Obama's and three words

Senator Barack Obama made a major blunder with three little words. All it took was a brief appearance on a radio show for Obama to cancel out his great speech on race. It does not matter, that he used a personal story to tell a very real public story about his grandmomma's strongly held beliefs. Obama's grandmomma was not a racist, but she held some views that were ingrained from years of racial indoctrine about African-Americans. But that truth did not matter, the fact of the matter is this, Obama offended folks.

Raced white voters whom votes he was seeking and who were unsure about supporting him simply because he is an African-American.

Three words..Typical White Person..leaves left little room for those raced white folks who do not believe they continue to hold onto certain stereotypes of African-Americans. Those three words, Typical White Person has given these raced whites folks who utter they are colorblind and race does not matter, the excuse they needed to not support Obama. Those three words did it.

Obama expressed a generalized stereotype of all raced white folks that is not true. But that does not make Obama a racist. A racist is someone who support the denial rights guaranteed in the Constitution to some people based on the folks skin color, sometime even including the genocides of a group of people.

Obama did not suggest that his raced white grandmomma would kill African-Americans but that she would utter and act differently to a certain group, who happened to be AFrican-Americans. Obama suggested that his grandmomma had certain racialist behavior that was taught and sometime acted upon.

Obama's attempt at expressing these deeply held belief by some raced white folks, came out as condemning all raced white folks in raced white folks inability to change their behavior and their belief system.

Obama made one comment that is being played over and over, when in fact, an African-American is bombarded every day with such loose lipped comments. A comment that took away from the great things Obama's had to say in his elegant speech.

And because Obama had such great things to say in his speech about healing the racial divide, the focus on the Obama's granny soundbite and the radio comment, is no surpise. But it does give more fuel to some raced whites as a reason not to support a raced black man running for President of the United States for fear that he just might on the down low hate raced white people.