{"id":2280,"date":"2008-03-18T11:20:29","date_gmt":"2008-03-18T16:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2280"},"modified":"2008-03-18T13:11:40","modified_gmt":"2008-03-18T18:11:40","slug":"ask-a-brother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2280","title":{"rendered":"Ask The Expert"},"content":{"rendered":"

Barack Obama’s association with his long-time minister and spiritual advisor, Jeremiah Wright, has dealt him the first genuine challenge of his heretofore substance-free campaign. How will <\/em>Obama get away from his twenty-year association with a conspiracy theorist and racist?<\/p>\n

Just like Ringo Starr got through lesser troubles; with a little help from his friends. In this case, friends in the Democrats’ bought-and-paid-for cottage industry in propaganda mills.<\/p>\n

Like Steve Perry at the MNMon<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Like any spiritual adviser worth his or her keep, Jeremiah Wright Jr. has led Barack Obama to a place he did not want to go but needed to go<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That’s right. It was Wright’s “leadership”! Wright and Obama intended <\/em>for things to come to this pass!
\nPerry sniffs at Obama’s previous un-PC badthink on race:<\/p>\n

Back in March 2007, Obama delivered a speech (full text<\/a>) on the legacy of the civil rights movement in Selma, Alabama, in which he claimed that the efforts of the 1950s and ’60s “took us 90 percent of the way there. We still got that 10 percent in order to cross over to the other side.”<\/p>\n

Really? 90 percent? Most of black America likely would not agree.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Don’t you just love it when upper-middle-class white boys put on their “Guilty White Liberal” badge and speak for Black America? What would Barack Obama know about it, anyway<\/em>?<\/p>\n

Thus Obama faces peril on both sides on both sides of the racial divide that white America by and large believes to be a thing of the past.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Actually, the answer is most likely somewhere well between that of the Jesse Jackson\/Al Sharpton poverty-pimp line, and the pollyannaish view that many in “White America” (as if there is such a thing) would like to take. Finding that answer would likely involve doing something that Perry and his lily-white, liberal-guilt-wracked little rag are ill-equipped to do; listen to actual black people that aren’t spoon-fed to him by those who stand to benefit from a few more generations of black misery – the ones that are pulling Perry’s strings.<\/p>\n

Either way, the question deserves better attention than it gets from either side.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Barack Obama’s association with his long-time minister and spiritual advisor, Jeremiah Wright, has dealt him the first genuine challenge of his heretofore substance-free campaign. How will Obama get away from his twenty-year association with a conspiracy theorist and racist? Just like Ringo Starr got through lesser troubles; with a little help from his friends. In […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,20,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-08","category-democrats","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}