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Posted November 3, 2008
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Obama accuses dead grandmother of racism
Barack Obama is a disgrace. Accusing his dead grandmother of racism should alert us to what will happen if he becomes President. He takes an innocent comment and turns it into racism.
What will happen when a black man who happens to do something criminal needs to be prosecuted. Will he say we are prosecuting him because he is black or because he is a criminal.
It was an incident during his teenage years that became one of Obama's most vivid memories of Toot. She had been aggressively panhandled by a man and she wanted her husband to take her to work. When Obama asked why, his grandfather said Madelyn Dunham was bothered because the panhandler was black.
The words hit the biracial Obama "like a fist in my stomach," he wrote later. He was sure his grandparents loved him deeply. "And yet," he added, "I knew that men who might easily have been my brothers could still inspire their rawest fears."
Let us take a second to understand his grandmother and not rush to call her a racist as Obama did.
Anyone exhibiting obnoxious behavior can inspire the rawest fears even if it is one's one child or brother.
The fact that the panhandler was black, might have made it more scary for her, since if you look at statistics from then and now, if you were being harassed by a black man you run greater chances of being violently attacked.
So, what about your grandmother was racist ? She loved you and brought you up regardless of race. She was simply a human. If you were among a set of big burly guys who were pushing you around in a dark alley you wouldn't be scared ? Even if they were white.
POINT MADE. Stop creating racism. People don't like people that make up racist acts. That is what creates racism. Ask CHRIS ROCK.
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