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/

especially in a "poor manner",   it usually is in context of the people who are not looking to further themselves and their families in life,  it would be very similar to "rednecks" "white trash" who are white and have chosen to go a path of "lest resistance".   Why someone,  anyone would not want to better themselves is beyond  comprehension.

People who aren't focused or do not want to sort out something end up blaming an entity or situation,  which is exactly what happens in  certain African American Communities.  Instead of turning inward and saying "how can I change my situation"  the blame is placed on the external forces.  

Then there are the African Americans who look to excel at whatever it is they choose to do,  Martin Luther King,  of course,  being the first to come to mind,  he wanted his people to "rise above",  with dignity,  unfortunately many did not hear that calling.  The Reverend Jesse Jackson  being another great leader,  as a young girl,  I looked up to and was mesmerized by the man's eloquence,  his daughter Santita Jackson,  a beautiful classy lady,  who I remember one evening about a year ago on Fox stating,  what she wants for her people is for them to be educated,  for without an education,  there would be no way out of their situation,  Colin Powell is another great gentleman,  Condoleeza Rice,  and of course,  love him or hate him,  the incomparable genius of Herman Cain (which in my opinion is where the Republicans did themselves,  our nation and Mr Cain a great disservice)  for with his credentials a mathematician of ballistics,  he most certainly could have brought this country out of the economic free fall we are now seeing.

So,  it is not "black people"  per se,  that might be spoken of in an inferior way,  it is certain black people,  just as there are certain white people who wish not to do anything to help themselves and constantly expect and feel the entitlement.

-- Modified on 11/7/2012 11:26:15 AM

Coming from someone who can't speak/write more than two syllables, and has the vocabulary of a parakeet.

........a fool, just like most of the Tea baggers.