I’m sitting here listening to CNN’s Anderson Cooper, Roland Martin and others talk about how Barack Obama’s pastor’s anti-white tirades are not “relevant” to the issues of the campaign. Does anyone seriously buy that? In their report, CNN very obviously left out Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s most inflammatory comment that “blacks should not sing ‘God bless America, but ‘God damn America.’” Rev. Wright is the pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ on Chicago’s south side. Barack Obama has been a member of the church for more than twenty years.
I looked for some information and found this report.
Rev. Wright married Obama and his wife Michelle, baptized their two daughters and is credited by Obama for the title of his book, “The Audacity of Hope.”
An ABC News review of dozens of Rev. Wright’s sermons, offered for sale by the church, found repeated denunciations of the U.S. based on what he described as his reading of the Gospels and the treatment of black Americans.
“The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law and then wants us to sing ‘God Bless America.’ No, no, no, God damn America, that’s in the Bible for killing innocent people,” he said in a 2003 sermon. “God damn America for treating our citizens as less than human. God damn America for as long as she acts like she is God and she is supreme.”
In addition to damning America, he told his congregation on the Sunday after Sept. 11, 2001 that the United States had brought on al Qaeda’s attacks because of its own terrorism.
Barack Obama has been a member of that church for over twenty years, and he has helped to support the church with significant monetary donations. You don’t financially support an organization if you don’t agree with the basic principles that the organization espouses. Obama insults the intelligence and common sense of the voters by passing off Rev. Wright’s comments as like those of an “uncle you don’t agree with.” If you have an uncle who preaches hate repeatedly, you don’t continue to listen to him. You don’t have that crazy uncle baptize your children. You don’t have that uncle perform your wedding ceremony. You don’t give that uncle lots of your money in order for him to continue to spew all those things you supposedly “disagree with.”
Isn’t it interesting that Barack Obama, who is living the American dream and is a shining example of what people can accomplish via the opportunities they have as Americans, attends a church that calls for God to damn America. Talk about biting the hand that feeds you.
If a white candidate attended a church where the minister was a member of the Ku Klux Klan and preached sermons that were anti-black, that candidate would not have a chance in the world of being elected. No one - white or black - wants a president who socializes with and sympathizes with racists. Well, no, I take that back. If the candidate is black, apparently it’s okay.
Barack Hussein Obama did not distance himself from the church until he started running for president. And THAT is a strong indication of his character. Racism is racism is racism. Blacks are not immune from being racist. A racist is a racist is a racist. Rev. Wright is a racist of the worst kind. He not only has his own racist beliefs, but he uses his influence as a mnister to preach hate and racism - exactly what the Bible tells us not to do. And Barack Obama has supported him generously for TWENTY YEARS!
I wonder why Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson aren’t calling for Rev. Wright to apologize and for Obama to publicly denounce Rev. Wright and the Trinity United Church of Christ. I thought they were such outspoken critics of racism. Could it mean that they, too, only care about injustice and wrong when it’s against black people. They, like Rev. Wright, are racists of the worst kind.
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March 20th, 2008 at 5:59 pm
IT LOOKS LIKE TO ME THAT WE ARE HEADED FOR A HISTORICAL ELECTION YEAR. I THINK A BOYCOTT WOULD BE A GREAT IDEA. THERE IS ENTIRELY TOO MUCH RACE GOING ON IN THIS CAMPAIN AGAINST OBAMA. BOYCOTT NOVEMBER ELECTION UNTIL WE GET PASS RACIAL ELECTIONS IN THIS COUNTRY IS A GREAT IDEA. A SIT OUT WOULD BE PERFECT.
March 20th, 2008 at 6:15 pm
I WONDER HOW MANY WHITE PEOPLE WOULD BOYCOTT. PERHAPS 2%. WHITE PEOPLE IN THIS COUNTRY SHOULD BE SHAMED OF THEMSELVES TO SHOW SO MUCH PREJUDICE AND TO NOT ALLOW ANOTHER PERSON BE IT MEXICAN, NATIVE AMERICAN OR BLACKS A CHANCE TO THE AMERICAN DREAM. THEY ARE ALL FOR THEMSELVES. BLACK PEOPLE HAVE VOTED FOR THEM FOR YEARS BUT THEY CANNOT SHOW THEIR SUPPORT FOR BLACK PEOPLE. I AM TIRED OF WHITE PEOPLE CRYING LIKE LITTE BABIES AND ALWAYS WANT TO CONTROL OTHER PEOPLE IN THE WORLD. PLEASE GIVE SOMEBODY ELSE A CHANCE BESIDES GLORIFYING YOURSELVES TO NO END.
TMS: TENA, did it ever cross your mind to proofread your two comments before posting them? You don’t make much sense. Despite your minimal writing abilities, your anger and prejudice shines through. Sounds like you’d fit in with that racist bunch at Obama’s church. Just because a person is black doesn’t mean he/she isn’t racist. It would be just as stupid to vote for Obama because he’s black as it would be to vote for McCain because he’s white or Clinton because she’s a woman. This is more important than a little popularity contest.