It wouldn't surprise me if the "necessary compensation" includes that huge $1.6 million mansion in suburban Tinley Park.
Posted on 06/02/2008 8:42:12 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
While Rev. Jeremiah Wright was preaching "G_d damn America" and blaming our government for creating the AIDS virus to kill black people, he and his Trinity Church of Christ on Chicago's South Side collected more than $15 million in grants from the federal government. Fox News' Jeff Goldblatt brings us this outrage:
FOX News has learned that over the last 15 years, Trinity has received at least $15 million in grants from the federal government — in other words, taxpayer money.
Records show this money supported a variety of outreach: everything from low income housing to nutritional programs for needy kids to money for HIV/AIDS education. Wright blames the government for intentionally infecting the African-American community with that deadly virus.
DePaul University journalism professor Laura Washington, who specializes in race and politics, said Wright is a hypocrite for taking money from the government.
“On the one hand, he says, ‘God damn America’ and he says America is responsible for all the ills in the black community. On the other hand, he’s taking money from the same community he’s crucifying,” Washington said.
According to one scholar in Goldblatt's report, Wright isn't being a hypocrite by taking tax dollars from the federal government while condemning it in his sermons. “Wright believes things like the government-funded programs are a necessary compensation for the legacy of white racism, part of what’s necessary to heal the wounds inflicted over four centuries on blacks," said Andrew Walsh. "His niche is even more specialized– he does this sort of work in the context of white denominational mainline Protestantism, which, on the whole has welcomed both him and his message.” Obama's campaign was quick to advise Fox News that he had never worked to secure funding for the church as either a state senator or a U.S. Senator. Obama did, however, work to secure funding for projects run by Father Michael Pfleger, who delivered a racist rant against Sen. Hillary Clinton a little more than a week ago at Trinity United Church of Christ, leading Obama to resign from the church.
God d@mn, WAKE UP EVERYBODY! this man hates us.
But he’s all about “Change” and “Hope” and “Progress”, you bigot! /s
Racism can start with any race.
And the good Reverend will get to retire to a $1.6 million mansion being built/guaranteed by the church.
Who exactly are the idiots here?
There are tens, if not hundreds of thousands of folks in this country that cheer at the remarks of Wright and Pfleger, etc. Far more folks than we are comfortable contemplating. But, just as soon as this election is over, it will be back to business as usual and most whites will pretend that this nasty undercurrent doesn't exist.
How many of us have told our elected representatives that we disapprove of tax money going to these people?
Didn’t some lib tell us church and state were supposed to be separate?
It wouldn't surprise me if the "necessary compensation" includes that huge $1.6 million mansion in suburban Tinley Park.
unfortunately, this would probably be a “faith -based initiative,” and why that was a poor idea for Bush’s domestic agenda way back in 2000-01.
But, but, but . . . it's a church.
The government can't give money to a church.
Unless they're not a "Christian" church, in which case they are exempt from the rules.
But . . . nevermind.
My suspicion: you can thank President Bush and his faith based initiatives. Stupid stupid policy.
Tax cuts would have been better, because low taxes = high charitable giving.
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