On the race issue, this Liberal candidate is lining up the whites and blacks at the end of the barrel of the gun.

Liberal candidate for President Sen. Barack Obama’s race speech delivered recently at the National Constitution Center, the nation’s museum of freedom and liberty in Philadelphia, had stirred a hornet’s nest. It was not only controversial because it was an affront to Martin Luther King, Jr.’s legacy – a disgrace to the lifetime struggle of a brilliant catalyst that bridged the ever widening racial divide -- but also because it was an eloquent nightmare that positioned the country at the end of the barrel of a shotgun stand against racism.

Before a curious crowed of pro-Obama as well as uncommitted Democrats mixed with pro-Clinton hecklers, Obama was reacting to, actually confirming and re-enforcing the validity of, the angry sermon of his mentor-pastor Rev. Jeremiah Wright who made a seditious call to the nation that “blacks should damn America for continuing to mistreat them.”

In effect, the spiteful pastor damned Americans and condemned America saying that the terrorist attacks of 9/11 meant that "America's chickens are coming home to roost" and that "racism is how this country was founded and how this country is still run."

These belligerent public posturing and nasty quotes from Obama’s church that divide America even more, especially when these incite a nationwide confrontation between blacks and whites, suddenly dropped down on the unsuspecting public from the dark sky of racism, like a pouring rain. Those were caught in print by the listening websites when online media coverage of Obama’s racist response speech inundated the Internet.

In this race speech, Obama contradicted himself in public as usual.

The racist pastor is free to speak up his mind. In this free country, Obama cannot claim that Rev. Wright is a property he could own “like how this country was founded and how this country is [was] run” once upon a time when by virtue of slave ownership, he would have the right to order the pastor to keep his mouth shut. Yet at the same time Obama claimed that he could not disown Rev. Wright and his white grandmother for uttering their racial prejudices.

This is what Obama said: “I can no more disown him [Pastor Wright] than I can my white grandmother — a woman who helped raise me … who once confessed her fear of black men who passed by her on the street, and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe." For Obama to disown a relationship with racists and racism and to denounce in public their racial prejudice, yet claimed he could not disown them being undisguised angry racists they are [his pastor mentor and grandmother for what they are] is an eloquent double-talk in public. Records show that this candidate, like co-presidential aspirant Hilary Clinton, is notorious for his oxymoron in the campaign trail.

What is tragic about this Obama quest for the nation’s presidency is that many innocent Americans are hooked by the Senator’s oxymoron articulacy, but not a chance that he could hoodwink me or millions of my kind whose mind’s eye can see what hides in the dark better than the sonar sight of an uneducated blind bat that lives in the primitive cave of ignorance.

Obama’s race speech in Pennsylvania was once more laced with contradictions. Every oratorical statement that he delivered in public with reckless abandon triggered a chain of inconsistencies and a spate of oxymoron. What surprised me is that hardly did the American public notice this public deception. Not a single alarm on Obama’s eccentric if not outlandish incongruity was posted by the Media in online publications or ever discussed in radio and television to warn the public, except perhaps this editorial insight that you are reading now in this website.

For example, in spite of Rev. Wright’s racial belligerence towards whites, Obama eloquently announced that he could not disown his pastor who raves with racial prejudice because he “inspired him to practice Christianity”. Notice this caveat question carefully: What kind of “Christianity” did Obama learn from Rev. Wright which he would practice if elected president? The answer to this disturbing apprehension is a serious cause of national concern.

From Obama’s church, Rev. Wright calls on blacks with an insuperable rage to “damn America” which he claimed is run by white racists and racism. This country was once torn by this kind of subversive resentment and treasonous public outcry just before the first shot of the Civil War was fired that consequently claimed millions of American lives in terms of casualties in and outside the battlefield. This is not the kind of Christianity that the pastor advocates, which inspired Obama to practice his own version of Christianity. If it is, we should climb the belfry and ring the bell of alarm. For this oxymoron is no less inflammatory that could ignite the emotional hazards of the great divide into a state of civil war.

The most naked oxymoron that should not escape public notice is Obama’s denunciation of racism in America, and the rejection of the pastor’s hatred of America run by racists and racism. And yet Obama did not denounce but instead confirmed the pastor’s racial anger, and supported the right of both the blacks and the whites to be angry at each other as well, because of existing racial discrimination. “…[T]he legacy of discrimination — and current incidents of discrimination, while less overt than in the past — are real and must be addressed," Obama said. “…[I]t’s not just blacks who are angry — some whites are, too, because they feel blacks are often given an unfair advantage through affirmative action.”

Justifying racial anger is not a solution. In his Pennsylvania speech, Obama could neither disown racists who are close to him nor resist their propagation of racism as a matter of personal conviction. If you have a personal connection in life to those who practice racism – like a white grandmother who helped raise you or a pastor that inspired you to practice Christianity, do not denounce them, much more disown them. The right to racism is more than justified.

Notice how Obama is deeply trapped in the vortex of his own contradictions.

Obama’s eloquence in mouthing this habitual contradictions in public after several months of traveling down the road to White House, is a charisma from the dark side that should be by now, a public knowledge. On the subject of race as a determinant factor in his presidential campaign, to Obama and his followers, the dilemma was to denounce or not to denounce the practice of racism and at the same time extremely careful as they are not to lose votes. Winning this presidential is all that matters. To be honest about it, the confused Senator could not say with conviction at the risk of losing an election that the whites discriminate against his black race because even in his own church, hiding behind the veil of Christianity, his race through the likes of Rev. Wright, also exercises the right to counter-discriminate against the whites … and that is the right to be angry against America run by racism.

To be or not to be against racism is to Obama, the gnawing but nevertheless knowing question. As shown in what has been discussed so far, Obama obviously needs help. A Samaritan gesture is spiritually compelling for me and on that note, I recommend that the Senator and supporters should read the editorial essay I wrote and published germane to Obama’s dilemma: “To Get Along Bridge Not Breach This Great Divide” [1] [Click on this bracketed link.] This eye-opener to Obama is also run by several websites read by millions of Internet viewers.

The gist of the said editorial compassion to unite rather than divide, is easy to read and digest. In this written reconciliatory piece, the following summary greets the reader:

“The issue is not whether or not we could get along, but whether or not we should.

“Pundits had predicted that 2008 is a very contentious year. We have to narrow down the great divide instead of widening the gap into a yawning chasm of energy-consuming differences that throws the nation into the abyss of irreconcilable and catastrophic confrontation. That’s how the cannons of the Great Civil War were fired, and how we once upon a time marched down the prairie with a curse and a gun. We thought our differences could be resolved at the end of the barrel of the gun so in anger we pulled the trigger. We were wrong. Our animosity did not go away even as we buried our heroes at the sonorous sound of the trumpet for the dead. edwin a. sumcad 01/07/08”

Contrary to Obama’s Pennsylvania race speech, we cannot line up this multi-racial haven of the free – this freest nation on the planet -- at the end of the barrel of the gun. #