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Originally Posted by ratbastid
pan, you missed the point of the speech entirely because you are SO locked into your point of view. It's a shame, because it's the first time the racial divisions in our country have been honestly and universally addressed by ANYONE, EVER, and it's a GREAT BIG DEAL. But you're hung up about one guy in a robe and what another guy should or shouldn't have done about him. You listened to that whole speech through a certain filter, and nothing that's not consistent with the filter could make its way into your mind.
Tiny, tiny thinking, pan. Tiny, compared to what's now on the table.
You missed the part where Obama said that black anger--at systematic oppression, the socioeconomic leftovers of slaver, etc--is real. You missed where he acknowledged that there's anger among white Americans, about being blamed for things they never did, about losing job opportunities to affirmative action, being subjected to angry rhetoric like Wright's, etc. You missed the part where he said we could point fingers, put hate speech on high-repeat on the news, continue to blame OR we could come together and address these issues as a unified America.
Far as I'm concerned, when THAT'S what's now in the public discourse, the concerns you're cemented into are petty, small, and not worth dealing with. Not when what's now in front of us is a REAL opportunity to unite America. The first opportunity we've had EVER.
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If he had done this before the issue came up, if he had shown actions that he truly felt this way, I'd be far more open minded.
But, it was not until he could no longer say, "I was never there when Rev. Wright said those things." While he later stated, "I was there and was disgusted by it." Which was it Obama? Were you there or not?
It was not until this blew up and he could no longer control it that he separated himself from Rev. Wright. For Obama to say he is a Uniter but to have such a hateful minded man on his election committee and to state how such a man was his spiritual mentor, his religious leader, Obama's words ring hollow to me.
It was nothing more than an attempt to save his political dreams. That is it.
Of course he doesn't want fingers pointed NOW, but where was this great speech when Rev. Wright was his "spiritual mentor and leader".... Where were the actions of unity when he put such a hateful man on his election advisory committee?
Those questions need answered, for me at least.
Say what you want about me, but these are legitimate questions that need answered if we are to elect this man.