The speech helps, in that it gets Wright off the TV for the next few news cycles, and that once the MSM covers something, they don't go back to it unless there is something new
Obama had to give a race speech. Im sorry that some of you didn't get to see the first viable black candidate tell the black community to "stop actin all black" but he wasn't going to do that.
Obama is having the worst 3 weeks of coverage in the campaign, Clinton looks acendant in PA, and McCain is being unchallenged... and yet he still leads McCain in matchups and still polls tied with Hillary in the primary.
Anyone who thinks Obama is done should have remembered the 1200 other times he was "finished" and get some perspective
He will be the nominee, he will trash McCain, he will be the next president.
I don't believe that he is finished. He will continue to have his base of blacks and white liberals no matter what happens. Those who feel he's completely done are crazy. He'll win the nomination.
Obama has lived a charmed life with the media. This is only the beginning. I can assure you he won't trash McCain in the general election.
It's also disgusting that you think that acting black means spewing vile racial and anti-American crap like Rev. Wright was engaging in. If we are just going to have to deal with behavior like that, then I do hope he gets trashed in the general.
I'm not defending Wright, but responding to the multiple calls on this board for Obama to "act like Bill Cosby." Sure, Cosby has a point, but so too do those who rightly mention that the ills of the black community are, in some part, caused by white racism. Living in Milwaukee, one of the most segregated cities in America, I hear all the time how blacks are responsible for thier own problems, as whites pick up their lives and move to Waukesha, and then in the state legislature strip the MPS of funding, cut money for busses, and rail against crime and unemployment.
There is overt racism, and then there is the racism of saying "its not my problem" Most of white americans are not overt racists, but quite a few think blacks are entirely to blame for their problems. Thats just as wrong as Wright saying that blacks bear no responsibility. Most of the social problems we have today are hangovers from the overt racism of the past. Obama has to confront that legacy in both communities.
But republicans, for the most part, don't give a hoot. They think that unless they personally lynched someone, the have never acted even remotely racist. Which is BS
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