attaboy

^Obama is reciting a Rev. Wright sermon. So I guess over twenty years he heard at least one sermon where the rev condemned "white folks". Is "white folks" deemed derogatory in black-centrist circles? Since white people are ignorant of what goes on in black-centrist circles should whites be offended or should they just go about their business and ignore the hate? I think it would be defined as hateful by any honest politically correct person. Is black-centrist hate acceptable? Is black-centrist hate whipped up in black-centrist churches dangerous or is it ok as long as the leader of the church doesn't call for outright violence? Is Reverend Wright committing hate crimes from the pulpit?

I have watched a Reverend Wright sermon. He takes his congregation on a journey. He leads them by his words through a world of persecution and pain. He stirs his followers to anger over injustices. He gets them to shout out. Then he brings it all home with a Christian message of forgiveness and tolerance. We must forgive our trespassers as we would have them to forgive us. Take the high road. Is it ok to bring the pot to a boil if you then turn down the heat so that it is always there simmering but not boiling, though it is ready to boil?

Does the fact that white people are not up in arms about Reverend Wright signify that white people are oblivious to the oppression black people face in a white cultured USA?

This is the sort of thing Obama speaks about in his first book; blacks can never truly enjoy their lives because they are subject to white culture; it's inescapable.


""And by the time I had dropped my friends off, I had begun to see a new map of the world, one that was frightening in its simplicity, suffocating in its implications. We were always playing on the white man's court, Ray had told me, by the white man's rules. If the principal, or the coach, or a teacher, or Kurt, wanted to spit in your face, he could, because he had the power and you didn't. If he decided not to, if he treated you like a man or came to your defense, it was because he knew that the words you spoke, the clothes you wore, the books you read, your ambitions and desires, were already his. Whatever he decided to do, it was his decision to make, not yours, and because of that fundamental power he held over you, because it preceded and would outlast his individual motives and inclinations, any distinction between good and bad whites held negligible meaning.

In fact, you couldn't even be sure that everything you had assumed to be an expression of your black, unfettered self - the humor, the song, the behind-the-back pass - had been freely chosen by you. At best these things were a refuge, at worst, a trap. Following this maddening logic, the only thing you could choose as your own was withdrawal into a smaller and smaller coil of rage, until being black meant only the knowledge of your own powerlessness, of your own defeat. And the final irony: Should you refuse this defeat and lash out at your captors, they would have a name for that too, a name that could cage you just as good. Paranoid. Militant. Violent. Niggar." - Barack Obama


Black people aren't sure who they truly are because they don't live in a black dominated culture and that's my fault?

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As a kid I always thought my nickname was "attaboy" until I realized they were rooting for the dog: "Attaboy, get 'em! Get 'em!".