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Shocking
In Obama's Own Words
What Obama really thinks of white folks (09:53)
Don't Sully Me Bro
Anna Dunham's parents weren't happy with her marriage
to Barack Hussein Obama, Sr., but Hussein Onyango Obama,
Barack Sr.'s father was furious.
He
wrote the Dunhams "this long, nasty letter saying that he didn't
approve of the marriage," Obama recounted his mother telling him in
"Dreams." "He didn't want the Obama blood sullied by a white
woman."
Not White
Obama
would write in "Dreams...," -- "I ceased to advertise my
mother’s race at the age of twelve or thirteen, when I began to suspect
that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites."
Abandoned by his father and shipped off by his mother to
his white grandparents, Barry
Soetoro is enrolled in the
Punahou School,
begins the search for his "blackness,"
and becomes Barack
Hussein Obama.
But Black
Obama
wanted a race to belong to, a team
whose accomplishments would reflect well upon him. Of course, it
was unthinkable in his liberal white family to take pride in the
achievements of his mother’s race, so Obama gloried in being part of his
absent father’s race.
From his early teens onward,
Obama desperately wants to be black. In "Dreams," he writes, "I was
trying to raise myself to be a black man in America, and beyond the
given of my appearance, no one around me seemed to know exactly what
that meant." Honolulu’s paucity of African-Americans means he has to
learn to be black from the media: "TV, movies, the radio; those were
places to start. Pop culture was color-coded, after all, an arcade of
images from which you could cop a walk, a talk, a step, a style."
"...never emulate white men and brown men whose fates didn’t speak to my
own. It was into my father’s image, the black man, son of Africa,
that I’d packed all the attributes I sought in myself..."
When his grandmother wants a ride to work because the day before, while
awaiting the bus, she was threatened by a black panhandler, he is
outraged -- at his grandmother.
Obama
consulted his communist mentor, Frank Marshall Davis, about this
incident for advice. Davis responded to Obama, "What I'm trying to
tell you is, your grandmother has every right to be scared. ... She
understands that black people have a reason to hate. That's just
how it is. For your sake, I wish it were otherwise. But it's
not. So you might as well get used to it."
Later, when he moves to the South Side of Chicago in 1984, he eventually
discovers that, like his grandmother, he’s sometimes scared of black
males on the street, too.
Slippin' In To Darkness
Even through high school, he continued to
vacillate between the twin strands of his racial identity.
As a teenager,
Obama sought out gatherings on military
bases or at the University of Hawaii that were mostly attended by
blacks.
"I learned to slip back and forth between my black and white worlds," he
wrote in "Dreams." "One of those tricks I had learned: People were
satisfied so long as you were courteous and smiled and made no sudden
moves. They were more than satisfied; they were relieved -- such a
pleasant surprise to find a well-mannered young black man who didn't
seem angry all the time."
Obama wrote that in high school, he and a black friend would sometimes
speak disparagingly "about white folks this or white folks that, and I
would suddenly remember my mother's smile, and the words that I spoke
would seem awkward and false."
As a result, he concluded that "certain whites could be excluded from
the general category of our distrust."
Malcolm
Obama enters Occidental
College in California, and was the period when Obama stopped using the nickname "Barry"
in favor of his full name.
In his college days, it was the autobiography of militant Malcolm X that grabbed his
attention more than any other black writer. "Malcolm X’s
autobiography seemed to offer something different," Obama wrote. "His
repeated acts of self-creation spoke to me; the blunt poetry of his
words, his unadorned insistence on respect, promised a new and
uncompromising order, martial in its discipline, forged through sheer
force of will."
He added: "Malcolm’s discovery toward the end of his life, that
some whites might live beside him as
brothers in Islam, seemed to offer some hope of eventual
reconciliation."
Some whites? -- if they are Muslims? -- all whites
have to do is to submit to Islam? -- this guy still thinks like a
Muslim.
Occidental
In his first memoir, "Dreams," Obama included a
description of black student life at
Occidental College in Los Angeles.
"There were enough of us on campus to constitute a tribe, and when it
came to hanging out many of us chose to function like a tribe, staying
close together, traveling in packs," he wrote. "It remained
necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the
black masses, to strike out and name names."
He added: "To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends
carefully. The more politically active black students. The
foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and
structural feminists."
Obama said he and other blacks were careful not to second-guess their
own racial identity in front of whites.
"To admit our doubt and confusion to whites, to open up our psyches to
general examination by those who had caused so much of the damage in the
first place, seemed ludicrous, itself an expression of self-hatred," he
wrote.
He
ridiculed his Occidental black classmate for having a Caucasian
girlfriend, writing:
Tim was not a conscious brother. Tim wore argyle sweaters and
pressed jeans and talked like Beaver Cleaver. He planned to major
in business. His white girlfriend was probably waiting for him up
in his room, listening to country music. ..."Tim's a trip, ain't he," I
said, shaking my head. "Should change his name from Tim to Tom
[presumably a reference to Uncle Tom]."
"Dreams From My Father," pages 101-102 (paperback edition)
Slippin' In To Darkness II
Occidental College in Los
Angeles, which then had a black mayor, Tom Bradley, wasn’t black enough,
so in search of a community to belong to,
he transfers to Harlem … well,
to be precise, to that prestigious university on the edge of Harlem,
Columbia. (A recurrent theme in Obama’s career is Power to the People
gestures and Ivy League results).
He majors in
political science with a specialization in international relations.
No one -- absolutely no one -- remembers Obama at Columbia.
Columbia
At Columbia, Obama disapproved of what he called
"half-breeds"
who gravitated toward whites instead of blacks. And yet after
college, he once fell in love with a white woman, only to push her away
when he concluded he would have to assimilate into her world, not the
other way around.
New York
Obama
graduates from Columbia College, and after spending a year working in
New York,
moves to Chicago where he finally finding a home where at least
some whites reciprocated his antagonism.
Didn't See That Comin'
When he’s working on Wall Street, he’s creeped-out by his visiting
mother’s insistence on seeing her favorite film, the 1959 Brazilian
art-house classic "Black Orpheus." He belatedly
realizes
that his very fair-skinned mother is sexually attracted to dark men.
He pompously intones, "The emotions between the races could never be
pure; even love was tarnished by the desire to find in the other some
element that was missing in ourselves. Whether we sought out our
demons or salvation, the other race would always remain just that:
menacing, alien, and apart."
Anger
In the period from high school in Hawaii, to Columbia University and then to
the streets of Chicago as a community organizer, Obama is the classic angry
young black man,
describing his world thusly:
"We were always
playing on the white man's court -- by the white man's rules. If the
principal, or the coach, or a teacher wanted to spit in your face, he could,
because he had the power and you didn't. The only thing you could choose was
withdrawal into a smaller and smaller coil of rage."
Obama
once described the white race as "that
ghostly figure that haunted black dreams."
"That hate hadn't gone away," he wrote, blaming "white people -- some
cruel, some ignorant, sometimes a single face, sometimes just a faceless
image of a system claiming power over our lives."
After
graduating from college, Obama eventually went to Chicago to
interview for a job as a community organizer. His racial attitudes
came into play as he sized up the man who would become his boss.
"There was something about him that made me wary," Obama wrote. "A
little too sure of himself, maybe. And white."
Louis
"I would occasionally pick up the paper [Louis Farrakhan’s 'The
Final Call'] from these unfailingly polite men, in part out of sympathy
to their heavy suits in the summer, their thin coats in winter; or
sometimes because my attention was caught by the sensational,
tabloid-style headlines (CAUCASIAN WOMAN ADMITS: WHITES ARE THE DEVIL).
Inside the front cover, one found reprints of the minister’s
[Farrakhan’s] speeches, as well as stories that could have been picked
straight off the AP news wire were it not for certain editorial
embellishments (”Jewish Senator Metzenbaum announced today…”).
Dreams From My Father, p. 201
Black Nationalism
When he was a community organizer (age 22 prior to going to law school)
he happily
cooperated with Rafiq, a former gangster turned Nation of
Islam. He even believed that Black Nationalism was a "good
therapy" for Blacks. That was also the reason he supported Wright
("Dreams...," p. 190-200). For he shares Michelle's sentiments of
alienation, came to believe that race should trump everything and it
should be anti-white:
"all the black people who, it turned out, shared with me a voice that
whispered inside them -- You don't really belong here."
"In a sense, then, Rafiq was right when he insisted that, deep down, all
blacks were potential Nationalists. The anger was there, bottled
up and often turned inward. And . . . I wondered whether, for now
at least, Rafiq wasn't also right in preferring that that anger be
redirected; whether a black politics that suppressed rage towards white
generally, or one that failed to elevate race loyally above all else,
was a politics inadequate to the task."
"It was a painful thought to consider, as painful now as it has been
years ago. It contradicted the morality my mother had taught me, a
morality of subtle distinctions -- between individuals of goodwill and
those who wished me ill, between active malice and ignorance of
indifference. I have a personal stake in that moral framework; I'd
discovered that I couldn't escape it if I tried. And yet perhaps
it was a framework that blacks in this country could no longer afford;
perhaps it weakened black resolve, encouraged confusion within the
ranks. Desperate times called for desperate measures, and for many
blacks, times were chronically desperate. If (black) nationalism could
create a strong and effective insularity, deliver on its promise of self
respect, then the hurt it might cause well-meaning whites, of the inner
turmoil it caused people like me, would be of little consequence."
"If nationalism could deliver. As it turned out, questions of
effectiveness, and not sentiment, cause most of my quarrels with Rafiq."
In other words, Barack was willing to sacrifice his mother and his
typical white grandparents on the alter of black nationalism. His sentiments
were in line with those of Rafiq, the Nation of Islam activist.
That is the reason he chose a black nationalist church run by Reverend
Wright, who explained to him during their very first meeting ("Dreams...," p.284):
"Life's not safe for a black man in this country, Barack. Never
has been. Probably never will be."
Dreams...
At age 33, Obama publishes
a 442 page book about his pursuit of a racial identity.
There's
not a word about him pursuing a non-racial, specifically American
identity in "Dreams from My Father,
A Story of Race and Inheritance."
Obama’s book is primarily about his
rejection of his supportive white maternal extended family in favor of
his unknown black paternal extended family.
In "Dreams...," Obama meditates, "If [black] nationalism could
create a strong and effective insularity, deliver on its promise of
self-respect, then the hurt it might cause well-meaning whites, or the
inner turmoil it caused people like me, would be of little consequence."
Oxydol
Moment
Also in his memoir,
Obama writes of one of the watershed moments of his racial
awareness -- time and again in remarkable detail. It is a story about a Life magazine article that influenced him.
The report was about a
black man who tried to bleach his skin white. When Obama was told
no such article could be found in Life, he says "it might have been
Ebony.
He is 9 years old, living in Indonesia, where he and his mother moved
with her new husband, Lolo Soetoro, a few years earlier. One day
while visiting his mother, who was working at the U.S. Embassy in
Jakarta, Obama passed time by looking through several issues of Life
magazine. He came across an article that he later
would
describe as feeling like an "ambush attack."
The article included photos of a black man who had destroyed his skin
with powerful chemical lighteners that promised to make him white.
Instead, the chemicals had peeled off much of his skin, leaving him sad
and scarred, Obama recalled.
"I imagine other black children, then and now, undergoing similar
moments of revelation," Obama wrote of the magazine photos in "Dreams."
Yet
no such photo exists, according to historians at the magazine.
No such photos, no such article. When asked about the discrepancy,
Obama said in a recent interview, "It might have been an Ebony or it
might have been ... who knows what it was?" (At the request of the
Tribune, archivists at Ebony searched their catalogue of past articles,
none of which matched what Obama recalled.)
In fact, it is surprising, based on interviews with more than two dozen
people who knew Obama during his nearly four years in Indonesia, that it
would take a photograph in a magazine to make him conscious of the fact
that some people might treat him differently in part because of the
color of his skin.
Audacity
In October, Obama publishes "The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on
Reclaiming the American Dream," which details his views of politics and
his vision for the future of
the U.S. government and its people.
“Malcolm X’s autobiography seemed to offer something different,” Obama
wrote. "His repeated acts of self-creation spoke to me; the blunt
poetry of his words, his unadorned insistence on respect, promised a new
and uncompromising order, martial in its discipline, forged through
sheer force of will."
He added: "Malcolm’s discovery toward the end of his life, that
some whites might live beside him as
brothers in Islam, seemed to offer some hope of eventual
reconciliation."
This is the thinking of a Muslim.
Selma
As another example, consider Obama's
stirring tale for the Selma audience
about how he had been conceived by his parents, Barack Obama Sr. and Ann
Dunham, because they had been inspired by the fervor following the
"Bloody Sunday" voting rights demonstration that was commemorated March
4. "There was something stirring across the country because of
what happened in Selma, Alabama," he said, "because some folks are
willing to march across a bridge. So they got together and Barack
Obama Jr. was born. So don't tell me I don't have a claim on
Selma, Alabama. Don't tell me I'm not coming home to
Selma, Alabama"
Obama was born in 1961, and the Selma march occurred four years later,
in 1965. The New York Times reported that when the senator was
asked about the discrepancy later that day, he clarified: "I meant the
whole civil rights movement."
Cornell West
Cornel West was on fire. Bobbing in his chair, his hands
sweeping across the stage, the brilliant and bombastic scholar was
lambasting Barack Obama's campaign. Before a black audience, at an
event outside Atlanta called the State of the Black Union, West was
questioning why Obama was 600 miles away, announcing his bid for the
White House in Springfield, Ill. Did he really care about black
voters? What did that say about his willingness to stand up for
what he believes?
"He's got large numbers of white brothers and sisters who have fears and
anxieties and concerns, and he's got to speak to them in such a way that
he holds us at arm's length," West said, pushing his hand out for
emphasis. "So he's walking this tightrope." West challenged
the candidate to answer a stark set of questions: "I want to know how
deep is your love for the people, what kind of courage have you
manifested in the stances that you have and what are you willing to
sacrifice for. That's the fundamental question. I don't care
what color you are. You see, you can't take black people for
granted just 'cause you're black."
A few days later, West was sitting in his Princeton office after class
when the phone rang. It was Barack Obama. "I want to clarify
some things," the candidate calmly told the professor of religion and
African-American studies. Over the next two hours, Obama explained
his Illinois state Senate record on criminal justice and affordable
health care. West asked Obama how he understood the legacy of
Martin Luther King Jr. and interrogated him about a single phrase in
Obama's 2004 Democratic-convention speech: that America was "a magical
place" for his Kenyan father. "That's a Christopher Columbus
experience," West said. "It's hard for someone who came out of
slavery and Jim Crow to call it a magical place. You have to be
true to yourself, but I have to be true to myself as well." A few
weeks later, the two men met in a downtown Washington, D.C., hotel to
chat about Obama's campaign staff.
Just a month after ripping
into him onstage, West endorsed Obama and signed up as an unpaid
adviser.
If you don't know who and what Cornell West is, please see
this video.
What did Obama promise the radical Cornell West to gain his support?
La Raza
Sunday, 07/22, Obama was in South Florida
to
address the National Council of La Raza (NCLR), the nation's largest
Hispanic so-called civil rights group.
La Raza is Spanish for "the race," although NCLR claims it means
"community" on their website. La Raza
supports legislation such as the Civil Liberties Restoration Act,
which would roll back policies adopted after Sept. 11 designed to
protect national security. It supports the "DREAM Act," which
would mandate states to offer in-state tuition rates to illegal aliens
-- thus providing them with benefits not available to U.S. citizens from
other states.
The group opposes the "Clear Law Enforcement for Criminal Alien Removal
Act of 2003" and the "Homeland Security Enhancement Act" would give
state and local police officers the authority to enforce federal
immigration laws.
"While the safety and security of our communities and our country are of
the utmost importance, new policies that would allow local police
departments to enforce federal civil immigration law will hinder
terrorist and other criminal investigations, and have a serious negative
impact on Latino communities," La Raza explains.
The group also supports legislation to ensure illegal immigrants'
ability to obtain driver's licenses.
La Raza continues to lobby the Senate for virtual open borders and
amnesty for illegal aliens.
La Raza's motto is, "Por La Raza todo. Fuera de La Raza nada,"
which translates to ""For The Race everything. Outside The Race,
nothing."
The La Raza movement
teaches
that Colorado, California, Arizona, Texas, Utah, New Mexico, Oregon and
parts of Washington State make up an area known as "Aztlan" -- a
fictional ancestral homeland of the Aztecs before Europeans arrived in
North America. As such, it belongs to the followers of MEChA.
These are all areas America should surrender to "La Raza" once enough
immigrants, legal or illegal, enter to claim a majority, as in Los
Angeles. The current borders of the United States will simply be
extinguished.
This plan is what is referred to as the "Reconquista" or the re-conquest, of
the western United States.
But it won't end with territorial occupation and secession. The
final plan for the La Raza movement includes the ethnic cleansing of
Americans of European, African, and Asian descent from "Aztlan."
No surprise here -- a Marxist addressing Marxists.
Da Rev
Democratic presidential candidate U.S. Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) sits
with race-baiter, Rev. Al Sharpton, during a campaign stop at Sylvia's
restaurant in New York, November 29, 2007.
Earlier, Obama raised $750,000 at the Apollo Theater, where he made
the comment, "I'm not running because I'm trying to fulfill some
long-held plan."
Comrade
At the Apollo Theater fundraiser, Obama was introduced by the radical Marxist professor and self-styled rapper, Cornell West, as "my comrade."
What does this tell you about Obama, when he chooses to
be introduced by one of the most radical Marxists in America as, "my
comrade?"
Watch this video -- Cornell doesn't trust Obama -- Why the
change in attitude?
What promises did Obama make to cause this 180◦?
Bamboozlin'
Why isn't Barack Obama's speech, which
he touts
on his presidential website, being used as exhibit A, not only for using
words that reach out to his community, but also as an example of how
he's using race whenever he can and when it suits his needs and benefits
his candidacy?
As the South Carolina primary campaign built to a climax, Obama
addressed a largely African-American audience in Sumter.
In this video,
Obama drops his eloquent Harvard accent, and says, "They're trying
to bamboozle you. It's the same old okie-dokie. -- Y'all
know about okie dokie, right? -- They try to bamboozle you. -- Hoodwink
ya. Try to hoodwink ya. Alright. -- I'm having too much fun
here. ... "
This speech had been borrowed from one of Obama's heroes, Malcolm X, who
said, "You've been hoodwinked. You've been had. You've been took.
You've been led astray, led amok. You’ve been bamboozled."
It is strange that a candidate, who belongs to an "Afrocentric" church,
that bestows awards on Louis Farrakhan, would borrow from Malcolm X, who
was a spokesman for the Nation of Islam, right before complaining
about e-mails claiming he is Muslim.
We'll March
On March 6th, Bill O’Reilly
asked Al Sharpton the $64,000 question -- what happens if Hillary
Clinton gets the nomination even if Barack Obama comes into Denver
leading in pledged delegates? After the losses in Texas and Ohio,
the new meme has the super-delegates wondering whether Obama can win a
general election. If Hillary can make it closer by the time the
convention rolls around, say to within 70 or so pledged delegates, the
super-delegates will throw their support to the most competitive
candidate.
After hesitating a bit, Sharpton makes it clear that he and his
supporters won’t accept a brokered outcome, saying:
"Superdelegates are not Supermen. The party can’t say it
represents the concept of one-man, one-vote democracy and then make
backroom deals that ignore the popular vote and the will of the
electorate. They will march in the street to protest a Hillary
nomination if she comes into Denver trailing Obama."
Sharpton’s threat gives Obama potent leverage to keep from accepting a
convention demotion. If his supporters start talking about
third-party movements, the Democrats are finished up and down the ticket
-- and they know it.
Wellllll?
On
March 12th, former vice presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro, who
is stepping down from Hillary Clinton’s finance team after telling a
California newspaper that Barack Obama has been aided politically by his
race,
said Wednesday evening that the remarks were nothing more than a
"statement of fact."
"Somebody must have seen this (article) and said, 'Wow, this is really
something -- we go after Ferraro, we go after Clinton,'" Ferraro said in
an interview Wednesday night on FOX News' "Hannity & Colmes."
"They made this a divisive issue, not me."
Former Maryland Lieutenant Gov. Michael Steele, who is black, said that
Ferraro’s comments are true, and the fact she can’t speak them "goes to
the heart and ugliness of racism." He said Obama's candidacy is
not diminished by her words, but an oversensitivity is harming debate in
America.
That Obama won 92% of the black vote in Mississippi adds credence to
Ferraro's and Steele's allegations.
Reverend Wrong
Fox
just posted a big story about Obama's mentor, Jeremiah Wright, and
the video is pretty gripping, and deeply racially confrontational.
He begins by describing the Romans, who crucified Jesus, as Italians,
and thus white, and more or less goes from there.
"Barack knows what it means living in a country and a culture that is
controlled by rich white people," Wright says.
"Hillary ain't never been called a nigger," he says at the climax.
Obama and his wife Michelle have been sitting at this guy's feet and
listening to this crap for 20 years -- is it any wonder they have the
views that they do?
He Said What?
Presidential candidate Barack Obama on Friday repudiated
what he called "inflammatory and appalling remarks" made by his Chicago
pastor.
Obama said he had not been present during the sermons in question.
Obama
told MSNBC, "Had I heard them in church I would have expressed that
concern directly to Rev. Wright."
Please note, he says that he would have expressed concern, not
repudiate, the words
Yet, in
this video, "the Rev"
places Obama in the congregation, by saying, "There is a man here,
who can take this country in a new direction" and he points at him.
In the next clip, during Wright's 2007 Christmas services,
Wright rails, "Barack knows what it means to be a black man living
in a country and a process that is controlled by rich white men, Hillary
can never know that, Hillary ain't ever been called a nigger!"
While Wright rails, "Bill did us like he did Monica Lewinsky," Wright's
successor, Otis Moss III, jumps into the picture frame, attempting to
high-five "the Rev."
Barack was
in Chicago for Christmas 2007 and Wright is addressing him from the
pulpit. Will Barack say me didn't attend Christmas services?
When Obama said, "Had I heard them in church ..." Obama lied.
He listened to Wright's sermons for 20 years.
These two men, Obama and Wright, are two peas in the same pod.
And, please notice the congregation in that video. They are going
nuts during Wright's preaching. All of them believe this "evil
white man" crap and eat it up.
The whole bunch of them are the worst kinds of hateful racists -- and
remember, Wright's congregation is composed of successful, educated
African-Americans.
Greed
Obama's own first book
suggests that some elements of Wright's style that are now
controversial -- particularly on race -- aren't really new.
On Page 293 of my edition of "Dreams for My Father," Obama recounts
Wright's "The Audacity of Hope" sermon. (I
linked a version of this earlier today.)
Obama quotes this passage:
"It is this world, a world where cruise ships throw away more food in
a day than most residents of Port-au-Prince see in a year, where white
folks’ greed runs a world in need, apartheid in one hemisphere, apathy
in another hemisphere…That’s the world! On which hope sits!"
Help A Brother
Obama doesn't talk much about his views on crime and
punishment -- at least not in front of general audiences -- and for good
reason.
While his Web site says he's "a strong proponent of tougher measures to
fight crime,"
his record tells a different story.
As an Illinois state senator, for example, he acted more as a friend to
criminals than to cops, legislating among other things:
• Curbs on what he called a "broken" death penalty system.
• A measure to expunge some criminal records and give job grants to
ex-cons.
• Tougher handgun controls.
• A vote against making gang members eligible for the death penalty if
they kill someone to help their gang.
• Opposition to a bill requiring juveniles to be prosecuted as adults
for firing a gun at or near a school.
At the federal level, Obama would:
• Repeal "unfair" mandatory sentences for crack convictions.
• Provide drug counseling instead of jail time for some abusers.
• Rethink criminal penalties for pot.
• Ban profiling by federal law enforcement, even if it helps catch
violent criminals including terrorists.
• Strengthen hate-crime laws and beef up civil rights enforcement
against police chiefs who profile.
• Provide job training, drug rehab and counseling for ex-cons.
• "Re-enfranchise" felons denied the right to vote.
In addition, Obama, who once vowed to repeal the Patriot Act, still
talks about reforming it. He also once proposed banning executions
of inmates, arguing he was against capital punishment.
It's not clear where Obama stands on the issue now, but he does think
death row and the entire U.S. penal system are stacked against blacks.
While so far only alluding to racism as the culprit, his mentor Rev.
Jeremiah Wright minces no words in blaming "racist white America."
"The brothers are in prison" largely because of their skin color, he
claims.
And a racist white majority put them there, he believes, by "structuring
an economic environment that induces captive youth to fill the jails and
prisons."
In Wright's conspiracy, personal responsibility plays no role.
This is the same adviser who told Obama that there are "more black men
in prison than in college" -- a statement that Obama parroted until he
was told that it was false.
Unfortunately, Obama listens to his preacher and buys into his
conspiracy theories. "In our criminal justice system,
African-Americans and whites are arrested at very different rates,"
Obama recently complained. "It has to do with how we pursue racial
justice."
He vows to pursue it with gusto, unleashing civil rights cops on police
chiefs and district attorneys who dare to arrest and prosecute criminals
who happen to be of color.
In last Tuesday's speech explaining his ties to Wright, he reiterated
his desire to do more to enforce civil rights laws.
He cites the Jena Six case as an example of racial injustice. But
one of the thugs he defends as a victim of Louisiana racism recently was
arrested again for assault. The 6-6 Bryant Purvis allegedly choked
and slammed a classmate's head on a table after helping five other
blacks beat a white student within an inch of his life.
Would Obama go soft on such brutal crime in the name of racial equality?
No justice, no peace? Obama for now speaks only in code, saying
he'll fix "a criminal justice system that's broken." But how
exactly is it broken? And who would he appoint to help fix it?
Who will he pick as his attorney general? His top civil rights
cop? Is his pal Rep. John Conyers on the short list? Rep.
Keith Ellison?
What about federal judges? Will they be frustrated social workers
who go easy on criminals to "reintegrate" them into society?
More important, what kind of justices does Obama have in mind to replace
aging veterans on the high court, who decide the constitutionality of
capital punishment cases?
We shudder to think.
Panthers
Obama also has the
endorsement of the New Black Panther Party.
"Barack Obama represents 'Positive Change' for
all of America. Obama will stir the 'Melting Pot' into a better "Molten
America.'" Read The New Black Panther Party
10 Point
Platform from the anti-white and virulently anti-Semitic black supremacist party
that has endorsed Obama on the presidential candidate's
own website.
Following criticism earlier this month of an online endorsement from the
New Black Panther Party (NBPP), Obama's campaign removed the
controversial organization from the presidential candidate's official
website. The NBPP had been a registered team member and blogger on
Obama's "MyObama" campaign site.
But the NBPP endorsement was reposted on Obama's official website today.
"Obama is capable of stirring the 'melting pot' into a better 'molten
America,'" states the NBPP endorsement posted on Obama's site.
The NBPP is a controversial black extremist party whose leaders are
notorious for their racist statements and for leading anti-white
activism.
Malik Zulu Shabazz, NBPP national chairman, who has given scores of
speeches condemning "white men" and Jews, confirmed his organization's
endorsement of Obama in a recent interview with WND.
"I think the way Obama responded to the attack on him and the attempt to
sabotage his campaign shows true leadership and character. He had
a chance to denounce his pastor and he didn't fall for the bait.
He stood up and addressed real issues of racial discord," stated Shabazz.
Shabazz boasted he met Obama last March when the politician attended the
42nd anniversary of the voting rights marches in Selma, Ala.
"I have nothing but respect for Obama and for his pastor," said Shabazz,
referring to Jeremiah Wright, Obama's pastor of nearly 20 years.
It is Wright's racially charged and anti-Israel remarks that were widely
circulated this month, landing the presidential candidate in hot water
and prompting Obama to deliver a major race speech in which he condemned
Wright's comments but not the pastor himself.
Speaking to WND, Shabazz referred to Obama as a man with a "Muslim
background, a man of color."
Shabazz's NBPP's official platform states "white man has kept us deaf,
dumb and blind," refers to the "white racist government of America,"
demands black people be exempt from military service and uses the word
"Jew" repeatedly in quotation marks.
Shabazz has led racially divisive protests and conferences, such as the
1998 Million Youth March in which a few thousand Harlem youths
reportedly were called upon to scuffle with police officers and speakers
demanded the extermination of whites in South Africa.
The NBPP chairman was quoted at a May 2007 protest against the 400-year
celebration of the settlement of Jamestown, Va., stating, "When the
white man came here, you should have left him to die."
He claimed Jews engaged in an "African holocaust," and he has promoted
the anti-Semitic urban legend that 4,000 Israelis fled the World Trade
Center just prior to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
When Shabazz was denied entry to Canada last May while trying to speak
at a black action event, he blamed Jewish groups and claimed Canada "is
run from Israel."
Canadian officials justified the action stating he has an "anti-Semitic"
and "anti-police" record, but some reports blamed what was termed a
minor criminal history for the decision to deny him entry.
He similarly blamed Jews for then-New York Mayor Rudi Giuliani's initial
decision, later rescinded, against granting a permit for the Million
Youth March.
The NBPP's deceased chairman, Khallid Abdul Muhammad, a former Nation of
Islam leader who was once considered Louis Farrakhan's most trusted
adviser, gave speeches referring to the "white man" as the "devil" and
claiming that "there is a little bit of Hitler in all white people."
In a 1993 speech condemned by the U.S. Congress and Senate, Muhammad,
lionized on the NBPP site, referred to Jews as "bloodsuckers," labeled
the pope a "no-good cracker" and advocated the murder of white South
Africans who would not leave the nation subsequent to a 24-hour warning.
All NBPP members must memorize the group's rules, such as that no party
member "can have a weapon in his possession while drunk or loaded off
narcotics or weed," and no member "will commit any crimes against other
party members or black people at all."
The NBPP endorses Obama on its own page of the presidential candidate's
official site that allows registered users to post their own blogs.
The group labels itself on Obama's site as representing "Freedom,
Justice, and Peace for all of Mankind." It links to the official
NBPP website, which contains what can be arguably regarded as hate
material.
The NBPP previously endorsed Obama on the presidential candidate's site,
but following publicity of that endorsement, the Obama campaign removed
the NBPP posting.
"It's our policy [to remove] any content generated by a group that
advocates violence," explained Obama spokesman Tommy Vietor to
FoxNews.com.
Before the campaign removed the party's page, Obama spokeswoman Tiffany
Edwards told FoxNews.com the NBPP endorsement on Obama's website "has
nothing to do with us."
"People can form their own groups," she said. "It's not something that
the campaign -- it's not something that we've done."
While it appears anyone can initially sign up as a registered supporter
on Obama's site, it isn't clear whether the campaign monitors the site
or approves users. There is a link on each blog page for users to
report any abusers, such as those who post controversial entries, to the
administrator.
Shabbazz chalked up the Obama campaign's initial removal of his NBPP
endorsement from the website to "the game of politics."
"The Obama camp's move to remove our blog doesn't mean much because I
understand politics. We still completely support Obama as the best
candidate."
Obama 'less biased' on Israel
Shabazz said that aside from promoting black rights, he also supports
Obama because he may take what he called a "less biased" policy on the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
"I have hopes he will change the U.S. government's position toward the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict because our position has been unwarranted
bias. Time and time again the U.S. vetoed resolutions in the U.N.
Security Council condemning [Israeli] human rights violations. ... I
hope he shifts policy," Shabazz said.
But he added he doesn't believe Obama could change America's policy
regarding Israel very much since, he said, "other, powerful lobbies"
control U.S. foreign policy.
More White People
On April 7th, 2008, only a week after her husband drew throngs to Soldiers and Sailors,
Michelle Obama
wooed a small crowd at Skibo Gymnasium on Wednesday.
Skibo’s risers were packed with community members and students from many
of Pittsburgh’s universities. The rally was staffed by volunteers from a
number of Carnegie Mellon student organizations, including Carnegie
Mellon Students for Barack Obama, Student Senate, AB Political Speakers,
and College Democrats.
While the crowd was indeed diverse, some students at the event
questioned the practices of Mrs. Obama’s event coordinators, who
handpicked the crowd sitting behind Mrs. Obama. The Tartan’s
correspondents observed one event coordinator say to another, "Get me
more white people, we need more white people." To an Asian
girl sitting in the back row, one coordinator said, "We’re moving you,
sorry. It’s going to look so pretty, though."
"I didn’t know they would say, 'We need a white person here,'" said
attendee and senior psychology major Shayna Watson, who sat in the crowd
behind Mrs. Obama. "I understood they would want a show of
diversity, but to pick up people and to reseat them, I didn’t know it
would be so outright."
Mrs. Obama was introduced by Teresa Heinz Kerry, wife of former
Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. John Kerry (D–Mass.).
Go Figure?
The Elector of Saxony
said it best in an earlier post:
The more I learn about Obama, the more there is to dislike. When
you read the description of Barack's home life, it is hard to square his
background with someone who views America as a racist, oppressive
society.
Here is a half-black man, abandoned by his black father and placed in
the care of his white salesman grandfather and bank VP grandmother. From
these obviously humble, ordinary beginnings, America has provided him
the opportunity to attend the finest universities in the land, become a
multimillionaire, and made him one of the 102 most powerful people in
the entire nation.
You would think that such a man would view America as Ronald Reagan did,
or at least as JFK did. After all of the riches, power, and
accolades bestowed upon him, he and his family still see America through
the eyes of Kruschev, Castro, and Ahmedinijad.
Isn't that the most alarming thing about the man? He a walking,
breathing exemplar of what is great about America, and yet he believes (
or pretends to) that it is a cruel, unfair, and racist nation and
fosters this notion in the minds of others. I might understand his
attitude and that of those around him if because of his skin, his
interracial family, the origin of his father, or his lack of privilege
in childhood he had ended up bussing tables or working as a night
janitor. The truly awful thing is that here is a man who KNOWS for
a fact the truth about America, knows it is THE land of opportunity,
knows that it is the fairest society on earth, the most generous society
to the outsider, the abandoned child, the mixed-race boy of meager
means, and yet he misleads those who have not come as far as he has.
Surely he is smart enough to know the reason that some make it in
America and some do not and that even those who do not are allowed to
grow fat on the backs of the American People.
The putrid venom that he and his campaign are vending demoralizes those
who would seek to follow in his own footsteps, widens the divisions
between us, and pays back the kindness, equity, and generosity shown to
him, with a billy-club to the head.
I ask you all what will happen if such a man becomes the most powerful
man on Earth? I cannot imagine any good will come of it.
You think the media will question Obama about this? He says we need to
discuss race. I’d love to hear him discuss this. Perhaps I’m just a
"typical white person," but I think the takeaway quote here is:
"That’s Just How White Folks Will Do You." -- B. H. Obama
"Any distinction between good and bad whites held negligible meaning.
We were always playing on the white man’s court…by the white man’s
rules." -- B. H. Obama
Bitter Bunch
"Barack Obama hangs around people who are
bitter to the core. His entire inner circle -- his wife -- his
pastor -- is filled with
almost insane rage. Barack Obama has been attracted to extreme
radical elements his entire life."
Juneteeth
Senator Obama is one of
key leaders in a campaign to make Juneteeth Day a National Holiday
in the United States. Juneteeth Day occurs on every June 19th, the
anniversary of General Granger announcing the emancipation of slaves in
the South West. The Holiday would be celebrated on the third
Friday in June. Here's what the NYT wrote about it on 2004:
"Most gatherings are decidedly upbeat, but the sobering reason for the
holiday has also been part of Juneteenth's growth. Dr. Ronald
Myers, the leader of a movement to make Juneteenth a national holiday,
says June 19 should be an annual remembrance of the horrors of slavery"
We never got our apology, so we need this holiday to remind us that we
must not forget," said Dr. Myers, who spoke yesterday at a Juneteenth
event at the Capitol led by Representative Danny K. Davis, Democrat of
Illinois." New York Times, 6/19/04
According to the latest press release below from the organization
leading the campaign, a victory for Obama will likely lead to the
introduction of this holiday. Another example of the kind of
"uniting" we can expect from the Senator who appears to be becoming a
lightning rod for creating racial disharmony in the USA.
Senator Barack Obama has been a key sponsor of
Juneteenth legislation in the Senate and keynote speaker at the
annual Juneteenth congressional reception.
Advocates say, Juneteenth is as deserving of recognition as Independence
Day. "We may have gotten there in different ways and at different
times," says Meyers of blacks and whites, "but you can't really
celebrate freedom in America by just going with the Fourth of July."
A special U.N.
human rights investigator will visit the United States this month to
probe racism, an issue that has forced its way into the race to secure
the Democratic Party's presidential nomination.
The United Nations said Doudou Diene would meet federal and local
officials, as well as lawmakers and judicial authorities during the May
19-June 6 visit.
"The special rapporteur will...gather first-hand information on issues
related to racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related
intolerance," a U.N. statement said on Friday.
Doudou is a citizen of Senegal, an African
republic spawned by France. Muslims comprise 94% of the
population.
Update -- 5/23/08: "Islamophobia" will be "high on the
agenda" of the UN’s visiting human rights investigator, said Kareem
Shora, national executive director of the American-Arab Anti
Discrimination Committee (ADC).
Doudou Diene, a UN special envoy, began his three-week investigation on
Monday. He will assess "racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia
and related intolerance" in the United States during meetings with
officials, lawmakers and campaigners. The Senegalese lawyer, who
has served in the independent position since 2002, routinely visits
countries to assess racism and will report his findings to the UN Human
Rights Council next year.
Diène, a Muslim, is from Senegal, a predominantly (94%)
Muslim country, which is a source, transit, and destination country for
children and women trafficked for the purposes of forced labor and
commercial sexual exploitation.
Trafficking within the country is more prevalent than trans-border
trafficking. Boys who are students (talibe) at Koranic schools are
trafficked within the country for forced begging by their religious
teachers (marabouts), and women and girls are trafficked for domestic
servitude. Girls, and possibly adult women, are also trafficked
internally for sexual exploitation. Trans-nationally, boys are
trafficked to Senegal from Gambia, Mali, Guinea-Bissau, and Guinea for
forced begging by religious teachers. Senegalese women and girls
are trafficked to neighboring countries, the Middle East, and Europe for
domestic servitude and possibly for sexual exploitation. Reports
over the last year of large numbers of Senegalese and neighboring
country nationals being transported from Senegal to Spain appear to be
cases of smuggling and illegal migration rather than trafficking. --
U.S. State
Dept Trafficking in Persons Report, June, 2007
Looks like an expert on racism, racial
discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance to me.
What is the probability this guy finds examples of racism -- 101% --
102% -- more?
And the odds that he will find "Islamophobia" are off the charts.
By Any Another Name
Holy Hate
More hate at Obama's Trinity United Christian(?)
Church.
Father Michael Pfleger, a fiery liberal social activist and a white
reverend at the African-American, St. Sabina’s Catholic Church on the
South Side of Chicago, is a longtime friend and associate of Obama.
Pfleger has known him since the presidential hopeful was a community
activist.
This video
shows the guest-bigot delivering an amazingly hateful anti-Hillary,
anti-white tirade -- the sort of rhetoric for which he’s famous.
When the video became public, Pfleger feigned contrition -- "I regret
the words I chose on Sunday. These words are inconsistent with
Senator Obama's life and message, and I am deeply sorry if they
offended Senator Clinton or anyone else who saw them."
The real shocker here, as in all of these Trinity videos, is that the
congregation goes wild -- they love this hateful rhetoric and eat it up.
Of course, the Obamessiah is shocked and surprised!
Doing his best
Sgt. Schultz imitation, Obama feigned ignorance of Pfleger's views
and said, "I am deeply disappointed in Father Pfleger's divisive,
backward-looking rhetoric."
Pfleger is a close friend of Louis Farrakhan, has
donated to Obama's state senate and presidential campaigns, and
sat on a "Catholics for Obama" committee until a few weeks ago.
Pfleger's history of hate never stopped Obama from landing
$225,000 in grants for outreach programs run by Pfleger's church when he
was in the state legislature.
David Axelrod, Obama's chief strategist and MoveOn.org founder, said
that Father Pfleger was "remaking the face" of Chicago's South Side and
that all of Mr. Obama’s earmarks went to worthy programs like his.
Affirmative Action
Obama
says, "Affirmative action is an appropriate response to the history
of discrimination in this country."
What else would you expect an
affirmative action candidate to say?
Not So Subtle
Can you smell it? There's a faint whiff of anarchy in the air.
Nothing to get alarmed about. Not yet, anyway. Just a barely
discernible unarticulated threat, a mere suggestion of a threat. But
nonetheless it is there.
The voices are
just whispers now, soft and faraway, but they are angry and
determined: It is our time now, they are saying. You have had your
time and you have used it to oppress us, to keep us down. But it
is our time now. And you had better not interfere. For
generations we have waited for this moment and we will not be deprived.
It is our time now, and if you know what's good for you, you'd better
step aside.
Of course, no one has actually come right out and said it quite this
way, but there have been hints, there is something in the air. If
Obama is not elected in November . . .
On his Fox News radio show, Tom Sullivan predicted that
African-Americans would be rioting in the streets similar to what
happened after the O.J. trial in the 1990s.
"Let me put it to you a different way. What if Barack Obama is
not -- does not win the Democratic nomination, or he does win it, and
loses in the presidential race against John McCain? Is black
America going to throw their hands up and say, 'Man, you know, I thought
we were getting somewhere in this country, but this is just a bunch of
racial bigots in this country and they still hate blacks and, I mean, if
Barack Obama can't get elected, then we're never gonna have anybody
that's a black that's gonna be elected president.' And will there
be riots in the streets? I think the answer to that is yes and
yes."
And these comments, all the way from India:
"If Obama is not elected, it would destroy America because this time
the blacks think that America has the best possible candidate that it
has got the opportunity to elect as its president."
"If Obama is not elected, the blacks would feel being cheated and would
rightfully think that a great candidate has not been chosen just because
of his skin colour and would be antagonised permanently."
Evidently "white guilt" isn't sufficient -- the
campaign that promises to "heal America" isn't above using subliminal
threats and intimidation to do it.
Apparently, the Chicago media have decided that the meme for the 2008
general election is going to be that anyone who doesn't vote for Barack
Obama is a racist because this is the second editorial (that I've seen,
anyway) in Chicago stating such a theory. Last week the Daily
Herald voiced the assumption and this week it's the Sun-Times with the
volatile Andrew Greeley taking up the cause of ridding the world of
racism one Obama vote at a time.
Preferences
Ward Connerly, writing in the
Wall Street Journal, observes, "Obama Is No 'Post-Racial'
Candidate."
With all my heart -- and for the betterment of my country -- I
desperately wanted to believe that Sen. Barack Obama was not one of the
same tired voices who peddle arguments about "institutional racism."
I have heard him say that America is not about "black and white."
I was inspired when his supporters chanted at his rally on the night of
his victory in South Carolina that "race doesn't matter." I
thought his March 18th speech about race had the potential to become a
defining moment in our endless struggle to confront and conquer this
issue. I was encouraged by his perceptive acknowledgment that
affirmative action breeds resentment and hostility. As millions of
whites cast their votes for him in predominantly white states, I held
out hope that, perhaps, he truly was a transformative leader.
But a June 10th article in USA Today by DeWayne Wickham dashed my hopes
for Mr. Obama.
Mr. Wickham, who had interviewed the presumptive Democratic presidential
nominee, wrote that "Obama believes America can keep its promise to
women and blacks without dashing the hopes of working-class whites.
He doesn't think opportunity guarantees made to one group must come at
the expense of another." Then he went on to quote Obama campaign
spokeswoman Candice Toliver, who said that "Senator Obama believes in a
country in which opportunity is available to all Americans, regardless
of race, gender or economic status. That's why he opposes these
ballot initiatives, which would roll back opportunity for millions of
Americans and cripple efforts to break down historic barriers to the
progress of qualified women and minorities."
Translation: Mr. Obama supports race preferences.
All in!
Obama plays the race card.
Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama
said on Friday he expects Republicans to highlight the fact that he
is black as part of an effort to make voters afraid of him.
"They're going to try to make you afraid of me. He's young and
inexperienced and he's got a funny name. And did I mention he's
black?"
All true, of course -- but he's the one talking
about it, not the Republicans.
He said he was also set for Republicans to say "he's got a feisty wife,"
in trying to attack his wife Michelle.
Feisty isn't the word I'd use.
Considering the fact that Obama wrote, in his
first book, "I ceased to advertise my
mother’s race at the age of twelve or thirteen, when I began to suspect
that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites," -- The
Republicans ought to scare the Obamalytes by telling them that Obama is
secretly white.
Boo!
Obama
says Republicans will use race to stoke fear.
"It is going to be very difficult for Republicans to run on their
stewardship of the economy or their outstanding foreign policy," Obama
told a fundraiser in Jacksonville, Florida. "We know what kind of
campaign they're going to run. They're going to try to make you afraid.
"They're going to try to make you afraid of me. He's young and
inexperienced and he's got a funny name. And did I mention he's black?"
He said he was also set for Republicans to say "he's got a feisty wife,"
in trying to attack his wife Michelle.
"We know the strategy because they've already shown their cards.
Ultimately I think the American people recognize that old stuff hasn't
moved us forward. That old stuff just divides us," he said.
Who keeps bringing up race? Why Obama and
all his friendly reverends. I thought he was supposed to be the
racial healer. He's just another Al Sharpton and Jess Jackson --
just a little more eloquent -- but the content is the same.
I'm A Monkey
File under -- "There's no standard like a double standard."
A Japanese cell phone company has
pulled one of its television ads that used a monkey that appears to
portray Sen. Barack Obama. (video at link)
The commercial opens with a crowd rallying behind a well-dressed monkey
speaking from a podium. The supporters are cheering and waving
signs that say "Change." In the ad, the monkey was encouraging
users to change providers.
The company behind the ad, eMobile Ltd., insists it had no idea of any
racial undertones and says the ad was just a nod at Obama’s worldwide
popularity.
Eric Gan, president of eMobile, points out that their company’s mascot
is a monkey -- an animal revered in Japan -- and has been used in
previous ads.
"When we saw the idea for the first time, it was 'Hey, you're copying
the idea from the presidential election in the U.S." Yes, but, you
know, that's how you make a presentation. How you make an impact.
We thought it quite was interesting," he said.
Leftwing bloggers and Obamalytes immediately voiced their disapproval of
the ad and accused the company of being racist.
But, the same people that are shocked by this racist image,
believe
this is a hoot:
Google returns 491,000 Results for a search on "George W.
Bush" chimp -- not a single, mistaken instance, but 491,000
purposeful instances -- the left has no problem with that, however --
that's OK!
Just like the attacks on John McCain, The Washington Posts attack on
conservative bloggers, the "leave my wife alone" stuff, and the
ever-ready race card, Obama, and his campaign, are all about
intimidation.
White Folks Greed
White Folk's Greed Runs a World In Need (00:33)
Uniter
The Orwellian doublespeak that Obama spews in portraying himself as "a
uniter" and someone who "will bring this country together" is the polar
opposite of everything this man has said and done and would be laughable
if it were not so deadly serious.
Obama
says
John McCain and his Republican allies will try to scare them by saying
Obama "doesn't look like all those other presidents on the dollar
bills."
McCain and his campaign have studiously avoided race and certainly
didn't make the "dollar bill" crack.
But, Obama brings race into the conversation every time he opens his
mouth. Whether directly or indirectly, he's always talking about
race -- and he gets to attack McCain for free while doing it.
Obama's "little joke" was a variation on
the line he used in Berlin: "I know that I don’t look like the other
Americans who’ve previously spoken in this great city."
And, it's not the first time. Remember,
last month when Obama
tarred the McCain Campaign with this smear: "We know what kind of
campaign they’re going to run. They’re going to try to make you
afraid."
"They’re going to try to make you afraid of me. He’s young and
inexperienced and he’s got a funny name. And did I mention he’s
black?"
Everything is about race with Obama -- all the time -- 24/7/365 -- the
race card has become a permanent part of Obama's hand, a wild card to be
played whenever the spirit, or the circumstances, so moves him.
After
denying the obvious for two days, Obama's chief strategist conceded
that the Democratic presidential candidate was referring to his race
when he said Republicans were trying to scare voters by suggesting Obama
"doesn't look like all those other presidents on the dollar bills."
Obama campaign officials, lacking any example of McCain ever pointing
directly or indirectly at Obama’s race as an issue in the campaign, have
backpedaled rapidly away from any suggestion that their Republican
opponent is using the very tactics Obama suggested on Wednesday.
Campaign manager David Plouffe was pressed hard during a conference call
on Thursday for examples and could not point to any. An inquiry to
the Obama campaign later in the day produced no immediate response and
later no answer to a direct question asking for evidence to buttress
Obama’s suggestion that McCain would try to scare people into not voting
for Obama because he’s black.
In other words, the Obama campaign, including the candidate himself, has
engaged in smear tactics.
Reparations
Speaking to a
gathering
of minority journalists in Chicago, Obama said, "I personally would want to
see our tragic history, or the tragic elements of our history,
acknowledged."
"I consistently believe that when it comes to whether it's Native
Americans or African-American issues or reparations, the most
important thing for the U.S. government to do is not just offer words,
but offer deeds."
Exactly what Obama is
advocating here cannot be determined, but it seems to be something
of an endorsement of the idea of "reparations for slavery," which is
usually taken to mean cash payments. In this view, the following deeds
are insufficient to balance the ledger between America and the
descendants of slaves: the Civil War, the ratification of the 13th, 14th
and 15th amendments, Brown v. Board of Education, the Civil Rights Act
of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the continuing practice of
racial preferences.
When Obama walked on stage at the McCormick Center, many journalists in
the audience leapt to their feet and applauded enthusiastically after
being told not to do so. During a two-minute break halfway through
the event, which was broadcast live on CNN, journalists ran to the stage
to snap photos of Obama.
Obama, who acknowledged that he needed a nap, stood up to say farewell
to the audience of journalists, many of whom gave him another standing
ovation.
This is the first direct quote I've seen where
Obama clearly endorses reparations -- "When it comes to...reparations,
the most important thing for the U.S. government to do is not just offer
words, but offer deeds." -- he is saying the most important
thing for the government to do is offer reparations.
And, there he goes complaining about being tired again. On July
31st, 2008, a Google, using
-- Obama tired fatigue -- returned 238,000 items. Many others have
noticed that Obama, despite his comparative youth, often complains of being tired or
fatigued.
More Reparations
Barack Obama
says Washington shouldn't just offer apologies for slavery, but also
"deeds." Don't worry, he says, he's not talking about direct
reparations. Relieved? Don't be.
Obama knows that if he pushes too hard on reparations, he might scare
off white voters. So he couches race-specific welfare as
"universal" social programs that appeal to broad-based political
coalitions -- "even if they disproportionately help minorities," he
confides in his book, "Audacity of Hope."
Obama has a name for his scheme: "universal strategies."
"An emphasis on universal, as opposed to race-specific, programs isn't
just good policy," he wrote. "It's also good politics."
Maybe so. But not all his plans for reparations are roundabout.
His book and Web site outline a separate plan calling for essentially a
government bailout of the inner cities. Among other things, he
proposes:
• Doling out faith-based grants "targeting ex-offenders."
• Subsidizing supermarket chains that relocate to the inner city to
deliver "fresh produce" to blacks, helping wean them off unhealthy fast
food.
• Imposing "goals and timetables for minority hiring" on large
corporations whose work forces are deemed too white.
• Continuing to fund the Community Development Block Grant program, Head
Start and HUD public housing subsidies.
• Funding Small Business Administration loans for minority businesses
who train ex-felons, including gangbangers, for the "green jobs" of the
future, such as installing extra insulation in homes.
• Doubling the funding for federal after-school programs such as
midnight basketball.
• Subsidizing job training, day care, transportation for inner-city
poor, as well as doubling the funding of the federal Jobs Access and
Reverse Commute program.
• Expanding the eligibility of the earned income tax credit to include
more poor, and indexing it to inflation.
• Adopting entire inner-city neighborhoods as wards of the federal
government.
• Spending billions on new inner-city employment programs, including
prison-to-work programs.
This is just a down payment on the "economic justice" Obama has promised
the NAACP -- financed by "tax laws that restore some balance to the
distribution of the nation's wealth," he says in his book.
"The problems of inner-city poverty arise from our failure to face up to
an often tragic past," Obama said.
"I know that I’m not your typical presidential candidate," Obama told
executives and employees of the Schott glass company Friday afternoon,
"and I just want to be honest with you. I know that."
"And I know that the temptation is to say, 'You know what? The guy
hasn’t been there that long in Washington.' You know, 'he’s got
funny name.' You know, 'we’re not sure about him.'" Obama
continued. "And that’s what the Republicans, when they say, 'This
isn’t about issues. It’s about personalities.' What they’re
really saying is, 'We’re going to try to scare people about Barack.
So we’re going to say that you know, maybe he’s got
Muslim connections or we’re going to say that, you know, he hangs
out with
radicals or he’s
not patriotic.'
I'm curious to know when this guy is going to
start acting like a man? For the last 8 years, the left has
savaged George Bush, but Bush bore those attacks like a man -- he just
ignored them and took care of business.
Obama needs to go back to teaching. I bet he's good at that.
Getting
Back
Asked to explain this
totally weird comparison -- 20 years of hearing his pastor’s racist
rants vs. his grandmother’s one-time confession -- Obama replied that
his grandmother was a "typical white person."
Conclusion: Obama defends the indefensible, embraces those who say the
indefensible, and trashes the people who love him.
Why? Because the indefensible crowd speaks for him! It is
not in Obama’s nature to be aggressive and confrontational, insulting or
hurtful, vicious or adversarial. But all of these traits are
clearly in his heart and soul and psyche! Why else would he defend
them?
Obama is a typical passive-aggressive personality who pretends to be a
nice guy by using fuzzy language and a let’s-all-get-together mantra to
seduce his acolytes, but who relies on his surrogates -- wifey,
minister, terrorist endorsements, et al -- to express his real agenda,
i.e., getting back! But getting back at whom?
My theory is that Obama wants to "get back" at all those evil
capitalists and racist entities that robbed his Marxist mother, father,
and stepfather of the respect he thought they deserved. According
to the writer Spengler in a riveting L.A. Times article, both his wife
and mother "reveal his secret: he hates America."
McCain
Voters
Are
Racists
Monday afternoon, Ohio state representatives, Bob Hagan of
Youngstown and Tom Letson of Warren, met with reporters.
They argue
many voters who call themselves "Democrats" or "Independents", but won't
vote for Obama, have only one excuse, with Letson saying, "I would say
that a lot of it is they're not going to vote for 'the black guy'."
Hagan called the issue "unpatriotic," adding those not willing to vote
for Obama need "to face that fact. That that's not acceptable in
America."
Both men say they will work to convince those "swing voters" to change
their minds between now and election day.
The logic of Obama Democrats -- if you don't
vote for Obama you're unpatriotic.
It is as evil to vote FOR someone because of their race as it is to vote
AGAINST someone because of their race.
This Is A Brown Country
Carlos thought he’d be long gone by now. The young,
college-educated New Yorker has been an illegal immigrant most his life.
By last winter, a future with few options beyond washing dishes or
working a factory assembly line had become too much for the gifted
24-year old to bear. Returning to his native Guatemala, he says,
was not an option: "I have nothing there. I cannot go and adapt to
that culture."
Staying also gave him the chance to be part of the presidential
election, which he considers the most important event of his life.
"If I was in Australia right now," he says, "I’d feel like I’d left in
the middle of the battle."
For Carlos, that battle -- the election -- was personal. Some of
his relatives, like many other Latinos he knows, did not want to vote
for a black man. A natural community organizer, Carlos worked with
dozens of other young illegal immigrants, hatching a plan to shift
support in the Latino community towards Obama.
"I wasn’t able to vote in this election," Carlos says. "But I know
for sure that 27 of my relatives went to vote, and that made it bigger
than any vote I could have cast on my own."
Obama’s election has given Carlos hope for a multi-cultural nation that
has a place for immigrants like him.
"Suddenly I am the norm," Carlos says. "I’m no longer the brown
person living in the white country. Now the world knows this is a
brown country."
Obama was a key player behind the mortgage crisis.
Sources point to Obama as a possible starting point
to the domino affect that lead to the housing crises we are now
facing. Check the provided links and judge for yourself.
In a 1995 case known as
Buycks-Roberson v. Citibank, Obama and his fellow attorneys
charged that
Citibank was making too few loans to black applicants and
won the case. As one commentator
noted in May 2008, legal "successes" such
as this were probably responsible for the sub-prime mortgage crisis
of 2007 AND 2008. That is, banks were not loaning to blacks whose
credit was poor. When the law forced them to lend money anyway, the
inevitable collapse occurred."
Obama was a key player in the lawsuit that started the
government on a course of forcing lenders to give more loans to
those who had poor credit. Lending companies were forced to
come up with imaginative ways of fulfilling the quotas that
were
required. Sub-prime lending was born as a result. The
mortgage crises was forecast by many who were able to look beyond
the quota.
A Black Seat
Democratic U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush of Chicago
said today during Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s press conference that one
of the reasons former Illinois Attorney General Roland Burris, an
advocate of reparations, should be
appointed to fill President-elect Barack Obama’s U. S. Senate seat, is
because Burris is black.
Rush went on to say that it was a matter
of national importance that an African-American replace Obama in the
Senate.
"Let me just remind you that there presently is no
African-American in the Senate...this is just not a state of Illinois
matter," he said. "I would ask you to not hang or lynch the appointee as
you try to castigate the appointer. Roland Burris is worthy."
So Much For Racial Healing
Thank God for and
congratulations to Barak Obama. America has gone to the
extreme to prove that racism does not exist and that everything is
racially equal and Blacks have no more reason to complain, speak of
slavery, or cry discrimination. However, their desperate attempt
to make themselves and the world believe this is true, will never work.
The mere suggestion of current headlines, articles, and newscasters
that everything is alright is embarrassing because no one in their right
mind is stupid enough to believe that. We have NOT reached the
promise land, King's dream has NOT been fulfilled, and everything is NOT
ok.
The original purpose of Afromerica was to expose the racism
that plaques this country and how it hinders Black growth in every area
of social life including, economics, education, politics, health,
justice, domestically, culturally and even psychologically. Over
the past 6 years our plan has revealed that racism is alive and well and
will continue, even if there is a Black president.
Obama was not
elected because he is Black, he was elected because people were tired of
the good ole' boy network that has ruled America for centuries.
All during the campaign, many wondered if white America would vote for a
Black man even in these desperate times, and now we know, they will.
That is a good thing and says that the majority of whites in America do
not have a real problem with race.
We must recognize however,
that there were just as many whites who did not vote for Obama as those
that did. So what does that say about that faction of whites who
did not? It says either they did not understand what was at stake
or out of sheer spite and race pride they were more willing to risk the
county's future than vote for a Black man.
More Racial Healing
Rapper, Young Jeezy proves, once and for all, that Obama's election is
truly a positive moment for race relations. In this video, he he
says, "I know
you all are thanking a lot of people right now, the people of Barack
Obama campaign. Just everybody who did everything, on the street getting
votes and all that and sh*t. I wanna thank two people, I wanna thank the
mother f**ker overseas that threw two shoes at George Bush and I wanna
thank-and listen, listen-and I wanna thank the mother f**kers who helped
dem move their sh*t up out of the White House. Keep it moving bitch
because my president is mother f**king black, nigga!
The racist
Rev. Joseph Lowery
claims that White people have yet to do the right thing (he's
waiting for the White Man to "embrace what is right"). Apparently
those of us with White skin are all wrongdoers, in his worldview.
And in Obama's too, since he invited him and since his camp likely
vetted this BS beforehand.
Tavis Smiley
told NBC's "Meet the Press" that the inauguration of Obama as
President is "only the down payment" on what America owes Black people.
Writing about the stimulus on his blog, the diminutive Robert Reich
argues for government sponsored racism -- "But if there aren't enough skilled professionals to do the
jobs involving new technologies, the stimulus will just increase the
wages of the professionals who already have the right skills rather than
generate many new jobs in these fields. And if construction jobs
go mainly to white males who already dominate the construction trades,
many people who need jobs the most -- women, minorities, and the poor
and long-term unemployed -- will be shut out." (video)
Reparations By Another Name
Obama is close to
creating an Office of Urban Policy to allocate funds to urban areas
for a range of initiatives, including job training and the creation of
new jobs.
Obama's urban renewal plan -- from neighborhoods to
downtown corridors -- calls for creating more opportunities for minority
businesses, establishing more affordable public transportation, raising
the minimum wage, ending tax breaks for businesses that send jobs
overseas, providing additional funding for community policing and ending
racial profiling.
H.R. 40
H.R. 40 is a
bill in the U.S. House
of Representatives to create a commission to study reparation proposals
for African-Americans.
The bill is to acknowledge the fundamental
injustice, cruelty, brutality, and inhumanity of slavery in the United
States and the 13 American colonies between 1619 and 1865 and to
establish a commission to examine the institution of slavery,
subsequently de jure and de facto racial and economic discrimination
against African-Americans, and the impact of these forces on living
African-Americans, to make recommendations to the Congress on
appropriate remedies, and for other purposes.
It should be no
surprise, that its sponsor is Rep. John Conyers, Democrat from Michigan
-- and he has an ally in the White House.
In this transcript of a 2001
radio interview, Obama
advocates redistribution as reparations for slavery and other
injustices towards "previously dispossessed peoples."
He said,
"the Supreme Court never ventured into the issues of redistribution of
wealth and sort of more basic issues of political and economic justice
in this society. And to that extent as radical as people tried to
characterize the Warren court, it wasn’t that radical."
"It
didn’t break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the
founding fathers in the Constitution, at least as it’s been interpreted,
and the Warren court interpreted it in the same way that generally the
Constitution is a charter of negative liberties. It says what the
states can’t do to you, it says what the federal government can’t do to
you, but it doesn’t say what the federal government or the state
government must do on your behalf. And that hasn’t shifted."
"One of the, I think tragedies of the civil rights movement was because
the civil rights movement became so court focused, I think that there
was a tendency to lose track of the political and community organizing
and activities on the ground that are able to put together the actual
coalitions of power through which you bring about redistributed change
and in some ways we still suffer from that."
In ObamaWorld, a terrorist attack
is a "man caused disaster" and reparations are called a "stimulus
package."
Blacks Say Race Relations No Better
African-Americans really like Obama, but more and more feel that
race relations have not gotten better since he took office, a new
national poll found.
Ninety-six percent of African-Americans
approve of how Obama is handling his presidency, according to a
CNN/Essence Magazine/Opinion Research Corp. poll released Thursday.
During the 2008 election, 38 percent of blacks surveyed thought
racial discrimination was a serious problem. In the new survey, 55
percent of blacks surveyed
believed it was a serious problem, which is
about the same level as it was in 2000.
The poll was conducted
May 16-18, in telephone interviews with 505 African-Americans and 501
whites.
