{"id":2449,"date":"2012-10-03T07:15:43","date_gmt":"2012-10-03T07:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=2449"},"modified":"2012-10-03T07:15:43","modified_gmt":"2012-10-03T07:15:43","slug":"obamas-other-race-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=2449","title":{"rendered":"Obama’s other race speech"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In a video obtained exclusively by The Daily Caller, then-presidential candidate Barack Obama tells an audience of black ministers, including the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, that the U.S. government shortchanged Hurricane Katrina victims because of racism.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe people down in New Orleans they don\u2019t care about as much!\u201d Obama shouts in the video, which was shot in June of 2007 at Hampton University in Virginia. By contrast, survivors of Sept. 11 and Hurricane Andrew received generous amounts of aid, Obama explains. The reason? Unlike residents of majority-black New Orleans, the federal government considers those victims \u201cpart of the American family.\u201d<\/p>\n

The racially charged and at times angry speech undermines Obama\u2019s carefully-crafted image as a leader eager to build bridges between ethnic groups. For nearly 40 minutes, using an accent he almost never adopts in public, Obama describes a racist, zero-sum society, in which the white majority profits by exploiting black America. The mostly black audience shouts in agreement. The effect is closer to an Al Sharpton rally than a conventional campaign event.<\/p>\n

Obama gave the speech in the middle of a hotly-contested presidential primary season, but his remarks escaped scrutiny. Reporters in the room seem to have missed or ignored his most controversial statements. The liberal blogger Andrew Sullivan linked to what he described as a \u201ctranscript\u201d of the speech, which turned out not to be a transcript at all, but instead the prepared remarks provided by the campaign. In fact, Obama, who was not using a teleprompter, deviated from his script repeatedly and at length, ad libbing lines that he does not appear to have used before any other audience during his presidential run. A local newspaper posted a series of video clips of the speech, but left out key portions. No complete video of the Hampton speech was widely released.<\/p>\n

Obama begins his address with \u201ca special shout out\u201d to Jeremiah Wright, the Chicago pastor who nearly derailed Obama\u2019s campaign months later when his sermons attacking Israel and America and accusing the U.S. government of \u201cinventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color\u201d became public. To the audience at Hampton, Obama describes Wright as, \u201cmy pastor, the guy who puts up with me, counsels me, listens to my wife complain about me. He\u2019s a friend and a great leader. Not just in Chicago, but all across the country.\u201d<\/p>\n

By the time Obama appeared at Hampton, Jeremiah Wright had become a political problem. Wright told The New York Times earlier that year that he would no longer be speaking on the campaign\u2019s behalf because his rhetoric was considered too militant. And yet later in the Hampton speech Obama explicitly defends Wright from unnamed critics, a group he describes as \u201cthey\u201d: \u201cThey had stories about Trinity United Church of Christ, because we talked about black people in church: \u2018Oh, that might be a separatist church,\u2019\u201d Obama said mockingly.<\/p>\n

There was an article in the US World Report regarding the orderly behavior of the Japanese citizens and the absence of looting after the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear nightmare.<\/p>\n

Social scientists were baffled by the total non-existence of looting and savage behavior in Japan considering the magnitude of this catastrophe. They conferred with human study organizations as well as sociology experts throughout the United States. Japan lacks diversity, was the conclusion.<\/p>\n

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In a video obtained exclusively by The Daily Caller, then-presidential candidate Barack Obama tells an audience of black ministers, including the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, that the U.S. government shortchanged Hurricane Katrina victims because of racism. \u201cThe people down in New Orleans they don\u2019t care about as much!\u201d Obama shouts in the video, which was shot … Continue reading “Obama’s other race speech”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2450,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[1554,1553,90,65,157,745],"class_list":["post-2449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-united-states","tag-black-entitlement","tag-diversity","tag-obama","tag-race","tag-racism","tag-usa"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/katrina.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2449"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2452,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449\/revisions\/2452"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}