So Rev. Wright hasn't said much that you disagree with? I'll list the highlights that I disagree with:
1. "The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law, and then wants us to sing God bless America? No, no, no! Not God bless America! God DAMN America! (cheers) -- it's in the Bible -- for killing innocent people! (cheers) God DAMN America for treating her citizens as less than human!"
Do you agree that the governement gave African-Americans illicit drugs, passed a three-strikes to keep the black man oppressed and that in doing those things has treated black people as less than human?
2. Jesus was a poor black man who lived in a country and who lived in a culture, that was controlled by rich white people! The Romans were rich. The Romans were Italians, which means they were European, which means they were white -- and the Romans ran everything in Jesus' country. It just came to me within the past few weeks, y'all, why so many folk are hatin' on Barack Obama. He doesn't fit the model!
CONGREGATION: Right!
WRIGHT: He ain't white, he ain't rich, and he ain't privileged.
Do you agree that so many folks are hating Obama because he is black? Do you believe with an annual income of $1.2 million that Obama isn't rich? (He makes more than 15 times our annual household income)? Do you believe that as a senator nad his wife's corporate board offers that they are not priviledged? Do you believe in the racist tone of Wright? Then Wright uses this foundation of falsehood to further break the law by preaching political endorsement from the pulpit (illegal) and says:
3. Hillary never had to worry about being pulled over in her car as a black man driving in the wrong! I am sick of Negroes who just do not get it! Hillary was not a black boy raised in a single parent home! Barack was. Barack knows what it means to be a black man living in a country and a culture that is controlled by rich white people! Hillary can never know that! Hillary ain't never been called a ******! Hillary has never had her people defined as nonpersons! Hillary ain't had to work twice as hard just to get accepted by the rich white folk who run everything, or to get a passing grade when you know you are smarter than their C-students sitting in the White House. Hillary ain't never had her own people say she wasn't white enough!
Hillary is married to Bill and Bill have been good to us? No, he ain't! Bill did us just like he did Monica Lewinsky!
CONGREGATION: (cheers)
WRIGHT: He was riding dirty! (Grinds his hips in sexual way)
Do you agree that Bill Clinton screwed the African American Community? Do you agree with using mock sexual acts to drive home a point so their is no confusion what he means in front of children in a church? Clinton did more for creating "opportunity" and investment into inner cities for African Americans than any president before him.
4. "We bombed Hiroshima! We bombed Nagasaki, and we nuked far more than the thousands in New York and the Pentagon, and we never batted an eye. We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians, and black South Africans, and now we are indignant (cheers) because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back into our own front yards! (cheers and applause) America's chickens are coming home...to roost."
Do you believe that the use of nuclear weapons to end WWII, saving hundreds of thousands of American lives by not having to invade the Japanese homeland was terrorism? Do you agree that 9/11 was earned by our "terrorist support overseas?"
5." Weve got more black men in prison than there are in college, Racism is alive and well. Racism is how this country was founded and how this country is still run. No black man will ever be considered for president, no matter how hard you run Jesse [Jackson] and no black woman can ever be considered for anything outside what she can give with her body.
So who is Michelle Obama "getting dirty with" to get her degrees and jobs? Who are all the other succesful African American women "doing" do advance their careers? Says no black man would ever be considered to run for president, when there was a strong movement to get Colin Powell to run in both 1996 and 2000. Now, Obama is certainly a strong candidate. Should Michael Steele continue to gain experience in leadership, it may be an option for him as well. I thought that Harold Ford had a promising career until he tried to jump to the Senate too early in his career and lost.
6. America is still the No. 1 killer in the world. . . . We are deeply involved in the importing of drugs, the exporting of guns, and the training of professional killers . . . We bombed Cambodia, Iraq and Nicaragua, killing women and children while trying to get public opinion turned against Castro and Ghadhafi . . . We put [Nelson] Mandela in prison and supported apartheid the whole 27 years he was there. We believe in white supremacy and black inferiority and believe it more than we believe in God.
The United States did not support Apartheid throughout Mandela's incarceration. In fact, the US opposed it all the way back to the Carter Administration and passed legislation to force American Corprations to divest from South Africa in the Reagan Administration and employed economic sanctions against them. Do you agree that America believe in white supremacy more than we believe in God?
7.We started the AIDS virus . . . We are only able to maintain our level of living by making sure that Third World people live in grinding poverty. . . .
Do you believe this? The current administration has provided more aids and malaria relief funds for Africa than all administrations before him combined. Bush is highly praised in Africa for these efforts.
I think it would be more accurate for Obama supporters to say that they continue to support Obama's decision to stay and attend this church and include his pastor on his inner circle of advisors despite all of this. Just admit that 20 years of racist sermons and his embracing of this message by his actions doesn't concern you.
Remember, primary season used to be in June pretty much nationwide.
