Posted on 04/29/2008 9:53:47 PM PDT by The_Republican
Anger is a tough emotion to conceal and the Rev. Jeremiah Wright's simmered barely beneath the surface during his Monday performance at the National Press Club.
Oh, he was funny and entertaining. He's got the gift of gab and knows how to bring an audience to its feet. "Amens" rolled easily off the tongues of his supporters.
But make no mistake: Barack Obama's "former pastor," by virtue only of Wright's recent retirement, is a righteously angry man. And he's mad principally at white folks -- descendants of slaveholders, authors of Jim Crow laws and alleged conspirators to genocide.
Whites, he made clear, brought damnation and terrorism to our shores.
Whatever Wright intended to accomplish during his media blitz these past few days -- including a speech to the NAACP and an interview with Bill Moyers -- he did little good for the Democrats' favored son. Sensing the potential damage to his campaign, Obama on Tuesday expressed outrage and sadness at Monday's "spectacle." Whether that's enough remains to be seen, but clearly, Wright changed few opinions about his now-famous sermon snippets.
Wright claimed that those excerpts were taken out of context and looped and re-looped by television news programs "to stoke fear," and, presumably, to turn white voters against Obama. He also claimed that the attacks against him were really aimed at the black church.
Those earlier sound bites were incendiary, all right. They captured Wright god-damning America and saying one week after the 9/11 attacks that America's "chickens are coming home to roost." But they were replayed so many times because they were so unbelievable and because they raised questions of consequence -- not about the institutional black church but about Wright, specifically, his most-famous parishioner.
Could the pastor of man hoping to become president really have said those things?
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
Looking at Wright, I’d say there’s a lot of cream in his coffee.
It’s the “VAST WRIGHT WING-NUT CONSPIRACY”..
“And he’s mad principally at white folks — descendants of slaveholders”
Gee, I wonder what he thinks about those of us who are decendents of those who lost their limbs and lives in freeing those slaves. How about those of us who descended from those who fought to free and create the nation to begin with? Oh—I forgot, “it’s G*d America”, so I guess none of this helps me.
After this escapade and ensuing denial of each other, it would seem the morons at huffpo, kos, and du would see it. They must honestly be the most dangerous idiots on the planet.
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The very opposite is true, very few whites are "descendants of slaveholders", in fact most are descendants of slaves or oppressed peoples from the harsh closed societies of eastern Europe and Asia minor, where they were either near-slaves or badly treated and brutalized second class citizens themselves, often subjected to sweeping genocides by the other "victims" Mr. racist Wright holds dear to his heart.
The public school system needs to change the history curriculum and expand it to include the history of the entire world, and drop the selective history lessons which focus only on negative aspects of American history, taught by self hating white liberals, and certain agenda driven foreign mid eastern teachers who fancy themselves as "professors" of history which conveniently excludes their own barbaric history.
The public school system is a basketcase. I get a kick out of some types (I’m not criticizing your suggestion) that think more things need to be added to the curriculum (updating and expanding books, et al). Most of the textbooks were so large in my last years that you almost never got to the halfway mark (indeed, I found out that one standard textbook would take TWO years or longer to get through at an average speed — often a snail’s pace). There’s little point in having updates because they’re never going to get to them.
The emphasis in the classrooms, too often, is a lot of PC bullcrap and open political leftist indoctrination, which seems to keep seeping down to lower and lower grades (in my case, it didn’t get fairly blatant until around 7th grade). I’d imagine even if you issued a “mandate” to emphasize a more positive and non-PC/factual historical instruction, the radical teachers would do an end-run around the curriculum and distort it or tell the students to openly disregard it. That’s not a joke.
I don't doubt that for a second. They have been very active over the past few years slipping in revisionist history of their own without notice. Very few of these changes are even noticed and corrected.
I don't think any additions would help for the reason you mention.,br> I think the newer text books should be scrapped all together, and replaced with the old ones used and published in the 1950's.
So what if they aren't in such great condition, and have "Biff loves Veronica" and other such stuff carved into them. [Those markings could be a separate study of American history of it's own! :o) ]
Something has to be done to stop this revisionist history brainwashing of America. ,br> The only option is homeschooling it seems, and even that is under increasing attack.
I’d just simply declare the public school system a complete failure. Scrap it, and start from scratch. The Unions have to go, #1. They’re the single greatest impediment to change and reform you have, and the Democrats (and some RINOs) give them total cover. If you don’t have individual accountability for the teachers, it’s never going to work. US Dep of Ed has got to go, too. It’s creation and division from HEW (Health/Ed/Welfare) was nothing but a payoff by Carter to the Unions for their support in 1976.
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