Cut pasting one Pete Kent's reaction. Link is above.
I just read the speech that Barack Obama delivered this morning in Philadelphia and I must say I found it shocking, provocative and disturbing. Obama admits that there are strongly and widely held, anti-white, anti-establishment views in the Black community. He makes no apology for them; indeed he seems to credit their source as having been born in our imperfect Constitution and a product of a society that imposed slavery and Jim Crow on the people for years.
Never does he suggest that perhaps it is time for the madness to end, that the Black community must turn the page. Instead he suggests that he must come to the larger society and heal it of its racist beliefs and tendencies. In his cool, egomaniacal way he declaims that he himself embodies the healing that is necessary.
Should he not be working, agitating even, within his own community, starting in his Church, to end such divisiveness?
Or is he simply the emissary, a Trojan Horse perhaps, sent to educate and heal non-black America and make us atone for our sins, while ignoring the sins of his own people, starting with his Pastor, Reverend Wright?
When will it end? How much is enough? We have passed law after law and affirmative action is employed both in the public and private sector to help those once disadvantaged. It seems by candidate Obamaâs lights America will not be healed, indeed cannot be healed, unless he is elected our President. And that we must accept him as he is, the product of a racist community and Church, taking him at his word that he is above all the cacophonous rancor that spills out of the mouths of pastors and preachers and agitators like the Jeremiah Wrights of the world.
The sanctimony and arrogance of the man is galling and appalling. It never seems to end and has reached a new zenith today.
I just read the speech that Barack Obama delivered this morning in Philadelphia and I must say I found it shocking, provocative and disturbing. Obama admits that there are strongly and widely held, anti-white, anti-establishment views in the Black community. He makes no apology for them; indeed he seems to credit their source as having been born in our imperfect Constitution and a product of a society that imposed slavery and Jim Crow on the people for years.
Never does he suggest that perhaps it is time for the madness to end, that the Black community must turn the page. Instead he suggests that he must come to the larger society and heal it of its racist beliefs and tendencies. In his cool, egomaniacal way he declaims that he himself embodies the healing that is necessary.
Should he not be working, agitating even, within his own community, starting in his Church, to end such divisiveness?
Or is he simply the emissary, a Trojan Horse perhaps, sent to educate and heal non-black America and make us atone for our sins, while ignoring the sins of his own people, starting with his Pastor, Reverend Wright?
When will it end? How much is enough? We have passed law after law and affirmative action is employed both in the public and private sector to help those once disadvantaged. It seems by candidate Obamaâs lights America will not be healed, indeed cannot be healed, unless he is elected our President. And that we must accept him as he is, the product of a racist community and Church, taking him at his word that he is above all the cacophonous rancor that spills out of the mouths of pastors and preachers and agitators like the Jeremiah Wrights of the world.
The sanctimony and arrogance of the man is galling and appalling. It never seems to end and has reached a new zenith today.