Barack Obama threw his white grandmother under the wheels of the bus on Tuesday in his speech, using the poor ol' lady for his own politican gain. He said that she harbored a fear of passing a black man on the street, and that she had uttered racial stereotypes that had made him cringe.
Yesterday he offered clarification for his comments to a reporter, saying:
"The point I was making was not that my grandmother harbors any racial animosity, but that she is a typical white person."
And this is the man who wants to foster racial reconciliation? LOL!
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Politics, it seems to me, all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong. ~Richard Armour
Barack Obama threw his white grandmother under the wheels of the bus on Tuesday in his speech, using the poor ol' lady for his own politican gain. He said that she harbored a fear of passing a black man on the street, and that she had uttered racial stereotypes that had made him cringe.
Yesterday he offered clarification for his comments to a reporter, saying:
"The point I was making was not that my grandmother harbors any racial animosity, but that she is a typical white person."
And this is the man who wants to foster racial reconciliation? LOL!
And THIS is liberals' darling ? What a piece of crap.
Now, I just don't oppose him on political grounds, or on the fact he's bigot;
I hope he gets hit by the same bus ol' grandma got thrown under...TWICE !
The full statement: "The point I was making was not that my grandmother harbors any racial animosity, but that she is a typical white person. If she sees somebody on the street that she doesn't know (pause) there's a reaction in her that doesn't go away and it comes out in the wrong way."
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Politics, it seems to me, all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong. ~Richard Armour
I agree. The funny thing is, Jesse Jackson once said the exact thing, that he heard footsteps, became afraid, and was relieved to see it was a white man behind him. So where's the racism when a BLACK MAN is afraidof black men on the street?
I realized it a few days ago and put it on one of these threads already. Yes, saying "typical black man" would land you in the unemployment lines. We'll never be united as a country until we treat white people the same as we treat black people.
MLK never wanted preferential treatment for blacks, only that they be treated equally. Until we are color blind on treatment of people, there will be resentment. As Creed sang, "Society blind by color, why hold down one, to raise another? Discrimination now on both sides, seeds of hate, blossom further. This world is headed for mutiny, when all we want is unity...."
It's only justified when one race is treated preferential to another. Then I can see how someone resents others being given or granted things based on color of skin that they are refused.
So now we're all racist?
