"I can no more disown [Wright] than I can disown my white grandmother,
a woman who helped raise me, a woman who sacrificed again and again
for me, a woman who loves me as much as she loves anything in this
world, but a woman who once confessed her fear of black men who passed
her by on the street, and who on more than one occasion has uttered
racial or ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe... The point I was
making was not that my grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She
doesn't. But she is a typical white person." - Senator Barack Obama

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Typical White People
by linfar, Mon Mar 31, 2008 at 11:39:24 AM EST

Cross posted from www.SavagePolitics.com

I ordered my 'typical white person' t-shirt today. Something I never
saw myself doing when I first set out on that road I walked for
decades in behalf of civil rights. And my Dad, if he were still
living...