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Rev. Wright Can’t Catch a BreakPosted on Mar 26, 2008
Lost in the discussion of the Rev. Wright controversy and its impact on the Obama campaign is the fallout for the minister himself. Wright’s first public events since his sermons went YouTube, a revival in Tampa and a series of sermons in Houston, have been canceled. A third event, where he is supposed to be honored, has been downgraded to “pending.”
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By Fuck OFF, April 29 at 12:11 pm # Wright BLOWSWright can go to hell, and his supporters can FOLLOW HIM. And to you fucking marxists on this board, the day IS coming....
By jackie, March 28 at 7:13 am # Thanks for posting the FULL text so we have an alternative to the propaganda by the media.
By Rodney, March 27 at 2:09 pm # Reverend WrightReverend Wright is a loving christian man who loves America but disagrees with American policies. We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal was written by slave owners. America hates to hear the truth about itself. We bomb and kill in the name of democracy, when we really bomb for imperealism and capitalism. We sell weapons to Dictators who conform,and kill and overthrow the ones who don’t. Our military occupies 150 countries,upholding regimes at the barrel of a gun. Then if there is no oil or money to be made, we look the other way like we did in Rawanda,Sudan.the Congo,Haiti,and all the other non white Countries. Saddam was our buddy as long as he was fighting Iran,who was our buddy when we put the Shah in power. Kadafi was our enemy until we needed his oil. Israel has done nothing for America except influence our politics to America’s detriment. All while draining billions upon billions of taxpayers dollars so Bush and the others before him can control the world. It’s all about to come to a end. Unless we change our ways, our economy will collaspe from our greed and imperealistic ways the same as the former USSR. Reverend Wright is trying to warn us before that day comes.
By kay, March 27 at 8:23 am # Rev Wright should be honored for his years serving the Lord. Shame be to those who demonize the reverends words by parsing his meaning to their sick political advantage. Those who demonize the truth are a curse sent to us by the Lord, for allowing the Lords words to be twisted and perverted by the religious right.
By Sharon Ash, March 27 at 6:37 am # www.n2peaceandjoy.comWell, Mr. Wright, it appears that your ‘God damn chickens have come home to roost’. How do you like it now? More fun when you could crow your hate and division from the pulpit? You make the KKK and Bob Jones University proud. Remember, hate and division are still hate and division whether it is spewed from a white, black, brown, red or yellow mouth.
By Conservative Yankee, March 27 at 5:58 am # “hundreds of thousands of Union soldiers who gave their lives to free the slaves” Time for a history lesson. Despite what your public-school education imparted, the “Union Soldiers” gave their lives to keep southern cotton flowing to Massachusetts, Maine and New Hampshire, and out of British Mills. Many of these “Union Soldiers” were from shipping families who were decimated economically when the slave trade ended. The ships which began the slave trade sailed from Boston, New York, and Portsmouth. The North was sort-of-like the drug dealer who doesn’t use.... BUT profits from the addiction. Lincoln did not free all the slaves. That fate` was not accomplished until ratification of the 13th amendment. Lincoln punished the South and threatened the non-rebellious slave states by using the power of presidential proclamation to free slaves in any state which participated in “rebellion.” (1863) Delaware, Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland, and New Jersey; kept their pro-slave laws until passage of the 13th amendment in February of 1865. Lincoln was opposed to giving the right to vote, or full citizenship to entities he considered “far inferior” to white folks. During the Northern War of Aggression (as it is still named in the South) The citizens of New York City rioted and lynched and stoned black folks living there because (in the opinion of New Yorkers of the time) if there were no blacks, there would be no economic upheaval. The era of the “Civil” War is the most lied about period in our history.... Dismounting from high horses is difficult… we Northerners have been unable to complete the task in over 100 years.
By Peter RV, March 26 at 3:33 pm # Thanks Fellows,
By jake2, March 26 at 2:19 pm # The Rev. Dr. Wright, former Marine, took stewardship of a congregation to 90 and helped it expand to 4000. The congregation serves needs throughout the South Side and has missions abroad. He ministered to President Johnson. Review his sermons for their context. courtesy The RealMacDaddy, posted in a comment at HuffPo. These videos are in total about 20 minutes long. But please watch them and then you will see that there have been some egregious liberties taken with what has been broadcast. Pass the word on, tell your friends, tell your family, tell everyone. There was a reason Barack Obama was a member of this Church for 20 years. America"s Chicken have come home to roost: Hillary ain"t never been called N****R
By Christian Prophet, March 26 at 1:45 pm # Everybody is looking for Obama in all the wrong places. Look at his Marxist THEOLOGY. See:
By Conservative Yankee, March 26 at 1:44 pm # Another Lynching… What ever does “freedom of speech” mean? Has it come to mean only porn, money, and boiler-plate? Free speech is what it is..\\ Now, most people in these United States were not yet born when the Tuskegee project took place. Doctors used Black men as lab rats. Reverend Wright remembers. Later when blacks had to move to the rear of buses to accommodate white folks Jerry Wright was there. When folks with dark pigmented skin were forced to urinate in the street and behind filling stations because the bathrooms were reserved for whites, Mr Wright was forming his opinions and testing the waters. Jerry Wright is from another time. A time of lynchings, humiliation, and disenfranchisement. You can’t erase that, any more than you can deny Byron de la Beckwith, Lester Maddox, and Bull Conner were white. He’s an old man with memories of another time, and he will soon be supremely irrelevant. It is really ashame that we can’t use these incidents as “teachable moments” Rev Wright has history to impart. stop attempting to drown him out!
By Peter RV, March 26 at 12:31 pm # HypocrisyI know almost nothing about Rev. Wright, except the obvious thing that Clintons are using him to clubber Obama.
By Lee, March 26 at 12:19 pm # He can dish it out, but ...Pastor Wright is having a tough time ... poor baby!
By Jim Yell, March 26 at 12:17 pm # sauce for the goose, sauce for the ganderPat Robertson and Jerry Falwell were two of many divines who heaped ridicule and threats on the nation for not doing what they wanted and yet hypocrits that they are hardly anyone worked themselves into the lather that has fallen on Rev. Wright. In truth such a dramatic presentation is common amongst black devines. I would agree that it was an ill advised thing to say, if he wants Obama to win. Still in fact I at lest can accept the explaination and even notice that the reaction to what he said is out of contect and meaning to what he said. This is America and his point has merit, not to say that Obama or myself has to believe everything the good reverend believes. The Flap is mainly enflamed by the Hillary camp and the Republicans. My distaste for Hillary is largely the same distast I have for Bill-in-toto. I don’t like manipulation and opportunism of the Clinton type. I have a modest optimism that Obama is genuine in his inclusive declarations, but I know that Clintons are not serious about anything but power. Before allowing coporate news to inflame you with silly passions, think about that. Add Your Comment |
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