Obama: My Grandmother Is a Racist Too

Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 9:58:38 am PDT

Gateway Pundit has a round-up of blog reactions to the section of Barack Obama’s speech in which he accused his ailing grandmother of racism and equated her with Rev. Jeremiah Wright.

Obama: 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 by her on the street, and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe.

A good piece from Melanie Phillips: Trashing grandma, yet.