Who ever said only whites can be racists?
Posted on 02/16/2008 10:05:10 AM PST by fight_truth_decay
Jeremiah Wright retired last weekend, he continues to influence the black community nationally and his teachings have left an indelible impression on thousands. One particuarly notable TUCC member is Democrat presidential candidate Barack Obama, who has attended the south Chicago church for the last 20 years and who named his book "The Audacity of Hope" after a phrase Wright used in a sermon several years ago.
Although Trinity has moved its controversial "Black Value System" from easy access on its website (once here), one of the most mysterious "Black Value System" teachings ( now hidden here) is the one that encourages the "disavowal of the pursuit of 'middleclassness.'" Because this teaching and others will most certainly influence a Barack Obama Administration, what exactly could this doctrine mean for the future of American civil rights?
The definition below is found on pages 2 and 3 of the church's online explanation here. Perhaps Illinois Review readers can help us decipher the meaning by reading on:
| Disavowal of the Pursuit of “Middleclassness”
Classic methodology on control of captives teaches that captors must keep the captive ignorant educationally, but trained sufficiently well to serve the system. Also, the captors must be able to identify the “talented tenth” of those subjugated, especially those who show promise of providing the kind of leadership that might threaten the captor’s control.
Those so identified as separated from the rest of the people by: Killing them off directly, and/or fostering a social system that encourages them to kill off one another.
Placing them in concentration camps, and/or structuring an economic environment that induces captive youth to fill the jails and prisons.
Seducing them into a socioeconomic class system which while training them to earn more dollars, hypnotizes them into believing they are better than others and teaches them to think in terms of “we” and “they” instead of “us”.
So, while it is permissible to chase “middle-incomeness” with all our might, we must avoid the third separation method-the psychological entrapment of Black “middleclassness”: If we avoid the snare, we will also diminish our “voluntary” contributions to methods A and B. And more importantly, Black people no longer will be deprived of their birthright, the leadership, resourcefulness, and example of their own talented persons. |
Suggested explanation:
One can read the above words and only come away with an ominous sense. Are they suggesting someone like Barack Obama could be one of those "talented tenth" the "captors" identify, who "show[s] promise" of "providing the kind of leadership that might threaten the captor's control"?
With this being a part of the "Black Value System," who are considered "captives"? Most likely those who have been "victimized" over the years -- the black community, originated in African countries and being brought to America as slaves. That, we'd deduct, would make our Caucusian ancestors "the captors."
According to this explanation, those who adhere to the Black Value System would expect anyone (including Barack Obama -- most assuredly one of the "talented tenth") to be "separated" by unbelievably 1. killing them off directly;
2. cultivating at environment that encourages those talented leaders to "kill off one another";
3. placing them in concentration camps;
4. inducing those "talented tenth" into jail or prison;
5. seducing them into selfish materialism;
or
6. mesmerizing them into excluding their community from their bounties.
In other words, African-American "captives" must resist the trappings of career and economic success laid by non-African "captors" who will inveribly use those enticements to "separate" high-achieving blacks from their community roots -- "middle-classedness."
Is this a warning to Barack Obama, Oprah Winfrey, Tiger Woods, Condolleezza Rice, and other high achieving blacks that "the captors" will do all they can to stop their leadership and end their example of achievement to fellow blacks who may have the audacity to attempt success as well?
How could this effect an Obama presidency and the black community's expectations for such an experience?
What are your ideas about this Black Value System teaching and its impact on America's future? Is it meaningless demagoguery or does it give ominous insight into the enduring antagonism some blacks hold towards Caucusians?
Posted by IR Editor
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Jeremiah Wright, 66, retires, and yes, you wonder why...
Wright's successor is Rev. Otis Moss III, son of civil rights legend Rev. Otis Moss Jr., who pastored with Rev.Martin Luther King Sr. at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta.
In a statement, Moss praised Wright for focusing on social justice instead of preaching prosperity gospel.
It is bascially dialectic materialism with race thrown into the mix.
Mark
This is all liberation theology. There is no doubt that this individual is nothinig short of a marxist.
Having worked as a bodyguard for several years for some african dignitaries i can tell you right now that the africans have no such illusion about being prosperous.
This drivel is nothing but marxism disguised as black-self promotion.
Yes we can!!!!
Isn’t that what Besmack O. said to Larry Sinclair in 1999 when he asked for some coke?
Why is this so considered “off limits”? If we replaced black with white and a Republican attended, wouldn’t he be called racist?
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