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In all honesty, I am getting very sick of how the Obama campaign calls foul when someone even makes the most basic observation about his skin color. We already know that 9/10 African-American’s nationwide have voted for him in the Democratic Primaries held so far-so if they are so willing to confront and identify with Obama’s race, why isn’t he himself?

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Here are some quotes from the video of his sermons-

“The government lies, the government lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color, the government lies, and the government lies!”

“Barack knows what it means to be a black mean living in a country and a culture that is controlled by rich white people, Hillary can never know that, Hillary ain’t never been called a N****r.”

“Hillary is married to bell, and Hillary has been good to us; no he ain’t, bill did us just like he did Monica Lewinski, he was riding dirty.”

“The government gives them the drugs, gives bigger prisons, passes the three strike law and then wants us to sing god bless America? No no no, not bless America, goddamn America! That’s in the Bible, for killing innocent people, god damn America for treating its citizens as less than human.”

“We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and the black South Africans and now we are indignant because the stuff we have done over seas is now brought back into our own front yards.”

“If they don’t find weapons of mass destruction they gona do just like the LAPD and plant them some weapons of mass destruction.”

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Well apparently, he has been confronting his race and his personal identity with his long time close friend and Reverend, Jeremiah Wright. After hearing Wright’s comments it would be an understatement to call them objectionable; they are down right despicable, racist, sexist, and anti-American. They are some of the most offensive comments I have heard from anyone this close to any political candidate. Not only did Wright marry Michel and Barack Obama in his church (a sign of the couples close relationship with the minister), but according to the Huffingtonpost.com, he is an official member of the Obama campaign staff. He is a sitting member on Obama’s African American Leadership Committee. Now, we can all expect Wright to loose that post quickly after these videos were leaked online, but what does it say about Obama that he was on his committee in the first place? It is apparent that Obama has known about these remarks, again he has been a member of the Chicago based Church for over 20 years.
I would not be raising this as an issue if a. the remarks were not so offensive, b. Obama did not have him as part of the official campaign, and c. if Obama and his staff did not accost anyone who raises Obama’s skin color in any way shape or form.

According to Reverend Wright, all things being equal, his followers should vote for Obama simply because of his skin color. Now explain to me how that isn’t playing the race card, especially when he is an active member in Obama’s campaign?

I do not mean to demean Obama’s accomplishments (which are however lacking compared to those of say Bill Clinton, John McCain, or Mitt Romney), but lets be serious for a second-Obama was not part of the generation of struggling and oppressed African American’s fighting for their most basic forms of human dignity. He is no Martin Luther King, he never marched in the streets with water guns and attack dogs violating his natural rights. No! Barrack Obama did not grow up facing race riots in Watts or KKK killings in Mississippi; instead he attended one of the most prestigious private schools in the country. Obama went to the exclusive Punahou preparatory school in Honolulu, Hawaii. The school has had over $50 million in recent renovations and has received massive contributions from alumni such as AOL founder Steve Case. It does not sound to me like that child hood education is reminiscent of what most minority students face in their early years, especially considering the location of exotic Hawaii where the mixed racial population meant that people would likely have not even noticed Obama’s skin color.

His father left when he was only 2 and he spent several years raised in a single parent household (I too live in a single parent home, does that hardship also qualify me to be the commander and chief?). He spent several years in Indonesia (something his campaign claims gives him foreign policy experience; does that mean my summers in Greece also qualify me to rule the free world?) and later returned to Hawaii to live with his grandparents while finishing his secondary education.

In his own memoirs, he claimed that he tried using drugs to cope with his identity crisis, according to Jeremiah Wright however, it is the US government who provided those drugs to Barrack Obama so as to subjugate him because of his race. If Obama’s campaign says that by not dropping Ferraro from Hillay’s campaign, that Hillary was endorsing and condoning Ferraro’s racist remarks, then wouldn’t it be fair to say that by not dropping and disowning Wright that Obama is endorsing the theory of a massive government conspiracy to subjugate African-American’s?

My point by bringing up Barack’s past is not to suggest that he was some rich and entitled young man. He had to work hard to transfer from Occidental to Columbia and he had to have displayed talent in becoming the head of the Harvard Law Review. Despite this, it is clear that Obama has played the race card. He cannot be the man who transcends race in one sentence, while in another is pandering and fully excepting the support of someone who espouses black nationalism.

John McCain recently came under fire for having the support of an evangelical Christian support him who believes that it is America’s duty to destroy Islam. There is one clear difference-McCain is not an active member of Rod Parsley’s church, he and Cindy were not married by him, and Parsley does not sit as an active member on his campaign.

Before Obama calls for one more staff resignation or formal apology because of what someone says about his race, he needs to disassociate himself from this radical and racist Reverend once and for all. Unless he does that he will remain the biggest hypocrite of this campaign. He is permitting Wright and others like him to advertise him as an African-American who understand their hardships and their pain, while at the same time he says to white America that he transcends racial boundaries. His childhood makes it apparent that he has little in common with the average American, let alone oppressed minorities; for his Reverend to suggest otherwise is despicable and a disservice to the hardships that civil rights activists fought for.

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