A Brief for Whitey
Posted: 03/21/2008
How would he pull it off? I wondered.
How would Barack explain to his press groupies why he
sat silent in a pew for 20 years as the Rev. Jeremiah Wright
delivered racist rants against white America for our maligning
of Fidel and Gadhafi, and inventing AIDS to infect and kill
black people?
How would he justify not walking out as Wright spewed his
venom about "the U.S. of K.K.K. America," and howled, "God
damn America!"
My hunch was right. Barack would turn the tables.
Yes, Barack agreed, Wright's statements were "controversial,"
and "divisive," and "racially charged," reflecting a "distorted
view of America."
But we must understand the man in full and the black
experience out of which the Rev. Wright came: 350 years
of slavery and segregation.
Barack then listed black grievances and informed us what
white America must do to close the racial divide and heal
the country.
The "white community," said Barack, must start
"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 ... ."
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How would he pull it off? I wondered.
How would Barack explain to his press groupies why he
sat silent in a pew for 20 years as the Rev. Jeremiah Wright
delivered racist rants against white America for our maligning
of Fidel and Gadhafi, and inventing AIDS to infect and kill
black people?
How would he justify not walking out as Wright spewed his
venom about "the U.S. of K.K.K. America," and howled, "God
damn America!"
My hunch was right. Barack would turn the tables.
Yes, Barack agreed, Wright's statements were "controversial,"
and "divisive," and "racially charged," reflecting a "distorted
view of America."
But we must understand the man in full and the black
experience out of which the Rev. Wright came: 350 years
of slavery and segregation.
Barack then listed black grievances and informed us what
white America must do to close the racial divide and heal
the country.
The "white community," said Barack, must start
"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 ... ."
Read more.......
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