Well, isn't that special???
Posted on 03/17/2008 12:07:32 PM PDT by jdm
Sometime between April 2006 and today, the church Barack Obama has attended for 20 years, Trinity United Church of Christ, quietly edited the “About Us” page of their web site, removing their statement of commitment to “the Black Value System written by the Manford Byrd Recognition Committee chaired by Vallmer Jordan in 1981.”
Here’s the page from 2006, saved by the Internet Archive: Trinity United Church of Christ - About Us.
And here’s the current page: Trinity United Church of Christ - About Us.
The section that was removed:
Trinity United Church of Christ adopted the Black Value System written by the Manford Byrd Recognition Committee chaired by Vallmer Jordan in 1981. We believe in the following 12 precepts and covenantal statements. These Black Ethics must be taught and exemplified in homes, churches, nurseries and schools, wherever Blacks are gathered. They must reflect on the following concepts:
1. Commitment to God
2. Commitment to the Black Community
3. Commitment to the Black Family
4. Dedication to the Pursuit of Education
5. Dedication to the Pursuit of Excellence
6. Adherence to the Black Work Ethic
7. Commitment to Self-Discipline and Self-Respect
8. Disavowal of the Pursuit of “Middleclassness”
9. Pledge to make the fruits of all developing and acquired skills available to the Black Community
10. Pledge to Allocate Regularly, a Portion of Personal Resources for Strengthening and Supporting Black Institutions
11. Pledge allegiance to all Black leadership who espouse and embrace the Black Value System
12. Personal commitment to embracement of the Black Value System.
(Hat tip: LGF readers.)
UPDATE at 3/17/08 10:05:37 am:
The Internet Archive shows that the page was edited sometime between March 15, 2007 and March 29, 2007.
UPDATE at 3/17/08 10:29:09 am:
There’s still a PDF file titled “The Black Value System,” hosted at the church web site, and it’s even more extreme than the 12 precepts quoted above.
UPDATE at 3/17/08 10:35:36 am:
An excerpt from the PDF file, on the subject of “Middleclassness:”
Disavowal of the Pursuit of “Middleclassness”
Classic methodology on control of captives teaches that captors must keep the captive ignorant educationally, but trained sufficiently well to serve the system. Also, the captors must be able to identify the “talented tenth” of those subjugated, especially those who show promise of providing the kind of leadership that might threaten the captor’s control.
Those so identified as separated from the rest of the people by:
Killing them off directly, and/or fostering a social system that encourages them to kill off one another.
Placing them in concentration camps, and/or structuring an economic environment that induces captive youth to fill the jails and prisons.
Seducing them into a socioeconomic class system which while training them to earn more dollars, hypnotizes them into believing they are better than others and teaches them to think in terms of “we” and “they” instead of “us”.
So, while it is permissible to chase “middle-incomeness” with all our might, we must avoid the third separation method-the psychological entrapment of Black “middleclassness”: If we avoid the snare, we will also diminish our “voluntary” contributions to methods A and B. And more importantly, Black people no longer will be deprived of their birthright, the leadership, resourcefulness, and example of their own talented persons.
UPDATE at 3/17/08 11:02:00 am:
The Black Value System does indeed have a page at the Trinity web site, but there is apparently no link to it: Trinity United Church of Christ - The Black Value System.
Instead, at the bottom of the “About Us” page linked above, they have a link to Rev. Wright’s “talking points” about The Black Value System.
I wish. This is nothing more than a squabble amongst the kids. It's undoubtedly true that most Americans do not support the policies of the left, but they also don't care enough to do anything about it. This entire society, government, defense, you name it, is absolutely controlled day in and day out by political correctness, which is nothing more than the unspoken code of the left. And it grows stronger by the day, not weaker.
Think back just 20 years ago and compare that to today's situation if you want to see the power of the left.
MM (in TX)
And how is the “Black work ethic” different from just plain old work ethics?
Well, isn't that special???
FYI: I couldn’t find a direct link from their homepage etc either...even back when I first heard about it.
http://www.tucc.org/black_value_system.html
Yes, the media will probably give him a pass. But the truth is already getting out and a couple of 523c orgs will make sure it stays out front. That means that with every hit Obama takes about his ties to his racist pastor, the more likely Hillary will be the nominee, stealing it from Obama.
And since 80% of blacks say that his pastor either makes no difference or makes the MORE likely to vote for Obama, the ‘Rats can forget about the black voting block. Obama may even run third party, splitting the ‘Rat vote even further.
Stay on top of if it!! BUMP~~~
Hillary's doing to win this nomination with super delegates. It's going to leave a lot of democrats very angry when the popular vote/delegate winner is cast aside for another Clinton. And many of them won't recover in time to vote in November.
It's not the death of the democrat party and there's no cause for unbridled glee. But it should be very entertaining all the same.
It's too bad the republicans don't have a candidate that can appeal to black voters, because a lot of them are going to be there for the taking. This could have been a correction to the sea-change of 1964... but the best we're going to get is the election of a mediocre candidate from the lesser of two evils party.
“Orwellian Stalists.”
Perfect!
Didn’t think the Jeremiah Wright bunch could further disgust me. I’ve been proven wrong.
The least they could do is be proud and consistent in their racist bigotry and hate.
Matthew Reid
http://www.Rice2008.com
McCain - Rice 2008
(McCain: Reluctantly) (Rice: Strategically)
“doing” = “going”
Sorry for the typo.
Apparently camp Obama has been dreading this over a year.
DO NOT FORGET: Obama is the “accidental senator” he was going to be wipped out by his opponent until it was revealed during the Republican’s nasty divorce he and his wife used to go to wife swapping clubs. (his wife was the actress who played Seven of Nine in the Uber PC StarTrek: Voyager series. She was hired to save the series via sex appeal)
Obama was going to lose big time against the well financed Republican. Alen Keys jumped and lost soundly.
Even Chauncy Gardner (”Being There”) had more political competence than Obama.
Send that to Rush, Drudge, Hannity, Oreilly and Co ASAP!!
Sounds just like Marxist rhetoric that one must throw aside "bourgeois values" and assert one's proletarian "class consciousness."
Basically, they are telling people to do just what Obama has done; pursue material success and intellectual competence, but always maintain primary loyalty to the group--the growing black power structure. Very much the way commies were to behave in a still-free country: get day jobs, be inconspicuous, but report back and support the Party.
With this stuff as their primary school, do you see how easy it is to jump into Black Muslim faith?
Or is that Deleting Change.
I think it’s....I HOPE we can CHANGE this and no one will notice.
They did not “disappear it.” They made it disappear, they removed it, deleted it, trashed it, hid it, redacted it, etc.
They did not “disappear it.” That’s pigeon English.
Doubleplusungood brother!
9. Pledge to make the fruits of all developing and acquired skills available to the Black Community
How about being committed and sharing your skills with THE community? THE nation?
We criticize muslims, hispanics and other groups about not integrating into American culture, yet few question American blacks on their own version of segregation.
He will attempt to clear all this up tomorrow in a speech on race.
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