Posted on 05/01/2008 1:05:53 PM PDT by Kaslin
Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Sen. Barack Obama's spiritual advisor and former pastor, holds a charter membership in the white-man-done-me-wrong, things-remain-the-same, we-feel-your-pain club.
Here's the "victicrat" mindset: Kids having difficulty performing well on standardized tests? Blame "cultural bias." Get pulled over by a cop? DWB -- driving while black. A disproportionate number of blacks in prison? A racist criminal justice system that "targets" blacks for prosecution and imprisonment. Katrina? As Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., put it, "ethnic cleansing by inaction." Difficulty qualifying for a loan? Blame banks' devious plan to prevent blacks from getting "access to capital." Pay more for car insurance because you live in a high-crime neighborhood? Why, illegal "redlining," of course. High inner-city dropout rate? Bad teachers, unequal funding, racist teachers -- yada, blah, etc.
We learn that Wright, from the pulpit and in other venues, sermonizes that: the government put drugs in the community; the government invented AIDS to exterminate blacks; he considers the 9/11 attacks that killed 3,000 people on American soil an understandable retribution for America's racist and unjust past; "white greed" causes America's ills; he considers Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, "Condoskeeza Rice" -- a street term for whore; he condemns the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki; racism built America and racism remains a substantial problem today; he considers the anti-Semitic leader of the Nation of Islam, Louis Farrakhan, a friend and one of the "greatest voices" of the 20th century; because of their different brain patterns, blacks and whites learn differently; and much more.
Rev. Wright, after lying low for a few days post-YouTube excerpts, emerged unrepentant, either unconcerned or oblivious to the damage he continues to do to Obama's candidacy. Wright recently appeared before the National Press Club, the NAACP, and sat down for an interview with PBS' oh-so-sympathetic, I-feel-your-pain, hyper-liberal Bill Moyers. Wright not only reiterated but expanded upon his conspiratorial beliefs, and even ridiculed the accents of John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. "Nobody says to a Kennedy, 'You speak bad English,'" Wright said. "Only to a black child was that said."
Once again, America asks: How could "uniter" Barack Obama attend this church for 20 years? How could Obama call Wright his "spiritual advisor," his "mentor," his "sounding board," one of the "greatest preachers in America"? How could Obama include Wright on his campaign committee of religious advisors?
Obama pleaded ignorance about much of Rev. Wright's worldview. But there's a problem. Obama disinvited Rev. Wright from giving the invocation when the senator announced his candidacy for the presidency.
Wright said that Obama, in disinviting him, referred to a Rolling Stone article listing incendiary remarks made by the pastor. According to the pastor, Obama said, "Your sermons can get a little rough." Thus, the disinvitation. But now, says Barack Obama, he's shocked! shocked! at Wright's anger, outlandishness and offensive remarks.
Obama, to minimize the YouTube damage, went to Philadelphia and delivered "The Speech." He spoke less about why and how he attended such a church for 20 years, and called Rev. Wright a product of his generation. Instead Obama urged America to come to terms with its racist past and its continued racial "chasm" and "divide."
News Bulletin: While most Americans feel sympathy for the "black plight," they do not feel responsible for slavery, Jim Crow or legalized segregation. They resent those who continue to blame past injustices for current problems and inconveniences. And recoil at the apparent widespread victicrat mentality that forms the psyche of so many blacks, including, but not limited to Jeremiah Wright, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, et al. This includes much of the Democratic Party, that tacitly and explicitly endorses this mindset in order to get the monolithic black vote, without which the party cannot prevail.
When the Democrats hold their convention in Denver, expect Obama to enter with more state victories, and a greater share of the popular vote. If the convention hands the nomination to Clinton, blacks -- trained by Democrats and sympathetic liberals to perceive racism under every rock -- will cry "foul." So Obama will get the nomination.
Having conditioned blacks to view the world through race-tinted glasses, how can the Democratic Party tell blacks to meekly and mildly accept "handing" the nomination to Sen. Clinton? The Democratic Party enables people like Jeremiah Wright -- now threatening to derail Obama's prospects of winning the White House -- to thrive along with the likes of race-hustlers like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. These people believe, want you to believe, want blacks to believe, or America to believe, that the country of today remains the country of yesterday. This suited the Democratic Party and their needs for the monolithic black vote just fine.
Until now.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
It’s ironic isn’t it how the rat party today is struggling with the color of their skin and not the content of their character?
Wright also had a remark to the effect that it's still common for church-going whites to put on KKK robes and go around killing black people.
Skeeza? Is this a new slang, or what?
One of the online biographies refers to both parents as black. His father was a Baptist minister. I think I saw something a while back on one or more of his grandparents which presupposed that they were black. It’s not unlikely that he has some European ancestry, but probably further back.
He was born into a family of means and enjoyed a pampered life in an upper class family and attended the finest private schools money could buy.
Somebody needs to tell them that their problems are self-inflicted. Wait. Bill Cosby did. We have been saying it for years. They just don’t listen.
Wright was too blunt, too "rough." He didn't phrase the argument in approved left PC rhetoric and managed to expose the Messianic candidate who in reality holds the same views, but who's worked so hard to be a "non-threatening" amorphous mass of hope and change. Wright committed the unforgivable sin of brutal honesty in the land of the left.
Obama’s first book was written when he had no idea he might some day run for President. I have only looked at a few passages in the book—at least when he was in high school he seems to have had a lot of anti-white feelings. I don’t know if he portrays himself as shedding those attitudes later. If not, the book may provide useful insights into the person he is now.
Wright’s parents were middle class to upper middle class blacks in Philly. He did not have a harsh upbringing and was just as “privileged” as the average white guy, if not more so.
His hatred for whitey is just his way of riding the gravy train. He became a rich preacher by pandering to an audience who sees themselves as perpetual victims. Every problem or short coming is blamed on an external source— “racism” , and the donation plate keeps getting filled to the brim and the $$$ keep rolling in.
It’s like he’s Arby’s; Sharpton is Jack-in-the-Box; and Jesse Jackson is McDonald’s. They are all in the same industry, but represent different franchises.
I have a different take on that. I think Obama has, for a very long time, planned on being "king of the hill." The books, IMO, were part of the carefully crafted mythology of the man who pretends to be a "post racial" uniter and unifier, but who is, in reality, a narcissist and far-left radical who has been immersed in Marxism since he learned it at his mother's knee.
Narcissists are not stupid, however, and typically believe that all those whom they intend to enthrall are not capable, or ready, to accept the ultimate truth that they, as superior beings, bring, so he dumbs it down to euphemisms and vague rhetoric designed to appeal to all those people he has utter contempt for -- not least of which are people of color. He is so enthralled with his own image, however, that the setbacks dealt by his pastor's brutal truth as to the nature of the real game afoot are enough to send him into a state of confusion, where I hope he remains for the duration of the primary.
Listening would require changing behavior and taking responsibility.
Much easier to continue to blame whitey and collect your subsistance check.
I thought Obama's first book was the result of someone going around getting people in their thirties to produce autobiographies. I saw another book that resulted from that project, one called Makes Me Wanna Holler, by a black man explaining why he hates white people so much despite never having personally been the victim of discrimination.
No, very old slang from the 80’s.
Too bad that’s not reflected in the mass media
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