I will certainly be called a racist and dismissed as a racist, if not by Senator Obama then by his campaign committee. I know this because they have already accused and trashed President Bill Clinton (”The First Black President”) and Geraldine Ferraro (twice).
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Yesterday, the candidate that promised to transcend race and racism and unite all Americans for change, spoke with admiration about his pastor, a man that brought him to Christianity, married him, preached to him for about twenty years, baptized his children, took his donations of more than $22,000.00 (in one year), and prayed with him before the good Senator started his quest for the White House.
That pastor, one might surmise, is anti-American and racist because of the now infamous comments he has “preached” from the pulpit of his church in the name of Jesus Christ and God Almighty.
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But don’t believe me, a White Man married to a “Person of Color,” just re-read some of the Reverend (some say Bishop) Jeramiah Wright’s sermons. Or watch the videos and listen to the true bile this man has dished out for years in Christ’s name.
Reverend Wright told his congregation that the Government of the United States was waging a war of genocide against people of color using HIV/AIDS.
I tell you in all honesty: any person of any color who tells me the U.S. government is intentionally killing off its citizens by any means is divisive and deserves condemnation — unless certain proof can be put on the table.
This came from the religious advisor of a candidate for President of the United States who told us he would unite us and rise above race and racism and condemn those that were divisive.
Senator Obama and Rev. Wright. Distance between them?
Rev. Wright called the USA “the KKK of A.”
In a sermon on the Sunday after the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, Rev. Wright suggested the United States brought on the attacks — by its own terrorism.
“We bombed Hiroshima, we bombed Nagasaki, and we nuked far more than the thousands in New York and the Pentagon, and we never batted an eye,” Wright said. “We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we are indignant because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back to our own front yards. America’s chickens are coming home to roost.”
In a 2003 sermon, he said Black people, African Americans, should condemn the United States.
“The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law and then wants us to sing ‘God Bless America.’ No, no, no, God damn America, that’s in the Bible for killing innocent people. God damn America for treating our citizens as less than human. God damn America for as long as she acts like she is God and she is supreme.”
So, after participating in services orchestrated by Rev. Wright for twenty years, Senator Obama never said a disparaging remark about his pastor or made an effort to set the record straight. Until yesterday.
Yesterday Senator Obama condemned his pastor for his less than truthful and uniting and honest language but he refused to distance himself by withdrawing from his church, the Trinity United Church of Christ in South Chicago.
And yesterday, while uniting us, Senator Obama, apparently seeking an excuse or some justification, invoked the names of George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, his Grandmother, and Geraldine Ferraro (for the second time — but the first time since she resigned from the Hillary Clinton for President campaign). He even made a veiled reference to “The First Black President.”
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The former President said during the New Hampshire primary about Senator Obama, “Give me a break. This whole thing is the biggest fairy tale I’ve ever seen.” And for this, and comparing the Obama campaign to the campaign years ago of Jesse Jackson, President Clinton was attacked as a racist.
Yesterday Senator Obama grabbed all his White racist relatives, friends, and historical icons and threw them under the bus.
For what purpose? The record of racism by White people is pretty well established, I think, and White America has gone out of its way to atone, I think.
The “Great Uniter” who said he would “Rise Above Race” has played the race card like a two bit Kansas City saloon gambler in 1880. How many race cards does he have up his sleeve? And when will we discuss in detail the real issues?
Race is important, sure, but Ken Blackwell of the Family Research organization says Senator Obama favors $1 Billion in new taxes. In this recession, that will push my bride’s small business into the red — and there are no buyers right now in this economy.
Apparently, and I could be wrong, while Senator Obama was a student at Harvard Law School, he learned how to use slick language and give wonderful sounding speeches. But he didn’t learn how to make good argument and he missed the chapters on honesty and integrity entirely, I think, if yesterday’s speech is an example of his thinking and logic.
But I could be wrong.
Related:
Obama Camp Calls Ferraro Racist; She Responds “No Way!”
Bill Clinton Rejects Criticism Over Race
Michelle Obama Takes Heat for Saying She’s ‘Proud of My Country’ for the First Time
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