Loading ...“NEGRO PLEASE!”
“Negro Please” is Black people’s way of saying “give me a break.” The term is usually used when another Black person says something so ridiculous that you have had enough like the the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, for example.
When asked about Wright yesterday at his town hall meeting in the park, Obama was polite in his denunciation, but the look on his wife Michelle’s face said it all. She declined to comment about Wright but I’ve seen that look before. It’s that look my mother and my girlfriend give me when I start talking and don’t know when to shut up and eventually say something that goes overboard. In another time and place I would end up wearing hot grits, luckily I exercise the better part of valor.
However, what a lot of people (usually white) don’t understand is that Wright’s controversial remarks aren’t really anything new. The problem is that he won’t shut up. If anything, his talking is helping Obama because the more Wright talks the more he looks like a show-boater who’s out to get the candidate because he’s more popular than him.
If anything Wright should follow Michelle Obama’s example. If you can’t say anything nice, shut up!
May 1st, 2008 at 9:23 am
yes, all of us have had enough of this distraction. He has pandered to the black people at Obama’s expense and nearly stymied the campaign; reminiscent of Johnny Cockran’s reference to police as blue-eyed devils during jury summation of OJ Simpson’s trial in pandering to minorities. Wright is a throw-back to the 1960s. At first I thought it was just a senior moment, but his behavior during the washington press corp showed it to be something more. let’s move on.
May 1st, 2008 at 10:00 am
I watched the speech he gave for the press corp and was impressed…confident that the media who were finally forced to listen to the entirety of one of his speeches would finally realize that they were wrong about him. And then the Q&A began and I could not believe my eyes! His cocky swagger and apparent enjoyment at sticking it to the press and Senator Obama was totally shocking.
Perhaps it is time for him to hear those words from someone’s Mama!
May 1st, 2008 at 11:40 am
Sharpton pretty much denounced Obama’s call for non-violence in NY. Last I checked Dr. King also was an advocate of non-violence. Why isn’t Sharpton too?
May 1st, 2008 at 1:53 pm
Because Sharpton is an egotistical self-centered show-boater that could care less about the state of African Americans in this country, and more about his “star-power” and wallet.
May 1st, 2008 at 7:41 pm
And today Northwestern University cancelled their plans to bestow an honorary degree on the not-so-Right Reverend Wright at their ‘08 graduation ceremony.
May 1st, 2008 at 10:13 pm
Kathy, after reading your first sentence, I’m just curious (this is NOT an attack) as to how why you thought that, after hearing the entirety of a Rev. Wright speech, anyone would suddenly find themselves to be wrong about him. Even taken out of context, comments like “US of KKK A”, etc. reveal a lot about a person, if one cares to listen.
May 2nd, 2008 at 7:16 am
The Clinton/Wright ticket will win in Indiana.
May 3rd, 2008 at 1:25 pm
Now does anyone who has seen the reverend truly believe Obama when he says in his 20 year relationship he has never heard such comments from him? As the reverend says Obama is a politician. Which is fine except most of those who support Obama do so because they claim he is nto a politician.