America does need one more person supporting/spreading/condoning the hatred/separation of anymore of her legal citizens!!!!!

I teach in the inner-city, and the morale amongst my students is low…and they have expressed to me that they feel that white people are to blame for their poverty. WOW! I have dialouged with them until the coming home of the cows…but all they seem to see is black and white…I discussed taking responsibility for our actions, as well as ways to get to know people of other races (see my first post) and oddly enough, they know NO white people!

Rev Wright (or any other PREACHER)…needs to have the unification of HUMANITY in mind because the problems we have facing us are colorblind! Gas prices and Global Warming do not care what color you are OR which party you vote for!
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I won’t disagree with you on racism in America. But it is certainly not a 1 way street. Personally, I don’t care for the white preachers who use their pulpit to spread hate, either. And I do believe that Jeremiah Wright spreads hate towards white America. He tells people what they want to hear. He tells them they are victims and gives them a target to point their finger at, and in turn the people come back week after week to fill his pews and collection plates.

Obama had to know it would come to this. He knew Wright was a liability, that’s why he kept him hidden away from the moment he announced his candidacy. What people can’t understand is why he listened to it for 20 years and why he allowed his children to be exposed to it. It shows bad judgment.

As for Obama and Wright, Bill Moyers this week stated the situation very well. The media and all its rabid consumers should hang their heads in shame that we have forced pure politics to destroy the personal relationship between a parishioner and his pastor. To some extent, Reverend Wright is on the money about Obama. This country is not capable of digesting the nuanced defense that Obama should have given Wright. Frankly, while I feel Obama did what he had to do this week, I wish he could have stuck to his guns.

The fact is that Wright’s sermons, when taken in their entirety have nothing to do with hate speech. The 2001 sermon was about resisting the urge for revenge. The NAACP speech was about how “different” should not be mistaken for “deficient”. The Press Club Q&A was his attempt (albeit full of ego and “street”) to defend himself and explain what most of us agree was ill advised timing for coming back out on the national scene. After the “show” at the Press Club, Obama knew there was no way he could continue to help America understand Wright. (I agree that Obama as also annoyed by Wright’s lack of political sensitivity.)

Bottom line, in a truly color blind society, Obama could have continued to defend his friend and helped people see the light. But in this country, a black man can say the truth in an outrageous way and be condemned, while a white man can say lies in an equally outrageous way and get a free pass (my latest blog entry elaborates on this).

Rutherford Lawson

However, skin color has nothing to do with my stance on Barack Obama. My stance is based on what I percieve to be his lack of experience and judgement.

I don’t even think he’s better than Hillary….

Obama and Wright are devotees of Black Liberation Theology which is condemned by mainstream black Christian ministers as a racist anti-white religion.

They believe:
1. black people are oppressed by white people.
2. Whites are the sole cause of all problems in the black community.
3. White people are the enemy.
4. Jesus was a black man oppressed by white people.
5. Black people must take control of the racist white government.

Black Liberation Theology is a marriage of Black Power (Nation of Islam) and Christianity, according to Rev James Cone, its main proponent in the USA. James Cone is also Rev Wright’s mentor and says that Trinity Church, Obama’s Church, is the center of Black Liberation Theology in America.

That’s what Barack Obama hasn’t told you yet about himself.