It's the Culture Not the Race

The Clinton camp has been trying hard to get the nation to notice that Senator Obama is black. The problem for the Clintons, however, is it's not race but the Sister Souljahs that most Americans find objectionable. Or as my wife noted to me it's not about the race, its about the culture - the one typified by the race baiting Jesse Jacksons and Al Sharptons. Obama's repudiation of those two early in his campaign seemed to bolster hopes that Obama wasn't part of that divisive, racist, crowd. Hence the hits he took for not being "black" enough or in other words a purveyor of the Jackson/Sharpton hate culture. That cultivated image has been shattered as Obama's "spiritual advisor" of twenty years turns out to be cut from the same cloth as Jackson/Sharpton.

I'm sceptical that Obama will be able to disassociate himself from Jeremiah Wright. It is just not believable that the Senator did not know about the bigoted, hateful things Jeremiah Wright had been consistantly preaching. This same preacher was actively working on Obama's campaign till Friday.

Too bad; when Hillary Clinton strong arms the super delegates at the convention to beat Obama, maybe the black Democrats will care, but the rest of America won't.

Originally posted in UNCoRRELATED Mar 17, 2008