Difficulty with English is a problem that can be fixed. Just takes schooling.
The comments that are at the center of THIS CONTROVERSY, are not the same as the the ones Obama has, over the years, heard while in attendance.
On that note, this is the entire problem with America. There is no goddamn fucking common sense. You would believe that just because Wright has said comments that are obviously fucked up, that Obama must somehow accept them as truth.
Obama said it best. Wright's fault was not bringing up racism in America. His fault was in using this racism to stereotype entire groups of people, creating caricatures of real people. People on both sides of the fence who are angry and disenfranchised for various legitimate reasons. Wright's speech is wrong because it does NOT acknowledge the strides we have made, and it is in this that Obama differs from his mentor. It is FUCKING DEGREES. Is America this goddamn retarded, this fucking incapable of the most simple discerning techniques? If you cannot perceive the epic differences between agreeing with a man on SOME things, and agreeing with him on ALL things ... then it's likely you need to be stripped of your right to vote, and tossed from this country.
This is the problem with this whole media cycle. It demonizes based on soundbites, it tears down based on flavor of the minute. It removes any element of nuance, and forces people to look at REAL HUMAN BEINGS through lenses of controversy and irrelevance. It has no barring on the realities of why people like WRIGHT reverberate so heavily in the African-American community, and why it is just as bad to blame all white people for the injustices against you. If this simple fucking premise cannot be grasped by America at large (and judging by all the sweepingly ignorant post, it IS) then we deserve George W. Bush. We deserve the inequities of our people and the damage of our ignorance.
Until then, we will always come back to this and slam up against this wall. Because you, my friend, are incapable of grasping concepts that illuminate rather than darken.
If Obama has any fault (and he does), it's that he did not approach Wright about the controversial things he HAS heard him say in the past. But in this simple error, you see a picture of a human being who makes mistakes. Obama himself says he is an imperfect candidate, and always will be.
