HAMMOND, La. — A Louisiana justice of the peace said he refused to issue a marriage license to an interracial couple out of concern for any children the couple might have. Keith Bardwell, justice of the peace in Tangipahoa Parish, says it is his experience that most interracial marriages do not last long. (Huffingtonpost)

Fast han är ju absolut inte rasist…

“I have piles and piles of black friends. They come to my home, I marry them, they use my bathroom. I treat them just like everyone else.”

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Se också detta fascinerande videoklipp från O’reilly Factor där en vit katolsk präst försvarar Wright.

What if we took 30-second film clips of Jesus overturning tables in the temple? Or saying you must hate your parents in order to love me? We would have thought him a crazy man.

Andra bloggar om: usa, jeremiah wright, barack obama, bill oreilly

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Se hela intervjun på MSNBC:

[Obama] made the point, and I think it’s a valid one, that you can’t hold the candidate responsible for everything that people around him may say or do. You just can’t. Whether it’s me, whether it’s Obama…anybody else. But he did distance himself from the very vitriolic statements.

Now, the second story. It’s interesting to me that there are some people on the left who are having to be very uncomfortable with what Louis Wright said, when they all were all over a Jerry Falwell, or anyone on the right who said things that they found very awkward and uncomfortable years ago. Many times those were statements lifted out of the context of a larger sermon. Sermons, after all, are rarely written word for word by pastors like Reverend Wright, who are delivering them extemporaneously, and caught up in the emotion of the moment. There are things that sometimes get said, that if you put them on paper and looked at them in print, you’d say “Well, I didn’t mean to say it quite like that.”

And one other thing I think we’ve gotta remember. As easy as it is for those of us who are white, to look back and say “That’s a terrible statement!”…I grew up in a very segregated south. And I think that you have to cut some slack — and I’m gonna be probably the only Conservative in America who’s gonna say something like this, but I’m just tellin’ you — we’ve gotta cut some slack to people who grew up being called names, being told “you have to sit in the balcony when you go to the movie. You have to go to the back door to go into the restaurant. And you can’t sit out there with everyone else. There’s a separate waiting room in the doctor’s office. Here’s where you sit on the bus…” And you know what? Sometimes people do have a chip on their shoulder and resentment. And you have to just say, I probably would too. I probably would too. In fact, I may have had more of a chip on my shoulder had it been me.

Andra bloggar om: usa, mike huckabee, barack obama, rasism, religion

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Är det tillräckigt för att sätta punkt för skandalen runt pastor Wrights uttalanden?

Här några reaktioner:

Konservative Charles Murray:

Has any other major American politician ever made a speech on race that comes even close to this one? As far as I’m concerned, it is just plain flat out brilliant—rhetorically, but also in capturing a lot of nuance about race in America. It is so far above the standard we’re used to from our pols….

Konservative radioprataren Rush Limbaugh:

Obama is not an agent of racial healing, he is a product of it. He decries victimology, but basically promotes it in his speech today.

Politicos Ben Smith:

A smart colleague notes that this speech is the polar opposite of this year’s other big speech on faith, in which Mitt Romney went to Texas to talk about Mormonism, but made just one reference to his Mormon faith. Obama mentions Wright by name 14 times.

Taylor Marsh (känd bloggare som stöder Clinton):

Senator Obama gave a speech today that is larger than politics, but it in no way ends his political challenges. The national wound of race Barack didn’t want to touch is now reopened nationally and in the spotlight again. While his campaign wants to move on, the country will not, because everyone will be talking about race, through the invitation of Obama’s speech today.

Hotlines Jennifer Skalka:

Obama gave an eloquent speech today that will do much to quiet the increasingly polarizing debate about race in the Democratic contest. But more importantly, and more tellingly, he gave a deeply personal talk about his race, about his experience as a biracial American. And voters needed to hear it. Not because his biography is, in and of itself, the answer for these confusing times, but because, perhaps, only a person of his experience can dare all of us to be our better selves.

Andrew Sullivan (känd bloggare som stöder Obama):

This searing, nuanced, gut-wrenching, loyal, and deeply, deeply Christian speech is the most honest speech on race in America in my adult lifetime. It is a speech we have all been waiting for for a generation. Its ability to embrace both the legitimate fears and resentments of whites and the understandable anger and dashed hopes of many blacks was, in my view, unique in recent American history… I have never felt more convinced that this man’s candidacy – not this man, his candidacy – and what he can bring us to achieve – is an historic opportunity.

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På MSNBC sa tex Dyson:

Dyson: All I’m suggesting is that even though her tears, the sentiment that was being expressed because of all the tiredness, her verklempt moment that you talked about, was also the articulation of an idea that I find troublesome. That is to suggest that “I am THE only person. I’m gonna get it right, he’s gonna get it wrong,” and there’s an implicit racial subtext to that: “don’t let a black man run this country.”

Och Jesse Jackson Jr på MSNBC:

We saw something very clever in the last week of this campaign coming out of Iowa, going into New Hampshire, we saw a sensitivity factor. Something that Mrs. Clinton has not been able to do with voters that she tried in New Hampshire.

Not in response to voters — not in response to Katrina, not in response to other issues that have devastated the American people, the war in Iraq, we saw tears in response to her appearance. So her appearance brought her to tears, but not hurricane Katrina. källa

South Carolina är Obamas chans att ta kommandot igen. Därför försöker Obamas team lyfta fram denna debatt kring rasism. Runt 50 % av de som kommer rösta i South Carolina är svarta. Vinner Obama inte där blir det svårt för honom att dominera Super Tuesday kort därefter. Det är sannolikt där valet kommer att avgöras.

Andra bloggar om: usa, usa-valet, barack obama, rasism

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