re: #328 iceweasel

Guanx88 nails the Wright issue for me in 320.

The point I was originally making, though, is that there was an ugly undercurrent to some of the hysteria over Wright that most definitely was meant to play to the notion of Obama as scary, angry black man bent on separatism, reparations, and ‘getting whitey’. The talk about the mythical whitey tape is a perfect example of it: it was supposedly some event connected with Wright’s church, featuring an angry michelle obama, and if I’m not mistaken the rumours even included talk about Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam. Those particular sorts of rumours were certainly aimed at propagating that notion of ‘angry black man’— and that is a trope still being marketed now by some, with talk of Obama having a ‘deepseated hatred for white culture’ and the like.

I think Wright is inexcusable and the race baiting on the right is appalling. Racial politics is absolutely disgusting.