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I’m glad many people are supporting Jeremiah Wright, the pastor whom Obama has denounced. To a standing ovation and thunderous applause, he gave the benediction at a ceremony honoring Maya Angelou before her 80th birthday (April 4).

Maya Angelou, by the way, endorsed Clinton.

Obama’s Latest “Beautiful Speech”
By Paul Street
March 22, 2008

“Obama has given a beautiful speech on race and his affiliation with the Trinity Unity Church of Christ.” — Barbara Ehrenreich, March 2008

“It’s hard sometimes for me to understand how Obama is able to milk so much reaction out of speeches that are not only pedestrian, but which contain truly startling statements. The speech he made yesterday, for example: how can he manage to dedicate a whole address to the importance of overcoming racism, and in the middle of that talk not only essentially smear his pastor with the ‘Angry Black’ stereotype, but also endorse the ongoing US policy of racism and injustice towards the Palestinians, and then somehow come out of the whole thing smelling like roses, sending hyperventilating progressives all over the country to their smelling salts, believing that they’ve heard the ‘greatest speech’ of modern times!” — “epppie,” an e-mail correspondent, March 19, 2008

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I just read Barack Obama’s Latest Greatest Speech – his celebrated address on race, titled “A More Perfect Union” [1], yesterday (I am writing on the morning of March 19 2008), in Philadelphia. Sparked by recent broadcasts of his longtime pastor Jeremiah Wright’s angry denunciations of U.S. imperialism and racism, the speech changes nothing for me.

Deluded Obamanists can stop sending me e-mails saying (to quote one this morning) “wow he really knocked them dead in Philly telling it like it is on Race. Now will you please finally get on board with the Great Barack?”

As his most recent Grand Oration shows, the Chosen One is not about to sacrifice political ambition for the sake of truth and justice.

Yesterday’s address was all about Obama using his former pastor as a pretext for yet more triangulation [2]. Wright was employed as a foil for Obama to pose as reasonable on race and racism while he continued his project of deepening public confusion on racist and other United States oppression structures at the heart of American society.

And Obama ain’t “telling it like it is.”
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During a fundraiser for diabetes research at North Dakota State University — the Mr. NDSU Pageant– , a white student in blackface portrayed Barack Obama receiving a lap dance from another guy dressed as the Obama girl.

In the background, two other students dressed as cowboys simulated anal sex while holding an Obama sign, which was ripped at the end of the 30-second performance.

At North Dakota State University only 1.5 percent of the students are black or African American.

I wonder if fox news will even mention this. It was on the front page of cnn.com, but a simple search for it on foxnews.com yields no results. They covered Obama’s “typical white person” comment and Rev. Wright’s speeches enough that you would think they like stories on race and Obama.

Rev. Wright, however, was not racist. He merely pointed out racism in society and U.S. policies. I guess Fox may just like stories on Obama that provide the opportunity for reporters to deny the existence of white privilege and structural racism.

But I still thought that it would cover such blatant racism that does allow simple reporting without challenging their dearly held white privileges. Perhaps Foxnews fears coverage would benefit Obama by countering all their hard work through the Wright story to whitewash racism in society. Weren’t their talking points trying to make Obama seem divisive and Wright seem racist and to imply that most racism today is against white people (ridiculous)?
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