Perry Birman:
Of course there is a racist element to Obama’s losses.
But it is a backlash. At the beginning of the primaries, white people were falling all over themselves to vote for Obama; very few cared what the Senator’s race was then and very few care now.
After the vile Jeremiah Wright videos were shown, Obama tried to shrug it off and equivocate in his speech in Philadelphia. He became an apologist for black racism and for Wright. This put Obama squarely into the camp of black racism.
When it became known that Obama stayed at Wright’s church for 20 years, claiming that he was unaware of Wright’s views, claiming that he was unaware of Trinity United Church disseminating the views of the terrorist group HAMAS in it’s hand-outs, ignoring the implications of Wright’s relationship with and honoring of Louis Farakkahn, white voters began to distrust Obama (with good reason). This is NOT racism, friends, it’s logic.
All the while the black vote for Obama has become almost monolithic at around 90%. Is there no racist element there?
May 17, 2008 – 4:54 am
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I respectfully disagree:
1. It does have something to do with “The South” and its legacy.
We know this, because even AFTER the Wright debacle, Obama is ahead by a wide margin in Oregon which is only about 3% black (and 85% white) if I am not mistaken. So obviously not all whites care too much about “backlash”.
2. I don’t know any whites who are too afraid of black racism on a daily basis.
3. I addressed the third point before. The 90% was not always so, and it’s Bill Clinton’s fault.
