In James Meredith's JFP Interview this week, he details the five people he believes have (or had) the greatest effect on the Obama campaign, starting with Sean Hannity. His thoughts, verbatim:
No. 1, Sean Hannity, because he ain't never going to let white supremacy go, and he genuinely believes what he's doing. (Bill) O'Reilly and others are just trying to get ratings, but Hannity really believes that whites got special white rights. He's not just being anti-black; it's anti-anything other than white. He won't let that issue die.
No. 2, Jeremiah Wright because the biggest divide between black and white America is religion; 98 percent of blacks who go to church go to a church originally started by the Southern Baptists, and still to this day dominates it. Obama disassociated himself with Rev. Wright. What most people don't know is that Jeremiah Wright deliberately set it up, so he could disassociate himself from him. Because he wanted to see Obama elected. Watch Bill Moyers' interview with Wright and the meeting of preachers in Detroit; then the very next day he came to Washington, D.C., and threw this fit; he did that so Obama could cut himself off and everyone would see it as justified. But that issue ain't going away.
No. 3, Michelle Obama: You read all the black magazines; they've kept up with her pretty good. They're not saying nothing much, just real pretty pictures. But they used to say Michelle was real; staying real. Staying "black" was what they meant. Since the Convention, you ain't once seen Michelle Obama unless she was hugging some elite white woman.
That, of course, is meant to help Obama, and I think it does. Takes the edge off.
No. 4, Barack Obama because he's so brilliant.
No. 5, Bill Clinton understands even better than anyone sitting here the race thing and Western Christian civilization. He genuinely believes Hillary should be nominated because he didn't believe America was ready to elect a black. It won't necessarily be about what he will do in the future, but what he has already done. ... Not many people knew Bill was sophisticated in playing the race card.
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