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Denizens, yesterday I promised you an analysis of B. HUSSEIN&#160 Osama’s Obama’s half-assed, pathetic attempt to make us forget that the Rev’rnnnnnnnnnd&#160 Jerk-i-miah Wrong, The David Duke Of The Black Community&#153, ever even existed.

Frankly, though, Denizen & fellow blogger Alan K. Henderson pretty much knocks anything I was going to say outta the park.&#160 And, not to put too fine a point on it, Ann Coulter weighs in with her take.

But here’s one of the things that bugs me, and it came about halfway through this screed of his:

The fact that so many people are surprised to hear that anger in some of Reverend Wright’s sermons simply reminds us of the old truism that the most segregated hour in American life occurs on Sunday morning. That anger is not always productive; indeed, all too often it distracts attention from solving real problems; it keeps us from squarely facing our own complicity in our condition, and prevents the African-American community from forging the alliances it needs to bring about real change. But the anger is real; it is powerful; and to simply wish it away, to condemn it without understanding its roots, only serves to widen the chasm of misunderstanding that exists between the races.

In fact, a similar anger exists within segments of the white community. Most working- and middle-class white Americans don’t feel that they have been particularly privileged by their race. Their experience is the immigrant experience – as far as they’re concerned, no one’s handed them anything, they’ve built it from scratch. They’ve worked hard all their lives, many times only to see their jobs shipped overseas or their pension dumped after a lifetime of labor. They are anxious about their futures, and feel their dreams slipping away; in an era of stagnant wages and global competition, opportunity comes to be seen as a zero sum game, in which your dreams come at my expense.

And you almost start to believe he may, just may, start to get it a bit.&#160 (We’ll ignore, for the moment, the fact that whites as an ethnic group aren’t really blaming their ills on “blackie” as the black community is constantly (perpetually?) blaming every bad thing that ever happens to them on “whitey”.)

But then he reverts to type:

In the white community, the path to a more perfect union means 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.

Uh, Obambi?&#160 How about the reverse racism that ills the white community, hm?&#160 How about the black-on-white crime that doesn’t get reported and fawned over nearly&#160 as much as, say, the Duke lacrosse team?

In 2001, Obambi, we had a black church get vandalized – someone painted swastikas all over it.&#160 For weeks it received national attention, and the state of Texas passed unconstitutional hate-crime legislation due largely in part to that vandalism.&#160 When it was discovered that the vandals were actually two black kids at the church (and speculation arose that they were put up to it by certain Dallas black “leaders”, the story died pretty damned quickly.

Would it have even been a story had the perps been black against a white church?&#160 Somehow, I think not.

The message from here, Osama Obama, is this:&#160 Wipe your own nose before trying to wipe mine for me, mkay?&#160 You can start by not only completely&#160 disassociating with Trinity, but by encouraging those who remain there to get rid of Jerkymiah Wrong.

You can work with the black community to get rid of the gangs.&#160 The drugs.&#160 The pimps.&#160 The ho’s.&#160 (Yes – even the nappy-headed ones.)

You can tell the hip-hop gangsta rappas to clean up their act, or else.&#160 You can get rid of all the “X” merchandise – the hats, the shirts, etc, etc, ad infinitum, ad nauseam.

And you can quit whining about how it’s all the fault of “whitey” – ’cause it ain’t.&#160 We don’t have the monopoly on racism, B. HUSSEIN, as your pastor/mentor has pretty clearly shown – and it’s about time you realized it.

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One response to “The speech”

1. Alan K. Henderson says:

   March 22, 2008 at 10:53 am

   There’s another thing that irks non-lefty whites: treating racism as a bigger problem than it really is.

   Imagine you go to a church and all you hear from the pulpit is what you’ve done wrong. Most of the churchgoers have done little if any of that bad stuff that the Rev is complaining about. No encouragement when you’ve done things right. You’d leave that church faster than Homeer Simpson on his way to the donut shop, right?

   That’s how a lot of whites feel about the NAACP and Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson and the Democratic Party and their fellow travelers.

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