Thứ Hai, 24 tháng 3, 2008

National Black Republican Assocation: Obama's Blind Spots

 
Frances Rice offers an excellent overview of the rifts emerging in the African-American community over Barack Obama's problematic pastor.

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”   -- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

In his Philadelphia speech on race, Senator Barack Obama justified his 20-year relationship with his anti-American pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, by castigating as racist a host of people, including his own white grandmother who he later lambasted as a “typical white” racist. Conspicuously omitted from Obama’s culpability list is the architect of modern day racism — the Democratic Party.

Obama’s failure to even mention the Democratic Party’s racist past, while confessing that he lied about when he first heard Rev. Wright’s hateful rants, calls into question Obama’s character and judgment. The shocking words of Rev. Wright can be heard [on YouTube]. Without flinching, Rev. Wright damned his own country, declaring that innocent Americans deserved to be killed by Islamic terrorists on September 11, 2001...

It goes without saying: read the whole thing and visit NBRA to lend your support.

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