Since we are doing “context,” how about pointing out that the mind–numbingly ignorant racism preached by Wright is a bizarre, subliterate caricature of the Liberation Theology taught by Boff in Brazil and other Catholics in Latin America, which was Marxist in orientation, not black racist, and which involved facing down real dictatorships, not just Mau Mauing a guilt–ridden white establishment for a piece of the action in the business as usual, tribal–ethnic struggle for spoils in a bloated US–American economy.

Down there, it was a question of self–reliance, not honing your skills at guilt tripping the flack catchers, of building base communities, not demanding quotas, of defending indigenous populations against REAL GENOCIDE, not shaming yourself before God himself by using the rhetoric of “genocide” to “blackmail” jittery liberals and distract attention from the embarrassing fact that almost all violence suffered by blacks is at the hands of other blacks (& almost all of the remainder is ethnic cleansing at the hands Hispanic immigrants in places like LA), not the Klan, not the police, and certainly not the government death squads that tried to erase Latin American Liberation Theology from the map.

But in Wright’s paranoid and infantile realty, when blacks massacre one another, the government is “making” them do it – all part of the conspiracy!(It also “forces” them to take drugs.)

It is a fact that white on black violence in the US is statistically insignificant, but not something you will learn from Wright’s imbecile ravings.

Nor will you hear the words:

“God damn black America!“ for wallowing in self–pity and political corruption while the black community goes down in a death spiral of violence and pathology.”

NOTHING THE GOVERNMENT COULD POSSIBLY DO IS AS DESTRUCTIVE TO THE BLACK COMMUNITY IN THE US AS THE PREPOSTEROUS GIBBERISH BROADCAST BY WRIGHT AND HIS ILK.

Obama is intelligent enough to know this, and he has yet to come within light years of explaining his association with this destructive cancer in American society.

I find the comments of Reverend Wright to be a refreshingly honest and emotionally candid assessment of the failure of the government of the United States to stand for moral values on any level. When one reads through the ten commandments in the Old Testament, or the sermon on the mount in the New, how can an honest person even pretend to see any of the limitations on behavior (thou shalt not kill, steal, bear false witness, covet, etc.) or the celebrations of honesty, generosity and humility present in the teachings of Jesus reflected in the way that the United States conducts itself in the world? How can Americans, particularly Christian Americans, fail to see the world as it is and not be outraged and ashamed of what we have allowed our nation to become? As a white, middle aged, agnostic male living in a rural setting (presumably a demographic offended by Wright’s sermons if one believes the assumptions of the pundits), I would be pleased to meet a man as strong and fearless as Reverend Wright, and proud to shake his hand.

And in regard to Senator Obama, I would like to applaud his political and personal courage to confront the issue with the depth, eloquence, and decency he displayed in his speech. He has started to lead us down a path that needs to be trod, a journey filled with great uncertainty and peril. I hope that voters will embrace his vision of a “more perfect union”, reflect on the personal complicity and compromises that contribute to the problems that we all face, and seek to elevate the discussion; first internally as they reflect on their own lives, and then politically, as they interact within their communities, and vote in the upcoming election.

Thank you.

It’s about time America started to understand the black culture in this country.It’s only been 200 years!

You might think “God-damn” America too if you had to fight for legitimacy in this country. The Irish, English, German , Italian, Poles , Checks and the endless string of immigrants all took their turn at assimilation. The blacks have had to struggle harder in some ways due to their color. It kept them apart and with their own kind in gettos.  Germans could pass for “white stock” and assimilate easier.

My Indian neighbor has been mistaken for a black man at times. The treatment towards him changes when people realize he is a well-educated man from New Delhi.

The far left, with their absolute misunderstanding of Black culture, is why this controversy is happening to Barack Obama.

Face it, bigotry and hatred is apparantly a trait Blacks feel belong to them because they rose from oppression. To Rev. Wright and Shockley, using the pulpit to preach this stuff is ok. To the media types and far left intellectuals, the free pass given should be embraced by everyone.

Just don’t try and object or you will be the Racist. Its time to hold African Americans accountable. Im sick of everyones words being twisted around and used to by the media for Baracks gain.

Just this blog allowing a “defense” of the indefensable dosen’t surprise me.

Rev. Shockley, “ I don’t care where this man’s so called ideology is derived from because its sick!! “

This turning a blind eye to lying and distortion is growing old quick. kkka of america, aids ( didn’t know it was a black disease), america had it coming 9/11.

Thats the theology of a man named, Lucifer . But, if it makes you feel good on Sunday mornings, more power to you. This country loves African Americans, maybe too much. Think about it.

Sorry, I know African Americans can one day hold their own accountable. Whites are doing their part to twist statements on our own that aren’t even remotely racist. Its time Blacks do the same so we can stop this stupid game of, “us and them.”

Phil

I had never heard of Liberation Theology before I read this article but I haven’t heard Rev. Wright say anything I didn’t think had at least some truth to it.  This is the first article I have read that didn’t have me screaming “but the man is right.”