Why Obama's Speech Failed

According to DarkStar, a black blogger, about Sen. Obama's speech yesterday about his association with Rev. Jeremiah Wright, race and religion: "Obama's speech failed in my opinion for one reason: it didn't go far enough to give whites who had doubts raised because of Wright, that comfortable feeling again. If you haven't read the transcript yet, here it is. The fact is, the clips demonstrated that Wright is an angry Black man. When Obama stated: Not once in my conversations with him have I heard him talk about any ethnic group in derogatory terms, or treat whites with whom he interacted with anything but courtesy and respect. He contains within him the contradictions -- the good and the bad -- of the community that he has served diligently for so many years. That feeds into the fears of some white people that Blacks are angry and racist because of American history."

DarkStar continues his commentary: "Obama's speech was nuanced when he had to be direct. Don't get me wrong, it was good, BUT, it wasn't what had to be done. Let me state it, again, in another way. It didn't go far enough to give whites a good feeling....But that [comment that Sen. Obama made about the diversity of the black church] is too nuanced when, I think, right now, emotion and fear of the bad Black man, rules the day. It just didn't work. I wish I could listen to talk radio to determine if what I'm writing is accurate or inaccurate, but I can't. But a big part of his appeal is that he was not seen as another Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson, Sr., and Wright blew that image out of the water."