One analysis of Obama's attempt at self-preservation
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He (Reverend Wright) had grown up in Philadelphia, the son of a Baptist minister. He had resisted his father’s vocation at first, joining the Marines out of college, dabbling with liquor, Islam, and black nationalism in the sixties.
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Excerpt:
... according to Obama’s argument, Mr. Wright is only saying in public what black people feel in private. Moreover, whites are just as hate-filled as Wright and blacks.
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The profound mistake of Mr. Wright’s sermons is that he tells vicious lies about our country and its people, its history and its current activities. Indeed, it is the mission of his “ministry” to teach these lies as facts.
Nevertheless, the US was not founded on racism. America is not the number one killer in the world. It did not create AIDS to kill the black man. The US did not cause 9/11.
Nor did it do or is it doing any of the other outrageous things that Mr. Wright claims it did and does.
These are damnable lies whether there is upward mobility for minorities or not. (And weirdly, these are lies calculated to spread hate and distrust for the very same government that these same people want to run everything.)
Moreover, the very social dynamism that Mr. Obama speaks about is caused largely by our capitalist system, the selfsame evil corporations which he berates and wants to destroy.
Tellingly, while Mr. Obama described in his long winded speech his first visit to Trinity church, he artfully omitted an all too typical passage from Mr. Wright’s sermon on that day.
But it is detailed in his “Dreams From My Father,” page 293:
“It is this world, a world where cruise ships throw away more food in a day than most residents of Port-au-Prince see in a year, where white folks’ greed runs a world in need, apartheid in one hemisphere, apathy in another hemisphere… That’s the world! On which hope sits!”
And, yes, this is the “Audacity To Hope” (sic) sermon that Mr. Obama says gave him so much inspiration it changed his life.
All the problems of the world are the fault of “white folks’ greed.”
However, the truth is exactly the opposite. Capitalism (greed) has solved and will solve most of the world’s problems — if we will only let it.
For the text of Mr. Wright’s bizarre (and now obviously sanitized) “Audacity To Hope” sermon, go here.
Nevertheless, the US was not founded on racism. America is not the number one killer in the world. It did not create AIDS to kill the black man. The US did not cause 9/11.
Nor did it do or is it doing any of the other outrageous things that Mr. Wright claims it did and does.
These are damnable lies whether there is upward mobility for minorities or not. (And weirdly, these are lies calculated to spread hate and distrust for the very same government that these same people want to run everything.)
Moreover, the very social dynamism that Mr. Obama speaks about is caused largely by our capitalist system, the selfsame evil corporations which he berates and wants to destroy.
Tellingly, while Mr. Obama described in his long winded speech his first visit to Trinity church, he artfully omitted an all too typical passage from Mr. Wright’s sermon on that day.
But it is detailed in his “Dreams From My Father,” page 293:
“It is this world, a world where cruise ships throw away more food in a day than most residents of Port-au-Prince see in a year, where white folks’ greed runs a world in need, apartheid in one hemisphere, apathy in another hemisphere… That’s the world! On which hope sits!”
And, yes, this is the “Audacity To Hope” (sic) sermon that Mr. Obama says gave him so much inspiration it changed his life.
All the problems of the world are the fault of “white folks’ greed.”
However, the truth is exactly the opposite. Capitalism (greed) has solved and will solve most of the world’s problems — if we will only let it.
For the text of Mr. Wright’s bizarre (and now obviously sanitized) “Audacity To Hope” sermon, go here.
posted by jillosophy at 3/18/2008 02:24:00 PM
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