Posted on 01/26/2008 7:03:03 AM PST by zip.com
I am not an American and cannot vote in any U.S. election. If I could, however, I would vote for virtually anyone other than Barack Obama. Not because of his colour. Condoleezza Rice, for example, would make an outstanding president of the United States. No, it is because Obama is affiliated with racists and bigots.
Almost 20 years ago he became a member of Chicago's Trinity United Church of Christ. There he gave his support to a program the church calls a Black Value System, which has nothing to do with Christianity, but encourages the separation of the races.
At its best the philosophy encourages the empowerment of black America. At its worst it blames white people for every problem in the black community and tells adherents that they must not be "captive" to white society.
Most worrying is the preacher at the church, Jeremiah Wright, who is not only Obama's "spiritual guide," but also baptized his daughters and advises him as he attempts to become the most powerful politician in the world.
Speaking of Africa, Wright has said that he and his followers, "remain true to our native land, the mother continent" and Obama's church has given militant racist and anti-Semitic rabble-rouser Louis Farrakhan a lifetime achievement award.
More than this, Wright actually went to Libya with Farrakhan for a personal audience with controversial Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi, who has been linked by some to international terrorism against civilian targets.
Obama frequently praises Wright and Wright frequently praises Farrakhan, who has said that, "Hitler was a very great man," whites are "blue-eyed devils" and "these false Jews promote the filth of Hollywood. It's the wicked Jews, the false Jews, that are promoting lesbianism, homosexuality."
He has referred to Asians as "bloodsuckers" and made the most vitriolic comments about gay men and women.
So Obama's church is hardly the stuff of mainstream Christianity. Obama himself was raised by two Muslim fathers and attended an Islamic school in Indonesia. His Kenyan brother, Abongo Roy Obama, is still a Muslim and has stated that black people must free themselves from, "the poisoning influences of European culture."
Barack Obama may despise his brother's opinions, but he has never said so. He may disappprove of preacher Wright's extreme afrocentrism and close association with a racist madman, but if he does he says precious little about it and continues to praise Wright and to laud the man's influence whenever he can.
Yet he receives little criticism about all this. Can we imagine Hilary Clinton, Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney or any other candidate being let off so lightly?
What appears to make the horribly inexperienced and lightweight Obama so immune to criticism is, paradoxically, his colour.
As a black man he escapes the criticism so routinely thrown at his white rivals, which is racism.
All people should be treated equally, irrespective of colour, class and creed. For Obama to be apparently allowed such indulgences and so many worrying and worryingly close connections is patronizing and unhelpful.
Perhaps we can only hope that Oprah Winfrey holds a rally or broadcasts a week of shows holding her new friend up to scrutiny and telling him off for being so close to so many nasty racists.
Otherwise we might think that there was a double standard out there.
Surely not!
He misspelled “color”.
Perhaps we can only hope that Oprah Winfrey holds a rally or broadcasts a week of shows holding her new friend up to scrutiny and telling him off for being so close to so many nasty racists.
Hope the author isn’t holding his breath.
No, that’s the CANADIAN way of spelling colour. Actually, it is British in origin. ;o)
Colour is the correct spelling in British English. Canadians, being an enlightened lot, will accept either British or American spellings.
Yep.
Not ONE of the candidates for POTUS is any good.
NOT ONE.
On either side of the isle.
We’ve got ourselves a REAL BIG problem.
That’s a problem for the free world, too—what’s left of it.
Drop back five—then punt.
Stockpile weapons while you can.
IMHO, this country is going through the same turmoil as the Old Testament Israelites.
When they separated themselves from God, as we are doing now, they carried on blindly through their own will.
You can call me a crazy Christian, if you like, but I feel this country will come to its knees, one way or another.
If you are a crazy Christian, that makes two of us. America is overdue.
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