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"Political issues are a distraction," he says, "from personal, psychological issues—things that happen in our households." The problems of his community are "not about racism," he insists. "They are about deep emotional deficits. Our young men are growing up dysfunctional, and instead of trying to help them, we blame white people. We champion the problem and call it a virtue. If you're not angry or psychotic, you're denying your blackness."
http://www.city-journal.org/html/5_3_a1.html
Instead, Obama's values and, YES, upbringing have led him onto the Annenburg path, where young blacks are 're-educated' using:
"Rites of Passage
To learn what the rites of passage movement was all about, we can turn to a sympathetic 1992 study published in the Journal of Negro Education by Nsenga Warfield-Coppock. In that article, Warfield-Coppock bemoans the fact that public education in the United States is shaped by “capitalism, competitiveness, racism, sexism and oppression.” According to Warfield-Coppock, these American values “have confused African American people and oriented them toward American definitions of achievement and success and away from traditional African values.” American socialization has “proven to be dysfuntional and genocidal to the African American community,” Warfield-Coppock tells us. The answer is the adolescent rites of passage movement, designed “to provide African American youth with the cultural information and values they would need to counter the potentially detrimental effects of a Eurocentrically oriented society.”
The adolescent rites of passage movement that flowered in the 1990s grew out of the “cultural nationalist” or “Pan-African” thinking popular in radical black circles of the 1960s and 1970s." -- Wright 101, S.Kurtz
This assertion is similar to most of what I hear from King. He combines stereotypical thinking with prejudicial remarks and passes it off as an absolute truth because he said it!
AS for checks and balances, they didn't stop George W. Bush and Dick Cheney from building their own international gulag, where the president can designate anyone an enemy combatant based on nothing-no facts, no court judgement, no habeas corpus, no right to respond. Abolishing the first and fourth amendments. And the American Taliban supports the right wing anti-law party because they are committed to a perverse anti-Christian version of the bible that relies heavily on Old Testament Law and rejects the forgiveness, equality, and love of Jesus, in essence rejecting him as the Christ. Who will you follow? The old tyranny dressed in 150,000 of new clothes, or a humble man of the people who has risen above his station and chosen not the path of wealth, but of service? Obama is the answer. McCain is the status quo, a suicide note for American democracy and rule of law.