I personally don’t care who Rev. Wright is or what he has to say. As I said earlier I was willing to give Obama a pass on this. But I can understand how people would have questions about Obama’s long-time association with such a controversial figure, and such controversial ideology. And question his choice to expose his children to this ideology. Those who cannot understand why this is a controversy should perhaps consider removing the blinders from their eyes and then take another look at the real world. The questions will not go away simply by watching a PR piece on PBS. Obama is stuck with them, fair or not.
Regarding Obama’s “typical white person” statement- perhaps Obama wasn’t saying all white people are bigots; but he certainly implied his grandmother was one, as he did in his race speech. Even if she is a bigot, it’s pretty low to drag her out into the public discussion in an attempt to mitigate the negativity surrounding his association with someone who, if he is not a bigot, gets paid to play one on occasion. Obama didn’t have to bring his grandmother into the public forum on race. He chose to, more than once. And he tarred her with the brush of bigotry. That told me all I needed to know about his character.
