Re: Obama and His 'White Grandmother'

In article <7sqdnVHUZ7GRC37anZ2dnUVZ_tXinZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
 Ubiquitous <weberm@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> In article <47e2f29d.1875578@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, mellow@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
> 
> >I'm sure you're in tune with ol' Jeremiah [Wright], Rassus.
> >
> >We'll trust you to 'splain it those of us who don't grasp black
> >nationalism.
> 
> "Stick a fork in him, baby," writes blogress Taylor Marsh of
> Barack Obama. "If he makes it to the general election, he's
> done." Marsh, a liberal-left backer of Hillary Clinton, is
> referring to this comment Obama made on a Philadelphia radio
> station, explaining why he likened his grandmother to his
> spiritual mentor, Jeremiah Wright:
> 
> 	"The point I was making was not that my grandmother harbors 
> 	any racial animosity. She doesn't. But she is a typical 
> 	white person who, uh, if she sees somebody on the street 
> 	that she doesn't know, there's a reaction that's been bred 
> 	into our experiences that don't go away and that sometimes 
> 	come out in the wrong way and that's just the nature of 
> 	race in our society. We have to break through it."
> 
> Marsh asks, "Can you imagine if Hillary Clinton said someone
> was a 'typical black person'?" Never mind if a Republican
> said such a thing.

No ****ing ****. That was my exact thought when I heard Obama say that. 
Change the speaker to a white person talking about a "typical black 
person" and the resulting explosion of indignation and offense would 
make the Don Imus thing look like a Girl Scout picnic.

But I guess it's "different" when a black guy says stuff like that. Just 
like it's always "different".