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Thread #109574   Message #2297327
Posted By: CarolC
25-Mar-08 - 12:38 PM
Thread Name: BS: Obama's Defining Moment Speech
Subject: RE: BS: Obama's Defining Moment Speech
and when they are quoted, it is always with full understanding of what they imply.

What they might imply. This is obviously an assumption on your part. If you just go by that one phrase, rather than examining the rest of the speech, you are engaging in stereotyping. It's pretty obvious that Rev. Wright meant something entirely different in his speech than what Malcolm X meant both in his speech as well as in his comment on JFK. If you ignore that and only look at the one phrase to form your judgment, while ignoring the meaning of the speech as a whole, you are engaging in stereotyping, and it does look a bit racist. Are Blacks required to abandon the use of the phrase entirely just because Malcolm X used it in a way that we don't like? White people are allowed to use it without being judged in that way. But from now until the end of time, no Black person is allowed to use it without being accused of being racists or separatist, just because one Black person used it in that way, regardless of what he or she actually meant when he or she used it? Sorry, but that definitely looks racist to me.