Barack Obama On The White Man’s Greed
Here’s that unity candidate you’ve been hearing so much about telling us about the evils of the white man’s greed.
That’s from the audio book version of Barack Obama’s Dreams from My Father. Here’s an excerpt:
[T]he pastor [Rev. Jeremiah “God Damn America” Wright] described going to a museum and being confronted by a painting title Hope.
“The painting depicts a harpist,” Revernd Wright explained, “a woman who at first glance appears to be sitting atop a great mountaintop. Untill you take a closer look and see that the woman is bruised and bloodied, dressed in tattered rags, the harp reduced to a single frayed string. Your eye is then drawn down to the scene below, down to the valley below, where everywhere are the ravages of famine, the drumbeat of war, a world groaning under strife and deprivation.
It is this world, a world where cruise ships throw away more food in a day than most residents of Port-au-Prince see in a year, where white folks’ greed runs a world in need, aprtheid in one hemisphere, apathy in another hemisphere ... That’s the world! On which hope sits.”
And so it went, a meditation on a fallen world. While the boys next to me doodled on their church bulletin, Reverend Wright spoke of Sharpesville and Hiroshima, the callousness of policy makers in the White House and in the State House.
Note that Obama, who has thrown Rev. Wright under the bus since the writing of this book, doesn’t disagree with Rev. Wright’s sermon at all in this narrative. In fact, according to the book, he weeps at the end of it.
But isn’t alluding to “white man’s greed” a bit...racist? Sort of like, oh I don’t know, Jews being blamed for the post World War I hardships in Germany?
And here’s more observations on this book written by the supposedly “post-racial” politics candidate:
Obama probably did not think about the presidential office possibility when he wrote the book “Dreams From My Father” as it is laden with racist categorizations. Obama categorizes people according to skin tone, as some are olive, pale, walnut, etc. Almost to the point of being laughable, if it was not so pathetic and scary. The last person to be that race obsessed in power started freakin’ WWII and murdered millions of innocent people.
My husband and I sat down one night and began counting how many times Obama used racial categorization or referred to race in his book Dreams From My Father. There are racial references made 179 times in the first 110 pages.
We got sick of counting at page 110 and sick of reading Obama’s racial trashing.
Very divisive stuff for a guy campaigning on unity.
