Obama Speech Live

How are you tonight?

10:48

Abraham Lincoln and his steady hand? Well, so much for scholarship.

10:49:

The rest of the world does not look like we do? Who is we? I look like a great deal of the world. So here we have a "speech" on race that is being introduced from the white perspective. Again.

10:52:

And so we get the usual King homage along with the Kennedy homage. How many other black heroes people does this guy even know?

10:53: Obama takes the stage.

10:55: Independence stained by "original sin" Slavery. Well it also has this issue of the Native American. Not mentioned.

10:57: We all want to move in the same direction. Well no, not really.

10:58: Story that can be made in no other place in terms of his family make up. Actually that's not true.

11:00: incendiary comments that hurt people white and black? So? That could potentially divide people? So? The first thing is to expose the truth. Truth hurts. It is a lie.

11:01: Israel good. Palestinians bad/wrong. Scholarship be damned.

11:06: And sooo we are now get a presentation on the black church. On a presidential bid. Unfortunately he and Romney have to actually explain this kind of stuff.

11:08 race cannot be ignored. But the campaign up to now has attempted to do just that.

11:09: good jobs for every American. Actualy under a Capitalist system, there must be unemployment. But that's off topic.

11:10: We don't need to go over the injustices of the past. Well yes 'cause people don't know the information. Nice to see Obama actually discuss this material. Could have been done a lot sooner.

11:12: Why, after discussing the fact that discrimination was and IS a problem, why pigeonhole Wright as being simply a product of the past?

11:13: More code words. "Anger", "Frustration" black folks acting emotionally. Not that some of us are dealing from scholarship.

11:14: Working class whites feel "not priviledged." This is not the same. Since black folk have no part in policy. These resentments are scapegoating and are the result of white privilege.

11:17: Whites being distracted. The problem with that argument is that black activists have long been telling white folk that they too are being screwed by those in power. The problem being that many white people and a large number of black folk want to get into the same position as those in greater power.

11:20: Wright thought the society was static: I'm not particularly buying that, but I can't speak for Mr. Wright.

11:24: Native Americans exist!!

11:29: Standard presidential speech now.

Overall. If you're in the middle the speech ought to go well. I don't see Obama losing any voters who were already for him. I think some of his white support may go down if not in democratic circles, in Republican circles. I think this speech may be a tipping point for Independent white voters the tilt being determined whether they are on the right or left side of the tilt.

Obama mentioned losing jobs overseas which I don't think plays well for him given the Canada flap. We'll see how PA plays. Overall thought I think that black voters will stay in his camp especially now that on a national stage he as actually made mention of them. Overall though, scholarship wise and data wise the comparisons of white resentment and so called "black anger" as equivalent is extremely flawed. It would have been better had Obama taken the opportunity to point out that the vast majority of people on welfare are white and that the leading beneficiaries of Affirmative Action are white women.