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July 2007 Stats for The Big Picture.
I recently posted an article titled, "Obama's Racism: He Calls His Grandmother a "Typical White Person"". I'm having a conversation in the comments section of that article, with commenter Aditya, who posts:
Again, you definitely have a point. It is a most unfortunate reference by Obama, especially his use of the word "bred". Also, at a time when more and more people are upholding looking at the individual rather than the group, it is very sad that he uses "typical" when describing the white ethnic group.
At the same time I would like to point two things out. He says reactions "have been bred into OUR experience" (emphasis added). He doesn't say her or their experiences - implying that he is not free of the 'faults' he is talking about.
I responded:
For him to express a view that is equally prejudiced against black people, is equally unacceptable.
The notion that prejudice is okay if black people are prejudiced too is a horror that Obama has attempted to perpetrate on the nation with this speech.
It makes him, not the first post-racial candidate, but the first pro-prejudice candidate.
Obama defends the racist remarks of Pastor Wright by saying that it must be okay since Obama's own grandmother is also - according to Obama - prejudiced. And as Aditya notes, careful parsing of Obama's comments from the infamous "typical white person" radio interview, shows that Obama is defending his grandmother's supposed prejudice by saying that all people, black and white, are equally forced to behave badly according to, per Obama, 'breeding'. The reference to breeding in particular is specifically racist, as it makes reference to genetics. He's not only defending prejudice - he's championing it by presenting himself as one who practices it.
Obama is not the first post-racial candidate.
He is the first pro-prejudice candidate.
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#2Well said, A.M.!
#3To all concerned:
After today’s remarks, I cannot help but question Obama’s stand on prejudice. He said that the repulicans would say, "By the way, he’s black." I felt like it was a slap in the face for all democrats who have worked to avoid and defeat prejudice to have our candidate assume that the republicans are a white machine that will stoop to prejudiced remarks. That sort of reverse prejudice is what makes me want to vote for the other side. So take that!
#4You got it bro. Take that Obama Hussein Barrack Bin Laden
Obviously Barack’s mother was not influenced by her mother’s (his grandmother’s) ‘prejudice’ or she would not have dated or married Barack’s father - which in 1960 was considered unconventional.
We all have the power to make our own choices.