Posted on 03/17/2008 6:40:44 AM PDT by bahblahbah
Senator Barack Obama is not a Muslim, contrary to invidious rumors. But he belongs to a Christian church whose doctrine casts Jesus Christ as a "black messiah" and blacks as "the chosen people". At best, this is a radically different kind of Christianity than most Americans acknowledge; at worst it is an ethnocentric heresy.
What played out last week on America's television screens was a clash of two irreconcilable cultures, the posture of "black liberation theology" and the mainstream American understanding of Christianity. Obama, who presented himself as a unifying figure, now seems rather the living embodiment of the clash.
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Glad you posted- I was about to:)
It’s a very important and enlightening piece.
spike lee racism is just as incidious and evil as any other type of racism.
Let me make it clear right up front: I am NOT a racist. I campaigned for and gave money to Alan Keyes. I considered him the most principled, intelligent and articulate man in the race. And if he ever runs again, I would probably support him again. Ditto Atlantan Herman Cain.
I also consider Thomas Sowell and Walter Williams two of the finest economists and minds extant today. In case you don’t know them, both are black.
Keyes, Sowell, Williams and Cain – among others — have spoken out against those fellow blacks who castigate and vilify America for a slavery now long in our past. And ALL thinking men and women oppose the periodic calls for reparations.
The fact is that the modern descendants of slaves brought here in chains in admittedly miserable, soul-gutting conditions now calling for reparations need to remember something:
They should not only be glad to be in America, they should be glad to be ANYWHERE!
Had their ancestors NOT been brought OUT of Africa – many by Muslim slave raiders —the blood of those ancestors would have run into the earth over there several centuries ago, victims of the OTHER black tribes that captured them in one of the interminable tribal conflicts STILL ravaging that sad continent and these modern day would-be “plaintiffs” would not even exist.
And I would remind you that slavery is STILL practiced in parts of Africa (mainly by muslims) and Asia today.
95% of the African slaves who were transported across the Atlantic went to South and Central America, mainly to Portuguese, Spanish and French possessions, and that less than 5% of the slaves who crossed the Atlantic went to the United States, it was remarkable that the vast majority of academic research, films, books and articles concerning the slave trade concentrated only on the American involvement, as though slavery was a uniquely American aberration.
And should the great-great-great grandchildren of SLAVE OWNING BLACKS also be subject to PAYING these reparations? If so, how do we find THEM?
And I have traced MY family back to the SLAVS. For those who don’t know, that word means “slave.” Do I qualify for reparations? From whom??
The official US Census of 1830 lists 3,775 free blacks who owned 12,740 black slaves. Furthermore, the story outlines the history of slavery here, and the first slave owner, the Father of American slavery, was Mr Anthony Johnson, of Northampton, Virginia. His slave was John Casor, the first slave for life. Both were black Africans. The story is very readable, and outlines cases of free black women owning their husbands, free black parents selling their children into slavery to white owners, and absentee free black slave owners, who leased their slaves to plantation owners.
-”Selling Poor Steven”, American Heritage Magazine, Feb/Mar 1993 (Vol. 441) p 90
Of course, a full telling of Black History would not be complete without a telling of the origin of slavery in the Virginia colony:
Virginia, Guide to The Old Dominion, WPA Writers’ Program, Oxford University Press, NY, 1940, p. 378
And the holier-than-thou Northern liberals are strangely silent on recent archeological evidence from NEW YORK CITY clearly tracing the financing of the slave trade to NORTHERN BUSINESSMEN!!
At the height of his remarkable boxing career, Muhammad Ali (born Casius Clay), once declared “I’m glad my great-grandpa got on that boat.”
And author Robert Hitt Neill tells of attending a Tennessee Mountain Writer’s Conference years ago with several other authors. Among them was Alex Hailey, celebrated author of “Roots.” Watching a TV news show, a group of them watched a demonstration in a Southern state against the “Rebel” flag incorporated into that state’s flag. The very next report covered a famine in Africa. Graphic images showed dead bodies, starving children with distended tummies and runny noses and dying people covered with flies, too weak to brush them away.
Mr. Hailey intoned in a low, serious voice, “Every time an American black sees a story like that, they should find a Confederate flag and kiss it.” He then pointed to the TV screen and continued, “Because these would be me and my descendants, except for American slavery. I thank God that my family and I are here instead of there.”
Next problem!
It’s racism. And the media refuses to admit it.
I find these attempts to categorize G-d the all seeing and all-knowing; in terms of race as saddening and ridiculous. G-d is divine and cannot be pigeon-holed in terms of human description. What is the point of worshipping him if we can do this?
Thanks for a very important and revealing article.
Perhaps you need to review Alan Keyes stand on reparations.
IF Keyes HAS revised his stand, I have not heard of it. I will check it out and report back.
Ditto to that -- I enjoyed its analytical precision. Most helpful.
YES....I’ve been asking.....”Would they rather go back to AFRICA?????” In fact there is a black journalist who wrote a book about this very issue....I believe it was titled...”Out of Africa”
Senator Obama is a Muslim.
Sounds like they are trying to repeat over and over again so that we will forget that he is.
I don’t think so.
Bob, Mea culpa. You are correct that Keyes apparently HAS embraced some level of reparations (exemption from income taxes for blacks for several years). If anyone has an update on this, please share it.
However, I find that to be inconsistent with his overall philosophy of self-reliance and individual initiative.
I would love to hear him explain how his otherwise clear thinking led him to that position.
Until I hear otherwise, I’ll revise my future posts.
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I don't know about that one but there's "Out of America" by Washington Post reporter Keith B. Richburg. Like many American Blacks he had bought into the myth that Africa's problems were caused by racism, colonialism, the Cold War and white exploitation.
But working in Africa he found repressive dictators, senseless cruelty, massive corruption -- all home-grown and representing the continent's true Black Face. After that experience he asked himself: "Are these really my people? "Am I truly an *African* American?"
His tortured answer was that he is an American first, foremost and singularly.
"To those who would romanticize Mother Africa as a black Valhalla, where blacks can walk with dignity and pride, this is not the reality," he concludes. He looks into his own family's past and writes, 'Thank God. Thank God my nameless ancestor, brought across in chains and leg irons, made it out alive. Thank God I am an American.'"
Now if we could only spread his important revelation to the rest of American Blacks -- and to the Left! This election may start delineating some of the truths hidden by the Left and Black Separatists from the American public since the 1960s.
The most dangerous people in the world are those who believe God hates the same people they do.
“I would love to hear him explain how his otherwise clear thinking led him to that position.”
Politics?
LOL.
Probably.
As I recall, he switched his position during his race against Obama in Illinois in ‘04.
I may be naive but I truly believe that 99 percent of all white people have no prejudice against honest, hardworking blacks and want nothing but the best for them and pray that they achieve all the success they desire begrudging them nothing. There is no racism other than the racism displayed by those blacks who buy into the hate-America rhetoric.
Wright and his ilk use God only because He is a truly transcendent club. At the root of it, they would be as happy to use a real club on the "others."
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