If anything his Arab/Muslim ancesters were probably responsible for selling slaves to Europeans.

And his White ancesters were probably involved in the slave trade (if my memory serves)

I am married to a black American who carries within her the blood of slaves and slaveowners – an inheritance we pass on…
…the blood that had spilled [in Bible stories and in slavery] was our blood…
…a story that has seared into my genetic makeup the idea that…
…the black experience in America… [ed: Isn't every individual's experience in America unique?]
…[The] legacy of defeat… passed on to future generations [ed: How? genetically?]
…the chasm of misunderstanding that exists between the races… [ed: What are you - a Jim Crow segregationist?]

A few reminders.
- Barack Obama is NOT the descendant of slaves.
- Anyway, there is no "slave blood" nor "slaveowner blood" nor any other kind of "blood".
- Nor can ideas or principles – of any kind – be genetically transmitted.

It’s all false concepts – the false concepts of *identity politics* – the false concepts that represent, not the solution to our problems, but the cause of many of them.

Second: Obama in no way "unequivocally" denounces Wright’s comments. He claims to. You can quote him deploying the adverb. But if you actually read and understand the referents of his bloated adverbs: Nowhere does Obama denounce or distance himself from one single, specific comment or idea taught by Wright. His comments on Wright are a mass of equivocations.

"I have already condemned, in unequivocal terms, the statements of Reverend Wright that have caused such controversy."

No, Mr. Obama, you have not. Or else: WHICH statements of Wright have you condemned? You don’t say here. You haven’t said elsewhere. Nobody knows. No one can say.

You allude vaguely to the "controversial" Wright statements, or "the remarks that have caused this recent firestorm" – leaving it entirely to the reader, or the Kool-Aid drinkers, to fantasize what you ‘must’ mean. Followed by a far lengthier (in word / sentence count) defense of Wright.

…so many of the disparities that exist in the African-American community today can be directly traced to inequalities passed on from an earlier generation that suffered under the brutal legacy of slavery and Jim Crow…

Oh, really? Jim Crow ended at least two generations ago. Are African-American individuals, Mr. Obama, somehow uniquely unable to succeed in life or raise themselves from poverty? As I, and tens of millions of others, have done for ourselves? I would never say that, nor believe that.

Legalized discrimination… meant that black families could not amass any meaningful wealth to bequeath to future generations.

My family didn’t bequeath any of what you call "meaningful wealth" to me, either. But, let’s accept your point for argument’s sake. You’re talking about 70, 100, 150 years ago. What about since the 1970s? What about today?

Obama’s key sections: Blame others, blame others, blame America.

Anger over welfare and affirmative action helped forge the Reagan Coalition.

And that, we are to believe, somehow reflect racism? Did it occur to you that the forms welfare and affirmative action took in the 1970s were *morally wrong*? That people might have objected, or felt "angry" as you elect to term it, on moral grounds?

Just as black anger often proved counterproductive, so have these white resentments distracted attention from the real culprits of the middle class squeeze – a corporate culture rife with inside dealing, questionable accounting practices, and short-term greed…

Ah, there it is. Obama’s (and any leftist’s) real agenda: Blame capitalism. Even though the problems you cite are only manifestations of *Big Government, Left-corrupted* capitalism – which is actually fascism, not capitalism. "Feeling down from Left’s poison, America? Take more poison, it’ll cure what ails you."

Let us be our brother’s keeper, Scripture tells us.

The lefty’s dream. Socialism. Collectivism. A world where all are enslaved to all.  Starting with enslavement to false categories / groups, like… "the races".

Mr. Obama has directly and unequivocally denounced Reverend Wright’s hateful words.

At the time the comment was written yesterday, it was a falsehood – and possibly still is (see below). I don’t think it’s an intentional falsehood on Kevin’s part, because poor Kevin is such a Kool-aid drinker. But I’m certain it is intentionally false – i.e., a lie – on Obama’s part, because Obama does know better, as Beldar showed here:

http://beldar.blogs.com/beldarblog/2008/03/why-im-unpersua.html#more

Here is the Cliffs Notes version for you.  Obama is a Harvard-trained lawyer.  He knows how to parse words, a la Bill Clinton.  And WHAT comments of Wright’s has Obama "unequivocally" denounced, or disagrees with ‘vehemently’, etc?  We don’t know, because Obama has taken very great care never to say!

The above comment is in reference to what Obama has said of Wright’s comments before today’s speech.  IF Obama did say, in today’s speech, "I denounce Wright’s ‘God damn America’ comment" or "I denounce Wright’s ‘America deserved 9-11′ comment", please let me know.

Oh yeah? Unequivocal is not a "fudge" word. So, if others are not satisfied that Obama put his connection with Wright’s racism to rest, what happens to "unequivocal"?  

It never fails.  This has become the universal technique to never actually get down to discussing the abuse/wrong/controversy done by a Democrat.

Watch any show.. and see it in action.

Then watch all the Republican idiots fall for the tactic and then start being on the defensive or waste time explaining why the comparasion is false.

Of course this isn’t restricted to TV..watch it on any blog too.

What’s a sadder commentary than that is we have liberal "adults" circling the wagons around such garbage and pointing fingers at Hagee, Robertson, Falwell, Kern etc. They wouldn’t dare accept and condemn this Wright ass hat.

I was listening to some douchebag fawining (read: interviewing) the Reverennnnd Jacksonnnn tonight. Jackson excused Wright with the pathetic excuse that Republicans speak at Bob Jones Univ. Nevermind that the difference that Orgasma attended this racist bastard’s church for 20 years and has adopted his clearly racist agenda.

It’s a sad commentary on liberals and I guess it shows that one shouldn’t expect them to be any better. Kevin’s a fine example.