.
One can only wonder how Andrew Breitbart would have spun this, or how Sean Hannity might still. ....
http://www.timwise.org/2012/03/thinking-while-black-barack-obama-race-and-the-politics-of-conservative-smears/
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.... “Racism is a way of life for the vast majority of white Americans, spoken and unspoken, acknowledged and denied, subtle and sometimes not so subtle — the disease of racism permeates and poisons a whole body politic,” and that whites largely refuse to acknowledge “the debt that they owe a people who were kept in slavery,” for hundreds of years.
... Obama praises often, and apparently regards as something of a national role model.
all races, including blacks, but they wont admit it
neither will you or Tim Wise, because it doesn't
fit your ego-perception of being some victims hero.
We don't owe a debt to any ancestor of a slave, just
ask African refugees. I've helped some where I live
and they wish their ancestors were slaves, and that they
were born here with all the opportunities available.
Do blacks ever give thanks for the almost 200,000 white
people who died to end the huge business of indentured
servitude, bond servants and slavery....huh?...no....
What about black denial about their own racism. Its no
better, or more justified than any other racism. Black
Americans wont give credit to the white accomplishments
in defeating racism, and will not give credit to the white leaders and
people who helped to stop white racism's political power.
Not only blacks supported MLK, there were a lot of white people too!
Black Americans want to wallow in self pity, the Africans
don't, they come here and get jobs at white owned companies
and do just fine, where is the racism there??? It doesn't exist,
its a myth of the past, stop holding on to it and move forward
and progress with the rest of us.
Tim Wise is proof that whites are the least racist of the races,
we want to stop and end racism, and we are big enough to look
at it and listen, blacks americans wont. Tim Wise is outdated,
a throw back to the terrible past, trying to capitalize on the past.
Come forward xfean to 2008 where a black man is voted in by a
high percentage of whites....Stop living in the past and embrace
the future. Racism has changed, whites are no longer the primary
racists in the US.
"The Illinois senator won 43 percent of white voters, 4 percentage points below Carter’s performance in 1976 and equal to what Bill Clinton won in the three-man race of 1996. Republican John McCain won 55 percent of the white vote."
"A stunning 54 percent of young white voters supported Obama, compared with 44 percent who went for McCain, the senator from Arizona. In the past three decades, no Democratic presidential nominee has won more than 45 percent of young whites."
Everyone gives our darling President such a hard time..poor guy! No wonder his hair is so grey..lol