Obama Denounces but Still Has the Wrong Recipe

(Originally Posted 5/1/2008)

Try Cooking Black Guilt

A few weeks ago during the Pennsylvania primary Barack Obama asked the WWE if they could “smell what Barack is cookin?” So Barack Obama is angry at Jeremiah Wrights’ “destructive” comments. Obama does not agree with his pastor of 20 years is finally offended because his comments don’t reflect HIS “values and beliefs.” Does anyone smell what Obama’s cooking? Only now that Mr. Wright is showing “disrespect” to Barack Obama and his campaign is Obama angry. Not until Obama is personally offended is he angry enough to come out and renounce his minister. Well, it is a day late and a dollar short as Terry McMillan’s books suggests.

Again, Obama has made Mr. Wright’s comments all about him. Jeremiah Wright’s comments aren’t just offensive to Obama but they are disrespectful to America and her people. As someone who is campaigning to be the leader of the American people, Obama certainly doesn’t think much about us. Obama would have been well served to make this condemning speech of Mr. Wright when American people were disturbed by his first tongue lashing of hate and racism. Obama’s anger should have been directing at Wright for offending and disrespecting us as citizens and as a country.

Where was Obama then? He was making amends for Mr. Wright, excusing him on the basis of archaic anecdotes of racism. Obama was denouncing the white part of him (on his grandmother’s side) as typically racist. Obama was playing on the guilt of the whites who support him in justifying that someone like Mr. Wright deserves a platform and voice in America to indoctrinate hate and division of race. Why? Well, because according to those like Obama and his minister we need it. According to Obama at the time, we all deserve it as part of our history.

How can a group of people be so certain that racism still plagues us? Because they are the ones spreading it.

Should Obama want us to believe his words hold a grain of salt, he should start cooking up the truth. And, the truth is that he has always known that this minister was divisive and morally bent. He should confess that for 20 years he held his breath or perhaps thought these tirades and performances were entertaining and clever. He should admit as some blacks are doing that he saw nothing wrong with this childish and foolish stomping about that demeaned and disrespected whites and all Americans. Obama should force a core truth with the American people on race. And, this truth is that in order to abolish the threat of racism perceived by those who say they experience it (because I for one couldn’t give two cents about it) they themselves must stop promoting it against other races of people. More than this, they must continually protect themselves from it in their very own communities against those they feel are racist against them. Blacks have a responsibility in curing racism. Blacks must defend whites against racism. That is to stop defending the black racist and put him his place. How about a little black guilt in the pot tonight, Obama?