He speaks of urban myths that prey on most of the deprived and impoverished minds he tries so hard to aid and bring greater edification to, but Reverend Jeremiah Wright has yet to learn that you can't tell the truth or illuminate public doubt for the flag too loudly and get a way with it.
It would be so easy wouldn't it? Something simple like a summer day; just to label the man crazy so we can all sleep well at night? But in this time of recession and obvious flaws in America we ought to examine the words of those that dare to speak their voice at all.
In a Fox News interview Obama called the statements appearing on television and the Internet "completely unacceptable and inexcusable."But in his official address on race he admitted that Rev. Wright "contains within him the contradictions, the good and the bad, of the community that he has served diligently for so many years."
Critics like Glen Beck have tried to say that Obama's address on race was fake and a poor excuse for a man who has scarred the Obama campaign. Some speculate that Rev. Wrights attempts to support Obama will actually lead to him not winning the race. Personally I am thankful for Obama's well thought out response to the entire situation. Are we so brainwashed as a nation that we actually prefer politicians lies about real American thoughts, problems, doubts, and people? We put people in office that continue to feign perfection and it never fails to backfire on us. Bush is a living testament that a man can smile and wash his mistakes over with baloney while destroying everything he touches. And need I actually bring up Spitzer?How long must we sit in support and false stability? We are lying to ourselves when we stand next to these delusional gluttons for power. The American population can't question Spitzer's wife at all when we are doing the exact same thing at the polls and play into critics who wanted a good lie instead of the real truth.
"I can no more disown him than I can the black community," said Obama "just like I can no more disown my own white grandmother." He went on to confess his grandmother often proved to be racist in her racial slurs and a fear of Black men. "These people are apart of me and they are apart of America, this country I love."
It is time we accept America for what it is. It is time we elect a president that recognizes America for what it is. The media will try to use this event to bring Obama into a more solidified stance with Black America and disconnect him with what were once White supporters. Notice how Geraldine Ferraro's comments did little to stir common interest. Is it okay to be racist against Black people but un-American to criticize the White bourgeoisie? I guess Obama was in good with the general public till people realized he might have some insight into the corruption our Government. And even worse, he might actually want to make change!
The reverend acts as a voice, speaking on a lot of concern you hear in the black community. When you are surrounded by pain that was directly inflicted on you and your people it is rather hard to find a balance between truth, institutional and generational deprivation, and pure paranoia. Suspecting the government of administering AIDS is one of his more paranoid suspicions. But can you blame people who might believe that, or even just suspect it?He said that America was founded on racism; and that is pretty close to the truth. What one person may call manifest destiny, another might mention as a trail of tears and capitalizing on innocent nations while exploiting and killing mass amounts of people.
Maybe Rev. Wright speaks too loudly about things we are all secretly suspecting ourselves. Obama can't say it, he might not even think it, but I have to say a lot of people do, at the very least a whole church does.
Obama made it clear in his blog that he had never heard Wright preach inflammatory sermons, only the "gospel of Jesus, a gospel on which I base my life." But if you care to remember, the gospel of Jesus is pretty inflammatory in itself. Nagasaki wasn't really turning the other cheek. Stealing resources and workers by not paying fair wages, and expanding our interests to include sucking up all the oil we can find while declaring war just to back those interests then lying about it isn't exactly Christian either. Jesus wouldn't do that. America is a thief, a pirate, and it takes what it wants.
The idea of creating life here off hard work and honesty is what moves most of us blue collar, America loving people. But as a nation we are not represented well by thieves that take our good will getting hungry, greedy, and accolade intoxicated. We need to be oil efficient. We need to go green. We need to be represented by people with good will and honest suspicion and conviction about the disease America has been inflicted with from the beginning.Using others to "fuel" your life can't be what holds us up; honest business must be worth something. Equal economic and social opportunity is something we should strive to promote through the support of peace and change internationally. Instead we are exploiting poorer nations, and going in debt to more efficient ones.It may be hard not to shake hands with the crooks when you are on your way to the top but to sit on the board of Wal-Mart means you're in the mix and you've been in the mix for quite some time. It means that you are one of "them."
How can we put Clinton in office when we know she has the disease? When we know she is the type to smile and clap and make the same promises her husband pushed to the back burner as soon as he was elected? If she doesn't want credit for his work; why align herself so closely to his campaign, even using his relationship with Black America to boost her voter base?
Bill set the Black community back by following the "opposite rule" like every politician subscribing to a false Dick and Jane reality does by keeping the masses pleased while secretly screwing them over. Clinton signed a punitive neoliberal welfare "reform" bill that ended the federal government's guarantee of financial help to impoverished families with dependent children. By forcing poor families getting federal cash assistance (such families were mainly non-white single-parent units) to find employment without establishing concomitant government programs to create or directly provide livable wage jobs, Clinton flooded the nation's low- and poverty-wage and no-benefits job market with hundreds of thousands of defenseless new proletarians. He also scored points with the grinders of the poor by taking welfare benefits away from legal as well as illegal immigrants. It was all done in the name of "Personal Responsibility," "Work Opportunity," and "Reconciliation," to use the key Orwellian phrases of the Clinton-Gingrich welfare-elimination regime. ("Bill Clinton Was No Friend to the Poor" Paul Street)
I guarantee you people will take this positive revelation about Obama and align him with the over zealous words of his Pastor enabling a part of his culture to depict his entire campaign. I am so sad to see this taken as a downfall in his run for office, when really he has shown he can withstand and correctly address fear, skepticism, and terror in our country instead of capitalizing on it for personal gain and the loyalty of citizens like so many politicians already do.
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Where do I start to respond to such a lengthy blog.? It seems to me that, Krister is a bit confused. For in one moment she criticized the speaker and on the other hand she praises him.
I saw a man who ofered his professionalism to his country, and bared his soul to the nation I saw nothing false about his entire disource.
On the contrary when all is said and done it will be the people who knew him and helped him when he was just a young man seeking to find his place in this world.
You can sit around and try to condemn Pastor Wright but you wont have any luck because he ultimately is not accountable to you for his minisrty, no it is God who shall judge Pastor Wright.
And as a matter of fact he is in good company if you read about the way that the prophet Ezekiel met his maker. Or read how the prophet Jerimiah, was challenged because of his words.
I mean you take this with you when the Lord God sits upon His throne and hands out his rewards, we sall see who is prefered over another until then, the persecution of the news and the mouths of commentators who seek to take a mans words and twist them into saying something that he never said. all that can not be compared to the suffering of god`s comdemnation and if you think thats a thing to take lightly you are in the minority.
by playing these snippets of the Rev does the media think they will pull people over to the other side? oh contrare I believe the Democratics will not win the race if Obama is removed the people will not come out to vote and the Oboma republicans will not vote for her!So they can play this dangerous game moving the goal post if they want to. They will lose.
I am not confused at all I am encouraged by the honest approach that Obama took to the situation. I hardley criticized Obama and accepted Rev. Wrights point of view for whatever truth and bias he illustrates in our Black community.
Everybody knows that Obama went to Rev. Wright's church to get into Illinois State Senator politics after he lost to Bobby Rush with his backing of Jackson, Sr.
Obama needed it to be BLACK ENOUGH. Now, Rev. Wright, the achilles heel of Obama which even made him electable to the black community after Iowa win, has now came to bite him BIG TIME especially since he neglected the black folk when running for white folks in Iowa.
He should not have run knowing his achilles heel would be exposed anywhere. Period!
It is unfortunate that the video of Rev. Wright has been played and is being referred to ad nauseam even after Obama's speech.
The hard thing for me to understand is why Rev. Wright said what he said knowing that his sermons are sold outside of his church. I don't disagree with what was said in as much as I disagree with it being said on the pulpit.
The culprit in this entire affair is the person who felt it was necessary to post that video on the Internet knowing the damage it could do to Obama's campaign.
I don't know of any Black person who would get up and leave a church after being a part of the congregation for as long as Obama had. Something mighty dastardly would have had to occur before that would happen. Rev. Wright's words don't fit the bill.
I believe white people are so out of step with what is really going on in this country as far as we are concerned that when words that Hagey's could get away with calling Catholism a "whore religion" more than they could accept the words that came out of Rev. Wright's mouth. What man of the cloth calls another religion a "whore religion?" Hagey did, and McCain did not and has not denounced, renounced or rejected him.
Pat Buchanan said Obama is less than a man because he allowed his family to witness such vileness. What kind of man is Pat Buchanan to spew the hateful things he's being saying over the years?
Racism exists in this country, and white folks didn't know it until Rev. Wright gave his racist sermon. Give me a freaking break. Racism is an institution. Black folk have never been powerful enough or rich enough to own that institution. Hence, there is no such thing as reverse discrimination.
Rev. Wright is a prophet. He is acting like those in the Old Testament criticizing government and speaking for those who have no voice (the poor, down trodded, etc...).
Rev. Wright also is a product of Black Nationalism. He is closely aligned with Farrakhan. Also, the teachings of Malcolm X, etc...
In Illinois, this is huge.
People forget the contrast that Malcolm X had with MLK in the 1960's.
Both have a central goal (to improve black life) but both of these men and their followers had different ways to execute to that end.
It is the complexity of Black America and other areas of America. Example, you have Quakers who helped abolished slavery and then people who believed in the KKK who tried to kill blacks. So, even white America has different views of their religious faith and what they execute in the world.
But, what is so appalling is that for Obama to disguise himself as a conciliator and healer of race relations, why in the world would he get spiritual advice from a divisive pastor for 20 years?
Like I say, the real reason which Obama avoids for camera is to get into Illinois district and state politics in the black community in order to beat Bobby Rush who had support of Jackson, Sr.
He needed, excuse my french, a Nigger (after Rev. Wright exhumed the word into public domain) like Rev. Wright with a huge following to give him the Black Backing. That is it.
Obama needed it to get the black support to run for U. S. Presidency as well. It worked with 80 to 92% of the black vote supporting him especially through the church community during the Democratic primaries so far, but it is also causing a backlash.
The achilles heel is hurting him and he should not have run knowing this exists. Strange Dichotomy isn't it.
Honest approach Obama took?!?!
What planet did this happen on?
The Rev. Wright not only showed he's a bigoted racist but is delusional also...
HIV made by the government to kill black people...
Come on, just abysmally stupid is someone to rant like that?
It is not the white community that is out of step with society, it is the black church. These pastors need to quit preaching this type of hate and get in step. It has been 250 years and they're still bitching. Get over it! As for Obama, if that is what he wants to attend every week, fifne, just don;t take it to the white people because they don;t want to hear it. I do believe that Obam is now a hypocrit by his actions. Until the black church gets their hate sermons out of the church every week, there will never be a black president if he attends this type of church and "identifies" with it.
The media is full of lies. Some of you need to listen to the entire sermon before you judge the pastor. Go to rowlandmartin cnn.com under his blog you can get an understanding of what Wright was saying to the congregation. The media is the devil's advocate.
rowlandmartin.com his blog gives a clear understanding of revern Wrights comments. You can even listen to the entire cermon.
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MEDIA EXPOSED ! Coniving Media Never Mentions Rev. Wright's Sermon Was Quoting A WHITE MAN on Fox News !
Meet the man who inspired Reverend Jeremiah Wright's now famous tirade about America's foreign policy inciting the terrorist attacks of September 11.
His name is Ambassador Edward Peck. And he is a retired, white, career U.S. diplomat who served 32-years in the U.S. Foreign Service and was chief of the U.S. mission to Iraq under Jimmy Carter -- hardly the black-rage image with which Wright has been stigmatized.
In fact, when Wright took the pulpit to give his post-9/11 address -- which has since become boiled down to a five second sound bite about "America's chickens coming home to roost" -- he prefaced his remarks as a "faith footnote," an indication that he was deviating from his sermon.
"I heard Ambassador Peck on an interview yesterday," Wright declared. "He was on Fox News. This is a white man and he was upsetting the Fox News commentators to no end. He pointed out, a white man, an ambassador, that what Malcolm X said when he got silenced by Elijah Muhammad was in fact true: America's chickens are coming home to roost."
Wright then went on to list more than a few U.S. foreign policy endeavors that, by the tone of his voice and manner of his expression, he viewed as more or less deplorable. This included, as has been demonstrated in the endless loop of clips from his sermon, bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki and nuking "far more than the thousands in New York and the Pentagon and we never batted an eye."
"Violence begets violence," Wright said, "hatred begets hatred, and terrorism begets terrorism."
And then he concluded by putting the comments on Peck's shoulders: "A white ambassador said that yall, not a black militant, not a reverend who preaches about racism, an ambassador whose eyes are wide open and is trying to get us to wake up and move away from this dangerous precipice... the ambassador said that the people we have wounded don't have the military capability we have, but they do have individuals who are willing to die and take thousands with them... let me stop my faith footnote right there."
So it seems that while Wright did believe American held some responsibility for 9/11, his views, which have been described as radically outside the political mainstream, were actually influenced by a career foreign policy official.
Who is Peck? The ambassador, who has offered controversial criticism of Israeli policy in the West Bank but also warned against the Iraq War, was lecturing on a cruise ship and was unavailable for comment. But officials at Peck's former organization, the Council for the National Interest, a non-profit group that advocates reducing Israel's influence on U.S. Middle East policy, offered descriptions of the man.
"Peck is very outspoken," said Eugene Bird, who now heads CNI. "He is also very good at making phrases that have a resonance with the American people. When he came off of that Fox News, a few days later he said they would never invite me back again."
And what, exactly, did Peck say in that Fox News interview that inspired Wright's words?
Here are some quotes from an appearance the Ambassador made on the network on October 11, 2001, which may or may not have been the segment Wright was referring to. On the show, Peck said he thought it was illogical to tie Saddam Hussein to the terrorist attacks on 9/11, and that while the then-Iraqi leader had "some very sound and logical reasons not to like [the United States]," he and Osama bin Laden had no other ties.
From there, Peck went on to ascribe motives for what prompted the 9/11 attacks. "Stopping the economic embargo and bombings of Iraq," he said, "things to which Osama bin Laden has alluded as the kinds of things he doesn't like. He doesn't think it's appropriate for the United States to be doing, from his perspective, all the terrible things that he sees us as having been doing, the same way Saddam Hussein feels. So from that perspective, they have a commonality of interests. But they also have a deeply divergent view of the role of Islam in government, which would be a problem."
NOTE: So there you go. All this time the media NEVER let us know that Rev. Wright was simply quoting someone else....a distinguished WHITE MAN....on FOX NEWS ! The coniving, destructive, falsified, hate mongoring tactics of the media WILL NOT BE TOLERATED !
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Who cares if one white guy supports Rev. Wright. The problem is that the majority of Americans who are white, Italian, and jewish don't care about Rev. Wright and his spews of anti-americanism and racist views.
Apples and oranges. Obama has a 20 year relationship with a mentor who spews God Damn America. The heartland will not stand for it. You know that. Whitey is pist!
What amazes me is that those who choose to voice their opinion on what Reverend Jeremiah Wright said most have not listened to the entire speech which was delivered in 2001. Not one person has addressed that what he said was not the truth. Instead they call it racist and anti-american. Why? because Barack Obama is not a reminder to them of the effects of racism and his association with any one that is scares them. It is a tactic being used by the powers that be to get the American people caught up emotionally. We need to be focused on who is best qualified to bring about a change in this country that will benefit all americans (black, brown, red, yellow and white) rich or poor, man, woman and child. Because a black man is seeking the Presidential Nomination race matters (racism). Because a woman is also seeking the nomination gender matters (sexism) but when a white man is seeking the nomination nothing matters. Just know that he who circumscribes the circumference of your thinking controls the diameter of your actions.
White people are in such denial of reality, they see life through eyes that hide their feeling of entitlement to all things powerful and full of wealth, be it oil or the benefits they still reap from our ancestors slave labor.When the truth of the history THEY created is vented publically they become out raged. I am SICK AND TIRED of a society that wants us to still foot shuffle and "yes, suh" and that includes some of our own black people. When our people speak truth to their "power" and don't blink or flinch, or retract and apologize under pressure-then we have to be demonized. The real demons are on capital hill, running our county to hell.
I commend Rev. Wright for his accomplishments,his straight forwardness and I understand and agree with his statements.However, there is a time for everything. I just don't feel this is the time to display intellectual arrogance. Surely he must know his every blink of an eye will be linked to Obama by the media.
Why are the Clinton's Pastor and President Clinton's link to Rev. Wright not being equally scrutinized? I just received two emails, one with a picture of Rev.Wright shaking hands with,then president, Bill Clinton at a presidental breakfast,October, 28, 1998, including a (signed by Clinton) copy of the thank you note Clinton sent to Rev. Wright. I also received an article detailing the sentencing of three years in prison, by Judge Michael L. Dwyer, of the Clinton's PASTOR, Pastor Procanik, for the inapproipriate touching of a 7 year old girl at his home last March. If there is validity to these articles-why do we not see this on the news. If you want to judge Obama by Wright-let's examine Clinton and Procanick since Hillary claims she would have left HER church. Seems to me I'd take Rev. Wright before a pediphile.
The Clinton's have shown themselves to be what they have always been-masters of disguise and deceit-from NAFTA to Bosnia, to the industrial prison boom under Clinton, to the outright financial rape of students trying to finance college and their parents attempts to help secure funds for them through loans that can leave both in financial ruin.I have NO respect for the Clintons.
I have much respect for Michelle and Barak Obama. I admire his calm under fire and his ability to display respect and dignity-qualities MIA in the Bush administration.
The chemistry between them is so loving and genuine-that's what we should be about. Hillary could take a few lessons on class, grace,honesty and beauty from Michelle Obama!
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