This is what struck me as well- just reading the words, while mind-boggling, didn’t have nearly the effect as listening to Wright on the tapes.
~snip~
From the passage above, you can see that Wright found it prudent to blame America for 9-11, even as the towers smoldered and rescue workers searched for survivors among the thousands of casualties. What you don’t get from that passage is the bitter anger and hatred in this man’s voice. I think it’s Wright’s tone that will end up hurting Obama even more than his actual words. This man has clearly been spewing hatred for America and for whites for decades, and his tone and words will be echoing in the ears of many white voters in this Democratic primary and the general election if Obama is the nominee.
~snip~
. . and the very idea that that church gives special honors to people like Louis Farrakhan tells me all, as a person of no color, that I really need to know.
We have ALL experienced insults, slights and snubs of all sorts. If we’re women, it might be not getting asked to a dance because the elite girls in the school blackball us and the boys at school don’t want to cross the elite girls. If we’re poor women, it may have been not getting invited to join the snotty, elite girls’ “sorority” in high school simply because we didn’t live in town, or our houses and clothes weren’t considered fancy enough, or whatever it was.
Boys had their own set of slights to endure. Also, try being Jewish in pre-WWII Germany. Slavery ended a century and a half ago and the likes of this “church” villify people who know what suffering is.
Bogging down in any of these sorts of examples of “past regurgitation” is what people who are fat and content and don’t have enough to do indulge themselves in. I can guarantee if these young gang members had to live in situations where the next welfare check wasn’t in the mail, they might live in the countryside and have to depend on the next squirrel they could shoot, or the next corn crop their family could make, (like my parents did) and at least they would have enough to do and might be better for it. I remember Rush once making a comment about the big, strapping, muscular black youths who were rioting and looting during the Rodney King farce. Some “Dan Rather” type was quoted as saying, “They’re rioting in the streets because they’re HUNGRY!” Hah. Hungry for a wide screen tv to pawn because they certainly looked a lot better fed than the typical talking head looks.
Twinkie
I remember seeing something on TV from not long after 9/11 (maybe not quite as soon as 9/16)—some event in Chicago with Jesse Jackson. It was all about JJ’s usual grievances, not a whiff of patriotism.