"The No. 1 black problem is not racism," [Shelby] Steele says, it's groupism and a desperate clinging to the black power movement of the '60s. Obama's church requires members to pledge allegiance to this movement, recast as the "Black Value System."That's a handy rhetorical power to arrogate to oneself.
[Black power] falsely convinces blacks they can't succeed on their own as individuals in "racist white America," a mantra at Obama's church of hate.
The ignorance and paranoia is bred by something called "black liberation theology," preached by Wright and his own mentor, Rev. James H. Cone. This theology is the core of the "black experience" and "black perspective" and "legacy of the African-American church" that whites are told they wouldn't understand.
"You, Whitey, don't understand my experience, therefore your facts and arguments are irrelevant. If only you could see things as only I can, you would not say the things you do. But you can't and never will. My tortured, bent, convoluted, touchy, defensive interpretation of reality is validated by the experience of my ancestors, which is unknowable to you. What are your 'facts' to One Who Has Suffered?"
Obama has been hip deep in this stinking pool for 20 years. It is just sad that the first "plausible" white-black presidential candidate selling himself as a uniter should exhibit such intellectual dishonesty on this issue.
Prediction: his inevitable rejection by America will not be the beginning of an honest dialogue about the deficiciencies of this cramped vision. It will be a validation of the perfidy of white America.
"The Roots Of Black Anger." Investors Business Daily, 3/19/08.
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