Posted on 03/13/2008 9:35:50 AM PDT by obamahorror
Obama's Pastor: God Damn America, U.S. to Blame for 9/11
Sen. Barack Obama's pastor says blacks should not sing "God Bless America" but "God damn America".
The Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Obama's pastor for the last 20 years at the Trinity United Church of Christ on Chicago's south side, has a long history of what even Obama's campaign aides concede is "inflammatory rhetoric," including the assertion that the United States brought on the 9/11 attacks with its own "terrorism."
In a campaign appearance earlier this month, Sen. Obama said, "I don't think my church is actually particularly controversial." He said Rev. Wright "is like an old uncle who says things I don't always agree with," telling a Jewish group that everyone has someone like that in their family.
Rev. Wright married Obama and his wife Michelle, baptized their two daughters and is credited by Obama for the title of his book, "The Audacity of Hope."
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These are from his book.
Doesn’t look like he likes to say anything about his white side.
From ‘Dreams of my Father’, “In Indonesia, I had spent two years at a Muslim school”
“I studied the Koran..”
From ‘Audacity of Hope: “Lolo (Obama’s step father) followed a brand of Islam ....”I looked to Lolo for guidance”.
From ‘The Audacity Of Hope, “I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.”
From The Audacity Of Hope, “We are no longer just a Christian nation,” “We are also a Jewish nation, a Muslim nation, a Buddhist nation, a Hindu nation, and a nation of nonbelievers.”
From Dreams of My Father, “ I FOUND A SOLACE IN NURSING A PERVASIVE SENSE OF GRIEVANCE AND ANIMOSITY AGAINST MY MOTHER’S RACE”.
From ‘Dreams of my Father’, “The emotion between the races could never be pure..... the other race would always remain just that: menacing, alien, and apart.”
From ‘Dreams of My Father’,
“I ceased to advertise my mother’s race at the age of 12 or 13, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites”
From Dreams Of My Father, “never emulate white men and brown men whose fates didn’t speak to my own. It was into my father’s image, the black man, son of Africa, that I’d packed all the attributes I sought in myself..”.
From Dreams Of My Father:
“That hate hadn’t gone away,” he wrote, blaming “white people — some cruel, some ignorant, sometimes a single face, sometimes just a faceless image of a system claiming power over our lives.”
“Wright stepped down as pastor weeks ago.”
Yes — but he stepped down to join the Obama campaign, if what I heard on Rush is true.
(Obama) said Rev. Wright “is like an old uncle who says things I don’t always agree with”
One problem: You don’t choice which uncles you associate with. He chose this tax exempt organization, and chose to stay there 20 years
Yep. Seems the Democrats really didn't vet this guy soon enough. But you won't find me shedding any tears if they end up stuck with a sinking ship after their convention.
On the other hand if Hillary somehow brokers out a convention win, the political backlash could get messy for her.
Time to pass the popcorn. Its all a weird sort of compensation for being stuck with McCain
Wright is like the uncle nobody mentions who lives at the nervous hospital.
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“Mulatto” actually is a good term to describe Obama, but it has dropped out of general use because almost all African-Americans are of mixed descent.
Mulatto implies one parent who is entirely caucasian and one who is entirely African, as in Obama’s case—the issues of identity and caste are central to such an existence.
Most African-Americans, even though they have mixed ancestry, are raised entirely within the African-American cultural sphere by parents of similar ancestry.
There are good reasons to think about Obama’s ethnicity separately from, say, Jesse Jackson’s. Their family stories are quite different.
LOL I still think it is obsolete ... like “negro”.
The reason that song is so effective, is because it uses the obsolete word Negro. I know someone who uses that word all the time. The reason is because it used to be “correct” before “black” and “African-American” because now it is vaguely annoying, but not “bad”.
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