Barack Obama's Racist Minister

Barack Obama's hype notwithstanding, his credibility is severly hampered by the rhetoric being spewed by his extremely racist minister, Jeremiah Wright.

(see video, and folks, watch the entire thing, as I make a poignant point below)

I'm no fan of Hillary Clinton, but the man goes a bit too far.

"Reverend" Wright makes the point in his hateful diatribe that Hillary Clinton has never known what it was to be a "non-person" as a lot of blacks were pre-civil war. He goes on to say that she also was never denied many rights and privileges, as Barack's "people" (um...he-s half Caucasian) were. Some quotes by Wright:

"God Damn America cause it's in the bible" Um, no it "ain't".

"He ain't white, he ain't rich and he ain't privileged." Um, he ain't more than half white, he is rich and he is privileged. He lives in a stately $1.65 million home on Chicago's South Side, for crissakes.

"Hillary never had a cab whiz past her..." I doubt Hillary has ever waited for a cab in her life...bad analogy.

"Hillary was not a poor black boy raised in a single parent home, Barack was." Um, his mother was white (again...sigh) and he was raised in a life that was, in fact, semi-privileged. Click here for further info on his formative years' upbringing. In fact,and most ironic, Obama's black father deserted him and he was raised by his white mother and white grandparents.

Hillary has never had her "people" defined as a non-person."
Um, weren't women considered chattel property in some cultures?

He goes on to speak about other injustices bestowed on his beloved "Barack" just because he is black (half black, sigh again).

Let's play devil's advocate and define Hillary's "people" as women. Well then, let's play this out...one thing he leaves out is the fact that Barack's "people" have had a right that Hillary's "people" had to wait another fifty-plus years to enjoy...Blacks were given the right to vote in the years immediately following the Civil War, women had to wait until 1920 to enjoy the same privilege:

In the United States, people have always been proud of their right to vote and help decide how the government will work. After the Civil War, the Constitution was changed to make sure black men had the right to vote. For twelve years after the Civil War, soldiers of the Union Army helped make sure that Blacks would get to vote in the South.
(http://library.thinkquest.org/J0112391/the_right_to_vote.html)

and

The Reconstruction Acts of 1867 and 1868 were very important because they stated that Blacks could take part in every political process. The legislation ended the power of the white-run government in the southern states and divided them into five military districts run by the army. The heads of the district governments were to sign up everyone who could vote no matter what color they were. They were to elect delegates for state conventions to help write new constitutions. In cities and towns across the South, voting registrars signed up new black voters and created public meetings to teach Blacks about the American government and the benefits of citizenship.

Although In 1848, at the Seneca Falls Convention in New York, activists including Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony began a seventy year struggle to secure the right to vote for women, national women’s suffrage, did not exist until 1920. During the beginning of the twentieth century, as women's suffrage gained in popularity, suffragists were subject to arrests and many were jailed. Finally, President Woodrow Wilson urged Congress to pass what became, when it was ratified in 1920, the Nineteenth Amendment. Today the Center for American Women and Politics keeps alive the push for more women to continue to participate in government.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women's_suffrage)

Wright's argument is the same tired, old rhetoric that we've been hearing for years. Cry racism and you incite shame. The problem is, we ain't buying it anymore.

When any man, for crissakes, works hard and becomes a serious contender for the U.S. Presidency, racism has no place in the argument. Obama got there on his merits, not because he is black, nor despite the fact he is black.

Barack's campaign may have just landed in the toilet. Lucky us.

B.

*****UPDATE*****
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