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BLACKMALE · 03-20-2008, 12:08 PM

First and foremost, the ignorance of judging a man by what someone else says is extreme to say the least. Senator Obama deserves better. Judging a Preacher man for a few snippets of his sermons run on a loop is ridiculous. And reducing this historical election into "hitman" politics as usual is insanity. Speaking as a Canadian whose ancestors moved north from Oklahoma and Texas to escape Jim Crow, I can honestly say I'm not even sure what all the fuss about the comments of the good Reverend is all about. Why all the shock and outrage??? To call him racist just exposes the idiocy of a line of thought shared by so many white americans. Is it so surprising that a man such as this who represents a HUGE segment of the black community might have some lingering anger/disgust/distrust for a country with so much potential that does so much damage. A country which allowed blacks to fight and die for it but still treated them as second class citizens. A country with ridiculous wealth and power but who doesn't care for all of her people. I'm beginning to think that it is the discomfort and uneasyness that these comments give rise to that causes so many to get all indignant. He said God would damn america for its misdeeds. That's preacher talk if I've ever heard it. Jesus and so many prophets before him said similar things about the ruling class in their time. He said America is run by rich white people. Ummmm...what's so untrue about that? Clearly most whites don't feel very priveleged these days but Barack adressed this masterfully. Rev. Wright apparently made claims that AIDS was introduced to wipe out the blacks. Would it be shocked if it were true? They gave the Indians Small Pox didn't they? And does anyone remember the Tuskegee Syphillis experiments?? Guess who the victims were in that one? He said that Crack Cocaine was brought in to the ghetto by the CIA. That's not a new allegation and it certainly wouldn't surprise me. http://www.finalcall.com/features/cia-dope.html
Maybe it's just cuz I'm black and my brethren were on the receiving end of so much of this. What about his comments about American foreign policy? Would you argue that the good ol US of A hasn't been up to some evil shenanigans worldwide for years?? What about Iran Contra? What about Chile or Haiti? What about giving Saddam those horrible WMD's to use in the first place? What about Nagasaki & Hiroshima? More recently what about trying to overthrow our good friend Chavez in Venezuela?? What about it? Wow. Solid track record. And yet...so much indignance and patriotism. Is it fair to judge the USA and it's people only on the evil that it has perpetrated on the world at large? To condemn the states for its oil/blood thirsty nature without looking at how much good they have done? How many people they've helped over the years? I don't think so. But why is it ok to do it to a man whose whole life has been the service of his country and his community? I can only speculate that its easier to throw stones than it is to look inward. You might not like what you see.

03-20-2008, 12:08 PM	#271 (permalink)
BLACKMALE Upright	First and foremost, the ignorance of judging a man by what someone else says is extreme to say the least. Senator Obama deserves better. Judging a Preacher man for a few snippets of his sermons run on a loop is ridiculous. And reducing this historical election into "hitman" politics as usual is insanity. Speaking as a Canadian whose ancestors moved north from Oklahoma and Texas to escape Jim Crow, I can honestly say I'm not even sure what all the fuss about the comments of the good Reverend is all about. Why all the shock and outrage??? To call him racist just exposes the idiocy of a line of thought shared by so many white americans. Is it so surprising that a man such as this who represents a HUGE segment of the black community might have some lingering anger/disgust/distrust for a country with so much potential that does so much damage. A country which allowed blacks to fight and die for it but still treated them as second class citizens. A country with ridiculous wealth and power but who doesn't care for all of her people. I'm beginning to think that it is the discomfort and uneasyness that these comments give rise to that causes so many to get all indignant. He said God would damn america for its misdeeds. That's preacher talk if I've ever heard it. Jesus and so many prophets before him said similar things about the ruling class in their time. He said America is run by rich white people. Ummmm...what's so untrue about that? Clearly most whites don't feel very priveleged these days but Barack adressed this masterfully. Rev. Wright apparently made claims that AIDS was introduced to wipe out the blacks. Would it be shocked if it were true? They gave the Indians Small Pox didn't they? And does anyone remember the Tuskegee Syphillis experiments?? Guess who the victims were in that one? He said that Crack Cocaine was brought in to the ghetto by the CIA. That's not a new allegation and it certainly wouldn't surprise me. http://www.finalcall.com/features/cia-dope.html Maybe it's just cuz I'm black and my brethren were on the receiving end of so much of this. What about his comments about American foreign policy? Would you argue that the good ol US of A hasn't been up to some evil shenanigans worldwide for years?? What about Iran Contra? What about Chile or Haiti? What about giving Saddam those horrible WMD's to use in the first place? What about Nagasaki & Hiroshima? More recently what about trying to overthrow our good friend Chavez in Venezuela?? What about it? Wow. Solid track record. And yet...so much indignance and patriotism. Is it fair to judge the USA and it's people only on the evil that it has perpetrated on the world at large? To condemn the states for its oil/blood thirsty nature without looking at how much good they have done? How many people they've helped over the years? I don't think so. But why is it ok to do it to a man whose whole life has been the service of his country and his community? I can only speculate that its easier to throw stones than it is to look inward. You might not like what you see.