Ferraro: Obama Wrong to Compare Me to Wright

The Washington Post 20 months ago

Ferraro: Obama Wrong to Compare Me to Wright

Former vice presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro responds to a reporter's question during a media availability on the Bryant University campus in North Smithfield, R.I. , Thursday, March 13, 2008. Full Article at The Washington Post

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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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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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The point I was making was not that my grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She doesn't. But she is a, uh, typical white person. Who, uh, ya know, if she sees somebody on the street that she doesn't know, ya know there's a reaction that's BEEN BRED INTO OUR EXPERIENCES that, that don't go away. And...
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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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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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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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That's my mother's generation.
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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 (Wright) is doing is spewing that stuff out to young people and to younger people than Obama and putting it in their heads that its OK to say 'God damn America' and to beat up on white people ... You don't preach that from the pulpit.
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