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.
McCain is the name of a dress?
I’ve come full circle. Then, apartheid bad. segregation bad, Now. We seem to be heading for a new apartheid. A self segregating society.
Based on my own personal experiences, I think Mr. Tutu is largely correct.
There are too many phonies who claim to speak for “all Blacks”.
You jest sir! That would be Desmond Tutu, or as I have renamed him, Desmond Three Three..
Desmond Tutu should put on the clothing item called the same thing as his last name and go dance a ballet in the middle of a pride of lions.
“”may have said more crudely what, actually, almost every African-American would have wanted to say.”
Then maybe those African Americans should get out of this country.
“the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library Foundation’s Lincoln Leadership Prize, presented by Oprah Winfrey.”
What exactly did he do to deserve this?
Well at least he recognized that. If he had kept it at that, I wouldn't be feeling venomous right now.
“the issue will haunt Americans until there is a way to talk honestly about race, such as holding a reconciliation forum.”
Which will entail licking their boots and giving them money that they didn’t earn.
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