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You know I can not really recall the last time I heard the phrase, "It is a black thing you would not understand." But that is basically what I heard in Obama's speach. I am tired of this. To tell me, a basically intelligent white person that Wright should recieve a pass because of his age, and well, because the history of the black church is different, is... bull shit. I have no fear of a black president. I dont think realistic America has fear of a black president. I have fear that black community is not ready for a black president, and the Pastor is the exact reason why. I will finish with this thought. Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and now Wright all have one thing in common, the explotation of blacks to remain in power. Now, if I can see this, why can't the black community..... or is it that I just dont understand.

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How you can perceive Barak's truthful statements of what his grandma said or did as "trashing his grandma" is a mystery to me. Since when is truth, trash? Another truth, the statement "typical white person" or "typical black person". It's as common a statement as "typical woman" or "typical man". Most evolved people say them with love. Some say them with frustration. They are umbrella statements evolved into our communications to classify common traits under one general umbrella. Labeling them racist or sexist doesn't change them anymore than calling them lies or truth. They are what they are. We all recognize them as having some merit or there wouldn't be such a universal understanding or acceptance.Those of us who cross the great divide and are comfortable communicating and interacting with all people will tell you those statements usually refer to a mindset. The hilariously famous line: "think white and get real" had everyone rolling in the aisles because we all got it, black, white, male, female, all got it. The people that got that statement, get Barak Obama more importantly, they get along. Unlike journalists in their ivory towers throwing stones, we realize Barak is the most qualified candidate Unlike the other candidates, Barak seems uniquely qualified to unite rather than divide. He has heard and lived both sides and found a common ground, one that will help unite and serve all people. As President, he will be faced with many far left views from other nations and political leaders. Give me a President who has a well rounded background, who is familiar with radical viewpoints and able to relate to the concerns of all people and not just the chosen. He is an upset to you not because of his background , but in spite of his background he is a brilliant, successful, truly free man.. The people he has chosen to surround himself with and emulate tell me this is a man not afraid to think outside the box. He has such a diverse background, his father's side of the family is so different from his mother's side, in ways much more diverse than just the differences in their race and culture. He can relate to the concerns of the white race and the black race more so than any other potential candidate ever. Maybe that is why his seems like such a threat. Barak, is a completely different type of politician. It's amusing to see everyone trying to tame Barak and put him in a box. This country has suffered long enough under the rule of a self-serving president. I long to see a president in office who will actually serve this country.

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Sir; Imagine how different it would be for Mr. Obama if he had been the distant child of a slave stolen from his past, and given an uncertain future among people who seem from the moment of his birth to hate him for nothing he never did to them. What every white person has, and almost all people have who come to this land, is their past; and what is more essential than to know you did not leave that past except by your own free will? How is it that everybody coming to this land can escape slave wages and dead end jobs to become average, or well to do? Others work their way out of slavery, and why can't they? It is the very thing the Hebrews lost in forty years of wandering that keeps Black people sullen and embittered. The slave mentality makes them balk at slavery, and they recognize slavery as hispanics and whites do not because Blacks have a living memory of it. Ask them of their past, and you find that slavery is where their history begins. Do you think they have no reason to hate, when America, which will not pay them a living wage, opens her doors to anyone who will submit? We all should be proud of the blacks for holding out for something better, and we should kick the rest out. More than this, we should see that Mr. Obama is a white man in the skin of a black man. He has no real grievance against us. His father came here freely. He has a past. He has no slave mentality, and he is at least the equal of every white man, me too, in the country. But, He is in a unique position to act as a translator to each side, and to help to make this divided people into one nation, or at least, to set us on that path.