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March 18, 2008 Obama's Race Speech: The Gaping HolesOne-Sided Responsibility Responsibility for healing racial divides must be assumed by the African-American community as much as it is assumed by the white community. Obama, Wright and most white liberal Democrats seem to believe that every ounce of the responsibility for healing whatever racial divides that remain falls entirely upon the shoulders of white people. And, in my opinion, Barack Obama failed miserably in his speech to correct that error. Lacking any call to the African-American community to take any responsibility for making use of the opportunities that actually exist is just the same old liberal line. Everything wrong in the black community is still the fault of white oppression, the lack of not enough tax dollars flowing in, the fault of the past and nothing to do with the present. Failing students are the fault of failing schools, and their failures have nothing to do with bad parenting and rotten teacher unions. Everything wrong in black America continues to be the fault of white America; this is in perfect accord with the gospel according to Wright. Obama's omission of a call to shared responsibility left a gaping hole in his attempt to soothe, and seemed just another one-sided speech aimed at white people who fail to be understanding enough and mindful enough of past injustice. The Generation Gap Obama talked about the older generations that suffered more than the younger generations and attempted to paint Jeremiah Wright as just a part of a bygone era, an old person who ought to be given a wide berth because of his own suffering. Unfortunately, this does not in the least explain away the fact that the vast majority of the congregants at Trinity United are younger people, a great many of them young families with children. Obama takes no leadership, no any responsibility in his speech to address the fact that these people, many of them professionals driving luxury automobiles, continue to express agreement with Wright through regular attendance and financial support. Framing Wright's racist demagoguery as purely generational left another gaping hole where all those young people he influences week in and week out sit, listen and learn. Instead of being a healer, Wright is just another hater. The other side of the KKK coin, in my opinion. Obama's speech seemed aimed more at shaming those who keep Wright in the discussion surrounding the presidential race, than any sort of healing from a leader who wants to be President. At least we now know that Barack Obama is no post-racial leader. He's just an old-school liberal enabler. And not all that much of leader at that. Obama may sound better than Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton and Jeremiah Wright, but they still seem to be on the same page after all. |
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