‘Barack, I Didn’t Do It for This’: An Homage to Andrew Goodman
I absolutely agree with Bill Whittle (thank you, sir, for your May 2007 article on “The Prisoner’s Dilemma” and our tit-for-tat society) that this is not a man I would trust in the White House.
I also agree with tanstaafl: just how much of this curse-America-first preachifying is going on that we don’t know about? What will it do to our country? Guess I have to look into Black Liberation Theology. The reminder that hateful words have power (re that skank Qutb & what evil his writings have brought into the world) was also valid.
I disagree with Andrew, who said “… Just because “black” and “white” are opposite colors doesn’t mean you can construct an analogy by switching the two around … in reality, we need to consider historical context… only caring about an ideal rarely yields practical results.” I had thought Brown vs Board of Education and the civil rights movement came about PRECISELY because our Constitution holds to the ideal that “all men are created equal”. And YES, this DOES mean that you can switch “black” for “white” to test what is equality and what is preferential and what is discriminatory.
My summary: Barack Obama’s speech essentially said blacks have grievances, whites have grievances, ignore my racist minister, and lets talk about how whites can expiate that “original sin” of slavery.
