Why Are Reverend Wright Videos Disappearing from YouTube?

NR - Media ^ | March 17, 2008 | Greg Pollowitz

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I had a really good post all ready to go.  There was a video posted by the Trinity United Church of Christ, which I found on their YouTube page, of Louis Farrakhan being honored with the Jeremiah A. Wright Trumpeter award.  It's gone from YouTube.  And there was a video of disgraced Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick receiving a similar award.  It's gone from YouTube, too.

But the one I'm really mad about is the one of the church's new pastor, Otis Moss III, talking about gangster rap and crack cocaine.  They pulled that one, as well.  Maybe it had something to do with his blaming gangster rap on suburban white kids and big corporate media.  I didn't really follow his logic, but somehow Ronald Reagan and AOL were involved and there's a hint that the same people who created gangster rap also created crack cocaine.

Although the video is gone, this blogger has a partial transcript:

Moss, continuing on his historical review of hip-hop: "But then something happened in 1984 at the same time that Time Warner/AOL and SONY and MCA realized they could make money off of this music, guess what, we will give you a contract and distribute your song if you put in the N-word, if you put in the H-word, if you put in the B-word...so when we talk about gangsta rap, we are not talking about something that came from the street, we are talking about what came from the corporate boardrooms...

"And the same time that gangsta rap rises, we also have crack hitting the streets...I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but it's mightily strange that gangsta rap and crack hit the same time in our community."

I guess I'm just cherry-picking, right?

[Recovering_Democrat]

GEE. I WONDER WHY.

[processing please hold]

John McCain will censor us as much as Hitlery and Obama.

Google is already censoring me. Have been for a couple of weeks.

[Sir_Ed]

Really?

I’m sorry to hear that.

“Do no evil,” what BS.

Ed

[Don Joe]

Yikes...between this an what Sweetness and Light had up today showing the morphing of the Trinity Church website from the black agenda to...something less racist, it looks as though damage control is WELL underway.

Of course this will make everything fine- we can pretend it never happened.

"Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past."

--George Orwell

[Don Joe]

From ‘Dreams Of My Father’, “There were enough of us on campus to constitute a tribe, and when it came to hanging out many of us chose to function like a tribe, staying close together, traveling in packs,” he wrote. “It remained necessary to prove which side you were on,to show your LOYALTY TO THE BLACK MASSES, TO STRIKE OUT and name names” Barack Hussein Obama

Wow, that's mighty big talk for an Arab who's only, what, something like 1/16th black?

*chuckle*

How do you say "chutzpah" in Obamics?

[Don Joe]

“Do no evil,” what BS.

Actually, I believe it's, "Don't be evil," in which case it comes down a question of what "be" be. :)