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Extremely offensive remarks about blacks

by Craig J. Cantoni

Below in italics are some extremely offensive remarks about blacks. It's no coincidence that they are similar in tone, content, bigotry, and ignorance to what Reverend Jeremiah Wright said about whites. That's because I took the reverend's racist themes and turned them around to apply to blacks instead of whites. And like the reverend, I made no attempt to put anything in historical context.

As you read the comments, imagine what would happen if they were said by a white preacher. Better yet, imagine what would happen if it were revealed that John McCain had attended the preacher's services and been a close friend of the preacher for 20 years. Not only would McCain's presidential campaign be over, but his political career would be over.

The comments are so volatile that I asked a black friend if I should publish them. He answered, "This is a powerfully apt presentation and I concur wholeheartedly. Put it on the airwaves." (A brilliant e-mail from him on Obama's race speech is printed separately below this article.)

Even with my friend's blessing, some prefatory remarks are in order: First, it would take many pages to list what I did in the 1970s to fight for equal rights for blacks and what I learned from working for, and with, industrious blacks as a teenager in the mid-1960s, before the Great Society put blacks on the government plantation. (To earn extra money, I even washed and waxed the big Pontiacs and Buicks of my black coworkers while wishing that my working-class parents didn't drive a rusted junker.) Second, my personal belief is that all humans, regardless of race, have the same inherent intelligence and the same propensity for good and evil. Third, all races would have the same record of good and evil, and of conquest and oppression, if their geographic and historic circumstances had been the same.

As the following shows, that's not what the Reverend Wright believes, and that's what makes him and his ilk such a danger to civil society.

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It's good to see so many of God's chosen white people here today for Sunday service. As the Bible says, Jesus was white and was killed by black people.

It's no accident, then, that the AIDS epidemic began in Africa. It was God punishing blacks for what they had done.

If it were left to the African pharmaceutical industry to develop drugs to treat AIDS, there would be no drugs to treat AIDS. That's because there is no African pharmaceutical industry. Come to think of it, what are blacks known for?

When whites were building cathedrals, blacks were running around in loin cloths and with bones through their noses. When whites were writing great literature and inventing the printing press, blacks were dancing around a fire outside of their huts. When whites were using reason to solve the mysteries of the universe, blacks were obeying witch doctors.

It took whites to end slavery in Africa. It took whites to bring about the Enlightenment. It took whites to develop the concept of individual liberty. It took whites to write the Magna Carta and U.S. Constitution. It took whites to increase life expectancy, cure diseases, stop epidemics, and grow enough food to end starvation.

Today, it's going to take whites to stop sub-Saharan Africans from slaughtering each other over tribal differences. And it's going to take whites to stop African-Americans from having babies out of wedlock, from killing each other, from killing themselves with obesity, from depending on the government, and from dropping out of school.

Yes, it's a white man's burden. But if you don't do it, blacks won't do it for themselves.

In closing, let me recognize a close friend in the audience. Senator McCain, thank you for your support.

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An e-mail from a black friend:

I listened to Obama's speech today [3/18/08], even though I don't normally listen to political rhetoric. But in this case, I had two objectives.

From an intellectual perspective, I'm always interested in seeing how someone will attempt to defend the indefensible and explain away the unexplainable.

From morbidly human curiosity, I wanted to see the reactions of a person who finds that someone had lit the fuse to a bomb he had in his pocket and he can't reach the fuse to put it out.

Well, Obama swung and missed badly. He will keep those who are looking for a messiah, but few others. When rumors started floating on the weekend that he was going to address this issue further my wife replied, "What can he say to explain this?"

I said, "Nothing. He can't defend or explain it, so there are only two things he can do to put this behind him and even turn it into a personal and political advantage."

First, he has to say that "Recent events have convinced me that the racial divide and divisiveness is kept alive and promoted by my fellow blacks and my fellow Democrats. The recent comments of my long-time pastor and Ms. Ferraro proves this to me."

Second, to show he transcends race and desires to heal the racial divide, he must make two bold pronouncements to heal the divide as proof. He should announce that effectively immediately he renounces affirmative action and supports complete school choice. (This idea co-opted from a Townhall Columnist a week ago.)

He should say, "I renounce affirmative action because it is divisive, considered unfair by White America, and is of dubious value to blacks." (Actually, a majority of blacks and a large majority of whites are against affirmative action as well.)

He should say, "I support complete school choice because the current system fails blacks and is considered unfair by blacks--leading to racial tension. Choice provides equal opportunity in education." (Eighty-three percent of blacks and a majority of whites support school choice as well.)

My wife asked me if I thought he would do those two things. I said no, because he is controlled by the far left. But, if he did, there would be no immediate Democrat protest because people would be too busy picking their jaws off the floor and recovering from mental shock--and he would change his entire campaign discussion and dynamic. (Furthermore, the breeze he kicked up would blow out the fuse to the bomb in his pocket.)

Instead, Obama tried to shift the whole thing to a generation gap. How ludicrous! Reverend Wright is only 65 years old, near my age. If the reverend grew up on Chicago's south side, he never knew formal segregation or overt racism. Illinois came into the union as a free state before 1820. Their schools were integrated long before he attended them.

If Reverend Wright grew up with those racist Democrats in the Jim Crow south, then he knows there is a solar system difference between conditions in America now and those of 40-50 years ago. Thus, there is absolutely no basis for Reverend Wright's pulpit invective.

Obama is a fraud.
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Mr. Cantoni is an author and columnist. He can be reached at ccan2@aol.com.