Gosh, that Rev. Wright is so "outrageous" shouting "God damn! America for...., for,..." (Rev. Wright had a lot of 'fors' following that phrase in his speech - we finally heard them on Bill Moyers Journal last Friday evening.
[Observation: The ONLY reason we get to hear Wright's 'outrageous' 2001 preaching about America's crimes is that all of us hearing it will most surely cause a white backlash against the Obama candidacy since Wright was his pastor, married him and his wife, baptized his children and prayed at Obama's tossing of his hat in the ring.]
[Observation: When have we ever heard anti-war and anti-empire U.S. government sentiments on prime time before? Never during this writer's long lifetime! (Not even the full Beyond Vietnam speech of MLK Jr. was heard on the evening news of the day he gave it.)
[Question: from a red-blooded American dissident:
What is it that makes the silent majority of Americans enjoy reading and hearing of body counts so much?
Associate Press never tires of reporting exactly how many "suspected" insurgents were killed on a particular day:
"suspected 'insurgents'" in Afghanistan, Afghani "'suspected' 'insurgents'"; in Somalia Somali "'suspected 'insurgents' (likewise, the former anti-warlord government in Somalia before the U.S. backed and funded Ethiopian army's invasion and occupation); in Iraq "'suspected' 'insurgents'" years ago were Iraqi Ba'athists (again a former government backed by U.S. for invading Iran), thereafter Shi'ite anti-occupation Iraqis, two years ago al Qaeda backed groups of Iraqis, or Sunni Iraqis, and currently the body counts again being of the bodies of Shi'ite Iraqis that had for years maintained a truce until this month being attacked as a way of blocking Iranian 'influence' in Iraq.
Surely not much to do with 9/11 'outrage' and unsatisfied revenge - mainstream took great encouragement from the body counts of Vietnamese bodies in Vietnam for fifteen years.]
[Hypothetical question: Something your servant senses in the back of his mind while watching the Congress debate on C-span and the talk shows participants on CNN and other corporate owned television is the following:
If history during this one life-time was rerun, how few of these politicians and these voting constituents would NOT consent to the wiping out a couple million Koreans, four million Vietnamese, Laotians and Cambodians, hundreds of Dominicans and Haitians, hundreds of Cubans, a million Iraqis, a million Afghanis, thousands of Somalis, not to mention the millions in the Congo, Angola, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, all over again a second time?
Is it conceivable that America indifference to foreigners in their very own countries falling en mass in homicidal harm's way of the world dominating superpower's insuperable armed forces and CIA funding terror will someday end? Not in this writer's lifetime, for sure.
Can anyone imagine the heart warming words and lovely flowing melody of 'America the Beautiful' in the tradition of the Ray Charles' rendition replacing the word praising victory in war and the martial repetitive tune of the Star Spangled Banner?
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. could. He had a dream and he was demanding that we make it come true until they shot him.
And Rev. Jeremiah Wright is demanding it. And he is still alive. And he sings with a beautiful voice, Handel's Messiah, Gospel, Blues, Hip-hop. A quirk in destiny has enabled this preacher who demands peace and reconciliation to have grabbed the spotlight to the supreme annoyance of the white establishment and its collaborators. And boy does he seem to be enjoying himself at work.
He may have gone overboard in having fun during his press conference yesterday, but no one should miss his incredibly moral, moving, charming, educating and musical Sunday NAACP Anniversary address, and the moving, praising, whoopping 'right-on'! introduction by Rev. Wendell Anthony. To see video click on Wright's NAACP speech.
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