Reply #43: Right.....Coretta Scott King would have signed onto the "Kansas Influence" nonsense? [View All]

[msanthrope]

"I think my dear brother Barack Obama has a certain fear of free black men. It’s understandable. As a young brother who grows up in a white context, brilliant African father, he’s always had to fear being a white man with black skin. All he has known culturally is white. He is just as human as I am, but that is his cultural formation. When he meets an independent black brother, it is frightening. And that’s true for a white brother. When you get a white brother who meets a free, independent black man, they got to be mature to really embrace fully what the brother is saying to them. It’s a tension, given the history. It can be overcome. Obama, coming out of Kansas influence, white, loving grandparents, coming out of Hawaii and Indonesia, when he meets these independent black folk who have a history of slavery, Jim Crow, Jane Crow and so on, he is very apprehensive. He has a certain rootlessness, a deracination."


http://www.slate.com/content/slate/blogs/weigel/2011/05/17/cornel_west_worries_about_barack_obama_s_kansas_influence.html


Sure. I can see her ghostly hand helping him to write....