FOX Lies!! Barack Obama Pastor Wright

[chosenbyone]

I was going to post this video on another thread, but I didn't want it to be missed. We've heard all the spin about Reverend J. Wright's (Obama's pastor) sermon after September 11. I had just about lost faith in Obama's judgement like so many others until I stumbled upon this video. I certainly had to repent last night for judging others after I heard what Wright had said before and after the snipit that played over and over on television. It was POWERFUL!

It was a shame that the mediia chose to take Wright's words out of context in order to create strife among the public and to help form doubt on a man of integrity. This video will surely cause everyone to see that they were played by the media just like me.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=QOdlnzkeoyQ

[Rhoni]

Thank-you for sharing this with us CB1.

Blessings, Rhoni

[tv1a]

Does that mean you are going to discount the plethora of racial comments made by Wright that have been documented over the past 20 years. One cannot deny his anti-semtic actions by embracing Louis Farakhan. One cannot deny Wright has made racially charged statements that would make Don Imus look like Billy Graham. Wright, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Farakhan want us to believe the black man is still a victim. If we could quarantine about a dozen of the so-called black leaders, 95% of the race problems would be eliminated.

I'm tired of being told I need to be color blind while the blacks are being told the white man is to blame for their failures. Wright needs to teach blacks how to rise above mediocrity instead of blaming white people for their lack of success.

Someone needs to tell Wright it is not the white man's fault a a high percentage of black men father children out of wedlock. Someone needs to tell the naacp it's not the white man's fault a lot of black kids are in single parent homes.

Blacks need successful role models like JC Watts, Clarence Thomas. Colin Powell, Condoleeza Rice, TD Jakes, Thomas Sowell, Larry Elder. These are a few of many blacks who rose above their situations and became the best. These people transcend race. These people have made Martin Luther King Jr's dream a reality.

[Michael The Disciple]

True or not true that Wright and Obama ACCEPT GAY MARRIAGE?.

[jaxfam6]

Originally Posted by tv1a

Does that mean you are going to discount the plethora of racial comments made by Wright that have been documented over the past 20 years. One cannot deny his anti-semtic actions by embracing Louis Farakhan. One cannot deny Wright has made racially charged statements that would make Don Imus look like Billy Graham. Wright, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Farakhan want us to believe the black man is still a victim. If we could quarantine about a dozen of the so-called black leaders, 95% of the race problems would be eliminated.

I'm tired of being told I need to be color blind while the blacks are being told the white man is to blame for their failures. Wright needs to teach blacks how to rise above mediocrity instead of blaming white people for their lack of success.

Someone needs to tell Wright it is not the white man's fault a a high percentage of black men father children out of wedlock. Someone needs to tell the naacp it's not the white man's fault a lot of black kids are in single parent homes.

Blacks need successful role models like JC Watts, Clarence Thomas. Colin Powell, Condoleeza Rice, TD Jakes, Thomas Sowell, Larry Elder. These are a few of many blacks who rose above their situations and became the best. These people transcend race. These people have made Martin Luther King Jr's dream a reality.

Amen

Oh and don't forget Bill Cosby. Not only is he funny but he doesn't support casting blame on others for your own problems.

I noticed that Wright had to mention that he saw 'Black' people jumping to certain death in that clip. Most white or hispanic ministers I know would have just mentioned people jumping to certain death.
Racism needs to be ended. 1st: laws giving someone special rights because of color, gender, sexual orientation, or some other form of minority standing has to be done away with. 2nd: groups that are allowed to use race or gender as a means of funding those partictular persons in college have to be ended. 3rd: forcing hiring practices onto employers that make them choose a person based on race or gender if you have two that are equally qualified and one is black and one is white or one is male and one is female has to be stopped. 5th: probably most importantly lawyers and ministers who make their living from the race card or minority card has got to be stopped.
Our liberal government wants to keep all these things going because they are HUGE money makers. People like Jackson, Nader, Sharpton, Farakhan are making BIG money off of these type of SCAMS.
When we all realize, most of all our government, that we are all people and we all should be treated the same based on the fact that we are HUMAN, not based on rather we are black, white, red, yellow, male, or female. All our law makers add on these rights for people based on race or gender as if our Constitution excluded them. Sorry to inform you but I saw nothing in the Constitution that excluded someone because of race or gender.
You are not African American just because you are black and born in America. You are American. I am not Anglo American or Euro American. I am AMERICAN. Sorry Native Americans but you no longer have a coner on the market. I am born and raised American. You may have had ancestors here long before I did but as of now I am an AMERICAN I deserve the same rights as you.
I am not against Blacks, Native American, Hispanics, or any other group. I am not against women. I believe we are all people, we are all Americans, we all have the same rights and should all be giving the same opportunities.
We as Christians, if you don't like the term just replace it with Apostolic or Pentecostal whichever floats your boat, need to start LOVING as GOD loved. Live like we love Him as much as we say we do and maybe, just maybe, it might start to spread around to the rest of the people.
Unfortunately even in our own ranks we can not get along or love each other. One group will not fellowship another because they cut their hair, they have a televison, they wear rings and necklaces, or the women wear pants. What was the 4Him song? 'Basics of Life' ? That's what we need,
"We need to get back to the basics of life. A heart that is pure and a love that is blind. A faith that is fervently grounded in Christ"
The thing that binds us should be our belief in One God, Baptism in Jesus name, and the infilling of the Holy Ghost. Let everyone then seek out their own salvation with fear and trembling. If you come to a higher understanding of something than I do then good for you. If you share it with me and I do not understand it or see the same SO WHAT? We are still brothers and sisters in Christ. I do not agree with my natural family about EVERYTHING so why should I agree with my spiritual family about EVERYTHING?

Hope I made some sense. Thanks for letting me get on my soap box for a few moments. We can go back to our normally scheduled program at this time.

[chosenbyone]

Originally Posted by tv1a

Does that mean you are going to discount the plethora of racial comments made by Wright that have been documented over the past 20 years. One cannot deny his anti-semtic actions by embracing Louis Farakhan. One cannot deny Wright has made racially charged statements that would make Don Imus look like Billy Graham. Wright, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Farakhan want us to believe the black man is still a victim. If we could quarantine about a dozen of the so-called black leaders, 95% of the race problems would be eliminated.

I'm tired of being told I need to be color blind while the blacks are being told the white man is to blame for their failures. Wright needs to teach blacks how to rise above mediocrity instead of blaming white people for their lack of success.

Someone needs to tell Wright it is not the white man's fault a a high percentage of black men father children out of wedlock. Someone needs to tell the naacp it's not the white man's fault a lot of black kids are in single parent homes.

Blacks need successful role models like JC Watts, Clarence Thomas. Colin Powell, Condoleeza Rice, TD Jakes, Thomas Sowell, Larry Elder. These are a few of many blacks who rose above their situations and became the best. These people transcend race. These people have made Martin Luther King Jr's dream a reality.

One must remember that Reverend Wright was a civil-rights era pastor who spoke from experience about the struggle of equality for his race. Reverend Wright lived in the era of segregation and limited opportunity and saw first hand what many of us only read about in our history books.

Would it be too much of a stretch to see that Reverend Wright was from a generation that was directly affected by the blatant hatred of people of color and that was why he spoke so passionately about the treatment of blacks in his sermons?

Furthermore, where has he blamed the social ills of the black community squarely on whites? I would be interested to see where you got that idea when people who have known Reverend Wright has stated that he hasn't let the black community of the hook for the breakdown of the black family structure.

The following is an excerpt from an article in the The Salt Lake Tribune which explains what I have tried to above:

''The whole generation that Rev. Wright represents is expressing what they call a righteous anger, the anger from the failed promises of America,'' said Dwight Hopkins, a professor at the University of Chicago Divinity School. ''The prophetic anger is toward expanding the democracy, expanding it so all citizens can walk through the door of opportunity.''
Often lost in the attention paid to Wright's fiery sermons is the typical conclusion, Hopkins said - that despite all obstacles, you are a child of God and ''can make a way out of no way.'' That phrase, common in the language of the black church, was used by Obama in his 4,700-word speech Tuesday.
While Trinity United Church of Christ is more Afrocentric and slightly more political than most black churches, ''even conservative black churches talk about racism in a way that many whites would find wounding or offensive,'' said Gary Dorrien, a religion professor at Columbia University in New York.
''Most white Americans have a very limited capacity for dealing with black anger or acknowledging their own racial privileges,'' Dorrien said. ''Wherever white people are dominant, whiteness is transparent to them. In black church communities, dealing with that problem is an every-week issue.''
Wright does not focus his ire on white America alone, said Martin Marty, a retired professor of religious history who taught Wright at the University of Chicago.
''He is very hard on his own people,'' Marty said. ''He criticizes them for their lack of fidelity in marriage, for black-on-black crime. He is not saying one part of America is right and one is wrong.''
Obama and others also have highlighted Trinity's extensive social safety net. It offers college-placement help, drug and alcohol counseling, a credit union, and domestic-violence programs.
Wright retired last month, and his generation of pastors is being supplanted by a new wave of preachers with TV ministries and megachurches who preach a prosperity message, said Lawrence Mamiya, a professor of religion at Vassar College who studies the black church. That theme has little to do with overcoming racial or societal barriers, and a lot to do with faith being rewarded with material riches.
''We see that as the dominant trend now, with many young black seminarians in divinity school seeing that as their major model,'' Mamiya said. ''Some of the older clergy like Wright decry that, saying it's forgetting the whole social justice tradition.''

[GodsBabyGirl]

Originally Posted by tv1a

Does that mean you are going to discount the plethora of racial comments made by Wright that have been documented over the past 20 years. One cannot deny his anti-semtic actions by embracing Louis Farakhan. One cannot deny Wright has made racially charged statements that would make Don Imus look like Billy Graham. Wright, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Farakhan want us to believe the black man is still a victim. If we could quarantine about a dozen of the so-called black leaders, 95% of the race problems would be eliminated.

I'm tired of being told I need to be color blind while the blacks are being told the white man is to blame for their failures. Wright needs to teach blacks how to rise above mediocrity instead of blaming white people for their lack of success.

Someone needs to tell Wright it is not the white man's fault a a high percentage of black men father children out of wedlock. Someone needs to tell the naacp it's not the white man's fault a lot of black kids are in single parent homes.

Blacks need successful role models like JC Watts, Clarence Thomas. Colin Powell, Condoleeza Rice, TD Jakes, Thomas Sowell, Larry Elder. These are a few of many blacks who rose above their situations and became the best. These people transcend race. These people have made Martin Luther King Jr's dream a reality.

Sorry, a man who sexually harassed another sister can NEVER be my role model...

And as far as Condi goes, while many of my neighbors were fighting for their lives in the N.O. Superdome during & immediately after Katrina, she was clueless as to their plight.

The only one in your list I would even fathom as being my role model is Bishop TD Jakes.

[tv1a]

Clarence Thomas did not sexually harrass that woman. Any one who suggests that he did is obviously ignoring the facts. I'm not a fan of Arlen Spector, but he did a brilliant job in exposing the dillusion and lies that were brought against Thomas. No reasonable person believes the hair in the coke story anymore.

There was plenty of blame to go around for dropping the ball in Lousiana. The local yocals who made it a political issue. And the head of Fema who was obviously over his head...

Originally Posted by GodsBabyGirl

Sorry, a man who sexually harassed another sister can NEVER be my role model...

And as far as Condi goes, while many of my neighbors were fighting for their lives in the N.O. Superdome during & immediately after Katrina, she was clueless as to their plight.

The only one in your list I would even fathom as being my role model is Bishop TD Jakes.

[scotty]

Originally Posted by GodsBabyGirl

Sorry, a man who sexually harassed another sister can NEVER be my role model...

And as far as Condi goes, while many of my neighbors were fighting for their lives in the N.O. Superdome during & immediately after Katrina, she was clueless as to their plight.

The only one in your list I would even fathom as being my role model is Bishop TD Jakes.

Umm....I don't think Katrina falls under Condi's job description...

Your mayor was the clueless one

Your governor turned away federal help because it was offered by a republican. Yes ma'am, she chose politics over people....

[MissBrattified]

Originally Posted by scotty

Umm....I don't think Katrina falls under Condi's job description...

Your mayor was the clueless one

Your governor turned away federal help because it was offered by a republican. Yes ma'am, she chose politics over people....

Those were some seriously bad decisions, and unfortunately, ultimately, GWB was blamed, when in fact it was local and state government who should have stepped in and done their jobs.

So funny that we didn't hear similar stories from Mississippi. LOL!!! And if you think there aren't black people in Southern Mississippi, you're cuh-razy. No, the government in MS simply did what they were supposed to, and they didn't whine to the federal government unnecessarily, other than to get the federal assistance that New Orleans should have been smart enough to ask for (sooner) but wasn't.