well said but expect all the Hillary supporters not to say a peep about your diary, in fact they'll accuse you of being an Obama supporter playing the "racist" card on the inevitable and all magnificent never wrong Hillary R. Clinton...

wait and see :)

I wouldn't be surprised but thanks for the support.

I'm not sure where the outrage is that Hillary made that "plantation" comment.  From the video, the outrage sure wasn't inside the church when she said it.

I'm not sure that one really deserves to be up there on the list with genocide, but it's your diary.

As a gay man I was outraged when Obama stood on stage with his buddy Donnie. I wonder what Rev Wright has said about gays and lesbians. That show has yet to drop. But please quit the pity party, Hillary Clinton is a member of the most oppressed group of people in WORLD history its called women. We could all be outraged all day everyday especially my people who cannot even marry or be who we are. Whine somewhere else

Where was the outrage when Obama equated Hillary to bush/cheney light?

Wehre was the outrage when Michelle Obama said that if you cant clean your own house how r u going to clean the white house?

where is the outrage when obama supporters us Billary?

where was the outrage when obama said hillary was "likable enough"?

where was the outrage when axelrod said hillary was to blame for Bhutto's death?

where was the outrage(by BO supoorters) when david suster said Chelsea was being "pimped out"?

where was the outrage when Rev. Wright said hillary has never been called a nigger? (has obama ever been called a BITCH or CUNT or has he every been told to go wash my shirts?)

you guys kill me with this crap!

Because some of these issues have not been handled doesn't mean that Rev. Wright's words weren't extremely offensive.

There was and still is outrage for many of the instances you list. Some the country need to help us take care of and some that we as black people need to address ourselves.

That being said Rev. Wright's statements were reprehensible and does not belong in the public discourse. What we need to do is sit down with each other and discuss race, and gender in an honest, open and non-threatening manner.

MLK said, "If we do not live together as brothers, we will perish together as fools."

Your diary is pathetic.   If you can't deal with the issue at hand rather than trying to play it off on others, shame on you, dude.  

This man's comments were and are disgusting, and here you are trying to change the subject and make it about something/someone else.  THERE'S the real outrage: a failure by you and others to hold this person to account.  Not smart, dude.

remember when jerry falwell blamed 911 on us fags?

where is the outrage from the left when this guy did the same thing, except he blamed it all on white people?

ya'll are all hypocrites!

We as blacks will never move up if we keep on holding ourselves down!

"Where is the outrage that Planned Parenthood is encouraging the abortion of black babies?"

This sounds like some right wing, pro life smear.  

My outrage is exhausted by what is happening in Darfur.  Where is your outrage on that, I could ask.  But that would be pointless!!

I do not have any outrage left over for the tragedies that you list.  

Some of them (e.g. Hillary and the plantation) are not ever worth a yawn.  Others (people work in this country and are still poor) are ridiculous (people work in EVERY country and ARE poor.. and some are a whole lot poorer than the poor in this country).  Yet others (the driving while black syndrome) have been replaced by more recent events (such as flying while Arab or Muslim).

I am sorry, I will reserve my outrage for Darfur ~ they are the ones that really deserve it.

Don't you think all this outrage becomes a little forced in the end?  Rather like watching a perpetual loop of the potty mouth Rev. Wright screaming "God damn America" over and over again. By the way, as to your outrage #12, the dignified and much suffering people of Rawanda have seen fit to forgive Bill Clinton his sins as they slowly try to put their lives back together. I suspect the Rawandans understand there is much blame to go round, so you can't that outrage is not yours to borrow. In the end man cannot live on outrage alone. It is a combustible self-destructive and ultimately unproductive emotion. I'd take Martin Luther King's effective and quietly subversive non-violent, civil disobedience strategies over the futile and banal tantrums of the egotistical screamer Rev Wright.

Im not touching this one....

Where is the outrage that a black man is dragged by his teeth for miles in Texas by whites just because he is black?

Where was the outrage over the Jena six?

Where is the outrage that the Blacks are the ones that are most effected by the lack of educational funds in public schools?

Where is the outrage that the average lifespan of an African-American male is only 55?

Where is the outrage that people work in this country and our still poor?

Where is the outrage when in the 1990s during the Genocide in Rwanda that the Clinton Administration did absolutely NOTHING?

Where is the outrage that more African-Americans were incarcerated during the Clinton Administration then in any previous administration due to ridiculous laws?

So there: I have responded to your offer.

This Black Diarists thinks I can be outraged by all of the above AND Rev. Wright.  My outrage, however, is less to do with what the Rev said (free speech and all that jazz), but with the fact that Obamabots still think their Messiah is still electable.

Additionally, I'm outraged that people close their eyes and ears to Obama's consistent play on the race card.

Indeed, there is plenty of outrage to go around.

I doubt that you're going to find many progressives, Hillary supporters or otherwise who don't already have a significant amount of the things you listed.  Some of your list is absolute nonsense, but there are certainly some real issues in your list.

But let's call out that nonsense in your diary for what it is:

Where was the outrage when Hillary Clinton compared the Bush Administration to running America like a plantation?

Why would anyone be outraged about this?  It's a valid criticism of the Bush administration.

Where is the outrage that the average lifespan of an African-American male is only 55?

That's wrong, and demonstrably so.  The average life expectancy of an African American male is about 68 and continuing to increase.

As I said, you have some valid points in your diary that do need to be addressed. However, you are suggesting that no one is allowed to be pissed off about anything else, and that's just ridiculous.

I think Rev. Wright is a nut, and black people who try to claim he's a moderate aren't doing the rest of us black folks any favors.  He's not a moderate, and people have a right be mad as hell over his statements.

Hey, kristannab, I respect the reason for your diary, and I appreciate the points you are making.  However, this is one thing I will point out--just because there is outrage by some over the Reverend Wright matter, does not mean it can be presumed there was not outrage over other very real matters you mention.

(Although I'd also want to check that bit about genocide in Rwanda--not that it occurred, because it did, but the blame for the Clintons.  I believe I recall it was determined that this mishandling was found to be due to his Aide sitting on her hands and not letting the President know about this situation--the same woman who was serving on Obama's foreign relations committee for some time.  Although I'll admit I might be remembering incorrectly on this at the moment and can't check my facts right now--I admit I don't have the steel trap mind that many here seem to have as it relates to political matters, but believe I'm recalling the correct situation there.  And if so, he did take personal blame and apologize for that.)

But as others have pointed out, it is not just a matter of outrage over situations that have affected and are affecting the African American community, or at least I do not believe it should be.  There is also oppression against women, there is also oppression against gays, there is also oppression of other minorities (all which have their equally outrageous examples, which I could also bullet point, but I won't for purposes of this discussion).  And ALL of these problems are situations that should and need to be addressed--and all are matters where offensive comments can be attributed back to some fellow democrats, Obama's supporters as well as Hillary's supporters, in one way or another that many are as deeply offended by as those examples you cited.  

That is not to say the existence of these other injustices makes those you cite any less important, not at all--however, I don't believe it appropriate to be concerned about only one set of injustices to the exclusion of other injustices that continue to go on every day in the oppression of other groups.  The thing is, we all have differing life situations--and although one matter may not be personally offensive to one individual while highly offensive to another, if we step back and look at the big picture, we can see that any situation aimed at oppressing any group of people should be considered outrageous to a fair and just people!  And to presume that individuals who may not be personally affected by any one situation cannot still be outraged by it defies the good I like to believe exists in our modern civilization (i.e., for a very recent example, I am not an African American, but I have spoken out very strongly in unfriendly territory about the injustice of what happened and is continuing to happen with respect to Jena 6).  Undoubtedly, there will always be those self-centered and ignorant individuals who only care about those things affecting them personally, but I believe if our population as a whole steps back and looks thoughtfully and honestly at such problematic situations, the majority of Democratic voters are in fact outraged.

Although I don't personally agree with the sentiment of all verses within all versions of the well known "First They Came" poem (attributed to Pastor Martin Niemoller), I believe the concept and closing lines are very representative of what I'm trying to say.  So to close this out, I'll quote the version that appears on the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C.:

"First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out -
because I was not a Socialist.
Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out -
because I was not a Trade Unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out -
because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me - and there was no one left to speak for me."

"Where is the outrage that 30% of all blacks are incarcerated when we make up only 13% of the population?"

Yes, where is the outrage among the black community that African Americans commit such a disproportionate number of crimes (and, more often than not, other African Americans are the victims).  Poverty and/or lack of education isn't an exclusively black condition, you know.

Maybe you forgot Jesse Jackson's comments about ten years ago.  He said that when he was walking in a strange city and heard the footsteps of a group of young men behind him, he breathed a sigh of relief if when he discovered that they were white.

OK, yes, I forgot.  This is all white Americans' fault because we introduced drugs (I guess alcohol and AIDS, too) into the black community in an effort to destroy them.  But the minority of African Americans who are foolish enough to believe such rubbish ignore a critical fact that would inhibit even a purposefully evil people from employing those tactics even if they were capable of executing them:  you cannot limit the effects of those destabilizing agents to the target population.  This is the same reason why nobody used poison gas in WWII.  The armies found out in WWI that they had a difficult time only gassing the other side.