Posted by
Andrews on Wednesday, March 19, 2008 4:37:28 PM
I am sure
my last post will get some angry responses from those irate that I would dare to compare the Irish, or Ukranainas or Cherokees to blacks, so let me explain.
I do not mean that blacks were never subject to discrimination. Nor do I say that it is not understandable that some blacks would be unhappy with their lot after a history of such discrimination.
My point is very simple:
Senator Obama is
running as a healer, as someone who will overcome race. He is essentially offering racial absolution in exchange for votes.
Yet now, he is also justifying the most detestable type of racial hate speech on the grounds of past discrimination. In other words, he has gone from the "healer" he claimed to be, to a slicker version of Jesse Jackson, excusing any action by referring to past discrimination.
It is a shocking change in his position, and one I think will lose him a lot of his luster.
Then again, some of his followers have a lot invested in their belief in him. We will have to see if
their adoration is stronger than their logic. Only time will tell.