In this article from today's ABC News site, Obama seeks to clarify comments he made about how his (white) grandmother had made racially insensitive comments when he was younger...in clarifying her comments, and offering his perspective, he referred to her as a "typical white person" who confused by and afraid (my paraphrase of his further comments) people who are different.
Presumably he meant that when white people are around black people they don't feel comfortable -- at least that's how he characterized grandma. And in clarifying those words, he also lumped me, and the rest of whitedom, under that same category: what I'd call 'reflexive racist.' Thanks, Barack. So much for above race, transcending race. How about race-bating? Thanks for implying that I, and other white people, are all, deep inside, a little racist.
I can't wait for his clarification of this clarification. Remember his comments on his wife's statement that she'd never been proud of America, as an adult, until her dear hubbie ran for president? Oh, yeah, what she really meant was that she was concerned and cynical about political partisanship and was relieved to be experiencing a more civil campaign season, as championed by Barack. If Mrs. Princeton education really meant that, why didn't she say it? Probably because what she said is exactly what she meant.
If Obama doesn't think, at some place in his person, that whitey is racist, why did he say what he said?
Hold on for the doublespeak, and here's a good article for perspective.
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