Rev. Wright
I finally had the opportunity to listen to Obama's speech today. It was great and thought provoking. It's unfortunate that a few clips of sermons from over a 20 year time period can ruin a campaign. It's so hypocritical too. I've yet to hear people talk about the ridiculous things we hear from pastors on the conservative right (Pat Robinson, Jerry Falwell.....). I guess it's okay if pastors criticize non-christians or non-whites. Once someone criticizes white Americans, all hell breaks loose. As if one is without fault... I feel sad about this. I think there is some truth to the things said by Rev. Wright. Black people have been making those accusations about our government for as long as I can remember. I think white America got a rare glimpse into the black community and just felt very uncomfortable. Growing up in a black church, I clearly remember sermons like that as a child. What people fail to realize is that in addition to the angry sermons, love was always taught. In church, I was always taught to love everyone no matter what. We were always taught to pray for the enemy and that God was love. That's the environment that Martin Luther King Jr. came out of. MLK criticized the US government many times. I guess if he was running for office today, he would lose.
posted by CherylRenee @ 5:58 PM
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The real sadness is in the failing of mainstream america to realize it's not the critics, but the blindly allegiant flag wavers who make the big messes.
Quote of the Week from "SojoMail":
As easy as it is for those of us who are white to look back and say, "That's a terrible statement," I grew up in a very segregated South, and I think that you have to cut some slack. And I'm going to be probably the only conservative in America who's going to say something like this, but I'm just telling you: We've got to cut some slack to people who grew up being called names, being told, "You have to sit in the balcony when you go to the movie. You have to go to the back door to go into the restaurant. And you can't sit out there with everyone else. There's a separate waiting room in the doctor's office. Here's where you sit on the bus." And you know what? Sometimes people do have a chip on their shoulder and resentment. And you have to just say, I probably would too. I probably would too. In fact, I may have had ... more of a chip on my shoulder had it been me.
--Mike Huckabee, in defense of Jeremiah Wright (Source: MSNBC)
Wow, I'm surprised to hear that from Huckabee
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