If these supposed tapes were of him vomiting the kind of garbage they're now teaching at once-vaunted BC these days (which used to be a school for liberal/progressive thought, now it's hate-filled GOP Central), I'd be distressed. If he's taking radical ideas out for a mental spin in these supposed tapes, that's wonderful--it suggests he was exercising his mind even as a student with lots of shit to memorize.
Youthful idealism is not a bad thing, particularly when one is YOUNG. When people get a bit older, they merge their idealistic and sometimes improbable ideas with the practical realities that surround them, and hopefully they move the ball down the field a bit for the betterment of society.
If Obama had opinions about "race and class," they were probably based in bitter experience. We'd all have to be living in a bubble if we actually believed that America has--even now, even today, all these years after "I Have a Dream"--lived up to her promise. Thing is, though, just because that's the case, we can't stop moving forward. And most of us don't. But NOTING that we're not there yet is not a crime--it's just articulating the damn truth.
Here's why I'm not terribly excited about that dead drunk's 'treasure trove' of tapes: Certainly, if Obama actually had a dire and "radical" agenda, that he articulated in his Say It Loud Black Pow-ah Youth, you'd have thought he would have implemented at least a solitary plank or two of his "fist in the air" plan for America by now; hell, it's been almost four years, what's he waiting for, Christmas? Or should I say.... Eid?
(Cue shocked expression and dramatic music!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=54vtXRI32MQ
Or maybe he's a bit of a slowpoke!
Or maybe, just maybe, whatever that dead hatemonger has is just some images of a kid in law school, opining for the sake of argument or discussion (like that's a crime!). Unless it's a smooth, no breaks video, I'll assume it's been heavily edited and is non-representative. Even if it's not edited, I'm not worrying about it. I judge people by their actions over the last few decades, not something they said in school. Hell, some of the shit I said in school, if "caught on tape" or scrawled on a Facebook page, wouldn't have helped me get a damn clearance!
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