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March 19, 2008
The Rev. Wright - Militant and Surrogate Father
by Jack Lee
Obama's bid for the presidency could be derailed by one man, the militant Reverend Jeremiah Wright, his political mentor and surrogate father. A man who focused on Muslim studies to get his master's degree at the University of Chicago and this has "white" America more than a little concerned.. it scares the H- - out of some people!
In the 21st century, white America got a wake-up call after 9/11/01. White America and the Western world came to realize that people of color had not gone away, faded into the woodwork or just “disappeared” as the Great White West kept on its merry way of ignoring Black concerns. Rev. Wright
Race was bound to become an issue in this presidential campaign, we've more or less been pussy footing around it for months, then Geraldine Ferraro's comments made the headlines, followed by the Rev. Wright's diatribe against "white" America and his long list of absurd anti-white allegations. As one blog commenter said, "If Wright were white, he’d wear a sheet".
Obama is placed in a tough spot. He has responded by placing his words over Wright's, but he does not address the specifics of Wrights allegations. Like, America caused 9/11, that we should abandon Israel, that we were wrong for dropping the A-bomb on Japan in WWII, that 3 Strikes was a racist law aimed mostly at blacks, that "white" America has no tolerance or use for black Americans and that we're more like the old "white" Roman Empire.
There's more, much more, but either you get it or you never will. Wright is a racist. He's a blanco-phobe of the worst order and he calls on God to damn "white" America. For this man to be a leading presidential candidate's surrogate father raises questions at a time when that candidate would just as soon be focusing on something else...anything else, but this!
Posted by Post Scripts at March 19, 2008 09:40 AM
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In the 21st century, white America got a wake-up call after 9/11/01. White America and the Western world came to realize that people of color had not gone away, faded into the woodwork or just “disappeared” as the Great White West kept on its merry way of ignoring Black concerns. Rev. Wright
Reverand Wright is more aligned with hate filled terrorists than he is with peace loving Musslims, whether they be Middle Eastern or American.
He believes "the Western world" dismisses people of color as irrelevant, unimportant or non existent but he paints with a broad and biased brush discounting the many things that Americans have done to reverse the ugliness of racism and the injustices of slavery. In short this statement is a complete lie and reveals more about the speaker than it does about "white America".
One thing I know for certain. If people of color fail to let go of the past then no matter what white Americans do it won't change a thing.
As an aside...has anyone here bothered to notice:
This "racist: issue is playing out on the democrat stage having been brought up first in the Clinton camp...also, the issue of church and state is suddenly not a problem for them. And...
Can republicans expect to be defended on these two issues, as democrats obviously have been, from now on? Will the press acknowledge that racism isn't "conservative" but exists, when it exists, in individual human beings of all colors and political stripes...and that it is the exception and not the rule in America?
Liberal democrats are just not honest about these things...they are not honest about their own attitudes and they are not honest about conservatives.
I'd just like to say that Americans, on the whole, have bent over backwards to ensure that "people of color" have equal opportunity and feel welcome and included. If they do not experience this perhaps it's because they need to change their own attitudes. As long as they don't they will be continuously exploiteded by those seeking power or fame.
I leave you with this from Dr. Thomas Sowell:
Someone once said that a con man’s job is not to convince skeptics but to enable people to continue to believe what they already want to believe. ** Accordingly, Obama’s Philadelphia speech — a theatrical masterpiece — will probably reassure most Democrats and some other Obama supporters. They will undoubtedly say that we should now “move on,” even though many Democrats have still not yet moved on from George W. Bush’s 2000 election victory. ** Like the Soviet show trials during their 1930s purges, Obama’s speech was not supposed to convince critics but to reassure supporters and fellow-travelers, in order to keep the “useful idiots” useful.
“Wright Bound - Obama’s speech,” by Thomas Sowell - NRO
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MDMyZTU1M2YyZDBlZDczMjY2Y2QyZWYwZjFiYWU4YWE=
Posted by: Tina at March 19, 2008 10:40 PM