Posted on 06/01/2008 2:49:57 PM PDT by Winged Hussar
Please view Priest Michael Pfleger Campaigns for Obama at Trinity United at YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGgRaApkcP8). Pay attention not only to what Michael Pfleger is saying, but also to the audience’s reaction to “There were a whole lot of white people crying.” (Two screen shots appear below.) They didn’t get up and walk out in disgust. They didn’t sit in embarrassed silence while pretending not to hear. They applauded wildly, and many stood up to give “There were a whole lot of white people crying” a standing ovation. These are the same people with whom Barack and Michelle Obama have gone to church for the past 20 years. Afterward, Barack Obama’s NEW pastor, Otis Moss, said “Thank God for the message, and thank God for the messenger.”
To paraphrase Martin Luther King, the problem has nothing to do with the color of Barack Obama’s skin and everything to do with the content (or lack thereof) of his character. His long membership in what may now be credibly called a racist hate organization–we think Trinity United Church of Christ’s enthusiastic response to “There were a whole lot of white people crying” qualifies it as such, just as glee over “There were a whole lot of Negroes crying” would be suitable for a Klan rally–is a prime example. Now we will share yet another testimonial that Barack Obama accepted. Obama’s pastor Jeremiah Wright said in effect that the United States deserved 9/11, and Rep. Keith Ellison suggests that the United States perpetrated 9/11 “like the Reichstag fire.” (Read more…)
(Excerpt) Read more at israpundit.com ...
And this surprises you how?
We don't need to feel guilty for what happened in generations past. We don't need to purge the guilt from our souls for some ginned up ideologue with a messiah complex.
Something is very fishy about this story. Pfleger should be severely punished for this breach of trust vis-a-vis his own congregation.
What would compel him to stand there and vilify white people this way?
Just another message to blacks saying that their problems are not their fault and that it’s ok to blame whitey for all their problems. Sorry, Michael, it’s idiots like you who keep far too many blacks from bootstrapping themselves into a better life like so many others have. Selling the I’m-a-victim message is so easy even a white guy can do it. Of course, if you didn’t stir the pot and sell this poison, you be a backwater preacher with no congregation, except for Jesse and Al, perhaps.
Maybe there is NOT more to this story.
Maybe this is going on all over the country.
Just sayin’
If I attended KKK meetings for the past 20 years...and the leaders and speakers in those meetings acknowledged me as a leader...a CONGRESSMAN. Then to the press and people who are critical of me attending the meetings, I said that I went to the meetings but didn’t agree with what was being presented or claimed I didn’t hear any racial comments.......well...you get my point.
“What would compel him to stand there and vilify white people this way?”
He does it everyday. It makes him feel important to parade around, behaving like a black comedian, and have the congregations of his own church and Obama’s church cheer him on.
I know the Chicago diocese tried to transfer him somewhere else a couple of years ago, and IIRC, he threatened to take his own congregation elsewhere.
I'm talking about a Catholic priest leaving his own church to preach in church like this. Especially in this way. I have never heard screaming and carrying on by a Catholic priest like Pfleger did. It so far out of the norm as to suggest insanity or a serious need for publicity.
Send him on a mission to Calcutta!! Lots of people there he can help.
Pfleger has merely hijacked the Diocese of Chicago and St. Sabina’s to carry on his personal war against whitey and America. He’s no more a priest than frog squat.
God looks into the hearts of men and knows their true desires. Pfleger has a hot future.
The Catholic Church, like the UCC and others, has a lot of really pathological clergy. Especially after Vatican II was hijacked they swarmed out of the woodwork and into the church, with insurgency on their agendas. Only the divinely inspired election of John Paul II saved the church from possibly irreparable corruption by the hate-filled leftwing "humanists."
Which church is he in? I have never heard of anything like this from a Catholic priest.
Are you kidding? He'd tell it was all the fault of America that they were poor. Then he'd fit them for suicide bombing attire.
St. Sabina in Chicago.
This church, like Wright's "church" should lose their tax exempt status. They are not churches but rather podia where hate mongers are allowed sanctuary from reality.
He has a black "significant other?"
A mentally challenged individual could make the distinction between right and wrong at that hate filled church. It is beyond belief that any reasonable person would not associate BHO with the hate filled attitudes promoted at the church?
Wake up America, electing BHO will put this country back 100 or more years.
Billery must have a rabbit to pull out of the hat at the last minute or have something big that they will reveal about Obomber for them to stay in the race.
Please don’t put the ‘ Obama’s name..you might upset some of us who do have that in our very Irish names like say O’Donnell...or O’Malley..he ain’t one of us....
“Pfleger has a hot future......he’s no more a priest than frog squat”
Extremely well stated, sir!
Last Sunday, I was invited by Trinity United Church of Christ to come and preach on the topic of race. ... Last Sunday, I was invited by Trinity United Church of Christ to come and preach on the topic of race. I agreed to do so because of my love for Trinity, Rev. Jeremiah Wright and Rev. Otis Moss, III and because all my life I have sought to deal with the reality of racism. As I said, Last Sunday, I have committed myself to tear down the walls that divide us wherever they stand. In 1966, as a junior in high school, amidst all the hate and meanness that surrounded me in Marquette Park, I heard more than the voice of Dr. king calling for community over chaos. I heard that small voice from within, that said, I am showing you this now, because you must spend your life trying to eradicate this. The last few days have been the most painful days of my life, even more so than the murder of Jarvis, my foster son. For years I have had to deal with media that have sought to define me and often times put me into their box or stereotype. But that was the cost of being a public figure and for fighting in public battles. But this was a new level, when the world is meeting you for the first time from a dramatization in a sermon that I felt was in the sacredness of a sanctuary, among people who know me and then find a “Youtube” that in no way defines the sermon or the message that I preached, nor the person or pastor that I am. It is painful and shattering. It is painful that as a result of this video over 3,000 email of hate, threats, and name calling, who go so far as to ask you to kill yourself or take your life, greet you in less than 24 hours, and you are bombarded by mean hateful and racial name calling, yes, it is very painful. It is also grieving to me when a 1.5 minute “Youtube” video becomes the headlines across the world of papers and news stations, while the tragedy and death of earthquakes, cyclones, and tornadoes that have taken lives of people around this world, while the killing of our children across the country and here in Chicago, and the easy access to guns have become stories on page 18 and 19, and while people are at my front door, looking for food to eat or gas to get to work, indeed that grieves me. Brothers and sisters, racism is an explosive and sensitive sin in our world and it is against the command to love, and against the God of love. I said on Thursday, I apologize for words that I chose. I apologize for my dramatization that was for many who do not know me, simply typical dramatics I often use in sermons. I apologize for anyone who was offended and who thought it to be mockery, that was not my intent, nor my heart. For whatever damage that was caused to any human being and for any offense felt, especially to any of the candidates or their families, I am deeply sorry and I pray that my apology will be accepted even by those who say they won’t accept it. I am neither a racist nor a sexist. I am constrained by this great Gospel that I have been called to preach, to be an agent of reconciliation, as well as a truth teller. However - we must, if we are to move forward and become who God has called us to be as a human family, we must be willing to have an honest and open discussion on race and justice, and it must be on the equal ground at the foot of Calvary. We have as a Country done many great things, but we will never become a great Country until justice flows like a river and righteousness like a mighty stream, for each and every human life. As for what is next, I ask that you wrap me in prayer - I don’t know. I ask that you pray, that I still might be a voice of truth, in season and out of season, and that I might have the courage to bear whatever wounds that may cost. As for my defining - Dr. King, my mentor said, that he only wanted to be remembered as a Drum Major for Justice and indeed that is my only hope, and that is what I have tried to do since that afternoon in Marquette Park. Hate me if you will. Hate my imperfect presentation. Hate my imperfect dramatization. Hate my imperfect articulation. I have never presumed to be anything, but imperfect, but I pray I can still beat the drum of justice, even if sometimes I am off beat. Thank you. Statement of apology to the church family. Rev. Michael L. Pfleger Pastor
Dude (Directed to Father Fagler)...If it grieves you so much that people are ignoring ALL those tragedies, why weren't you preaching about those things instead of spouting your racism???
“St. Sabina is a Word-based, Bible teaching African-American Catholic Church...”
I have heard of a Roman Catholic Church but never of an African American Catholic Church.
St, Sabina’s Church on the South side.
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