In support of our African friend Desi Toto....
Posted on 05/15/2008 8:04:44 AM PDT by Dutchgirl
elf-appointed Elder, South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu, spoke out in Chicago this week on the Rev. Wright controversy.
Desmond Tutu believes that Wright says the things that all black Americans want to say...
Really?
The Chicago Tribune and LGF Quick Links reported:
"You are a crazy country," Tutu, 76, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984, said in an interview with the Tribune. "You're a country that has I think some of the most generous people I've ever come across in the world."
But he chided Americans for getting "very, very upset" with the pastor of Sen. Barack Obama, noting that Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. "may have said more crudely what, actually, almost every African-American would have wanted to say. I mean that is how they feel in your country, that race ... is a very, very real issue."
"And I think on the whole you keep trying to pretend it isn't," he added, noting the issue will haunt Americans until there is a way to talk honestly about race, such as holding a reconciliation forum.
Tutu, who headed South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission probing human-rights abuses under apartheid, was here to receive the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library Foundation's Lincoln Leadership Prize, presented by Oprah Winfrey.
Unlike in South Africa's apartheid era, he said, where blacks were treated as "nothing," in America, "You say to them, 'You're equal, and the sky's the limit.' And they keep bumping their heads against this thing that's stopping them from reaching out to the stars."
Ironically, Archbishop Tutu spoke about this racist glass ceiling while receiving the "Oprah Winfrey" Lincoln Leadership Prize.
He is from South Africa. There isn’t much difference in ideology (dictator vs communist govt) but SA is not quite at the same level of anarchy and chaos as Zimbabwe is right now.
A really BAD elf. One I wouldn’t mind putting in my crosshairs. /sarc
Despot Tutu owes his very existence to “G@d-D@#$-America” for ending apartheid in South Africa.
The issue was his anti-Americanism and his “whackadoodle” conspiracy theories.
People do not hire a CEO who doesn't believe in the company brand. And people don't want a wild eyed conspiracy theorists who thinks the US government had either the ability (they didn't and still do not) or the inclination to invent and release the H.I.V. virus into the population.
Such oppression! Tutu is doing a disservice to his own people by ignoring some realities. Tutu should not ignore the part of black America who have made “black culture” mean the glorification of the thug life; the rejection of self improvement through education; black men that are fathers to several children with different mothers, not to mention, black women that have several children with different fathers calling them “my baby's daddy”.
No, Your Emminence, some people in our country are just as crazy as you are...I would place Jeremiah Wright in that category.
Really? Black Jesus was killed by Rich White Europeans, "you know, Italians"?!!
Electing Obama and his supporters (who will expect some appointments) to the White House is like electing Michael Moore as President of the NRA. Their goals are 180 degrees with the founding purpose of the institution.
How does Tutu explain Obama’s succes in college and politics?
In support of our African friend Desi Toto....
Acts 20
28 Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.
29 For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock.
30 Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.
And,
2 Timothy 4
2 Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long suffering and doctrine.
3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
The Tutus and Wrights of the world (and the 'Bishops' Spongs and Eugene Robinsons, etc) are a cancerous tumor on the Body of Christ.
“Unlike in South Africa’s apartheid era, he said, where blacks were treated as “nothing,””
Unlike the New South Africa, where whites are treated as nothing...
If you don't like it here, get the hell back to Africa. In the meantime, sit down and SHUT UP with your pathetic whining. Your 'debt' was paid with 600K dead Americans back in 1865.
This marxist POS is helping turn S. Africa into the same sort of shithole that Zimbabwe is.
I’ve been amazed at how much victimhood their is amongst blacks I know and even among celebrity blacks.
Tutu isn’t far off the mark when he says its universal.
Hear, hear. For the record, I am very very angry at slave holders, plantation masters and the unethical white opportunists who brought the hundreds of thousands of africans to the new world. I am so angry that I believe their descendants (us), should make reparations. I believe that we owe it to Africans in America to apologize to each of those who are angry at white people and feel they are still being “kept down”. We should apologize in an elaborate ceremony on the tarmac at Dulles Airport as we hand each a $20,000 check and carry their bags onto the 747 that will take them back to Monrovia or Johannesburg.
And once we apologize to them, we should shed a tear as we collect their American passports once and for all. Oh, and for any Africans who want to stay here, they can simply sign a statement saying that they intend to fully utilize their franchise, work hard, put the baloney behind them and become full working members of American society.
This is all sort of a double edged sword. Suppose a prominent politician said: “I wish slavery had never occurred in America”. There would be a cry throughout the land that this POL was racist because he wishes there were no black people in America. Personally, I just don’t give a damn anymore. America has done more than enough to erase the “stain” of slavery. The best thing to ever happen to black Americans is the enslavement of their forefathers. This is politically incorrect to say, but factual. Poverty in this country is not a death sentence. The same cannot be said for Africa....
i can’t take a man with the name of a dress seriously..
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