je n'ai malheureusement pas eu le temps de revenir en détail sur les événements qui ont conduit à ce discours, mais je voulais porter à votre attention le commentaire de roger cohen, paru dans le new york times d'aujourd'hui (beyond america's original sin), dans lequel il trace un émouvant parrallèle entre son expérience de la ségrégation raciale en afrique du sud et la situation actuelle du débat racial aux états-unis:
"a racial divide, once lived, dwells in the deepest parts of the psyche. this is what was captured by barack obama's pitch-perfect speech on race. slavery was indeed america's 'original sin.' of course, 'the brutal legacy of slavery and jim crow' lives on in forms of african-american humiliation and anger that smolder in ways incommunicable to whites."
"[...] it takes bravery, and perhaps an unusual black-white vantage point, to navigate these places where hurt is profound, incomprehension the rule, just as it takes courage to say, as obama did, that black 'anger is real; it is powerful; and to simply wish it away, to condemn it without understanding its roots, only serves to widen the chasm of misunderstanding that exists between the races.'"
"progress, since the civil rights movement, or since apartheid, has assuaged the wounds of race but not closed them. to carry my part of shame is also to carry a clue to the vortexes of rancor for which obama has uncovered words."
une autre excellente lecture sur le sujet est un billet de frank schaeffer, obama's minister committed "treason" but when my father said the same thing he was a republican hero, dans lequel il souligne ce qu'aucun média commercial ne veut prendre le risque de mentionner: c'est à dire que les paroles "incendiaires" du pasteur jeremiah wright ne sont pas différentes de celles de son père, qui fut pasteur évangélicaliste:
"when senator obama's preacher thundered about racism and injustice obama suffered smear-by-association. but when my late father -- religious right leader francis schaeffer -- denounced america and even called for the violent overthrow of the us government, he was invited to lunch with presidents ford, reagan and bush, sr."
"every sunday thousands of right wing white preachers (following in my father's footsteps) rail against america's sins from tens of thousands of pulpits. they tell us that america is complicit in the 'murder of the unborn,' has become 'sodom' by coddling gays, and that our public schools are sinful places full of evolutionists and sex educators hell-bent on corrupting children."
"[...] dad became a hero to the evangelical community and a leading political instigator. [...] not one republican leader was ever asked to denounce my dad or distanced himself from dad's statements."
s'il remporte l'investiture démocrate, obama fera face à un barrage constant d'hypocrisie et d'outrage feint. le "scandale" jeremiah wright n'est qu'une première salve...
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