Obama: Did He Throw His White Grandmother Under the Bus?
When Barack Obama compared his white grandmother to his minister did he throw his grandmother under the bus?
“I can no more disown him than I can disown the black community. I can no more disown him than I can my white grandmother — a woman who helped raise me, a woman who sacrificed again and again for me, a woman who loves me as much as she loves anything in this world, but a woman who once confessed her fear of black men who passed her by on the street, and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe. Barack Obama on his minister, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright
An article in the Honolulu Advertiser told a different tale of Barack Obama’s grandmother, not as the closet racist as he described her, but as a woman who worked hard, rose in her profession and helped raise Obama, but treated people with the utmost respect.
Several current and former associates of Obama’s grandmother said they were “stunned” by Obama’s remarks about his grandmother.
I was real surprised that he indicated that,” said Dennis Ching, who was a 23-year-old management trainee under Dunham beginning in 1966. “I never heard her say anything like that. I never heard her say anything negative about anything. And she never swore.”
Obama’s grandmother worked hard in her profession eventually becoming the Bank of Hawaii’s first woman Vice-President in 1970.
Obama with his Grandfather and Grandmother, Stanley and Madelyn Dunham
While Obama has memories of his grandmother as being “afraid” of a black man who approached her for money the people who worked with her have a different view of the now 85-year-old Madelyn Dunham.
Obama used his grandmother in a speech he gave about the twenty year relationship he has had with his former mentor and minister, Jeremiah Wright, after the MSM exposed Wright for his teachings which condemned America and preached that America “deserved 9/11″.
“The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law and then wants us to sing ‘God Bless America.’ No, no, no, God damn America, that’s in the Bible for killing innocent people,” he said in a 2003 sermon. “God damn America for treating our citizens as less than human. God damn America for as long as she acts like she is God and she is supreme.” Jeremiah Wright
It was after the news media began to look into Wright’s teachings and sermons that Obama gave his own speech, condemning the more incendiary sermons of Wright but also explaining why Wright and his generation felt the way they did. Obama went on to include his white grandmother as an example of white racism.
Obama seems to want to inspire voters and to unite the country but his message is the opposite, he dwells on issues which inflame and divide and plays both the racism and sympathy cards. We cannot feel anything but sympathy for Obama, as he relates his own experiences with his white grandmother in the guise of instructing the country about the issues of race. And yet, those who worked with his white grandmother were “stunned” when they heard Obama describe a woman they never knew. These were not “typical white people” as Obama likes to stereotype whites, but people such as Dennis Ching, who was a 23-year-old management trainee under Obama’s grandmother’s supervision.
So why drag your own grandmother into an election and claim she’s a closet racist? Is it because Obama needed a fall guy good enough to foist the public’s attention away from his minister and mentor of the past 20 years, Jeremiah Wright, and his preachings, over to his 85-year-old “white” grandmother, who according to Obama, was a typical “white” woman of her generation with their shades of bigotry and racism… which parlayed into yet another instance of young Obama having to overcome yet another obstacle in his quest to become our next President.
If Obama is willing to throw his own grandmother under the bus in his quest to become President, then who will Obama pick as his next scapegoat? Obama claims his white Grandmother made him feel shame about his own color but it’s Obama who used her for his own purposes in a very real and public way. In order to save himself and his association with the Reverend Jeremiah Wright he picked his own grandmother to throw under the bus.
By LBG
Hat Tip – Awa Puhi
Cartoon – Nashville City Paper
Source - ABC News – Obama’s Paster: God Damn America, U.S. to Blame for 911
Source - Honolulu Advertiser – Obama’s Tutu a Hawaii Female Banking Pioneer
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