Sound racist?
Probably so. It's not my intent though, because I'm a liberal and racism is wrong. Heck, I actually feel uncomfortable when the word 'black' is used at all. But I'm just trying to make a point here. Let's turn the wayback machine to the 1970s when young Barry Obama lived in Hawai'i...
Madelyn Lee Payne Dunham (born October 1922) is the maternal grandmother of Barack Obama. She raised Senator Obama from age 10 in her Honolulu, Hawaii high-rise apartment, where she still lives today. In his book, Obama described his grandmother as "suspicious of overwrought sentiments or overblown claims, content with common sense." She is said to have been "quiet yet firm", in contrast to Obama's "boisterous" grandfather Stanley. Obama considered his grandmother "a trailblazer of sorts, the first woman vice-president of a local bank."
But one fateful day waiting for the bus which she rode to the bank everyday...
"I can no more disown him than I can my white grandmother - a woman who helped raise me, a woman who sacrificed again and again for me, a woman who loves me as much as she loves anything in this world, but a woman who once confessed her fear of black men who passed by her on the street, and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe." -Barry, March 18, 2008 in a speech on race relations and in defense of his Pastor Jeremiah Wright.
He even expounded on this remark 2 days later...
"The point I was making was not that my grandmother harbors any racial animosity - she doesn't. But she is a typical white person, who, if she sees somebody on the street that she doesn't know...there's a reaction that's been bred into our experiences that don't go away and that sometimes come out in the wrong way, and that's just the nature of race in our society."
But wait, years earlier, in his first autobiography, published in 1995 when he was 34, he told of that bus stop incident in his grandmother's own words...
"Her lips pursed with irritation. 'He was very aggressive, Barry. Very aggressive. I gave him a dollar and he kept asking. If the bus hadn't come, I think he might have hit me over the head."
So no, she didn't confess her fear of a black guy who passed her on the street, but instead by an aggressive beggar who confronted her, demanded money, and then gave her reason to believe he would have gotten violent if she'd been at the bus stop alone with him any longer.
6 comments:
What's all the fuss about, my Aunt who is now 85 years old and of a Scottish father and an Caribbean woman of African/something else, decent, refers to her sister as "That red wretch “whenever her sister does any thing below what she deems as (below her station)
The expectations of her African looking relatives is based on the varying shades of their skin color, the darker they are the lower is her expectation of them. Does she love them less hell no!!!
What’s new!!!!! What we are experiencing is the Colonial Legacy left to us by Western European Rule.
Psychological warfare and cultural poison, where people were and is taught to hate themselves which permeates to generations yet unborn
Not even Hitler or Stalin could come near to duplicate such horrors on so many Nations and peoples around the world and for so long.
The western Europeans had 300years impose their authority on the none European world
From china, Asia, Japan, India, Africa, Australia, Middle East, Americas North and South, Caribbean (all of the none European world)
The Western Europeans exploited all the defenseless nations they encountered, exterminating those they could not bend to their will, took their land and possessions and whipped them from the face of the earth while controlling those they could , their main tool was psychological manipulation by turn them inside out.
‘The hating of one self was systematically force fed ” It will almost take as long to purge it from the affected as it took to infect them.
Its deeply imbedded in our collective psychic and today “ we” meaning all the peoples of the western world is poisoned by it. Both the poisoners and the poisoned.
Red Wretch? Might be racist. Join Hillary.
Nice try. You almost had me believing that Nas utters the n word in almost every line of every song not because he thinks so low of his fellow Americans that this is how and what he chooses to communicate, but because centuries-dead Englishmen set up plantations on Jamaica and sipped planters punch.
Dude, your point makes my point. You and Obama both travel the same path - in this case it's a family member who has a run in with a person of a different color. In your case an angry moment makes your aunt calls her sister 'red' because of her skin tone. In Barack's case his grandmom doesn't want to ride the bus because there's a guy who waits at the bus stop and tends toward violence with women they're alone. Now a good/honest/upright citizen such as yourself would use expectations/culture/all enveloped in love to explain his Aunt's action - and he would know that Americans would understand. But on the other hand, an untruthful/manipulative person would dumb the story dow into a racist scenario and say something like "even though I love my aunt, it hurts me to admit she's racist" when a level-headed person/elecorate can easily see the difference. We also know when we're just being used by a politician. At least the readers of this website understand
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