It’s in the Genes!
By Fleaflicker on March 22, 2008 at 4:41 PM in Bamboozling, Barack Obama, Farakkhan, Race
When the lights go down and the cameras are put away, we begin to let lose our defenses. We say more of what we really mean rather than the politically correct day-to-day conversations the conventions of society force upon us. Senator Barack Obama had one of those moments Thursday when talking with WIP sports radio in Philadelphia. At first Obama felt that he needed to come to his grandmother’s defense. He had, as recently as Tuesday told the world that his grandmother had made disparaging remarks about black people that made him “cringe.” In fact I wrote a diary about it that you can find Here. So seeking to clarify what he meant to say (He does that a lot) Obama “revised and extended” his remarks to include:
The point I was making was not that grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She doesn’t.
But that isn’t what he said on Tuesday. No, Obama decided to throw grandma under the bus while comparing her transgressions with those of Reverend Wright. You might say the comparison was a slight exaggeration cause I am not so sure granny blamed the black man for every ill on the face of the earth. In case you missed it here is what Barack Obama said about his “white” grandmother:
….who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe.
So after defending his grandmother by taking back what he said on Monday, Obama then further clarified his explanation giving us clues as to what resides in that Harvard-educated brain of his. Or is that a 6th grade education stuffed up inside that giant brain of his? No offense to Jethro Bodine intended.
But she is a typical white person, who, if she sees somebody on the street that she doesn’t know, you know, there’s a reaction that’s been bred in our experiences that don’t go away and that sometimes come out in the wrong way, and that’s just the nature of race in our society.
So according to Obama, white racial attitudes have been bred into our makeup. In other words, they are genetic predispositions that we cannot help but exhibit. Or to take Obama’s reasoning toward it’s logical conclusion: White people are racists because it is in their genes. Now where have I heard that before? As it turns out, this belief is held by a good friend of Senator Obama’s spiritual mentor, Jeremiah Wright. Yes, none other than Louis Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam, the guy Obama’s church stated had “truly epitomized greatness” has a similar view of white people, which he refers to as “potential humans.”
According to the Nation of Islam (NOI), Yakub (also spelled Yacub or Yakob), was an evil scientist responsible for creating the white race — a race of devils, in their view. Yakub created white people by a process of grafting the “black germ” to a “white germ” from the original black population of the world.
And I thought the Church of Scientology and their alien ancestors were bizarre.
So… white people are racists because racism has been bred into us. Hmmmmmm…..
An amazing fact is that one of the discoverers of the DNA helix thought that he could make a generalization about race too. After all, he was an expert concerning genetics. But James Watson made a huge error by claiming something to be true which had no basis in fact.
The elementary DNA of Dr Watson
He says that he is “inherently gloomy about the prospect of Africa” because “all our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours – whereas all the testing says not really”
You see where making generalizations gets someone into trouble? People do it all the time. And when we have politicians doing it we know that we are in for some real trouble. Now if you aren’t bamboozled by Obama’s charisma and hoodwinked by all of his lies, I will break this all down for you. Because it is very important that everyone understand just exactly what is going on here.
The Merriam Webster dictionary defines the word stereotype as: something conforming to a fixed or general pattern; especially : a standardized mental picture that is held in common by members of a group and that represents an oversimplified opinion, prejudiced attitude, or uncritical judgment.
So Obama’s point is that his grandmother on more than one occasion uttered racial stereotypes that demonstrated her oversimplified opinion, her prejudiced attitude and her uncritical judgment. And according to Obama his grandmother is a “typical white person” that has had these characteristics “bred” into her. Apparently there was a concerted effort on someone’s part to breed these characteristics into the genetic pool of all white people.
Is Obama suggesting that the evil scientist Yakub did this to us? On this point Obama is silent. But what is evident is that Senator Obama wasn’t prepared for the backlash his comments unleashed.
Ben LaBolt, an Obama spokesman, offered the following clarification: “Barack Obama said specifically that he didn’t believe his grandmother harbored any racial animosity but that her fears were understandable and typical of those often shared by her generation.” But the campaign also said the senator did not mean to suggest all white people share his grandmother’s reaction to seeing a black person pass her by on the street. “His intentions may have been misconstrued,” LaBolt said.
Somehow I don’t accept this most recent “clarification” for what Obama meant when he used the phrase: “bred in our experiences that don’t go away.” There is a huge difference between Obama’s unfortunate phrase and Mr. La Bolt’s clarification. Because Obama did also use the phrase “typical white person” as if there was such a thing. And if Obama does believe that there is a “typical white person” will he please define for us just exactly what the characteristics of a “typical white person” are except as he has already described: that we are afraid of black people we don’t know going down the street.
Anytime we over-generalize about race we are going to make mistakes. And some of the mistakes will be huge ones. In Obama’s case, I think he is in a category all to himself with his whopper of an over-generalization. On one hand he talks about his grandmother’s use of racial stereotypes in a speech that some have hailed as the best speech on race since “I Have a Dream.” And then a few days later we have this same man, Barack Obama, making a blatant racial stereotype himself in describing his grandmother as a “typical white person.”
Senator Obama may give conflicting explanations for why we have race problems and what those problems are. But one thing is for certain. And this is not an over-generalization. Despite all the hope hype and the parade of sycophants, Barack Obama is just “a typical politician.”
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