Maritime Morning - Andrew Krystal

Stand-up comedian-cum-pastor Jeremiah Wright’s high voltage sermonic thunderbolt of anti-white, anti-establishment, vitriol has shaken the political fortunes of that great black hope Barack Obama to his Trinity United Church of Christ pew-worn knees.

Over the past few days, Jeremiah Wright’s fire-breathing ministrations have sent a red-meat chorus all the way back to the graves of Malcolm-X, the Weathermen, the Panthers, Soul on Ice author/criminal Eldridge Cleaver, Crips, Bloods, and whomever has a hate-on for whitey.

Jeremiah Wright’s assertions, that blacks have different (not deficient) brains, therefore learn differently, clap differently, sing differently, and relate differently to the mathematics of music and meter predicated upon different (don’t say deficient!) brain processing, comes right out of the playbook of racialist theories; theories espoused by both Ku Klux Klan types and — more devastatingly – by serious sources such as Bell Curve authors Richard J. Herrnstein of Harvard, and Charles Murray, who posit that racial differences in intelligence exist and where differences are deficiencies.

This is the same pastor that Obama has known for over half his life, who married him, who baptized his kids, and whose church and congregation assisted in consolidating his Chicago political base. “I could no more disown Reverend Wright than I could a member of my own family” said Obama in response to Wright’s previous pulpit outbursts that appeared on You Tube where he declared on the very Sunday after 9/11 that “the chickens came home to roost” (America deserved it) and that AIDS was a conspiracy to attack black people by the CIA. Obama’s tepid post-facto proviso was that he didn’t always agree with him.

This is a huge mess and Obama has sent race relations back 40 years by the glibness of his associations and the cavalier way in which he responded to the absolute angry, unbalanced, hate-filled, invective from Wright where Obama originally couched Wright’s bellows in an apologist manner as part of “the black experience” of disenfranchisement. Lately, Obama has modified and said that Wright’s speeches before the NAACP and before the Press club the other day “give comfort to those who prey upon hate.”

Too late. It was always thus with old foamy-mouthed Jeremiah.

The fact is Barak Obama had the chance to really distance himself from mad-hatter Jeremiah Wright in March when he gave his race speech in Philadelphia. He didn’t do it. That is called judgment.

Obama went on today to say that he was “saddened by the spectacle” of Jeremiah Wright. Really? He wasn’t saddened by the “God damn America” bit on You Tube”? Pease tell me how “God damn America” can be taken out of context anyway? I don’t know about you, but I wouldn’t sit through the whole sermon to find out, or to “put it in context”, whatever the hell that means.

Also, I just want to say that  I wasn’t responsible for slavery, the uprooting of Indians, or anything else. Neither were my grandfather and his father before him who dug this place out of the bush and cleared the land in Canada as pioneers. No one gave my pioneer forefathers a dime either when they were cold and hungry. I am not responsible for other people’s sense of loss. Never mind the anglos like me, who helped the Jews?

Jeremiah’s act just doesn’t wash anymore. Besides, when it was really rough, in the sixties, Dr. King did it, and said it, with love.

America has other problems with the racial divide that the campaign of Barak Obama, either directly, or indirectly, is fanning: Why is it that when 90 per cent of black voters vote for Obama that is not considered a racist vote? Yet, when 70 percent of white and Catholics and blue collar workers or professional white women vote for Hillary Clinton that is considered racial, or racist?

It is okay for blacks to vote for their own color but not okay for whites?

It is a shame that with all of the preachers in America that Barak had to choose one that learned to prey instead of pray.

That is called judgment.

And Judgment day is Election Day.

Praise the Lord.