Borack Obama said his Grandmother is a "typical white person" because she would be afraid to be alone on a street with a black man.

From USNews and World Report

Obama is drawing a new round of criticism for his comments on a Philadelphia radio sports program yesterday in which he said his grandmother is a "typical white person" who has fears about black men. He was attempting to explain a portion of his speech on race earlier this week—specifically, the statement that his white grandmother gets nervous when a black man approaches her on the street.

Obama told the radio host, "The point I was making was not that Grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She doesn't. But she is a typical white person, who, if she sees somebody on the street that she doesn't know, you know, there's a reaction that's been bred in our experiences that don't go away and that sometimes come out in the wrong way, and that's just the nature of race in our society." Obama was already drawing flak for his association with a controversial preacher in Chicago who has made anti-American and antiwhite comments.

If being afraid of a black man crossing the street at night alone in a big city makes you a "typical white man" then is that what you would call Jesse Jackson? He said the same thing

New York Times

By BOB HERBERT

Published: December 12, 1993

Jesse Jackson is traveling the country with a tough anti-crime message that he is delivering to inner-city youngsters. In Chicago he said, "There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery -- then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved."

It sounds to me, Obama, that a typical black person can have the same reaction as a typical white person? It's can all in appearance anyway, for example, if a black man on a dark urban street approached you and he was clean cut wearing a business suite or instead it is a white guy wearing gang clothing. Which one would most typical people fear? Sometimes it is what people do, or the way they present themselves is what instills fear on people that has nothing to do with racism. It is the simple fact that nature has ingrained in us a sense of self preservation.

Obama's "typical white person" remark may be an indication that he has taken some of Reverend Jeremiah Wright's warped ideas to heart. Obama owes us answers to whether his loyalties are to the American people at large or to Black liberation theology. Earlier in the campaign people feared he may be a Manchurian candidate for Islam, but the reality could be just as sinister.

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