10 Things You Didn't Know About the Rev. Jeremiah Wright

Dear God...

I've noticed everyone on this blog typing their own opinions without reading and thinking about each other's. Sorry but its obvious. This could be a problem. It seems that people who don't want to like Obama focus on Wright as an excuse to "not like him more". It is ,again, obvious that his realationship with his old reverend is similar to everyone elsesr, they preach at you on sunday morning while you are trying to figure out how much you drank and exactly how old she was that Saturday night before without to much of Mr. preachers sentiment finding its way into your heart. Also the Repubs' actually have much more creepy preacher connections.

"THIS ISNT ABOUT RELIGION OR LOGIC, IT IS ABOUT IDEALOGY USING EASILY DISSOLVABLE LOGIC AS A COVER FOR PREEXISTING CONTEMPT."

This statement is represented in this blog to perfection and is also demonstrated by Mr. Obama's "real owrld" critics.

note--- Racism and hypocritic thinking stand out like a sore thumbs.

Can someone read a book, maybe two?

First, I would like to say that many of us are delusional. The saying goes as much as things change, they also stay the same. If you believe that racism is dead go read a book. Racism is still alive and striving, it just changed its game plan. I am beginning to think that this election is turning into a story about how many people will vote for Obama because he is Black. I am in total awe of the number of people that seem to not see anything wrong with the way that Obama handled the situation with his pastor. I did not like it and I think he maybe a liar. Atleast thats what it seems like to me. How is it that he never heard any of those sermons? I do not go to his church and I have heard them before. Also, many people stated that his comments about the American government being involved in some of the great tragedies of our time were un-American. Well, I wonder if they said that to the authors and directors that have been saying the same thing for years. Why is it that the evidence that something went wrong can be said as long as it is in a book or a documentary. Has anyone seen Miss Evers' Boys? Also, often times good intentions turn bad and that can happen anywhere: Be it the White House or the Crack House. I was an Obama supporter until I heard his comments last week. Now I am in deep thought about who to vote for because I believe that there is something to be said about a man that is the same everywhere he goes, no matter where he is at the time. I think Obama has switched and I do not like it.

Pat Buchanan's comments

@E.Banks: I assume you're posting Mr. Buchanan's comments because you feel that there is some merit to them.

No one disputes those stats. Some of us, people that I like to refer to as "thoughtful", or "intelligent", see those stats and think that they may be indicative of something deeper, something worth addressing. Other people, that I like to refer to as "ignorant" or "racist" (in this context), look at those stats and just conclude that black people are worse than white people, and black people need to just figure it out.

If a whole bunch of people in a town get cancer, don't we try to figure out what the cause might be, and not just assume that those people are weak. When a certain group of people act in a certain way, isn't the intelligent thing to do to try to understand the cause, and not just assume some moral deficit (weakness) in that group?

I think that posts like these from prominent figures like Mr. Buchanan are much more dangerous than comments from people like Rev. Wright, because with Wright, it's very clear that his comments are racially charge, and so people will be more likely to scrutinize what he says. With comments like these from Mr. Buchanan, people are much more likely to see stats and facts, and just accept his conclusions without giving it the thought it deserves. His stats are correct, but his conclusions are very, very wrong.

This must have been missed by the media

March 21, 2008

PJB: A Brief for Whitey

posted by Linda

By Patrick J. Buchanan

How would he pull it off? I wondered.

How would Barack explain to his press groupies why he sat silent in a pew for 20 years as the Rev. Jeremiah Wright delivered racist rants against white America for our maligning of Fidel and Gadhafi, and inventing AIDS to infect and kill black people?

How would he justify not walking out as Wright spewed his venom about “the U.S. of K.K.K. America,” and howled, “God damn America!”

My hunch was right. Barack would turn the tables.

Yes, Barack agreed, Wright’s statements were “controversial,” and “divisive,” and “racially charged,” reflecting a “distorted view of America.”

But we must understand the man in full and the black experience out of which the Rev. Wright came: 350 years of slavery and segregation.

Barack then listed black grievances and informed us what white America must do to close the racial divide and heal the country.

The “white community,” said Barack, must start “acknowledging that what ails the African-American community does not just exist in the minds of black people; that the legacy of discrimination — and current incidents of discrimination, while less overt than in the past — are real and must be addressed. Not just with words, but with deeds … .”

And what deeds must we perform to heal ourselves and our country?

The “white community” must invest more money in black schools and communities, enforce civil rights laws, ensure fairness in the criminal justice system and provide this generation of blacks with “ladders of opportunity” that were “unavailable” to Barack’s and the Rev. Wright’s generations.

What is wrong with Barack’s prognosis and Barack’s cure?

Only this. It is the same old con, the same old shakedown that black hustlers have been running since the Kerner Commission blamed the riots in Harlem, Watts, Newark, Detroit and a hundred other cities on, as Nixon put it, “everybody but the rioters themselves.”

Was “white racism” really responsible for those black men looting auto dealerships and liquor stories, and burning down their own communities, as Otto Kerner said — that liberal icon until the feds put him away for bribery.

Barack says we need to have a conversation about race in America.

Fair enough. But this time, it has to be a two-way conversation. White America needs to be heard from, not just lectured to.

This time, the Silent Majority needs to have its convictions, grievances and demands heard. And among them are these:

First, America has been the best country on earth for black folks. It was here that 600,000 black people, brought from Africa in slave ships, grew into a community of 40 million, were introduced to Christian salvation, and reached the greatest levels of freedom and prosperity blacks have ever known.

Wright ought to go down on his knees and thank God he is an American.

Second, no people anywhere has done more to lift up blacks than white Americans. Untold trillions have been spent since the ’60s on welfare, food stamps, rent supplements, Section 8 housing, Pell grants, student loans, legal services, Medicaid, Earned Income Tax Credits and poverty programs designed to bring the African-American community into the mainstream.

Governments, businesses and colleges have engaged in discrimination against white folks — with affirmative action, contract set-asides and quotas — to advance black applicants over white applicants.

Churches, foundations, civic groups, schools and individuals all over America have donated time and money to support soup kitchens, adult education, day care, retirement and nursing homes for blacks.

We hear the grievances. Where is the gratitude?

Barack talks about new “ladders of opportunity” for blacks.

Let him go to Altoona and Johnstown, and ask the white kids in Catholic schools how many were visited lately by Ivy League recruiters handing out scholarships for “deserving” white kids.

Is white America really responsible for the fact that the crime and incarceration rates for African-Americans are seven times those of white America? Is it really white America’s fault that illegitimacy in the African-American community has hit 70 percent and the black dropout rate from high schools in some cities has reached 50 percent?

Is that the fault of white America or, first and foremost, a failure of the black community itself?

As for racism, its ugliest manifestation is in interracial crime, and especially interracial crimes of violence. Is Barack Obama aware that while white criminals choose black victims 3 percent of the time, black criminals choose white victims 45 percent of the time?

Is Barack aware that black-on-white rapes are 100 times more common than the reverse, that black-on-white robberies were 139 times as common in the first three years of this decade as the reverse?

We have all heard ad nauseam from the Rev. Al about Tawana Brawley, the Duke rape case and Jena. And all turned out to be hoaxes. But about the epidemic of black assaults on whites that are real, we hear nothing.

Sorry, Barack, some of us have heard it all before, about 40 years and 40 trillion tax dollars ago.

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Obama Supports Abortion

Obama claims that he was converted to Christianity by this church and Wright. Why and how did he go wrong then on allowing for and supporting the continued massacre and holocaust against innocent unborn children? What kind of man is this Obama, where he closes his eyes to the murder of unborn children. The devine plan has and always will be the continuation of the human race, generation and after generation until the end times, but, Abortion is interference with this devine plan.

Why then does Obama interfere then with this devine plan? What is going on in this Church where he does not get on the right side of the abortion issue.

My Christian Church constantly admonishes to stop the killing of the unborn.

Why does any politician, that is Christian, participate in the condoning and allowance of abortion, a grave sin?

Like John Kerry, in 2004, he said in one of the debates: "I am personally against abortion, but, I cannot and will not do anything to change that in my capacity of President"

No wonder he did not get that opportunity.

Frankly, Obama is going to lose 20% of the national votes, when they are cast to all of us that will only vote for a politician that will stop this murdering of the unborn.

If Obama truly is for the correct change, he should elevate his Christian faith to the point where he converts to pro life and promises to do what he can as President to stop the murdering of the unborn.

Comments on JFK

Jeremiah Wright's comments are totally out of line mocking John F. Kennedy's inagural speech; "Aisk not what your country can do for you, aisk what you can do for your country... How do you spell 'aisk' anyways?..." John F. Kennedy almost committed political suicide signing the first civil rights documents. I feel these comments extremely disrespectful and unappreciative towards JFK's motions to "get the ball rolling" in regards to the civil rights movement. Rev. Wright is definitely soaking up the 15 minutes of fame he is getting by making outrageous and self indulging comments

Comments on JFK

Jeremiah Wright's comments are totally out of line mocking John F. Kennedy's inagural speech; "Aisk not what your country can do for you, aisk what you can do for your country... How do you spell 'aisk' anyways?..." John F. Kennedy almost committed political suicide signing the first civil rights documents. I feel these comments extremely disrespectful and unappreciative towards JFK's motions to "get the ball rolling" in regards to the civil rights movement. Rev. Wright is definitely soaking up the 15 minutes of fame he is getting by making outrageous and self indulging comments

throwing stones

I have read some of the comments in this blog, and wonder are people actually feeling, what they are typing or are they just typing? The following concerns need to be understood! Obama could not stand before this country day in and out, and look into the thousands of faces around this great nation and not feel the possiblilites of change, if he did not love this country. Reverend Wright can be found in all churches: Baptist, Catholic, interdenominational... we know this...

He is cloaked in many colors: white, hispanic and also black churches....In the name of religion Americans are battling: polgamy, idolatry, sexism, divisiveness, child abuse, adultery, liars, cheats and a wide variety of rules and regulations that keep "Others" of the church in their membership places. So where does that leave Barack Obama? Pretty much in the same boat most of us are drifting in. Which is The boat of members that leave our churches with our bibles in our hands and the Lord on our minds because that is who we focus on; and the maturity to realize and seperate facts from opinions of another human being without having to be disrespectful.

obama

I am not a racist. By definition, you would have to be in power to be so. In essence, I may be a little biased , if not, prejudice.

Ever since the English settlers came to "America" and ripped of the Native Americans for their land, they have ran the show.

Whatever Obama's religious beliefs are can be no worse than that of the right-wing, skull and bones predicessors. I don't feel that he can do any worse than the white republicans have done since the beginning. I don't think leaving our loved ones in a strange country to fight for "democracy" (translation: oil and control) is what any of us want. The economy is more important than what Rev. Wright has to say. I don't think that I care much about Obama's religious affilliation as much as I care about the high cost of gas. I don't care about anything as much as if I will lose my house tomorrow because I don't know if I will wake up to a job.

Everyone knows this and I am tired of saying it, this is just a smoke screen to evade from the real issues. The rich, white republicans have made a mockery of this country and what it could have stood for. But they are the ones in power so, much of their tomfoolery had been made light of, bought off, or just swept under the rug. Too many Black Americans deal with what they are handed. That is why so many of us are willing to deal with this so-called equal opportunity mess, instead of 'taking it to the streets'. Fighting for what is obviously right. Too many of us are conditioned to White America. Just sitting around to see what they hand out next. The fear of the Black Man is what is holding us back.

What we can do

What we can do is STOP the madness. As I see us digging deep in the history of Barack Obama's faith and belief of his Pastor Jeremiah Murphy. I knew that we as a people within the wall of political campaigning, have not grown or learned since the begining of time. Each presidential candidate has had, dings for lack of a better word, in their history. Either through association which had not stopped the support. It is very interesting because it is a black candidate that we raise our eyes up and begin to pull out the lynch to make him less of a great presidential candidate. I am so sadden by our growth as Americans. We should just pull out our sheets and start working back in the cotton fields. Let's get it right American and get our soldiers out of Iraq....