Posted on 04/15/2008 8:08:43 AM PDT by nikos1121
In his speech on race, Barack Obama tried to explain away his longtime ministers denunciations of America by saying that for blacks of his generation, memories of humiliation and doubt and fear have not gone away.
But an examination by Newsmax of the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr.s background reveals that Obamas characterization of his upbringing is mythology.
Described by Obama as his sounding board and mentor for more than two decades, Wright was born in Philadelphia in 1941. He lived in a racially mixed section called Germantown, which consisted of homes on broad tree-lined streets in northwest Philadelphia. The owners then were middle-class families.
For 62 years, Wrights father, the Rev. Jeremiah Alvesta Wright, was pastor at Grace Baptist Church of Germantown. He was one of the first blacks to receive a degree from the Lutheran Theological Seminary in Philadelphia.
Wrights mother, Mary Elizabeth Henderson Wright, was a schoolteacher. She was the first black to teach an academic subject at Roosevelt Junior High, the first to teach at Germantown High, and the first to teach at the Philadelphia High School for Girls. She became vice principal of Girls High in 1968.
Rather than attend the more racially mixed Germantown High School at 40 East High St., Wright traveled a few miles to the elite Central High School at 1700 West Olney Ave., graduating in 1959. Opened in 1838, Central High has a distinguished past and admits only highly-qualified applicants who are privileged to attend from all over the city. It is comparable to the Bronx High School of Science and Boston Latin School, both public schools known for academic excellence.
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If Obama is elected president...then something is REALLLLLLY wrong here.
Senator John McCain could never convince me to vote for him. Only Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama can cause me to vote for him.
Thomas Sowell
Here's the truth about Wright, Obama, their church, and their "theology".
No question about it: There is SOMETHING wrong here. Some of us have been trying to head it off for 40 years — and folks who heard what we were saying laughed at us, waved their hand dismissively and uttered the most dangerous phrase in ANY language: “Why, THAT could NEVER HAPPEN HERE!”
Now that it MAY be too late to stop “IT,” most of them have stopped laughing.
Black LIBERATION theology?
When a black woman is one of the richest people in America?
When a black man was Secretary of State??
When a black woman IS Secretary of State?
When black men have sat — and do sit — on the Supreme Court??
When a countless black men have risen to the top of the ranks of the richest in professional sports and show business?? Men like Han Aaron. Men like Bill Cosby who... (Never mind. As we all know, Bill’s either an Uncle Tom or Oreo Cookie, depending on which black race pimp you listen to.)
Liberation Theology?
Liberation from WHAT? The chance to achieve and succeed??
Give me a break!!
Let me make it clear right up front: I am NOT a racist. I supported Herman Cain in his run for the Senate. And if he ever runs again, I would probably support him again.
I also consider Thomas Sowell and Walter Williams two of the finest economists and minds extant today. In case you dont know them, both are black.
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 dont 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 Cassius Clay), once declared Im glad my great-grandpa got on that boat.
And author Robert Hitt Neill tells of attending a Tennessee Mountain Writers 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 states 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!
There. Fixed it.
Disgusting, but not surprising.
On his new campaign plane, Obama said he has spoken with Wright in recent days and disputed any suggestion that he or his campaign have asked him to stay out of the limelight.
"I have talked to him," he said. "I haven't asked him to do anything."
Walter Williams: "For the nation and for black people, the first black president should be the caliber of a Jackie Robinson and Barack Obama is not. Barack Obama has charisma and charm but in terms of character, values and understanding, he is no Jackie Robinson. By now, many Americans have heard the racist and anti-American tirades of Obama's minister and spiritual counselor. There's no way that Obama could have been a 20-year member of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright's church and not been aware of his statements."
Thomas Sowell: "It is painful to watch defenders of Barack Obama tying themselves into knots trying to evade the obvious. Some are saying that Senator Obama cannot be held responsible for what his pastor, Jeremiah Wright, said. In their version of events, Barack Obama just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong timeand a bunch of mean-spirited people are trying to make something out of it."
Hussein Obamas racist pseudo minister has turned the Dems' run for President into party's train wreck!
Devastatingly, Shelby Steele writes: Obama has fellow-traveled with a hate-filled, anti-American black nationalism all his adult life, failing to stand and challenge an ideology that would have no place for his own (white) mother."
Just What Did Obama Know About Wright's Past Sermons? (Plenty)
Barack Obama either agreed with what was preached from the Trinity pulpit, or he tuned it out and stayed around pretending to for political reasons. To say he stayed for 20 years but doesn't agree with Wright's preaching is incredible denial. It'd be like a man buying White Sox season tickets for 20 years, attending the games, and saying he's not a fan.
Obamas supporters want us to ignore this story just push it under the rug. While theyll align Republicans with any obscure pastor who does or says something controversial, theyre trying to convince us that Obamas 20-year long close relationship with Wright, including his effective endorsement of him, his church and rhetoric with a $22,500 donation in 2006 is irrelevant.
When Obama decided against wearing an American flag pin, we may all have been a bit too quick to accept his rationale, too quick to find that issue unimportant. Now, that American flag pin has gotten a lot bigger for a lot of us, especially in light of what may have been and may still be Obamas deeper, and, perhaps, secret, less than patriotic beliefs about America.
Wright says that blacks cant be expected to sing God Bless America because of racism. Obama doesnt salute the flag during the National Anthem. That sure strikes me as an amazing coincidence since Obama swears he never heard Wright say anything against America.
Here is the link to the Star Spangled Banner video with obama standing there without his hand over his heart...
Notice her ear ring!
The picture, which appeared on a U.S. Web site, showed the Illinois senator donning a Muslim elder's headdress and robes during a 2006 trip to Wajir in northeastern Kenya. Ahmed Sheikh Bahalow, a retired teacher and elder from ethnically (read Muslim) Somali Wajir, said his community was offended by the insinuation Obama had done anything wrong on his visit. "The Somali community and in particular those living in Kenya have never been that interested in America politics," Bahalow told Reuters in the central town of Isiolo. "But we are following it keenly now because we have been provoked." Wajir residents planned to demonstrate in the town after Friday prayers to show their support for Obama, he said. Those aren't Episcopalians praying on Friday.
"Hussein Obamas big mouth, small brain, condescending, America-hating, grandkid-baby-terminating, born-alive-infant-abandoning, America-hating-wife, kooky-moonbat-America-hating-pastor, racially-divisive, race-baiting, crotch-saluting, America-flag-disrespecting ... chickens ... coming home to roost ...!"
The formative years for Wright’s radicalism were probably his undergrad years at Howard University. IIRC, Stokely Carmichael was President of the student body.
My people were brought to America by forces beyond their control, by bitter warfare and famine in our own native land. When we arrived in America, cruel economic forces forced us to live in run-down conditions. At the hands of those in power, the Man sometimes took away our native names that served us in the Old Country, and instead gave us new more American names. When we went looking for work, tiny cards in business windows informed us that while others might be accepted, we need not apply for work. The vast Democratic political machine saw my people as little more than rubber-stamped votes for their candidates, and because of addicting liquid chemicals handed out by those corrupt politicians, we voted for them, time and again. When we could find work, it was often of the most basic, brute force type, building railroads and sweating in the hot sun for hours on end. The newspapers depicted my people as little more than dumb and foolish stereotypes, holding us up to public laughter. We were referred to by degrading nicknames, the dreaded M-word.
Thats right, Mick. My ancestors were Irish. And the way we were treated three hundred years ago has made me a failure today.
Horribly addicted to the pachang (whiskey to my American oppressors), I find it hard to hold down a job that will pay for my big screen, my Lexius, and even the most basic of luxuries. I am sure that my lack of education and career advancement is due to my superiors plotting against me because of the extremely pale color of my skin. Fortunately, I am told by the Democrats that I cannot possibly be expected to achieve anything in my life, because events that occurred to my great-great-grandparents hundreds of years ago mean I cannot possibly compete against more fortunate Americans.
The time has come to pay the bill, America. On behalf of my oppressed people, I want a bazillion dollars, preferably in either 10s and 20s, or else in single-malt whiskey.
That is the one point that clarifies the whole Wright situation -
the Obamas continued to send their children to hear this message - no parent would repeatedly expose their children to a message that they didn’t want them to learn.
“...you look like you got something to hide...”
OK, I’m BUSTED — BIG TIME!
I’m a PROUD (but increasingly angry) WHITE, EUROPEAN DESCENT MALE GRANDFATHER OF 6 EQUALLY WHITE EUROPEAN GRANDKIDS who will never know the America I knew growing, the good, the bad and the ugly.
And before someone comes back with a snappy retort about slavery, Jim Crow, segregation and all the rest of what was admittedly bad about the 40s, 50s and early 60s, ask yourself if you’re willing to trade it for the evils of the most RACIST regime in world history (SOVIET SOCIALISM/COMMUNISM where EVERYONE WAS, under severe penalties, REQUIRED to carry an identity card declaring his/her RACE/NATIONALITY). If the Dems succeed, it’s coming here and it will make the bad old days HERE worse than the bad old days THERE by a factor of 4 or more.
But PC will reign supreme — even in the new gulags.
I've heard enough from Wright to question whether he was truly admitted to Central High on his academic qualifications. The guy can't get simple facts straight (e.g. the Tuskegee experiment--his version of the story is BS).
Logic is generally absent from his rantings. I can't help but suspect that he was admitted because Mama Wright had the necessary connections.
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