A great way to make white people feel good is to tell them about situations where poor people changed how they were doing things because they were given the ‘whiter’ option. “Back in my old town, people used to shop at Wal*Mart and then this non-profit organization came in and set up a special farmers co-op so that we could buy more local produce, and within two weeks the Wal*Mart shut down and we elected our first Democratic representative in 40 years.” White people will first ask which non-profit and are they hiring? After that, they will be filled with euphoria and will invite you to more parties to tell this story to their friends, so that they can feel great.

But it is ESSENTIAL that you reassert that poor people do not make decisions based on free will. That news could crush white people and their hope for the future.

It's not too late to talk about the Obama speech on the Reverend Wright. I believe this speech will live on; it may even define the rest of his campaign and his presidency, should he prevail.

Obama explained much. He is correct that it was white-authored racist laws -- Jim Crow -- which perpetuated the system of racism which, in turn, hurt and mangled the Reverend Wright in his youth and from which he still suffers. Let us understand and excuse the Reverend Wright. He is an old man who believes things which are not true. He is hurt and remains hurt. He is not running for president.

I find much to admire in Obama and in his speech, although I wasn’t quite swooning like Peggy Noonan. Someone must have rushed to her with smelling salts because she snapped out of it in time to write her conclusion.

Obama, though, in this speech, does more than walk us through the history of race. He opened a big window on himself. Here’s what my eyes see: a man who seeks to manipulate the public with a false message about why certain Americans are trapped in failure while living in the very same country where success is so common.

I think we need to worry about a guy who gives a clever and thoughtful speech about race in America while lacing its text with heavy doses of class warfare.

Isn't class warfare the multi-culturist's racism?

Obama says failing schools are part of the problem; yes, so true. How about the harder questions such as who let these schools fail? Who keeps them failing? Is it the failing voters in the failing districts who perpetuate the failing policies of a failing unionized, liberal Democratic party monopoly which can only continue to succeed at failing by getting its under-educated, overly emotional voters/congregations to point in anger at “causes” such as racism and shout “Shame!”

Who causes the failing culture which excuses failing students for avoiding any effort or responsibility for learning? Who causes the failing culture which accepts as ordinary a 50 year-old man, unemployed and unemployable, who wears the same costume (baggy jeans, big hat twisted) of the 13 year-old kid he abandoned at age 2? It's a failed culture because it transfers fault from the failing school, from the failing student or from the failing father to a remote, nonexistent boogieman. You can’t solve a problem if you spend all your energy denying it. The problem is not just an abject lack of responsibility, is an out-right celebration of blaming the wrong cause.

Who causes all these failures of today? Rich, white corporate lobbyists?

No.

Today’s failures are caused by you, Senator Obama. You caused this problem by not solving it, by blaming boogiemen, by using the power of words and an actor’s talent for preying on the anger and hurt of generations young and old. You are the cause because you perpetuate a system of failure. You actually figured out how to get more power by denying the real problems. You use your God-given brains and your Harvard education to snooker people far less gifted than you with the same old socialist bullshit. You’re not Moses; you’re Huey Long.

Want to hear a harsh reality about race in the minds of today’s rich, white people?

We want success for “the black community,” not failure. We want you to have better schools, better neighborhoods, and better lives. Want to know why? Because it's safer for us if you are more like us. But, that's not the only reason. It's also because we're mostly nice people and we want more niceness. It's why so many rich, white people support you, Obama.

We would like the Detroit sound to be Motown music again, not gunfire. Some make fun of the ‘50s; we yearn to recreate some elements of that era of deep-down goodness. Back then everyone had hope, at least in our world. Yes, we now acknowledge the complicity of our ancestors that nearly everyone in Reverend Wright's world was trapped by racism.

Imagine how different the opportunities could have been if we could go back in time. Let’s jump back after the Civil War was won by all those non-rich white people and before World War I. It was Democratic President Wilson who re-segregated the federal government because it was employing increasing numbers of black Americans and who excused the KKK as merely a reaction by rural whites to the unfairness of Reconstruction. (You missed the part of history where it was mostly white Democrats who institutionalized racism, didn’t you?)

What’s got your “community” trapped now? Looks like you do.