Well guys....I guess I have to disagree with you again. I have read the quotations from the website that you referenced, and find them to be incomplete. I have not read either of Senator Obama's books, but I think there would be some value to posting the entire text in which they are contained rather than an excerpt therefrom in order for the reader to draw an objective opinion. If I understand the statements ...they were his views at an early age, and reflect both the black experience and the troubled background from which it generated.
I think that after several centuries of slavery and post civil war economic enslavement the black race has reason to distrust the white race. Affirmative action has not yet erased all of the "badges of slavery". I get the impression that the comments you quote reflect Senator Obama's recollections at a young age, but I may be wrong since I have not read the full text. . I think we have all made statements in our youth that we have later regretted.
I am not pretentious enough to say that I understand the black experience, but I have gained some insight to it while working for voter registry in the southern states as a college student. At the time there were very creative gimmicks to deprive citizens of the constitutional right to vote...poll taxes...literacy tests, etc. The KKK was very vociferous at the time. It is not necessary to recount the violence of the time. It is readily available on the internet if you care to review it. I think the quotations asserted above are very similar to those asserted against John F. Kennedy about his religion in the l960 election.
I prefer to look at Senator Obama's achievements...graduate of Columbia University...graduate of Harvard Law School...if I am not mistaken he was a member of Harvard's Law Review...meteoric rise through Illinois politics, and on to the U. S. Senate. I think he must be doing something right. The voters in the primaries would seem to think so too.
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