Posted by
dolfinwriter on Wednesday, March 26, 2008 5:06:19 AM
Barack Obama did not feel that he was “authentically black”, and so establishes himself and his family for 20 years in a racist, anti-American, hateful, angry, filth-spewing mockery of a church. He does this for the sole purpose of establishing his black “street cred”.
But apparently Obama slept through every sermon he attended:
“The statements that Rev. Wright made that are the cause of this controversy were not statements I personally heard him preach while I sat in the pews of Trinity or heard him utter in private conversation.”
Then when he’s found out (why do they always think they will never get caught?), he comes up with this baloney that this angry, bigoted preacher is just like the crazy uncle you sometimes disagree with.
Hillary, where are you and your campaign on this? Are you asleep or just still dodging snipers’ bullets?!?!?!?
And what is this hollering “First Amendment!” whenever they are called out for saying really dumb things, or endorsing or supporting or at least condoning those who do? First they always say it’s just “snippets” taken out of context, and then they start hollering about the First Amendment! The point isn’t that Jeremiah Wright or even Obama have done something illegal.
For God’s sake, we have given literally millions of American lives over the last 230+ years for Obama and for Reverend Wright to have complete freedom to say and to write any stupid, inflammatory, racist, anti-American thing they wish and not be hauled away in the night to some prison, dungeon or “re-education camp”. This has NOTHING to do with the First Amendment, and no one is saying ANYONE has done anything illegal or that anyone should go to jail!
This is about judgment and therefore fitness to be President of this nation and the Commander in Chief of the most awesome and lethal military in this very dangerous world!
On another level, I can see justification to investigate the legitimacy of Trinity United Church’s tax exempt status. But that is the job of the IRS, not some publicity seeking Congressmen!
In the same article I reference above, Charles Coulter of the Kansas City Star Editorial Board first says:
“Rev. Wright is not the first black minister to condemn this country for its racist practices.”
Then switches to this:
“Sen. Obama has done nothing to indicate he is anti-American. In fact, his whole life is a testament to the American Dream.”
Now just to emphasize a bit, perhaps Mr. Coulter didn’t even realize the magnitude of what he said, but these are his words, Barack Obama’s whole life is a testament to the American Dream.
I would love to ask Mr. Coulter, so what’s the problem? Please detail what current American racist practices you’re talking about! Please include how Barack Obama managed to dodge those obstacles, and become a testament to the American Dream!
Let me emphasize again, CURRENT American racist practices! Don’t tell me about slavery. Don’t tell me about Jim Crow. Don’t tell me about Tuskegee or the 92nd/93rd Infantry Divisions. And don’t tell me about long dead anti-Civil Rights politicians.
Creating HIV to kill black people? As precision weapons go, this one must be worse than the WWII carpet bombing of German cities where 160,000 allied airmen died between 1939 and 1945, and killed between 300,000 and 600,000 Germans.* AIDS infections among whites rank second only to blacks, and among gay men, nearly twice as many whites are infected as blacks! Or is that just “collateral damage”?
[*Note: I’m using only figures for German civilians killed. These figures don’t begin to show the importance of the destruction of targets that were significant to the Nazi war machine. In that light, creating the AIDS virus is wildly inaccurate and ineffective if it was intended only to kill blacks!]
Besides, and I haven’t told many people this, but someone close to me died of AIDS, and I take personal exception to this claim.
But really Reverend, instead of blaming America, how about preaching the virtues of abstinence and monogamy, (or at the very least, condoms!)? How about preaching don’t stick needles in your body that have been in someone else’s body? Those two rules could eradicate AIDS!
Coulter goes back to this:
“Let's get back to the issue of how to make this country a success for all of its people -- black and white, rich and poor, woman and man.”
So America is racist, even though Obama’s life is a testament to the American dream. Is that the racist American dream? Or just regular colorblind America?
I think I need a lifeline. How did a black man become such a “testament to the American dream”? And if Obama can do it, why not others? Was it Obama’s white half or his black half that is responsible for his phenomenal success in the US of KKK-A?
Why is it that Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, and Justice Clarence Thomas are not testaments to the American dream? Oh! Because they’re not “authentically black”! They’re “sellouts”! They get Oreos thrown at them by “real” black people!
Why is Obama a testament to the American dream, but these three are just sellouts?
In Obama’s apologist speech, he said,
“And I confess that if all that I knew of Reverend Wright were the snippets of those sermons that have run in an endless loop on the television and You Tube, or if Trinity United Church of Christ conformed to the caricatures being peddled by some commentators, there is no doubt that I would react in much the same way.”
Why is it that what’s good for the goose in this country is not always good for the gander?
I remember other “snippets” for which a Republican senator and two talk show hosts (Don Imus and Michael Savage) each paid dearly. Now I’m not crazy about Trent Lott or really any career politician, nor especially Imus. I think for both, their time has come and long gone, as well as many others.
In each case, “snippets” were ultimately used to justify firing someone (and in Lott’s case, to justify calls for censure, finally leading to him stepping down as Senate Majority Leader). Trent Lott and Imus prostrated themselves repeatedly for one, single, solitary “snippet”, and Trent Lott pathetically so. Not good enough.
And here’s one of the things that irks me about the world we live in today—I know if I don’t qualify my own position, someone will say I’m a racist or a bigot for defending idiotic statements from whatever corner has an iron in the fire. It really would not be the first time I’ve been called a bigot for taking a stand against leftist propaganda or politically correct lunacy. I don’t care for Trent Lott, but I think what he said was used inappropriately by people with an agenda to make political hay.
Imus—I can’t stand him, and what he said was asinine. I don’t want to debate whether it was appropriate to fire him, but it was a bit amusing to watch the left destroy and devour one of their own. Someone said he has a history of saying such things, but the comment about the Rutgers girls was the only one I have ever heard.
Savage—I agree with Bernard Goldberg in placing Savage among the 100 People Who Are Screwing up America. I think Savage is brilliant, well-educated, well-informed, and most of the time he’s right and willing to say things that many will not. But his venomous outbursts—even at complete morons—are what turned me to another station. One Democrat NPR fan friend of mine heard him one day and said she would never listen to him again (she’s a helluva nice lady; she’s just a bit misguided!) That’s the danger of Savage—people who really should hear what he has to say, hear him and say “If that’s what a conservative is, I want no part of it!”
Now we have sound cuts from Obama’s 1994 book coming out, voiced by Obama himself, profanity, racial baggage, and all. Wow.
First of all, this man claims to want to be a “race uniter”, yet I hear an identity confused man still carrying a lot of racial baggage. People who don’t have racial baggage just don’t see in color like he does, and apparently always has!
Please don’t anyone tell me I don’t know what it is to be black. I know that. I also don’t know what it is to be Asian, Native American, or even a “rich white folk”!
I submit that not ONE of these angry, filth-spewing, black men throwing down the race card at every perceived injustice has the first clue what it is to be a white man of ANY social standing.
Do they really think that “rich white folks”, let alone poor white folks never experience trials, tribulations, injustices, struggles, sacrifice, hard work, discrimination…?!?!?!?
Do they really think that as a young white boy who grew up basically “poor white trash”, that I didn’t experience discrimination myself by a small town employer who hired only people like the Fire Chief’s daughter, or the State Wrestling Champion (who was black, by the way)?
Or a better question—how do I KNOW that employer hired only those people? The people who worked there seemed to be all the “pretty people” and the people who had all the right labels on their clothes, and all the people whose parents were “somebody” in town. Did that employer discriminate against me because I was a poor nobody, or was it just my perception that he did?
HOW DO BLACKS KNOW WHAT THEY HAVE FACED AND DEALT WITH IS ALWAYS RACISM, AND NOT JUST THE WAY LIFE IS SOMETIMES?!?!?
Obama’s buddy felt that women always turned him down for dates because they must be racist. Maybe they just didn’t want to date black guys! Maybe they really DIDN’T want to date a fat "greasy-mouthed" guy of ANY color! That makes them racist? But beyond that, does he think the average white guy—let alone poor white trash—has it any easier?
Does anyone who believes this really think that white guys never get turned down by these same women?
Obama’s commentary states that he himself did not have much success with women at that time because he was shy.
When did the black community get exclusive rights to shyness or difficulties with women?
If only I’d been born black so that I could blame every problem in my life on institutional racism!
I recognize that Obama claims to have attempted to moderate his friend’s claims of coed racism. But I just recently realized the thing that would convince me of his sincerity is a recognition that “Ya know what? White folks have it hard sometimes too!”
That’s what I mean that these people haven’t the first clue what it is to be white, or any other color for that matter.
So if the path to success in modern day America has been difficult for some solely because of race, gender, etc., then I had everything given to me on a silver platter because I’m a white male?!?!?
In my example, I have tried my best to put myself in that small town employer’s shoes and ask “Would I have hired me?” I won’t go into detail, but I have to honestly say that I would not have hired me at that time. Yet I’m certain that if I’d had a different family name, he would have hired me.
Reparations? I grew up poor, worked my butt off in the Navy, sacrificed a lot of nights and weekends in class and doing homework or research, and writing papers, and managed to complete my BS and about 90% of a Master’s while I was on active duty. My wife (who also grew up poor), and I actually graduated together and both got our Master’s the same day. That wasn’t easy to do. We juggled and staggered class schedules to make sure one of us was home with our boy. We scrimped, saved, and paid a lot of her tuition, but still ended up with some student loans. But I would be expected to pay reparations to black folks for what some of my ancestors did to some of their ancestors 150 years ago, notwithstanding those of my ancestors who fought and died in the Civil War to free the slaves?
This victim culture we have created and allowed people like Al Sharpton, Louis Farrakhan, Jesse Jackson, Bella Abzug, Betty Friedan, and Robin Morgan to perpetuate minimizes the struggles, difficulties, and hardships that people have faced who are NOT a member of the same victim group as those making a claim of bigotry, not to mention their hard work and sacrifices that they have made to achieve whatever they consider success.
And I’m truly sick of it.
I look forward to the day that we all recognize that not every struggle or injustice we face in life has to do with race, skin color, social standing, gender, sexual orientation, etc.
Most of all I look forward to the day that men like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson are exposed for what they really are. At first it occurred to me that what they do amounts to enabling.
They enable the black community to continue to live in ignorance of how they are being manipulated and used by the DNC for political purposes.
They enable the black community to continue to live in poverty and squalor.
But what Sharpton and Jackson and others like them do goes beyond simply enabling. They are pushers. They are dealers in the drug of race victimization, and so is Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. They profit off of it, and they are given credibility by the black community and by the MSM because they are themselves black.
That makes their crime (a crime against humanity, in my book) even more abhorrent to me, that they profit from deceiving and manipulating their own, while proclaiming themselves the righteous representatives of their race.
That would probably not be so bad if what they do ever actually helped anyone. But it doesn’t.
Instead it ensures that the masses of the black community will not look at itself in a mirror, thereby trapping them in poverty, poor inner city schools, single parent households with no fathers in the picture, drugs and gangs and hip-hop culture, and then blame it all on the institutional racism of “rich white folks”. This is identical to the thought process of an addict, in that their life troubles brought on and exacerbated by their own behavior in reality, become in their own mind, anyone’s fault but their own.
Sharpton and Jackson extort money and apologies from whomever is foolish enough and willing to pander to this nonsense and let themselves be victimized by it. And whomever is willing to place their own interests above those of the black community as a whole. I place Trent Lott and Don Imus both firmly in that camp. These two and others like them are the enablers. Desperate to save their own careers, they prostrated themselves before the likes of Sharpton and Jackson, begging, PLEADING for their forgiveness!
So some of us “white folks” are guilty as well, if not of overt racism, then of a subtle racism in placing their own careers a peg above doing the right thing for the black community. I don’t think we have a prayer of improving things for blacks (by first making it possible for them to see that they have to change within themselves), until men like Trent Lott and Don Imus are able to tell Sharpton and Jackson where to insert the apologies and monetary reparations they seek to extract.
That said, Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. goes yet a step further to the sinister. It’s one thing to peddle the notion that white racism is institutional and widespread, if not universal, but this Jeremiah Wright Jr. actually hates this country. God Damn America? US of KKK-A? Deliberately creating and infecting people of ANY race with the AIDS virus to wipe them out? He’s either deluded, or insane, or both.
It's fascinating to see the masses of sycophants and apologists march out and claim that Reverend Wright says these things because he really loves this country and just wants it to be better. I expect this from the brainwashed and ignorant American Idol and hip hop masses.
But to think that the man who wishes to be the next most powerful man in the world seeks the counsel and guidance from someone who so obviously hates this country?
Wow.
Obama at least has one thing right;
“And for as long as I live, I will never forget that in no other country on Earth is my story even possible. … It is a story that has seared into my genetic makeup the idea that this nation is more than the sum of its parts — that out of many, we are truly one”.
Too bad his spiritual mentor doesn’t think so.