It is this reporter’s opinion that presidential candidate Barack Obama's supporters have a full-time job trying to clean up the senator’s 20-year association with the Rev. Jeremiah Wright.
The question remains: Sen. Obama, why have you been following an anti-white, American-hating pastor for the last 20 years?
Columnist and book author Dr. Thomas Sowell calls our attention to Shelby Steele’s book about Obama. In his book, “A Bound Man: Why We Are Excited About Obama and Why He Can’t Win,” published by Free Press, Steele makes it painfully clear that Obama was one of those people seeking a racial identity, that he was trying to become a convert to his racial heritage.
Dr. Sowell says Obama’s own account of his life proves that he consciously sought out people on the far left.
Obama chose his friends carefully, according to his own words in his first book, “Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance,” published by Crown.
Those friends included Marxist professors, structural feminists, punk rock performance poets, as well as more politically active black students. And according to his book, Obama later visited a former member of the Weathermen Terrorists who endorsed him when he ran for state senator in Illinois.
Obama didn’t just happen to encounter Jeremiah Wright who has said all those vicious things. Wright is in the same mold as the people Obama sought out in college — members of the left, anti-American counterculture.
Obama has not changed. His voting record in the U.S. Senate is the farthest left of any senator. And now he panders to whatever gullible America will accept.
Columnist Patrick Buchanan hasn’t been fooled by Obama’s rhetoric.
Obama works both sides of the aisle according to Buchanan. He tells of 350 years of slavery and segregation, lists black grievances, instructs white America as to what we must do to close the racial divide and heal the nation.
How are we to perform this healing process? Obama says the white community must invest more money in black schools and communities, enforce civil rights laws, insure fairness in the criminal justice system, and provide this generation of blacks with opportunities unavailable to Obama and the Rev. Wright’s generations.
It is the same old con. The same old shakedown black hustlers have been running since the Kerner Commission blamed the riots in Harlem, Watts, Newark, Detroit, and a myriad of other cities … blamed everyone but the rioters themselves.
Alright Obama, let’s make it a two-way conversation between Americans. White America needs to be heard from too, not just lectured to, says Buchanan.
America has been the best country on earth for black folks — 600,000 black people were brought from Africa in slave ships and grew into a community of 40 million. It is in this great country that they reached the greatest levels of freedom and prosperity ever known by their race.
“Wright ought to get down on his knees and thank God he is an American,” said Buchanan, because no group of people anywhere on earth has done more to lift up blacks than white Americans.
Buchanan maintains that untold trillions of dollars have been spent in America on welfare, food stamps, rent supplements, housing, student loans, legal services, Medicaid, and poverty programs designed to provide African-Americans with the opportunity to pursue the American dream.
Pat Buchanan says, “We hear the grievances. Where is the gratitude?”
Is white America responsible for statistics showing crime incarceration rates for African-Americans that are seven times that of white America?
Is it white America’s fault that the illegitimacy rate of children in the African-American community is a whopping 70 percent, or that the dropout rates from high schools for black students has reached a high of 50 percent in some cities?
The Rev. Al Sharpton has repeatedly barraged the media with recriminations and allegations in the alleged rape case of Tawana Brawley in New York in 1987, the alleged rape at Duke University, as well as the Jena Six controversy. However, the allegations in these cases were hoaxes.
Barack Hussein Obama, we’ve heard it all before! America has seen through your phony rhetoric and theatrical style of discourse.
We speak of equality. Equality, according to Sowell, means a black demagogue exposed as a phony deserves exactly the same treatment as a white demagogue who has been exposed as a phony.
In the words of Sowell, “We don’t need a president of the United States who got to the White House talking one way, voting a very different way in the Senate, and who for 20 years followed a man whose words and deeds contradict Obama’s carefully crafted election-year image.”
Even Pastor Wright’s flock has seen the predicament they face. The black Chicago church attended by Obama for 20 years has now removed from its Web site an entire section outlining a radical belief system for blacks.
The Web site for the Trinity United Church of Christ also outlines a controversial code of ethics written by blacks for blacks that they call the “Black Value System.”
It has become too hot to handle even for Wright’s and Obama’s followers.
Fellow Americans, it’s time to collectively place a hand over the heart and join in shouting: God Bless America!
This is one reporter’s opinion. We welcome yours.
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