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By Amanda Carpenter
Friday, March 28, 2008
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Leading Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama continued his defense of his controversial longtime pastor and friend Reverend Jeremiah Wright in a chat-fest with the ladies of The View Friday. Obama said he rejects anti-American and racist comments Wright has said in sermons, but believes Wright is misunderstood. Obama described Wright as “a brilliant man who was still stuck in a time warp” and that he was “one of the best pastors” in Chicago on ABC’s daytime talk show.   US Democratic presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) delivers a speech on the economy at Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York, March 27, 2008. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton (UNITED STATES) US PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN 2008 (USA)
Obama has said he was unaware Wright had said “goddamn America,” blamed the government for infecting the black population with AIDS or made other controversial statements in his sermons in a highly billed speech on race and religion and in other appearances. Obama said Friday it was important to take Wright’s remarks “in context” and that those remarks only reflected “a snippet of a man.” “I'm not vetting my pastor,” Obama explained. “I didn't have a research team during the course of 20 years to go pull every sermon he's given and see if there's something offensive that he's said.” He also said he has spoken with Wright recently and feels “he’s [Wright] saddened by what happened.” “I told him I feel badly he has been characterized in this one way and people haven’t seen the other aspects of him,” Obama said. Earlier this week in Greensboro, North Carolina Obama blamed media for promoting the story. Obama said: “This is somebody who was preaching three sermons at least a week for 30 years. And got boiled down in the -- they found five or six of his most offensive statements, boiled that down into a half an hour sound clip -- or half minute sound clip and just played it over and over again. >>>>> Some dummies never learn that they may look stupid until they open their mouth and prove IT <<<<<<<< |
"The anger is real. It is powerful, and to simply wish it away, to condemn it without understanding its roots, only serves to widen the chasm of misunderstanding that exists between the races." - Barack Obama
Back in the late 1980s I was on a plane flying out of New Orleans and sitting next to me was a rather interesting and, according to Barack Obama, unusual black man. Friendly, gregarious, and wise beyond his years, we immediately hit it off. I had been working on Vietnamese commercial fishing boats for a few years based in southern Louisiana. The boats were owned by the recent wave of Vietnamese refugees who flooded into the familiar tropical environment after the war. Floating in calm seas out in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico, I would hear tearful songs and tales from ex-paratroopers about losing brothers, sisters, parents, children, lovers, and beautiful Vietnam itself to the communists.
In Bayou country I lived on boats and in doublewide trailers, and like the rest of the Vietnamese refugees, I shopped at Wal-Mart and ate a lot of rice. When they arrived in Louisiana the refugees had no money (the money that they had was used to bribe their way out of Vietnam and into refugee camps in Thailand), few friends, and a mostly unfriendly and suspicious local population.
"We're owed and they aren't."
In short, he concluded, "they're hungry and we think we're owed. It's crushing us, and as long as we think we're owed we're going nowhere."
The mindset that one is "owed" something in life has not only affected black mobility in business but black mobility in education as well. Remember Ward Churchill? About fifteen years ago he was my boss. After leaving the fishing boats, I attended graduate school at the University of Colorado at Boulder. I managed to get a job on campus teaching expository writing to minority students who had been accepted provisionally into the university on an affirmative action program. And although I never met him, Ward Churchill, in addition to teaching in the ethnic studies department, helped to develop and organize the minority writing program.
The job paid most of my bills, but what I witnessed there was absolutely horrifying. The students were encouraged to write essays attacking the white establishment from every conceivable angle and in addition to defend affirmative action and other government programs. Of the hundreds of papers that I read, there was not one original contribution to the problem of black mobility that strayed from the party line.
The irony of it all however is that the "white establishment" managed to get them into the college and pay their entire tuition. Instead of being encouraged to study international affairs, classical or modern languages, philosophy or art, most of these students became ethnic studies or sociology majors because it allowed them to remain in disciplines whose orientation justified their existence at the university. In short, it became a vicious cycle.
There was a student there I'll never forget. He was plucked out of the projects in Denver and given a free ride to the university. One day in my office he told me that his mother had said the following to him: "M.J., they owe you this. White people at that university owe you this." M.J.'s experience at the university was a glorious fulfillment of his mother's angst.
There were black student organizations and other clubs that "facilitated" the minority student's experience on the majority white and "racist" campus, in addition to a plethora of faculty members, both white and black, who encouraged the same animus toward the white establishment. While adding to their own bona fides as part of the trendy Left, these "facilitators" supplied M.J. with everything he needed to quench his and his mother's anger, but nothing in the way of advice about how to succeed in college. No one, in short, had told M.J. that he needed to study. But since he was "owed" everything, why put out any effort on his own?
In a fit of despair after failing most of his classes, M.J. wandered into my office one Friday afternoon in the middle of the semester and asked if I could help him out. I asked M.J. about his plans that evening, and he told me that he usually attended parties on Friday and Saturday nights. I told him that if he agreed to meet me in front of the university library at 6:00pm I would buy him dinner. At 6pm M.J. showed up, and for the next twenty minutes we wandered silently through the stacks, lounges, and study areas of the library. When we arrived back at the entrance I asked M.J. if he noticed anything interesting. As we headed up the hill to a popular burger joint, M.J. turned to me and said:
"They were all Asian. Everyone in there was Asian, and it was Friday night."
Nothing I could do, say, or show him, however, could match the fire power of his support system favoring anger. I was sad to hear of M.J. dropping out of school the following semester.
This whole process took only a few years.
Eric Hoffer said:
We now know that Barack Obama really has no interest in the "audacity of hope." With his race speech, Obama became a peddler of angst, resentment and despair. Too bad he doesn't direct that angst at the liberal establishment that has sold black people a bill of goods since the 1960s. What Obama seems angry about is America itself and what it stands for; the same America that has provided fabulous opportunities for what my black friend called "hungry" minorities. Strong families, self-reliance, and a spirit of entrepreneurship should be held up as ideals for all races to emulate.
In the end, we should be very suspicious about Obama's anger and the recent frothings of his close friend Reverend Wright. Says Eric Hoffer:
By Kathryn Jean Lopez
Sunday, March 23, 2008
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The Rev. Jeremiah Wright is not someone who should be advising a presidential candidate. But Sen. Barack Obama did an admirable thing in not disavowing his friend and mentor for the sake of a political win. Obama talked about his American story and about the black experience in America. However, in a speech about race in this country, he failed to address a key issue facing Americans today: family breakdown. He missed the opportunity to talk about sons, fathers and father figures. He didn't have the audacity to challenge our culture on the most fundamental level, and to serve as an inspiration and a catalyst for change. Obama's speech was in defense of a man he has known for two decades, a man he has made a part of his wife and children's lives, and a man he has made a part of his campaign. Wright is also a man who has said some pretty despicable things about America and about public servants. Obama explained that a YouTube video or two from an inflammatory sermon is not the measure of the man. He talked about Wright's military service and ministry to the poor and sick. But Obama's story was incomplete. Nothing he said excuses the lack of judgment that is inherent in a man choosing to expose his children to angry, anti-American tirades and off-color rants. Had he gone one step further, however, he might have had me. He should have told us why Wright was an important man in his life -- because he was the father figure Obama needed as a young man, and that is why he loves him above all else.  US Democratic presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) (L) and New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson address a campaign rally in Portland, Oregon, March 21, 2008. Richardson endorsed Obama's bid for the Democratic nomination for U.S. president on Friday, in a big boost for the senator. REUTERS/Richard Clement (UNITED STATES) US PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN 2008 (USA) Obama told us that he is "the son of a black man from Kenya and a white woman from Kansas." He didn't go any further talking about his father. Instead, he threw his maternal grandmother under the media bus, saying that she had "once confessed her fear of black men who passed by her on the street, and ... has uttered racial or ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe." He left me asking, "But what about the father? Why didn't he talk about his father's abandonment of him and his family, and how that made his later relationship with Wright all the more important in his life?" That, I suspect, is why Obama will never repudiate Wright. The fact is, Obama grew up without a father. And, I assume, Wright for him was a father figure. That may be how Wright got to be such an influence in his life. This would not have answered all concerns about Wright and Obama, but it would have presented a more compelling narrative and, more importantly, he could have delivered an important cultural message about the impact the absence of male role models has on a child. Obama has it in him to do as much. I know this because I have read it. In his own best seller, "The Audacity of Hope," he wrote that in black America, "the nuclear family is on the verge of collapse." He felt it worth pointing out that "54 percent of all African-American children live in single-parent households, compared to about 23 percent of all white children." Writing about his own struggles as a dad with a busy schedule, he remembers how he grew up without a father, and with "partial, incomplete" relationships with a grandfather and stepfather: "As I got older I came to recognize how hard it had been for my mother and grandmother to raise us without a strong male presence in the house. I felt as well the mark that a father's absence can leave on a child. I determined that my father's irresponsibility toward his children, my stepfather's remoteness and my grandfather's failures would all become object lessons for me, and that my own children would have a father they could count on." My problem with Obama's speech is that he didn't go far enough. He could make history in some pretty dramatic, culture-shaking and culture-rebuilding ways. He grew up without a father and had some tough struggles, but he overcame and achieved. He could truly inspire. Obama and I will never agree, even on the marriage and family issues. He's radically pro-choice, and he wouldn't protect traditional marriage in the face of faux marriage in the courts and legislatures. But he could be an important voice for men and for families; he could find some common ground with social conservatives who fight for the same. And that would be something audaciously hopeful. |
Kathryn Jean Lopez, editor of National Review Online, writes a weekly column of conservative political and social commentary for Newspaper Enterprise Association
Odumba( obama) is an out and out RACIST , ,you only have to look at who he ran with before getting into politics a bunch of "Black Power" commies wanting to destroy AMERICA by spliting the races and seperating the rich from the poor , the educated from the uneducated , after all he had been to collage ( using a place saved for a BLACK) he did not have to make grades , he got a pass just for being himself, look at his friends , his church , the Black Panthers , and all other terrorist commie outfits, he takes his wife and childern to his BLACK POWER COMMIE CHURCH, he believes in reperations for being a slave ( his father was never a slave , or any other of his family , his mother is WHITE , his father is from Kyena, but he can't pass for white so he has to make himself BLACKER, to play the RACE GAME to make it in politics, and now we find out most BLACK CHURCH'S are preaching HATE behind the doors of the of their church's out of sight of the WHITE people they HATE , after all everything they have was given to them by the WHITE MAN ,,, BUT they want it all!!!!
As a very young boy my grandmother use to tell me and my brother , we would be judged by who our friends were, the kids we ran around with would make people believe we were the same as them , she would always say "birds of a feather ,flock together",, and thats true , the reason my father let me join the NAVY when I was only 15 ,, 3 months short of 16 , was because I had fallen in with some rough kids , my dad was good friends with a capitan on the police force and the two of them got me into the NAVY , where I was turned around and the NAVY made me a man who could stand tall and look people in the eye , I learned to fly and how to become a leader ,, enough on my life I just got off track thinking about odumba and the birds of a feather got me into all that ,,
The press needs to look deeper into obamas past life , start turning over some rocks and follow the trail of slime to all of his black power commie friends !!!!!!
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Obama Confronts Racial Division in US
By NEDRA PICKLER and MATT APUZZO Tuesday, March 18, 2008 |
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This was in the paper on February 20, 2008... President Obama. By Michael Reisig
Well, having observed the progress of the Democrat and Republican Primaries I would have to say at this point, America is probably close to electing Barak Hussein Obama as its next president. I understand the need for change - but for all my observation of Obama I have yet to hear any decisive, detailed plans - it all seems to be continual rhetoric on the concept of change.
It's all rather a puzzlement to me, and more than anything I think this phenomena is representative of the new Survivor/ Oprah Winfrey/American Idol consciousness (where the bizarre is applauded as reality and image is more important than substance), and it is undoubtedly brought about by the overwhelming dissatisfaction Americans have for a government that has cheated, lied and stolen from them for at least the last two generations.
But for minorities, and in particular blacks, this election represents a moment of long-awaited validation. There is no question that the election of an African-American president will empower the blacks of this country. Don't misunderstand me - this is not a racist statement, this is just a fact, and in many respects this could be a good thing. But there is no denying the sense of audacious rebellion that constantly simmers in much of the black community, particularly with the youth of the large metropolitan areas. I have some concern that the election of a black president will take us back to a consciousness that promotes the power of race over intelligence, reason, and the value of law, and that this may divide black and whites more than uniting them. I hope that I'm wrong.
Obama speaks a lot about a uniting of black and white America, but the church he has attended for years would contradict that. Although you won't hear much of this on national television, one has but to go to Obama's church of choice, Trinity United Church of Christ (go to the website to check for yourself) to find, and I quote, "An unabashedly black congregation with a non-negotiable commitment to Africa. "An African people, 'true to our native land, the mother continent, the cradle of civilization."
Nowhere in the website is America even mentioned. Can you imagine if one of the other white candidates for president were a member of a church that declared itself "unashamedly white?" What would the media have done to them already?
I was also startled by a number of the points in Trinity United Church's
10-Point Vision: *A congregation with a Non-negotiable Commitment to Africa.
*A congregation committed to Cultural Education (Africa). *A congregation committed to the Historical Education of African People in Diaspora. *A congregation committed to Liberation. *A congregation committed to Restoration. (Could this mean restitution?) In addition, Trinity's senior pastor Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr., is considered by many to be a black racist, who, without question, preaches radical Afro-centric theology.
It appears, by affiliation, that we have a man who wants to be president of America while much of his loyalty is invested in black Africa.
But there is also a deeper, perhaps darker consequence in terms of America and its multi-national population when we consider Mr. Obama as our new leader.
Investigations have shown that Obama's father and stepfather were devout Islamics. Both faithfully practiced their religion. His stepfather, who had a much greater impact on Obama's upbringing, was a radical Wahabbi Muslim. Obama's mother married Lolo Soetoro, a Wahabbi extremist who lived in Indonesia. When Obama's mother moved to Indonesia - before she married her second Muslim husband - she enrolled her son in Francis Assisis Catholic School. He was enrolled as a Muslim because he was a Muslim.
Obama's campaign website has been hailed as a testament to the candidate's transformative politics. But at least part of the senator's online outreach, "Muslim Americans for Obama '08" proposes installing Muslim prayer areas in public places and giving Muslims time off for prayer, and has denounced Obama's colleagues in the U.S. Senate who happen to be Jewish.
Further troubling are the issues and solutions on this site:
1. A Law against harassment of Muslim women wearing Hijab at the Airport, DMV and other public arenas. 2. Institute a Law to allow Muslim Employees to take an hour off from work for Friday Jummah Prayer. 3. Make the 2 Eid's (Muslim festivals), recognized National Holidays on Calendars with days off from work. 4. Optional Halal meals in federal building, public schools and colleges. 5. Provide prayer areas suitable for Salah and Jummah, in public and private facilities. (i.e. Malls, Airports, Universities and government buildings.) 6. Organize a Muslim American group to assist in recommendations for US foreign policy affecting majority Muslim Countries. I have to wonder how many encampments of Islamic extremists hidden in the hills of Afghanistan and quiet rooms of Baghdad and Tehran listen to the news of America's primary elections with unadulterated glee, considering first, that we may have a president who has virtually no experience in managing a government, or attending to military/ international affairs, and secondly; the chance (as remote as it is) of a quasi-Muslim president of the United States.
Think of the possibilities. I have sent this to almost everyone I know. If you agree with this, I hope you will do the same, or at least make sure you vote. It really scares me to think of Obama being president. It's time we as Christians stand up and let our voices be heard. Let's stop being the silent majority!
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