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Obama’s whirling dervish spin-control speech
Drudge got a leak of the transcript for the damage control speech Barack Obama will be making this morning, in which he’ll try to distance himself from 20 years of sitting in the pews and absorbing the hateful racist and anti-American rhetoric of his spiritual mentor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright.
“The profound mistake of Reverend Wright’s sermons is not that he spoke about racism in our society. It’s that he spoke as if our society was static; as if no progress has been made; as if this country – a country that has made it possible for one of his own members to run for the highest office in the land and build a coalition of white and black; Latino and Asian, rich and poor, young and old — is still irrevocably bound to a tragic past. But what we know — what we have seen – is that America can change. That is true genius of this nation. What we have already achieved gives us hope – the audacity to hope – for what we can and must achieve tomorrow.
In the white community, the path to a more perfect union means acknowledging that what ails the African-American community does not just exist in the minds of black people; that the legacy of discrimination – and current incidents of discrimination, while less overt than in the past – are real and must be addressed. Not just with words, but with deeds – by investing in our schools and our communities; by enforcing our civil rights laws and ensuring fairness in our criminal justice system; by providing this generation with ladders of opportunity that were unavailable for previous generations. It requires all Americans to realize that your dreams do not have to come at the expense of my dreams; that investing in the health, welfare, and education of black and brown and white children will ultimately help all of America prosper.”
Didja catch all those buzzwords? Progress. Change. Hope. Achieve. Fairness. Opportunity. Dreams.
Mmmm, now I feel all warm and fuzzy inside, don’t you?
But wait, don’t forget the other serious words. Profound. Racism. Discrimination. Investing. Welfare. Education. (c’mon, wrinkle your brow and look concerned… it’s for the children)
A commenter at Ace of Spades HQ reads between the lines in these two paragraphs:
Para one: Everything that guy (Wright) said is bullshit.
Para two: But seriously, America is really fucked up and white people need to get on the ball.
Yep, just make with the checkbook, America. And soon, you can be free of your white guilt!
My guess is that mush-minded Americans everywhere will eagerly accept this consolation prize of a speech and forget all about the politics of oppression that form the underpinnings of Obama’s philosophy. It sounds like the same racist, poor me, “what have you done for me lately” victim-speak calumny, wrapped up in a nice pretty package with a bow.
Awww, look. It’s not racism anymore, now it’s HOPE (brought to you by the Ministry of Truth).
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UPDATE: Ok, so we know Obama looks up to Jeremiah Wright as his spiritual mentor, but from whom did Wright learn his extremist views? A “black liberation” theologian named James Cone. Here’s a little something Cone wrote about his views on God.
Black theology refuses to accept a God who is not identified totally with the goals of the black community. If God is not for us and against white people, then he is a murderer, and we had better kill him. The task of black theology is to kill Gods who do not belong to the black community … Black theology will accept only the love of God which participates in the destruction of the white enemy. What we need is the divine love as expressed in Black Power, which is the power of black people to destroy their oppressors here and now by any means at their disposal. Unless God is participating in this holy activity, we must reject his love.
God needs to participate in “the destruction of the white enemy?” Wow. This is as repugnant as any vitriol I’ve ever heard from the KKK. Just change the skin colors.
Here’s a little tidbit about Cone and his influence on Trinity UCC, Obama’s church:
There is no denying, however, that a strand of radical black political theology influences Trinity. James Cone, the pioneer of black liberation theology, is a much-admired figure at Trinity. Cone told me that when he’s asked where his theology is institutionally embodied, he always mentions Trinity. Cone’s groundbreaking 1969 book Black Theology and Black Power announced: “The time has come for white America to be silent and listen to black people. . . . All white men are responsible for white oppression. . . . Theologically, Malcolm X was not far wrong when he called the white man ‘the devil.’. . . Any advice from whites to blacks on how to deal with white oppression is automatically under suspicion as a clever device to further enslavement.” Contending that the structures of a still-racist society need to be dismantled, Cone is impatient with claims that the race situation in America has improved. In a 2004 essay he wrote, “Black suffering is getting worse, not better. . . . White supremacy is so clever and evasive that we can hardly name it. It claims not to exist, even though black people are dying daily from its poison”
Amazing. Such deep-seated resentment and a willful ignorance of our country’s progress seems born from a lifetime of lingering in victimhood bombast.
No matter what Obama tries to say, or how he tries to distance himself from the man who performed his marriage, baptized his children, and served as his spiritual mentor for the past 20 years, I look at it this way: you don’t keep going back to eat at a restaurant where you don’t like the taste of the food.
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UPDATE: Thomas Sowell puts this whole situation into perspective:
The fact that Obama talks differently than Jeremiah Wright does not mean that his track record is different. Barack Obama’s voting record in the Senate is perfectly consistent with the far-left ideology and the grievance culture, just as his wife’s statement that she was never proud of her country before is consistent with that ideology.
Senator Barack Obama’s political success thus far has been a blow for equality. But equality has its down side.
Equality means that a black demagogue who has been exposed as a phony deserves exactly the same treatment as a white demagogue who has been exposed as a phony. [emphasis added]
We don’t need a president of the United States who got to the White House by talking one way, voting a very different way in the Senate, and who for 20 years followed a man whose words and deeds contradict Obama’s carefully crafted election-year image.
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UPDATE: Here is Obama’s entire speech, minimizing Wright’s demagoguery as mere ”snippets,” saying “I can no more disown him than I can disown the black community” and pointing the finger at “talk show hosts and conservative commentators” for bringing Wright’s hate-filled legacy to light.
(In other words, pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.)
Michelle Malkin gives a good summary of the speech’s high points:
Obama’s bottom line: Everyone’s a victim. You’re part of the problem if you keep talking about Jeremiah Wright. Everyone’s churches have crazy demagogues. Schools need more money. Leave illegal aliens alone. Never mind all the black grievance-mongers who have built careers sowing seeds of divisions. Look at all the talk show hosts and conservative commentators! Elect Obama. Fixer of souls.
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