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Obama's aim in the speech was to place Wright's outrage in context, which means history: which means the history of white racism, according to Obama.
Obama says, in his speech, "We do not need to recite here the history of racial injustice in this country," but then he proceeds to do exactly that. And awaiting listeners at the end of his recital of the long chain of white racial assaults, from slavery to employment discrimination? Why, Jeremiah Wright, of a certainty.
This contextual analysis of Wright's poison, this extention of black hate speech as if it were a product of white racism, isn't new. It's the Jesse Jackson politics of racial grievance, manifest here in Ivy League diction and Harvard Law-School nuance. And that's why the speech made so many liberal commentators just swoon: It washed them in racial guilt while flattering their poor intellectual pretensions. And that's...
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