Just what makes fear racism?
In a US News and World Report in March 1996 Jesse made the following comment: "There is nothing more painful to me ... than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery, then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved." Story in US News and World Report
Now compare that to what Obama wrote in his book Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance. (Comments by By Steve Sailer)
A careful look at this incident as Obama described it on pp. 88-91 of Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance shows that Obama is slandering his elderly grandmother to make Rev. Dr. Wright look better. Obama's white grandmother, Madelyn Dunham, who was raising him and earning most of the money in the family while his own mother was off in Indonesia working on her 1067 page dissertation on peasant blacksmithing, rode the bus each morning to her job as a bank executive. One day, the 16-18 year old Obama wakes up to an argument between his grandmother and grandfather. She didn't want to ride the bus because she had been hassled by a bum at the bus stop. She tells him: "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."
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If you compare Jesse's comment to what Obama wrote about his Grandmother I ask you which attitude is most shocking? When does fear become racism? What does it say about the life experiences that lead to 2 similar reactions from 2 very different people. To use his Grandmother as an example of white racisim that he had to face was totally out of line. It provided proof of nothing but his own selfish desire to do whatever it take to be elected.
UPDATE: Here is what he said today. Can he dig any deeper? "The point I was making was not that my grandmother harbors any racial animosity. But she is a typical white person. If she sees somebody on the street that she doesn't know. . .there's a reaction in her that doesn't go away and it comes out in the wrong way."
Now compare that to what Obama wrote in his book Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance. (Comments by By Steve Sailer)
A careful look at this incident as Obama described it on pp. 88-91 of Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance shows that Obama is slandering his elderly grandmother to make Rev. Dr. Wright look better. Obama's white grandmother, Madelyn Dunham, who was raising him and earning most of the money in the family while his own mother was off in Indonesia working on her 1067 page dissertation on peasant blacksmithing, rode the bus each morning to her job as a bank executive. One day, the 16-18 year old Obama wakes up to an argument between his grandmother and grandfather. She didn't want to ride the bus because she had been hassled by a bum at the bus stop. She tells him: "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."
http://isteve.blogspot.com
If you compare Jesse's comment to what Obama wrote about his Grandmother I ask you which attitude is most shocking? When does fear become racism? What does it say about the life experiences that lead to 2 similar reactions from 2 very different people. To use his Grandmother as an example of white racisim that he had to face was totally out of line. It provided proof of nothing but his own selfish desire to do whatever it take to be elected.
UPDATE: Here is what he said today. Can he dig any deeper? "The point I was making was not that my grandmother harbors any racial animosity. But she is a typical white person. If she sees somebody on the street that she doesn't know. . .there's a reaction in her that doesn't go away and it comes out in the wrong way."
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