I just can't buy this. Obama threw his grandmother under a bus to get his point across.
As he stated, she sacrificed so much, loved him so much and worked so hard to make a better life for him and then in public makes a statement, that shows her disrespect and then turns around and talks about how she is family and he couldn't cut her loose.
Here is another issue of how he wants to have it both ways.
There have been years and years of people talking about bridging the gap of race and my question is: What would Obama bring new to this conversation that hasn't already ready been brought?
Obama's grandmother apparently was a loving person, who was racially insensitive or even bigoted at times. Obama was citing her as a victim of her time, like his Pastor. I didn't get the sense that he loved her less for that or that he threw her under a bus.
There were many new things in the speech from the tone to specific instances of which the grandmother example was one. I can't imagine any of the usual pro-black public advocates coming up with anything like this.
One of the main things for me and I'm sure for many white guys is that here is a black guy understanding how some white folk just don't relate to the historical injustice done to black people in the States. Not accepting the lack of emphathy for black anger, but at least identifying it without indignation as a fact and a problem to be bridged.
I still think it was an excellent speech.


















