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[scaeagles]

"white man's greed vs. a world in need".....not only did that come from a sermon, he quoted it in his book, I believe.

Let's change that to something like "Black man's lazy makes the world all crazy" or something else stupid like "Jew boy's greed vs. a world in need". For someone to say those things they would immediately be branded racist.

Do I think Obama hates white people? No. Do I think he is a racist? I think he makes comments that point toward it but cannot say whether he is or not.

[flippyshark]

Originally Posted by scaeagles

"white man's greed vs. a world in need".....not only did that come from a sermon, he quoted it in his book, I believe.

Still not racist. Agree with it or not - it's an angry challenge to the status quo. It's very much in the "hate what they do" category, which is very understandable.

[flippyshark]

Originally Posted by scaeagles

Let's change that to something like "Black man's lazy makes the world all crazy" or something else stupid like "Jew boy's greed vs. a world in need". For someone to say those things they would immediately be branded racist.

And those would be racist (and silly) things to say by themselves. But, "white man's greed vs. a world in need" is totally understandable when a) white people really have been the ones in power and b) they really have been oppressing you. Now, I think it's long past time to move on from such statements, and it has been said many times of Wright that he belongs to an old school stream of socio-political discourse. But you can find quotes from Wright that indicate he values a vision of racial equality and world unity. He just thinks the white power structure is too corrupt and entrenched to bring that about, and he says so in very charged language. He's calling for social change, it's true, in a way that even many blacks are no longer comfortable with. There is a big difference between that and hateful conspiracy theories about world-controlling jews or dehumanizing slurs about lazy black people.