I must agree.
C Hall, for once, it would be refreshing to see you display the intellectual courage and honesty to say that this man's words were inflammatory, divisive, and just flat out wrong.
Would it pain you that much to state the obvious?
You know full well that if the roles were reversed.... if this was Huckabee/McCain etc, at a white church where a conservative pastor was making equally false and hateful comments, you would have no problem bashing him!
Are you so beholden to your liberal ideology that you'd have no problem criticizing a Republican/conservative in this situation, but you bend over backward to make excuses for a liberal who makes such false and inflammatory charges? That's how it's appearing to me, more and more. And I think that's unfortunate.
I'll only answer that question with this question. Was this pastor you set under who used those words as prominent as Rev Jerimiah Wright? What about you, are you as prominant as Barack Obama? Are you going to run for president? Big difference Dude!
Jeremiah Wright wasn't all that prominent until Obama became a serious contender for the white house. I don't know Obama personally, but I don't think he had his eyes on the white house back in 2001 or 2002. There was some speech he made at the DNC, maybe in 2003 or 04 that brought him notoriety.
If he saw this coming, I think he would tried to "head it off at the pass".
It embarrasses me that you would characterize someone accusing the Federal Government or CIA of creating the AIDS virus to kill Black people as "a bit misinformed".
That is a ridiculous marginalizing of outrageous statements.
You just refuse to deal with the concepts of personal responsibility and accountability to truth and rationality that ALL Americans have regardless of their skin color.
When you make excuses for this kind of outrageous hate mongering you are not helping those you seek to help.
That sounds just like The Nations of Islam teachings and Farrakhan.
They Believe that The Rich White Governments have had conspiracies against the Black race and other dark skins for centuries.
I thought you were saying he was 1/2 one race and 1/2 another. (Which is what I would define as a "mulatto.") As far as the man, Jesus, the only biological parent was Mary, so Joseph's bloodline was physically irrelevant.
But I agree--the bloodline of Christ (and David) contained at least a couple of Gentiles.
I was mistaken in using the term Mulatto.
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That may well be true, but that wasn't the focus of her article. She was referring not simply to making controversial comments, but she's saying:
"... any white person 30 years old or younger has lived, since the day he was born, in an America where it is legal to discriminate against white people. In many cases it's not just legal, but mandatory, for example, in education, in hiring and in Academy Award nominations."
Why is it that she is only concerned with what she perceives as anti-white discrimination, but she and others like her always seem to have an excuse for anti-black and brown discrimination?
Conservative commentators want to crucify Barack & Wright for these recent comments (which I'm ok with, because the comments were outrageous) but they many of these people made excuses for Trent Lott's racist remarks, said nothing when Bush showed up at Bob Jones University (which has policy prohibiting interracial relationships among its students), and Sean Hannity himself was blatantly sympathetic to Duane "Dog" Chapman, the bounty hunter who was caught using the N-word repeatedly against his son's black girlfriend.
I could provide you with many more examples, but I don't even think I need to. If you dont see the racial double standard in a lot of these conservative talk radio hosts and commentators, you probably haven't really been paying close attention. There is clearly a racist element in much of today's conservative movement-- certainly, at least, in the way it tolerates and makes excuses for racist behavior against people of color, while getting indignant at perceived racial unfairness against whites.
I'm not a GWB supporter but to equate Bob Jones Un. (which I also don't support) with Wright's inflammatory comments is completely different. I may see the position against interracial 'relationships' as mis-informed and ignorant but I know many people of color that feel the same way. It is not always for bigotry that many take this stance.
For Obama to sit in Wright's church for 20 years and to claim that he never heard Wright make his remarks.....he must think we're smoking crack. On some level there is an attitude of acceptance.
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Jeremiah Wright wasn't all that prominent until Obama became a serious contender for the white house. I don't know Obama personally, but I don't think he had his eyes on the white house back in 2001 or 2002. There was some speech he made at the DNC, maybe in 2003 or 04 that brought him notoriety.
If he saw this coming, I think he would tried to "head it off at the pass".
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