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July 2007 Stats for The Big Picture.
Obama's hypocrisy is shocking for being so blatant:
But the truth is, is that, our challenge is to get people persuaded that we can make progress when there's not evidence of that in their daily lives. You go into some of these small towns in Pennsylvania, and like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton administration, and the Bush administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. So it's not surprising then that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.
"...or antipathy to people who aren't like them." Let's compare that to some of Obama's other remarks, from his own book, "Dreams of My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance" - much of which you can hear him reading out loud:
And yet, even as I imagined myself following Malcolm's call, one line in the book stayed with me. He spoke of a wish he'd once had, the wish that the white blood that ran through him, there by an act of violence, might somehow be expunged.
[.....] The minority assimilated into the dominant culture, not the other way around. Only white culture could be neutral and objective. Only white culture could be nonracial, willing to adopt the occasional exotic into its ranks. Only white culture had individuals.
[.....] That hate hadn't gone away; it formed a counter-narrative buried deep within each person and at the center of which stood white people -- some cruel, some ignorant...
"White blood... white culture... white people"... that's how Obama thinks. He's full of antipathy towards people who he believes 'aren't like him' -- and as seen through his prejudiced eyes, skin color is all it takes to make someone different from him. He declaims against people's supposed "antipathy to people who aren't like them", but in his book, he exemplifies such antipathy.
His hypocrisy is astounding.
And the bitterness he speaks of, is his own.
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#2Great points, AM. It appears that Wright is misrepresenting the "Black Church." From the LA Times:
In a series of nationally televised appearances over the last few days, the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. has defended his controversial remarks as "prophetic theology," and said criticism of him amounted to an attack on the black church.
But most black church leaders and members reached Tuesday disagreed.
"This didn’t have anything to do with the black church—it was basically an attack on the individual message he proclaimed, which hurt some individuals," said the Rev. K.W. Tulloss of Weller Street Missionary Baptist Church in Boyle Heights. "My own members were offended by Rev. Wright’s words. His views have cast a wedge between people, and that’s the exact opposite of the unity Jesus represented."
#3Rev. Wright echos the sentiments of James Hal Cone‘s ‘Liberation Theology’. In 1984 this ‘theology’ was provocative enough to elicit a tretise by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (now Pope Benedict XVI) entitled, Preliminary Notes oon Liberation Theology.
Black Pastors may want to distance themselves from Pastor Wright, but most of them do promote Cone’s agenda of a Christianity with a MArxist spin. Unfortunatly for these Pastors, it’s become the dirty little secret that’s just been exposed.
Notes on The Black Church
It’s interesting to hear all the rhetoric concerning Pastor Wright and the ‘Black Church Community’.
I didn’t realize that churches were divided into racial catorgories and had special dispensation from mainstream, orthodox Christian doctrine because of their cultural heritage and history. There have been justifications, rationalizations, and excuses concerning the sermons and attitudes amongst the congregants of these segregated churches.
All I’m hearing is that the rest of us are out of touch with and/or have no understanding of,the ‘Black Church’.
Obviously not, and for good reason: If a denomination chooses to segregate itself along racial lines, how would others outside their community come to understand or accept it? What is their outreach into other Christian communities? There seems no spirit of ecumenism which has now become the tradition amongst mainline Christian denominations to heal the divisions. Even Jewish congregations have been invited to be a part of this movement; rabbis are routinely invited to speak before congregations and some also invite Christians into their synagogues.
Since the Civil Rights era, of the 1960’s, denominations such as the Episcopal, Lutheran, Methodist, Presbyterian , and Roman Catholic churches have been striving to attract and include people of color and other minorities to more accurately reflect the population. Such is the kingdom of
G-d.
Instead, it is the so-called, ‘Black Church’ that is out of step with Christianity and their American Christian brothers and sisters. Christianity is supposed to be a home to all - embracing inclusion and diversity. This self-imposed segregation by the ‘Black Church’ is for social and political reasons rather than religious ones. Their agenda is suspect.
There cannot be any social, economic, or politcal progress for African-Americans if they continually distance themselves from their fellow American Christians during the most sacred and intimate time in their lives. This worship and praise should be in the midst of an all-inclusive supportive community and not one that fosters and instills separation as well as hatred and provocation.