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by moll on Mon Apr 21, 2008 at 03:27:07 AM EST
I thought that was the whole point of Obama's appeal. You get to be angry at everyone (but without being a hateful person, THEY are the hateful person, that is why you are angry with them. What is wrong with America is THEY need hatin' on).  

The difference between Wright and Obama is that Wright will own what he says - Obama will pretend he didn't say anything deliberately hateful when he was talking about X person or X group, and he will use his "explanations" as an opportunity to repeat the insult three times and then act innocent: "what did I do? It's only the truth, isn't it?"

BTW with 'B*ch is the new black/Black is the new President', the use of the word B*ch' ignores the rule that says, if I am a member of X group, I can use derogatory language describing that group - for women, B*ch - for blacks, the n-word - Fey was right to not compare them, because she is not black and cannot use the n-word without being offensive.

But a black man using the "b-word" is offensive in the same way a white woman using the "n-word" is. It's only "empowering" when it's empowering - not when it's used by someone outside the group to put down someone inside the group.

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