Posted on 03/16/2008 12:00:42 PM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
How much trouble is Barack Obama in over the extremism of Jeremiah Wright? Enough that Dem strategist Donna Brazile has been reduced to arguing that as black preachers go, Wright is relatively moderate. Enough that the normally affable Brazile got a bit short with Time editor Mark Halperin, he of the infamous memo to his subordinates during the 2004 presidential campaign while serving as ABC News political director.
The comments came during the panel discussion on today's This Week with George Stephanopoulos on ABC.
View video here.
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“Civil rights” leaders always talk about the hidden racism in America. I suggest it’s hiding in black churches.
sounds like mosques and universities aren’t only place we ought keep an eye on..
I simply cannot believe that Jeremiah Wright is a MODERATE black preacher...
I live in a country I never knew existed. That’s not to say I didn’t know about Farrakhan, Sharpton and Jackson...but I had no CLUE this attitude was so deep and widespread...so..mainstream???
Watch the guy in the background from 0:14 to 0:18 in the video. He’s having a hard time withholding laugher!
Whenever I have stopped by a black preacher’s program on the satellite, I have never seen that kind of crap said from the pulpit. Just the opposite.
She’s probably right. I am stunned sometimes when I happen to be flipping through my car radio stations and come across some black “preacher” who is saying raving, paranoid, hate-filled things about whites that make you think of sombody with his eyes rolling around and spittle flying out of his mouth - and all the black grannies are saying “hmmmm-hmmmm!” along with him.
Blacks are taught to hate whites from the first breath they draw. This goes to excuse everything that is wrong in their individual and personal lives, with the result that when some hideous mass murderer (of whites) is caught and goes to trial, he becomes a hero.
I think we have a serious problem in this country that nobody is addressing.
Wouldnt it be something if the most lasting effect of Barry’s candidacy was to expose the extreme black racism in their churches and communities.
The dirty little secret of pervasive black militant racism is being outed.
I don’t think Donna believes Wright is moderate. She just wants to BS the masses, so they figure this is nothing of concern, that’s all.
Interesting that you and I would post what we did at practically the same instant. I don’t listen to black preachers on the radio. Do you watch them on TV?
Doesn’t this whole OB’s church mess and some calling it “normal” explain why 90% of the black vote is democrat.
I was in several black churches as a girl and never heard this kind of hate of Wright's. Since they didn't know white people were coming, I don't believe they changed their sermons to accomodate me and friends.
In fact, I believe this kind of black preacher (Wright) has grown into maturity in the last 50 or 60 years, as blacks have been reminded constantly of their victimhood.
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Well...I’m not so sure. Donna is a very bright gal. If she is saying that for the reason you suggest - she has to realize it will bring up questions by white Americans about the actual and REAL state of race, bias, bigotry and discrimination in our country.
It certainly has for me.
Wright is not a moderate, but when it comes to black churches he isn’t far removed from the mainstream. Preaching of this sort has been going on in many black churches for decades but its been overshadowed people like Calypso Louie Farakhan. Up until now its been given a free pass by the media... black rage and all that.
I just think of the real victims of the right-on reverend and his crazed colleagues.
Barry and Michelle may be the all-american success story, but I think the lives of most young black men and women who spend every Sunday listening to this toxic message and internalizing it probably turn out a lot less positive.
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