I used to a own a townhouse down the street from where Obama lives now; Blackstone Ave, birthplace of the Blackstone Rangers, one of Chicago's toughest gangs (evolved into the El Rukns--tougher still.) On Sunday evenings sometimes I used to walk down the street past Louis Farrakhan's house (more like a vault than a house--major league security) in order to stand in front of one of Hyde Park's Baptist Churches and listen to the choir. Transcendent.
(The Great Harold Washington was mayor then. I've been trying to find the right words to describe him--but I can't say anything except. . .nope. . .he was. . .nah. . .anything I write down doesn't do him justice.
So it was some understanding of the community, I sat down tonight to catch this:
I have to tell you: this is a problem. This will sink Obama's candidacy.
If you think that Hillary Clinton is race baiting now, just wait. The Republicans are going to sear this video into the eyeballs of every man woman and child in America. You think it's not fair that Clinton is introducing "race" into the debate, you wait and see what the Republicans do with this.
This is, to me, an unmitigated disaster. We've been dissing McCain for clinging to an antiCatholic propagandist, what we have here is comprable if not worse. And Obama's response, "This guy's like somebody's crazy old Uncle," the tepidness of the response, chilled me to the bone. Mc Cain may not be able to beat Obama but he can sure beat this. And don't get me wrong, (personally I agree with much of it) but Obama has been running as a candidate who went to Harvard, who speaks like an angel, who writes like Churchill and, oh, by the way, is black. This minister is the fury of the black race, a man who is literally claiming God is damning America to hell for Hiroshima and the CIA. And Obama went every week to listen to this man speak. He serves on Obama's campaign.
Oh, man, oh, man. "Hillary has never been called a nigger." Well, she's been called a dildo wielding lesbian and a manipulative bitch. And no one has suffered like a Black man? How about the wetbacks, chinks and homos who everyday struggle to get some respect. But I can't even criticise this, my critisisms are too paltry.
Believe me, this video is going to be wall to wall by the end of the election. Remember, this man is still serving on Obama's campaign.
This is very, very bad.