Barack Obama’s poison pastor
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.
April 30th, 2008 at 9:29 am
It’s ok for blacks to go on and on about blacks but it isn’t ok for whites. My son is bi racial, I am not a racist, but I think it’s ridiculous how racism is still a hot topic in the black community, so hot, that I too am beginning to feel like a victim of racism. It should not be blacks were slaves, humans were slaves and most humans believe that slavery is wrong, just like most humans disagree with any child being a victim of crime. The sooner the olden days are forgotten the quicker we can move towards a more peaceful world. Together our identities will be mushed in the mud puddle if no body stands up and stops violence.
April 30th, 2008 at 11:01 am
I’m surprised it took this long for the ticking time-bomb race issue to come up in the race. The “elephant in the corner” so to speak. Obama had the chance to throw attention-seeker Jeremiah Wright under the bus, but instead he chose not to. Maybe that was loyalty, or maybe that was him not knowing what to think. Nevertheless, it will be interesting to see how Obama handles this adversity from here on out. I bet John McCain’s smile is from ear to ear right now (just like George Laraque’s when he sniped top corner on the Ranger’s Lundqvist last night).
April 30th, 2008 at 9:45 pm
So middle-America is in a tizzy over some scary black folks yelling in church and saying naughty things about America. I watched the sermon and the context of “God Damn America” refers to the government’s atrocities around the world (think Afghanistan, Chilie, Nicaragua, etc). The typical simple-minded short attention span hot dog eating American could not grasp these concepts and will jump to judgements based on the sound-bites. Oh well, maybe America doesn’t deserve Obama, maybe they just want to live in a fog and allow their leaders to destroy the country and everything it once stood for.
May 1st, 2008 at 6:58 am
When are people going to look at the rev “right” as being what his name implies…right, race card aside. Andrew you’re right about preying on race and racism by not just Wright but other black leaders including Sharpton, Jackson etc…where ever there is a racially polarizing issue you’ll find them slinking around promoting themselves and quoting King using racism for their gain.
Rev. “Right” however is right about Americian foreign policy race aside. There wouldn’t be a terrorist issue (atleast not one that has qualified itself a enemy to wage war against) if their policies hadn’t created the problems that precipitate the hatred they deserve…not by us of course, who merely chuckle at their tourists that snap pictures with golf shirts and knee high white tube sox under sandals or their abrasive coors light swilling boys that are better than every one because the come from New York and want ya-all to know aboouut it.
No, we don’t hate them but the people living in fear that their school or wedding might be the next necessary collateral damage. Perhaps their country might be the next preemptively targeted with a “shock-and-awe” campaign. For every “insugent” they kill 10 more insensed family members take up arms against the occupiers.
A country that not only aggressively researches weapons of mass destruction (including biological) but actually uses them (Japan WWII, Vietnam, shock-and-awe etc..) all under the banner of “freedom”
I think the Rev. who should be kicked out of the church for his racially polarizing platform, is in fact dead-on right with his attack on the government and their self enriching war for oil and their stick-in-hand foreign policy.
the chickens did indeed come home to roost…until they try and help countries instead of killing them the chickens will roost again and again. the states will look like a KFC chicken ranch. One of your guests last week said himself that a nuclear terrorist attack will happen in the USA, it’s inevitable. i’m willing to bet the person that sets it off won’t be from a village that has a new american funded school or a huge stock pile of rice sacks with american flags on the side.
Write is right when it comes to the corporation that runs america and the fruits of their policies will sour. More people need to cut through the propoganda and tell it like it is.
Unfortunately, for Obama, it was his racist preacher and the chickens are not only roosting for America but for his campaign as well.