May 30th, 2008

Father Michael Pfleger, a (white, this matters later) pastor at Barack Obama’s church, made the following remarks in a recent sermon in reference to Hillary Clinton’s crying episode(s).

I really don’t believe it was a put-on. I always thought she felt ‘This is mine. I’m Bill’s wife. I’m white. And this is mine. I just got to get up and step into the plate.’ And then out of nowhere came, ‘Hey, I’m Barack Obama.’ And she said, ‘Oh damn, where did you come from? I’m white. I’m entitled. There’s a black man stealing my show.

Why bother to inject race into this at all? I don’t think she cares that she is white, except that that appeals to white voters, presumably. This is a revised version of Pfleger’s statement, which is probably right on the money:

I really don’t believe it was a put-on. I always thought she felt ‘This is mine. I’m Bill’s wife. And this is mine. I just got to get up and step into the plate.’ And then out of nowhere came, ‘Hey, I’m Barack Obama.’ And she said, ‘Oh damn, where did you come from? I’m entitled. There’s another guy stealing my show.

Same meaning, except maybe a little less salt-in-wound-ish considering the audience is sitting in a black church. White people have this thing where we think that if we talk in reverse racism, it somehow makes it OK and proves we are not racists.

But here’s the cold hard truth: the best way to prove you are not concerned with race is to not be concerned with it. Making sermons bashing a particular race, even if it is your own, makes you fucking retarded.

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