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Barack Obama, Jeremiah White And An Open Letter To White People

YOU’VE read Barack Obama’s priest Jeremiah Wright’s conspiracy theory sermon,
now read: Daily Kos: An Open Letter to White People.

Please let an old black man have his anger in the privacy of his church. After 400 years of what has been done to African-Americans, it is the least that we can do. Are our hearts so small and our need for reassurance so great that we cannot allow an old black man who dedicated his life to his community his anger? Are you honestly going to tell me that this is the first time white America has seen and heard from black folks? Have we not heard what Rabbis routinely say about Palestinians across the US? Even our military is told to call Iraqis and Afghanis “ragheads” and “Ali Baba” as a part of their training. Have we not heard what predominantly white churches say about immigrants, African-Americans, LGBTQ communities, and Islam? Jerry Falwell gets a hero’s farewell, as does Reagan, who thought gay people deserved to die of AIDS, but Wright, he must be punished severely and publicly humiliated.

Such is the level of political debate. Racism, Anti-Semitism. White Supremicism. This one’s got the lot…

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Posted: 15th, March 2008 | In: Anorak In New York, Barack Obama, Politicians, Race For The White House, Twitterings Comments (4) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink

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JJ Prasch says:
March 25th, 2008 at 1:16 pm

I write as director of a Christian charity for AIDS children and HIV babies in Black Africa.

Arkansas Senator William Fulbright was the political mentor of Bill Clinton. Fulbright was a segregationist. Democratic Senator Bird was a memer of the Ku Klux Klan in the days of JHim Crow.

It is a new world. Iowa, which had the first primary caucus, is a state with no Black vote. Iowa is demographically more than 96% caucasian. The remaining less than than 4% are Native American, Hispanic, and a very small number of African and Asian Americans. Yet Obama won the primary defeating two caucasian candidates, Clinton and Edwards - because more White people voted for him than for his two White rivals. It would be similar in Vermont, Wyoming and other nearly ‘all white’ states.

Such results confirm that white racism is no longer a major factor in American politics or society and every credible study indicatyes solidly that anti Black sentiment is higher among Hispanic and Asian Americans than among Euro-Americans.

Indeed , African Americans are no longer demographically America’s largest minority. Statistically Hispanics are and all the figures indicate that it is clearly Asian Americans who are the most upwardly mobile economically.

Plainly Jeremiah Wright , like Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson etc. are living in a world that does not exist anymore. Indeed they must. They carved their niche by pounding on the drum of Black victimization by a White establishment that they must continue to pound even though the beat has become politically and sociologically redundant and their rhetoric obsolte , in an America where there have been two consecutive African American Secretaries of State and an African American with a moslem father
can defeat Caucasian rival candidates in all White states.

For pathetioc figures like Wright and Sharpton, it is their power base they are defending, and not Black America. Obama’s rise proves categorically that America has moved on. Wright, Sharpton and their ilk have not.

As director of a Christian organization that operates orphanages for Black African AIDS babies and HIV children, I find Jeremiah Wright’s outrageous racially connotated pulpit declarations of ‘God Damn America’ and ‘America ruled by rich White people’ to reflect his ignorance even more than his bigotry. I would invite him to accompany me to Zimbabwe, Kenya, Ruwanda, Berundi, Liberia, or any of a dozen other Black African countries ruled by Blacks if he wants to see real oppression of Blacks. He would be hard pressed to find a Zimbabwean or a Haitian that would not do anything to live in the America that this ignorant racist Jeremiah Wright damns.
Black ruled post colonial Africa is the self inflicted genocidal human tragedy of the 21st century.

As a Christian. I cannot view the Trinity church of Jeremiah Wright as a church in a biblical sense, but as a political organization misusing the name and trappings of Christianity to set forth a racist political agenda evident it its giving an award to Louis Farakkan, a twisted , racist , and anti Semitic figure who actually claims to have flown in flying saucers. A man aspiring to the presidency being a member if a church where t the pulpit is a political platform to damn America is frankly sickening.

Indeed, a member of such an evil, racist, and anti American organization who has been a member of that institution for 20 years is unfil to lead our country. Even Senator Obama’s wife states that she has never before been proud to be an American. It is my testimony that America has been at the forefront of fighting African AIDS, while the ANC government of South Africa broght to power by Nelson Mandella , as a political decision denied it was a retro viral infection and called it a mere sovcial disease despite every microbiologist in the world saying the opposite. I am proud of an America that fights to save the lives of Black children that the tribalist policies of their own Black governments are in effect killing on a grand scale.

As a Christians and as an American , I regarded the now nearly defunct KU Klux Klan as an anti American , racist organization. If a ‘Jim Crow’ Democrat wanting to be president was a member of the Klan and said he disagreees with the Klan but likes its leader personally and he will not resign from the Klan - such a man in my view would be unfit for public office. For the same reason, Barak Obama is likewise totally unfit for public office. It is not just his lack of experience. It is his lack of integrity. If Barak Obama had the courage of his convictions he would have resigned from such a
so called church 20 years ago, but as it is he no more fit to be president than a member of the Klan (which also made the bogus claim of being a “Christian” organization).

Do not tell me that you disagree with something and be part of it for 20 years.When your actions do not match your words as in the case of Barak Obama, that makes him a political hypocrite. When a bigot like Jeremiah Wright practices his bigotry in the name of Christianity, that makes him a religious hypocrite.

I thought Obama was suppose to represent change. We have seen the hypocrisy of the
religious right under Bush. Now we see the hypocrisy of the religious lewft with Obama.
Those supporting Obama only want to change one hypocrite foir another. And that
means and represents absolutely no change at all.

JJ Prasch (Rev)

michael says:
March 19th, 2008 at 1:56 am

I think black people have received their compensatory apologies for their 400 years of oppression. The NAACP, Al Sharpton, The African-American civil rights law, affirmative action have made sure of that. Where is Al Sharpton now? Is it relevant to ask: How can Jeremiah White be so fanatical in his anti-American racial rhetoric and continue his “crusade” while the now famous shock-jock Imus loses his career, the foundation of opinionated shock commentary on which he built his fame, because of one lame joke? Where is the outcry now? Is society so sympathetic and fearful of any racial remark toward blacks that we have come to shrug our shoulders when blacks make the same or worse remarks? Where have you gone Al Sharpton?