Obama: Grandmother Is a “Typical White Person”
Posted on March 20, 2008
“The point I was making was not that my grandmother harbors any racial animosity. But she is a typical white person. If she sees somebody on the street that she doesn’t know. . .there’s a reaction in her that doesn’t go away and it comes out in the wrong way.â€
This is the very definition of sterotyping and racism. So, is this the reaction of the “typical white person”? I think this reveals the truley harbored racist feelings of Obama towards whites.
As Stuck On Stupid says: He kicks his grandmother after throwing her under the bus.
It does do something however. It teaches me something about what Barack Obama thinks of me. His beliefs about the inherent nature of racially stunted white grandmothers exposes an inner belief that is racist in itself. The man that wishes the world judge him on anything but race is the same man that is judging me, my family and my grandmother on that very thing.
Think about it: can you imagine any Presidential candidate, in any context, describing anyone as a “typical black person?” Or a “typical Asian person?” Worse, what Obama said was that the “typical white person” views others of different races with fear and suspicion. Obama appears to be digging himself in deeper and deeper.
And this from a guy who demanded that Imus be fired for his “nappy-headed ho” comment. This comment therefore seems like an offense sufficient enough to require that he withdraw from the presidential race — except, of course, that as a black man no liberal Democrat would have the guts to call him on his racism and hold him to the same standards a white candidate would be held to. Proof again that Geraldine Ferraro got it exactly right, and that Barack Obama is nothing but an affirmative action candidate who is held to a lower standard than a similarly situated white candidate would be.
Grandma was a “typical white person.” Which is to say she was a bigot, but generally decent–as apparently all white people are. The point here isn’t that Obama is relying on stereotypes to make his point, though he is, but rather that this would be completely unacceptable rhetoric were it to come from a white candidate. One just can’t say that an entire race has a “type.”
Also see Gateway Pundit
Hot Air
Newsbusters
Flap’s Blog
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Michelle Malkin has a nice roundup.
Bonus: Ferraro swings back!
G.F. adds:
So, “she is a typical white person.” In Obama’s ridiculous speech, he set his “pastor” and his poor grandma up as morally equivalent. The implication is that granny’s offhand comment (whether she really made it or it was just a theatrical white lie) is the same thing as decades of rabid, publicly expressed race hatred by his pastor. With that setup, I’ll provide a syllogistic representation of what Obama MUST mean:
Obama’s granny is as racist as Jeremiah Wright
Obama’s granny is a typical white person
Therefore: The “typical white person” is as much of a racist as Jeremiah WrightTranscending race.
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He is showing himself very clearly for what he is. A racist that has been hiding that side of him and this latest controversy has forced comments out of him that he didn’t want revealed.
Your missing the point…. It’s because white people are racist that he thinks it’s ok to think that all white people are racist! /sarc
Obama should be removed he is a racist and Anti American as he still does not show support for this country or the troops by wearing the Flag pin on his suit. Typical black person showing his hatred for America and his racism for whites!
Support the troops!
Barack Obama Should Limit His Comments to His Own Grandma, Mine Was No Racist…
Barack Obama displays the affects of 20 years under the direction of Jeremiah Write Jr. I’d call him reverend but that is a misnomer. Reverend’s are people to be revered.
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[...] Obama: “The point I was making was not that my grandmother harbors any racial animosity. But she is a typical white person. If she sees somebody on the street that she doesn’t know. . .there’s a reaction in her that doesn’t go away and it comes out in the wrong way.†[...]
Jesse Jackson is a Typical White Person…
At least according to Senator Obama he is.
Barack Obama just keeps stepping deeper into the hole his association with Jeremiah Wright has created and the more he talks the deeper he gets. In his speech about race, Obama talked about his white grandmot…
He sounds like the typical black person.
/sarc
Obama can demonstrate he is no racist, and is fighting for equal treatment of all races, by fighting to abolish the racism of affirmative action he referred to in this week’s speech.
We’ll see if he is for real.
Obama Clarifies Typical White Person…
Video with audio of the “Full Remark”
Barack Obama;
“The point I was making was not that my grandmother harbors any racial animosity. But she is a typical white person. If she sees somebody on the street that she doesn’t know. . .there…
“Earlier in the week it appeared that Obama had a free pass to make slurs. There was no media outcry when Obama, wearing a green velvet suit at a Saint Patrick’s Day event, inserted an apostrophe in his name and declared “O’bama, not your typical Irish Mickâ€.”
Get the whole “typical white person” story here http://edddie.tumblr.com/post/29475735.
Jesse Jackson, Typical White Person?…
Obama’s “typical white person” remark may be an indication that he has taken some of Reverend Jeremiah Wright’s warped ideas to heart. Obama owes us answers to whether his loyalties are to the American people at large or to Black liberation theolog…
I just don’t get how anyone can think that Barrie Hussein UbBama can UNITE AMerikkaUSA when he sees himself as having been brought up by a “typical white person” that “makes him cringe”. Why is he not cringing at his “now I’m finally proud of Amerikka” wife Michelle who didn’t see the black (!) heros of 9/11 in MYC? Why is he not cringing at Rev Goddamm AmerikkkaUSA for 20 years of race baiting? Why is he not cringing at the money that Weather Underground terrorists Bernadette Bomber Dohrn and her hubbie Bomber Bill Ayers gave to him for his senate campaign?
i would just like to know how any self respecting american could vote for a racist . now it’s perfectly obviious that he is a racist.of course as a politician , he’s a natural born liar anyway .but after what he and his buddies did to don amus i cant see how bb can even try to run for pres.but i dont see much of this stuff on the news , not like when don went berserk and said nappy headed hos! and blacks say that they are a minority lol just see how many of them come out of the woodwork when it time to put a black into the office of the president, my gun is ready to defend myself and my family when the nig takes over america and runs rampant in the streets like they did in the public schools in the 60s and 70s.those of you that were there say the carnage and maiming and murders just like i did and i whent to a pretty good school, only 10 armed police officers at a time to keep the nig from killing more people.i am ready for pay back myself , its about time, they cost me my education because i had to quit school in the 10th grade to keep from being killed by some nigger thst was bigger than me and no other reason,nonme of us white kids did anything to these nigs , so they attack us 3 or more on one and stab us and shoot us and anything else the savages can copy from some other freaked out mentally inferior race or tribe. look at africa , whent back to fighting with sticks and knives and killing off whole villages at one time , yeah , lets get a nig for pres , what fools you low life honky white people that are voting for the nig , you should be ashamed of yourselfs!!!!!!!! and when he gets into office , i vote you all be branded traders , and be banned from ever being in the USA again as long as you live. more to come.
He reminds me of George Wallace. At least George apologized for his ignorance. It shows Obama has mental problems to attack the ones who raised him. Sounds like he has personal issues with who he is or who he wants to be. I work with kids everyday who are struggling with the same problems. He needs to grow up!!!