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Reverend Wright is a major issue in this election
Obama has no clue.
Not only Reverend Wright but the church that "bamboozled" America.
The Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago is a supporter of Louis Farrakhan the anti American, Anti Semitic Nation of Islam Leader.
Farrakhan is a radical Leader and has recently had a rally for Obama. 20,000 people attened this rally in Chicago.
Before anyone continues to brag about Reverend Wright and who he stands for invesitgate all of the above in the Chicago Tribune and Chicago Sun Times. You tube also has extensive coverage.
This is scarey and serious.
2. Yes, Rosa. I like your column, because taking outrageous, hateful comments seriously is what is logical and fruitful. It's not politics as usual, and it make a lot of sense. I mean, I want my children to know that if they say ignorant, angry things, there will be someone out there to take them seriously.
3. Wow, Brooks just said it all and hit the nail right on the head. It is a really good piece, especially where it warns of ease for "the comfortable white majority to write off black anger and mistrust as crazy" This was the same as the rightwing explanation for 9*11: They hate us because ........ their crazy! I mean, YEAH RIGHT! And what about McCains preachers, Hagee (thinks Catholics are spawn of the devil ... literally!), Fallwell etc? There's definitely some double standard going on here. Extreme rightwing repubs get a free pass with THEIR conspiracy theories, but J. Wright is a national threat? Gimme a fat effing break.
4. It only took Obama 21 years to get fed up with his reverend!
5. Crackpot theories are everywhere, and it is indeed important to understand the context in which so many blacks believe these theories. That does not mean that we have to respect these views. People on the left point to all of the bad things that have happened to blacks as justification for this distorted, paranoid thinking. This is a subtle form of racism, because it suggests that we can't expect blacks to think rationally due to their collective history. The "stain of slavery and Jim Crow" and American foreign policy does not change the simple fact that these views are not worthy of respect.
6. I think Rev. Wright is on track when referring to AIDS being issued to blacks, but he referred to the wrong blacks. It was issued to the Africans in Africa so the Euro’s can take over another continent to keep the ultimate goal of ruling the world physically. I believe the saying is, “rule to sun up to sun down”. We Americans are so stupid we can’t think into the future or remember the past, like the Euro’s giving the Native Americans diseases to diminish and then conquer them. It’s so simple that were to dumb to face the truth! Keep drinking the Jim Jones, “Cool-Aid”!
7. But you haven't ". . . take[n] his theories about the world seriously enough to refute them." All you've done is said that's what we should do. Seems to me he has good reason to think the government may well have, if not created the disease, at least been complicit in allowing it to spread in communities it really doesn't care about. Does the name Katrina ring a bell?
8. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/08/AR2008040803544.html Urgent check out the above link to an April 11, 1008 Washington post article about Robert Egan called Kitchen Diplomacy. What I don’t understand is how Egan’s Lawyer who is a active United States Army Jag officer in the New jersey national Guard, Mark Winkler from Franklin Lakes N.J., gets to keep close ties with this guy on a personal basis above and beyond attorney client relationship.
9. This scares the heck out of me more than anything Jeremiah Wright has said. He is not "deficient" just "different". It is we who are so woefully deficient that we have allowed disinformation, the erosion of our economy and the undermining of our civil rights to have gone as far as they have. And we are allowing these things to undermine our democracy at the very time when its most basic tenet is in play; that is, the right to vote for our candidate of choice unencumbered by distortions, lies and half truths that serve only to subvert the will of the people.
10. Has anyone sat and watched the entire video (1 hour each) of both the NAACP and the Washington Press Club speeches by Rev. Wright and not just the YouTube, Fox News, CNN and every other major news organization's sound bite loops? The editing room takes one second of body movement and replays it 10 times at fast speed. Has the American Press gone mad? Anyone would appear crazed under those circumstances. Or has the average American become so out of touch with his or her own common sense and critical thinking skills that they are willing to be so deceived?
Submitted by: Alice Rea
2. Yes, Rosa. I like your column, because taking outrageous, hateful comments seriously is what is logical and fruitful. It's not politics as usual, and it make a lot of sense. I mean, I want my children to know that if they say ignorant, angry things, there will be someone out there to take them seriously.
Submitted by: Keyshawn
3. Wow, Brooks just said it all and hit the nail right on the head. It is a really good piece, especially where it warns of ease for "the comfortable white majority to write off black anger and mistrust as crazy" This was the same as the rightwing explanation for 9*11: They hate us because ........ their crazy! I mean, YEAH RIGHT! And what about McCains preachers, Hagee (thinks Catholics are spawn of the devil ... literally!), Fallwell etc? There's definitely some double standard going on here. Extreme rightwing repubs get a free pass with THEIR conspiracy theories, but J. Wright is a national threat? Gimme a fat effing break.
Submitted by: The Coloured European Observer
4. It only took Obama 21 years to get fed up with his reverend!
Submitted by: new Jersey
5. Crackpot theories are everywhere, and it is indeed important to understand the context in which so many blacks believe these theories. That does not mean that we have to respect these views. People on the left point to all of the bad things that have happened to blacks as justification for this distorted, paranoid thinking. This is a subtle form of racism, because it suggests that we can't expect blacks to think rationally due to their collective history. The "stain of slavery and Jim Crow" and American foreign policy does not change the simple fact that these views are not worthy of respect.
Submitted by: Victoria
6. I think Rev. Wright is on track when referring to AIDS being issued to blacks, but he referred to the wrong blacks. It was issued to the Africans in Africa so the Euro’s can take over another continent to keep the ultimate goal of ruling the world physically. I believe the saying is, “rule to sun up to sun down”. We Americans are so stupid we can’t think into the future or remember the past, like the Euro’s giving the Native Americans diseases to diminish and then conquer them. It’s so simple that were to dumb to face the truth! Keep drinking the Jim Jones, “Cool-Aid”!
Submitted by: Huck of Pasadena, Ca.
7. But you haven't ". . . take[n] his theories about the world seriously enough to refute them." All you've done is said that's what we should do. Seems to me he has good reason to think the government may well have, if not created the disease, at least been complicit in allowing it to spread in communities it really doesn't care about. Does the name Katrina ring a bell?
Submitted by: Rick L.
8. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/08/AR2008040803544.html Urgent check out the above link to an April 11, 1008 Washington post article about Robert Egan called Kitchen Diplomacy. What I don’t understand is how Egan’s Lawyer who is a active United States Army Jag officer in the New jersey national Guard, Mark Winkler from Franklin Lakes N.J., gets to keep close ties with this guy on a personal basis above and beyond attorney client relationship.
Submitted by: Nuclear threat
9. This scares the heck out of me more than anything Jeremiah Wright has said. He is not "deficient" just "different". It is we who are so woefully deficient that we have allowed disinformation, the erosion of our economy and the undermining of our civil rights to have gone as far as they have. And we are allowing these things to undermine our democracy at the very time when its most basic tenet is in play; that is, the right to vote for our candidate of choice unencumbered by distortions, lies and half truths that serve only to subvert the will of the people.
Submitted by: DiTaL
10. Has anyone sat and watched the entire video (1 hour each) of both the NAACP and the Washington Press Club speeches by Rev. Wright and not just the YouTube, Fox News, CNN and every other major news organization's sound bite loops? The editing room takes one second of body movement and replays it 10 times at fast speed. Has the American Press gone mad? Anyone would appear crazed under those circumstances. Or has the average American become so out of touch with his or her own common sense and critical thinking skills that they are willing to be so deceived?
Submitted by: DiTaL