What Mrs. and Mr. Obama think about race relations in America
KPA, who comes originally from Ethiopia, writes from Canada:
I managed to catch the tail end of the February 11 interview of Obama on 60 minutes. A comment Michelle Obama’s, Obama’s wife, made me do a double take.
The interviewer asked if Michelle was worried like Colin Powell’s wife that there might be some “crazy person with a gun.”
Her reply was: “The reality is that as a black man, Barrack can get shot going to the gas station.”
At this point, Obama, instead of doing his jovial, good humored rebuttals to his wife’s comments, remained silent, with his facial expressing showing a resigned acceptance of this “predicament.”
I was shocked by the implication of this acquiescence. And it delineated for me the world view that people like Barrack might harbor underneath all that charm and smiles.
Here is the link to the video.
LA replies:
That is very disturbing, and gives an idea of how Obama might deal with racial issues if he were president. While he himself might not make anti-white statements, people in his administration would, and he would not disagree with them.
Michelle Obama’s comment is not only false but highly ironic, given that it was mainly white people who were shot down in cold blood at gas stations by the Beltway Snipers, John Muhammad and Lee Malvo, who are of course black. (By the way, why are Muhammad and Malvo still alive?)
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Vincent C. writes:
To answer the question Lawrence Auster asks: “ … why are Muhammad and Malvo still alive?” the following:
a. John Muhammad is currently on death row in Virginia; given the number of appeals legally permitted, it may be years before his execution is carried out. One serious obstacle to that event taking place is that the current Governor of Virginia, Tim Kaine, in known as an opponent of the death penalty (it was an issue during the gubernatorial election, but Kaine artfully finessed his responses), and might commute the sentence. However, the public reaction to the barbarity of the “Beltway Snipers” would also not serve the Democratic Party in Virginia politically, which will force Kaine to think twice before changing the court’s sentence. In the end, I suspect that Muhammad will die for his crimes.
b. John Malvo, whose mother was an illegal alien, was not sentenced to death because of his age; he was given life in prison. Attempts by other police jurisdictions to try Muhammad and Malvo for felony crimes in other states—neighboring Maryland amongst them—have been dropped, and it is unlikely they will be pursued further.
Two additional points: the notion that Barack Obama, because he is black, would be in greater danger to be shot on the way to the gas station, reveals a good deal about the mindset of Mrs. Obama, and, I suspect, the man of the house, too. As graduates of Harvard Law School, they do know that felony crime is disproportionally black, but the implication I drew from her statement is that Barack Obama is likely to be a target of someone white. During their trial, any discussion of the racial motivation of the Beltway Snipers, whose victims were mainly white, was verboten.
Another aspect of Obama’s past which is very troubling is his voting record on illegal immigration in the U.S. Senate. Additionally, while in the Illinois state house, he also voted in favor of bills that made the city of Chicago and the state of Illinois havens for illegal aliens. In this case, he is not different from Mrs. Clinton and any other Democratic Party candidate: he would support any “path to citizenship” program, which, in effect, really is amnesty.
LA replies:
As mayor, RW Giuliani supported and continued New York City’s de facto Sanctuary policy for illegal aliens.
LA writes:
I would not describe the expression on Obama’s face as his wife was speaking as resigned acceptance. It was more of a neutral, polite expression.
Posted by Lawrence Auster at March 17, 2007 02:15 PM | Send