Ferraro: Obama Wrong to Compare Me to Wright

The Washington Post 20 months ago

Ferraro: Obama Wrong to Compare Me to Wright

In his landmark speech Tuesday in Philadelphia, Barack Obama urged Americans to use the controversy caused by the airing of his former pastor's incendiary remarks as an opportunity for a broader discussion of race in American society. Full Article at The Washington Post

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That's my mother's generation.
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To equate what I said with what this racist bigot has said from the pulpit is unbelievable ... He gave a very good speech on race relations, but he did not address the fact that this man is up there spewing hatred.
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What this man is doing is he is spewing that stuff out to young people, and to younger people than Obama, and putting it in their heads that it's OK to say 'Goddamn America' and it's OK to beat up on white people ... You don't preach that from the pulpit.
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We can dismiss Reverend Wright as a crank or a demagogue, just as some have dismissed Geraldine Ferraro in the aftermath of her recent statements as harboring some deep-seated bias.
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I think they got as far as they could go politically ... They're looking at their base. Their base is African Americans. They're looking at that and they're trying to walk a very thin line. They don't want to offend the African Americans, and this is the way he did it.
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On one end of the spectrum, we've heard the implication that my candidacy is somehow an exercise in affirmative action; that it's based solely on the desire of wild- and wide-eyed liberals to purchase racial reconciliation on the cheap ... On the other end, we've heard my former pastor, Jeremiah Wright,...
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This is what I know, and this is the truth I will ask you to confront as your President. If you elect me, it will be on my terms. If you don't like it, vote for someone else.
SOURCE: The Independent 20 months ago
I think they got as far as they could go politically ... They're looking at their base. Their base is African Americans. They're looking at that and they're trying to walk a very thin line. They don't want to offend the African Americans, and this is the way he did it.
SOURCE: The Washington Post 20 months ago
America's chickens coming home to roost
SOURCE: The Independent 20 months ago
What this man is doing is he is spewing that stuff out to young people, and to younger people than Obama, and putting it in their heads that it's OK to say 'Goddamn America' and it's OK to beat up on white people ... You don't preach that from the pulpit.
SOURCE: The Washington Post 20 months ago