It seems to be racially divisive to say "Rich white men have always run this country", and "The Rich White Men who have always run the United States have run it for their own benefit and against the benefit of Black people", but it is also TRUE. Telling the truth may be deivsive, but that does not make it any less true.
Claiming that some of the WORMS (White Old Rich Men) that have always run the USA invented AIDS to destroy Black people is not truthful, however. It would have been stupid to invent a disease that kills White people as well as Black people (even if many of said White folks are gay), and they aren't smart enough (at least yet) to create a disease that would ONLY kill Black people. So that is simply a paranoid statement.
I fail to see where either statement is racist, however.
Farrakhan, like Elijah Mohammad before him, claimed that White people were deliberately and artificially created to be evil and far too clever (as well as White and blue-eyed) by a diabolic scientist on the Isle of Patmos (the same place where the Book of Revelation was said to have been written by someone named 'John'). I have not read or heard if Wright believes this or has ever written or said it, but I am sure that he has heard it, because anyone with a minor passing knowledge of the NOI (Nation of Islam) would have heard of it.
This is certainly a paranoid statement, and no one can deny that it is racist, because claiming that a race of people has been deliberately bred to be evil by a servant of Satan has to be racist. But it is a lot more paranoid than it is racist.
Most Black people I know generally react to any mention of the wackier beliefs of Farrakhan or the AIDS conspiracy that Wright mentioned, react to this by changing the subject, as one would upon hearing any mention of some crazy relative that had a thing about peeping into windows, flashing the Congegation, or throwing a Tourret's Syndrome fit: they change the subject or ignore the whole thing.
This is the sort of thing to discuss where no White folks can hear you, such as in a barbershop or a beauty parlor.
I think that if Obama could serve to bring Americans closer together, this is something that has needed to be done for a century or more, and not something that Hillary or McCain could ever hope to do.
It does seem to have been one of Fidel's major accomplishments, but Cuba and the US are very different cultures. Cuba had lots of racists, especially white ones, and they are nearly all here in Miami. When Fidel came to power, banks (most of which were affiliated with or owned by Ameircans) were famous for never hiring Black people, not even to sweep. Fidel and Che Guevara made them hire no one else for several years.
If Obama were elected president, it would do more positive good for race relations than anything has ever done. More than the 14th Amendment, more than the Civil Rights Act.
It would also bring the troops home from Iraq sooner, maybe even before the 5000th casualty.
