Dissing granny
In that portion of the speech in which he refused to disavow Wright by comparing Wright to his grandmother, Obama essentially “forgave” his grandmother for the “sin” of being worried about seeing black youths on the street as she walks by. I kind of ignored that attribution when I said Grandmother Obama never bad-mouthed anybody. The reason for this blind spot on my part — when Obama was trying to call her a racist, but a forgivable one, was that I viewed her concerns that as a factual reality, not a racist emotion. It turns out that I can be forgiven for feeling as I do — that is, for not understanding that Obama was calling his own grandmother a racist because of this worry — since it turns out that Granny Obama and I are not the only ones who share that concern. Someone else does too, and you may be surprised who it is.
