Throw Granny Under the Bus
Yeah, I know this is a blog about Hoosier politics, but the Indiana primary is coming up and the Obamassiah is just digging himself deeper and deeper.
Here is Barack Obama, describing his grandmother as a typical (ie racist) white person, when asked about how he referred to her negatively in his recent speech.
You know the speech; the one on his hateful racist pastor that induced a new round of absurd media obasms.
“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, uh, 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. We have to break through it.”
Hat tip to Blue County, Red State.
(This post is also available via the Hoosierpundit)
March 22nd, 2008 at 2:19 pm
Yoiks!
Obama used a term that really grated on me–and told me where he falls on thoughts of race. In his speech last week he talked about the “original sin of slavery” in this country.
Now my religious beliefs do not include this particular doctrine, but I do know enough about it to know that original sin is inherited one generation to the next. To me, this indicated that Obama believes that white racism is, essentially, inherited.
Of course, the remainder of the speech reinforced that idea.