Is Ralph Nadar Right About Obama Using White Guilt?

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Is Ralph Nadar Right About Obama Using White Guilt?

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For my new readers, let me disclose from the top that I am not an Obama fan. I refuse to pull the lever for him because I think he is unqualified, lacks judgment, and borders near the unethical and illegal too often.

Having said that, is Ralph Nadar right when he says that Obama is using "white guilt" and trying to talk "white." I think I have a split decision on that. As far as talking "white" I get accused of that all the time, it is called EDUCATION people. Not all black people walk around talking in ebonics or slang or like they just fell of the turnip truck. So in this regard Nadar is wrong and clearly has a distorted view of black people.

As for the "White guilt" I have to agree. I have said that all along. Obama is the "only" one that can give a race speech? I think not, but the media and bloggers think so .

 It is also worth mentioning that the voice evident in the speech clearly shows the unique positionally that he is able to hold. Ferraro was right - Obama could not have given this speech if he were white. Nor could he if he were a boomer - white or black, or female. Neither of the Clinton's could have given this speech.

source: http://taylorowen.com/?p=166

1) Who can honestly argue that white America has not been willfully blind and too often complicit in the injustices that continue to be visited upon people born with darker hue or stranger accent?

Who will have both the courage and the commitment to the promise of universal justice and equity that undergirds our country, to call upon the nation to move beyond the divisive rhetoric of racial "one-upmanship" and to embrace the challenge of fulfilling that promise?

Apparently a junior senator from Illinois by the name of Barack Obama.

source: http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/03/19/commentary.ashong/index.html

2) The eloquence of the speech will almost certainly mask Obama's sophisticated effort here to condemn and not to condemn, to say something but not say anything, to sound clear while being extremely unclear. A denunciation that does not denounce, a condemnation that is full of love - as a former political speechwriter, I will acknowledge I am lost in admiration of the anti-sophistic sophistry on display in every syllable of his text.

source: http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/jpodhoretz/2993

3) The crowd is happy,  but the tone a little angrier than I would have imagined. Nevertheless the portrait is compelling and the moment historic.

source: http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/rubin/9541

4) It is also worth mentioning that the voice evident in the speech clearly shows the unique positionally that he is able to hold. Ferraro was right - Obama could not have given this speech if he were white. Nor could he if he were a boomer - white or black, or female. Neither of the Clinton's could have given this speech.

source: http://taylorowen.com/?p=166

If you really read the speech you understand that Obama was telling blacks they were right, whites were wrong, ok now get over it.

I have to admit that Obama is the master of getting out of anything. He never has to answer questions because he just makes a speech and people start having spiritual experiences. Sorry folks, but I have heard better speakers. I guess I am not enamored that a black Law school graduate can put together a coherent sentence.

Look how he said that he was going to hit at any "hint" of racism coming from McCain or the Republicans. For someone who "didn't" want race to be an issue he keeps bringing it up. Maybe if he kept better company then he would not have had to give the race speech. The thing is how would he describe racism? The simple is the cops kills unarmed blacks, but Jesse Jackson has the black community thinking if you don't get served fast enough at Denny's it is because they are racist. That might be a bad example since it was proven there were some issues, but my point is what you focus on you get. There are people who see EVERYTHING as a race issue when most things have nothing to do with race. Maybe the OJ case would be a better example. All the evidence said he did it, except the gloves, but all they needed was one Mark Furhman and ALL the charges had to be trumped up, and then the whites tried to turn it around and say that blacks wouldn't convict one of their own, which was even more insulting.

When the race card is used it is the ultimate card  because it is meant to keep people from asking questions, digging, or what they would do with ANYONE else. It leads people to think that they can't vote against Obama without being labelled a racist since that has to be the ONLY reason you wouldn't vote for him. I beg to differ, but I'm black so it doesn't count.

I have noted in earlier articles how some blacks have felt pressured to vote for Obama because he is "one of us" which I find funny, because most of the time people don't want to be bothered with mixed kids because they aren't black enough. Think Vanessa Williams, Mariah Carey, Alicia Keys and all is revealed. The uneducated blacks don't normally want to have anything to do with the educated blacks because they think" they are getting too big for their britches" or my personal favorite, "blacks need to know how to stay in their place." This implies a subserviant view of self.  

The general thought a couple of months ago was that whites won't "REALLY"  vote for Obama because their all racists (stupid idea), "Charlie (whites) will only let you get so far,   or they will murder him if he gets too high. Pictures of MLK, JFK, and RFK were used to stress that people talking about race ended up dead. The problem is that I have been hearing this from blacks of every level. They seem to be waiting for the shoe to drop on their dream candidate.

The thing that gets me is that Obama and Nadar talk about racism as if  it is only a white problem, when the reality is that I have seen and met far more racism towards whites in the black community. No, they don't do anything about it, and they will take from whites, but underneath and in homes it is always present. So why is it okay for blacks to be racist, but not whites? In my book it is not.

From what I hear through Obama, there is this underlying inuendo that seems to always be present. He speaks half of what he thinks and he implies things without really saying it.

So, for this one I do think that Nadar gets a split vote from me. We educated black people can speak and write, without  trying to be "white" which is something we get charged with by our own kind way too often. But, Obama has successfully used "white guilt" in a way that makes even me stand in awe.