Obama asks us always to understand the context of things. He says of his racist church, “Like other black churches, Trinity’s services are full of raucous laughter and sometimes bawdy humor. They are full of dancing, clapping, screaming and shouting that may seem jarring to the untrained ear. The church contains in full the kindness and cruelty, the fierce intelligence and the shocking ignorance, the struggles and successes, the love and yes, the bitterness and bias that make up the black experience in America.”
Well, I guess he’s right. I have an untrained ear. I hear all that hate whitey stuff, and I think these leaders mean what they say. But, I guess it could be worse. Jeremiah Wright might actually follow his Afrocentric reasoning to its logical conclusions and say what all too many people in the black community are thinking, like Khallid Muhammad, former right hand man to “Trinity Church Lifetime Achiever” Louis Farrakhan. He is speaking below in his infamous 1993 Kean College speech:
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Thank you, Mr. Roach, for reminding us of the relationship between the horrible Khalid Abdul Muhammad (KAD), and Farrakhan.
There’s a tendency amongst a lot of typical white people not to take these clowns seriously. While this might have been a rational response before the Obama candidacy, it isn’t now.
We have to pay close attention to what Farrakhan and his minion, KAD, have said, because they are (or were, in the case of KAD), close friends and advisors to BHO’s spiritual mentor, Jeremiah Wright.
Someone should look closely into the particulars of the Farrakhan-Wright relationship. And if any, the relationship between KAD and Wright. Did KAD for example accompany Wright and Farrakhan to Libya?
I do not have an untrained ear. I’ve been in dozens of black churches. The first 20 years of my Christian experience were served under black pastors.
And from my experience, I can assure you that Obama is lying through his damned teeth. Yeah, there are some ministers like Wright; but the average black pastor sounds theologically like a loud version of Rick Warren, not like a Christianized Louis Farrakhan. T.D. Jakes, Joseph Garlington, or Melvin Clark would never have said the political stuff Rev. Wright said in his church; and they have as much experience of being black in America as he has.
Barack Obama is a lot farther to the left than he’s letting on.
I have to agree. I think the ear thing is an insult. I’ve lived in Hyde Park. There were plenty of mixed race congregations or even black ones that were less extreme.
And I’ve heard black preachers on the radio and TV. While the cadence is much like Wright’s, the message is mostly basic Christianity: worship God, pick yourself up, don’t hate, do the right thing, forgive, be loving, don’t leave your wife and kids, etc.
Worth repeating in this post…
My take on the Obama/Wright controversy can be read at my blog post:
Understanding the Sin of Racism
If the demagogues filmed were not black, on one would hesitate to call them what they are, fascists.
Advocacy for more state power, even as they hate any element of it not under their total control? Check. Feeling betrayed by ‘the system’? Check. Using threats of violence and conspiracy theories as standard practice? Check. Using false narratives of oppression and unfair treatment to create group solidarity? Check.
Yup. Pretty much standard issue fascism.
Show of hands…
How many of you were ever black men in the 1950′s-1960′s (and further back)? Nobody? I thought so. Well, as a young African American who has grown up around black some older black men I’ll let you in on something.
The Reverend Wright is speaking from the perspective of a man who spent possibly his entire young adult life under Jim Crow laws and dujour racism/segregation. Yes, you darn tootin he’s angry. The first half of his life was spent as a foot stool to whites. Am I excusing his angry? No. However, I do understand his point of view. He doesn’t like white people…OBVIOUS. However, Pat Robertson AND Jerry Falwell said Goddamn America too. Yet, I don’t hear the uproar (last I remembered John McCain was lobbying Jerry Falwell until he bit it. Go figure). No, it is because the Rev. Wright is a black man that is matters.
Sorry but it is NO reflection on President Obama. All of you who still try and classify him with extreme sects of the Nation of Islam; Al Qaeda; and various other extremist groups repulse me. All of your propaganda is nothing more than veiled racism. All of this was made up because you have NOTHING on him.
And sorry America being far too the right took us to hell in a handbasket for the last eight years.
Furthermore, if more of you actually listened to the context of the actual sermon instead of a soundbite saying, “God damn America” maybe you would have gotten the crux of the sermon. But you won’t do that will you…No, you won’t. You want sensationalistic tabloid garbage and not truth.
There was no Jim Crow in Philly where Rev. Wright is from.
Rev. Wright said his stupidities right after 9/11. That said, I have no particular love for Falwell and Robertson.
Wright may have a right to be pissed. But he hates this country, and I love this country, and if Obama hates it or hangs with people who do, he should explain himself. Instead he always conceals his true feelings.
The crux of sermon was that God was punishing us with 9/11 for our evil, imperialist foreign policies. That’s a bullshit argument.