Mychal Massie
Posted on 03/24/2008 10:33:01 PM PDT by pissant
Barack Obama's "More Perfect Union" speech of March 18 was a transpicuous opprobrium intended to obfuscate, shift blame and cast all churchdom in the same light as his mentor and pastor. In reality, his speech provided us with a closer look into Obama the man, and suffice it to say, he came up woefully lacking.
In his speech, Obama called slavery America's original sin. I beg to differ on strict theological grounds (of which he and/or his mentor/pastor are welcome to debate me). America's original sin is the same as original sin has been from the beginning – it was and it continues to be man's disobedience to God. Obama, as a self-professed "devout Christian," should know this, but he chose instead to play the race card.
He continued his remarks with a quasi-elegant, albeit factually incomplete and misleading treatise, pursuant to racial inequality, all of which was intended to set the stage for what was to come – a thinly veiled defense of his mentor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright – a gymnastic feat so adroit as to be the envy of the most nimble prevaricator.
To add insult to that injury, he conveniently omitted any reference to the fact that it was the party he represents that opposed every piece of civil rights legislation from the 1860s up to and including the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
He fanned the flames of racism in mentioning his being black. He left unmentioned that it was members of his own party that made his ethnicity an issue. And it was noted black journalists, not least of which is Stanley Crouch, of the New York Daily News, who argued that while he was black, he didn't share a heritage with the majority of black America. (See: "What Obama Isn't: Black Like Me";
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Mychal Massie
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I submit that Obama and family, along with the other members of that church, could not sit under Wright's tutelage without his opinions and teachings taking root in their core beings. To suggest otherwise would be tantamount to arguing that the teachings of terrorist mullahs and ayatollahs have no effect on the minds of those who listen to them and subsequently put into practice that with which they have been indoctrinated.
Someone needs to make a good ad linking up Obama’s pastor’s ravings with the crazy stuff Obama’s wife wrote in her college papers and maybe all of the dots will start coming together for the american public. Interesting the MSM is so uninterested in making anything of this.
He wouldn’t hve stuck aroudn for two decades otherwise. Does it take that long to establish black cred?
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Amen! He gets it right!
There can be no dialog on an equal level between these Militants and whites because of the well-rooted PC. Whites cannot talk freely. About any word theY utter will get them knocked down, fired, vilified.
Geraldine Ferraro did not say anything racist. Indeed, what she said, obamamama had already said about himself previously. Yet she get canned and labeled a racist - even by him.
This faction of bitter, non Christian (You aren't a Christian just by saying so: "By their fruits ye shall know them...")
...this faction hates Whitey, Hispanics are included with Whitey), Jews, "Uncle Toms", etc.
The only ones that could start a dialog with these hate-mongers would be from the many thousands of AMERICAN blacks = mostly conservatives - who have put their shoulder to the wheel and pursued the American Dream. They spend their time and energy in achieving rather that resentment and spewing hate.
It's the Bill Cosbys, the Sewells, the Watts, the Massies - that will need to be the first at the "dialog" table, for they can speak on a more equal field - although they would still get vilified.
Because, you see, these militants don't really want dialog. They want - and so state - BLACK POWER.
They have goals of reparations - of making Whitey pay, in more ways than one.
They are intent on the Marxist agenda of redistributing the wealth - obamamama has even said he intends to rebuild Africa...After all, that is the Mother Country - so stated - of the church - not this Da*n country.
Obamamama's veneer is coming apart. His 'hallowed' speech isn't going to be remembered as much as his remark later about "Typical White People"
Mr. Massie has nailed some vital points in his article. We need to restudy just which party has fought against slavery and for civil rights all these decades, so that we can enlighten people who haven't a clue.
A good link to start is the web page for the NATIONAL BLACK REPUBLICAN ASSOC.
http://www.nationalblackrepublicans.com/
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Obama’s white guilt has chosen victimhood, although he is not the descendant of American slaves. He could’ve accepted his melting pot heritage and focussed on race-neutral American principles, but prefers to identify with the race he has least in common with; it appears that for him, skin color trumps nationality.
“Obama’s white guilt has chosen victimhood, although he is not the descendant of American slaves. He could’ve accepted his melting pot heritage and focussed on race-neutral American principles, but prefers to identify with the race he has least in common with; it appears that for him, skin color trumps nationality.”
Having retired a few years ago from a major public (and very liberal) University in Chicago that is located somewhat close to the area where Wright preached in his Church, I know very well the type of Black that attends Wright’s Church, as I worked with many of them. The University I worked at hired many Blacks from the near southside of Chicago as employees. Many of them have a chip on their shoulder about Whitey (and Jews, and surprisingly or maybe not so, against many Orientals too).
As the University hired many Hispanics from the nearby neighborhoods also, it was interesting that most of the Hispanics and Blacks did not like each other either. Then, of course, just to throw more into the melting pot, there were a bunch of Palestinian students at the University also, who would march around with whatever the grievance du jour was on campus. Lots of Chinese students too, as Chinatown was close by, but I never could tell what they were thinking about any of this.
My point being, I know only too well the attitudes of many of the Blacks in that area of Chicago, and it ain’t pretty. Obama is lying to us. He has been indoctrinated for 20 years by his Preacher’s sermons and by his personal friendship with him. That none of it would have rubbed off on him is total nonsense. Beware the wolf in sheep’s clothing. That is Obama. One of the women I worked with was, like Obama, half black and half white. She was embarrassed by the half white part, and tried to out-Black the Blacks in Blackness as a result. Same with Obama, who has two strikes against him in his own Black community. First, he was not born and raised in America, started out life as a Muslim, and until his middle teen years, did not live here. And he lived much of his life in Hawaii, that has many racial types living there, thus somewhat insulated from the Black mainland experience. He has not had the southern Black experience with blatant racism that still existed for many Blacks growing up in this country up until the 60’s hit and the Republicans helped Johnson finally get the Civil Rights Act passed.
Plus, he has that White side to his family, as much as he has tried to hide it up until now when he had to pull his Grandma out of the White family closet in order to throw her under the train. So, Obama, being politically ambitious, joined this radical thinking Blacker than Black Church to add to his “I’m Black” credentials while building his political career. Unfortunately for him, he is now at a point in his political career where all that Black nationalism and hatred of Whitey, Jews, etc. is now a liability rather than a virtue to give him street “cred”. So he first tried to hide his affiliations with his Black Church and its controversial Preacher, and his friendship with Bill Ayers (the 60’s homegrown terrorist, who, by the way, is now a Professor at the University I retired from in Chicago). However, the cat got let out of the bag, and Sean Hannity kept hitting hard at Obama’s Preacher man. And now that which was once of great benefit to him, is now all to his detriment. I guess what went around has now come around. Obama is a very clever, well spoken con artist, hiding his true stripes from the all too often naive public. But you can’t fool all of the people all of the time, and now, as his own Preacher man said when claiming the U.S. deserved what it got when we were attacked on 9/11, “the chickens have come home to roost.”
Whitey has been behaving like the vanquished for years now, thanks to the Democratic party, its attendant disordered thinking, and its Marxist leanings. Why else would there be so much talk about reparations when the Dems are in power? Why else would State after State apologize for slavery?
Bump
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