A little quote from his book, hat tip to, and courtesy of Xoggoths blog.

“If the language, the humor, the stories of ordinary people were the stuff out of which families, communities, economies would have to be built, then I couldn’t separate that strength from the hurt and distortions that lingered around us. And it was the implications of that fact, I realized, that had most disturbed me. The stories that I had been hearing from the leadership, all the records of courage and sacrifice and overcoming of great odds, hadn’t simply arisen from struggles with pestilence or drought, or mere poverty. They had arisen out of a very particular experience with hate. That hate hadn’t gone away; it formed a counter-narrative buried deep within each person and at the center of which stood white people-some cruel, some ignorant, sometimes a single face, sometimes just a faceless image of a system claiming power over our lives. I had to ask myself whether the bonds of community could be restored without collectively exorcising that ghostly figure that haunted black dreams.”

Now let’s summarize this. He says that in both dreams and awake, there steadily hangs in the minds of all black people in America an oppressive image of white people. This image carries with it a feeling of hatred for white people and hatred of both a governmental system and a society that is oppressively white.

The first indicator of his meaning is “the records of courage and sacrifice and overcoming of great odds, hadn’t simply arisen from struggles with pestilence or drought, or mere poverty. They had arisen out of a very particular experience with hate … at the center of which stood white people”

He’s not talking about the record of courage, sacrifice, struggles and poverty of Americans or white people. He’s talking about blacks.

He states that all black people have suffered from “the hurt and distortions that lingered around us”, inflicted by white peope, which has given rise to hatred and “That hate hadn’t gone away; it formed a counter-narrative (anti-white racism) buried deep within each person (each black person) and at the center of which stood white people.”

He questions whether or not we can all just get along as long as there are more white people running things than black people.

No doubt as president he would do all he could to reverse that situation.

There’s something that perhaps this expert on white/black relations could clarify for me: Since he makes a distinct separation between white people and black people instead of seeing us all as just Americans, then perhaps he’d care to comment on the huge differences in the quality of life between blacks in Africa and blacks in America while he’s busily justifying hating white people?

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