Bombshell Obama Pastor Video

[bsnyder]

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Ahhhh yes but the new one has a few issues also, and Wright was his moral compass also ...I will see if i can find the video on him.

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Here's some audio, on the new pastor who took Wright's place.

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives2/2008/03/020090.php

I've been doing a little research on this - specifically the widespread belief in the black community that the U.S. government created the AIDS virus as a weapon of genocide in the black community.

STUDY BY RAND AND OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY FINDS CONSPIRACY BELIEFS AMONG AFRICAN AMERICANS DETER CONDOM USE

Significant numbers of African Americans believe in conspiracy theories about AIDS, and black men with such beliefs are less likely to use condoms as a precaution against spreading the HIV virus, according to a study issued today by the RAND Corporation and Oregon State University.

The study was supported by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and appears in the Feb. 1 edition of the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes. It is the most thorough examination of the types of AIDS conspiracy theories held by African Americans, and is the first to also examine the relationship of those beliefs to the use of condoms. More men than women believe in the conspiracy theories, the study found.

Researchers conducted a national telephone survey of a scientifically selected random sample of 500 African Americans ages 15-44 from around the United States. Those surveyed were asked a series of questions about whether they agreed or disagreed with specific HIV/AIDS myths. The survey of African Americans found that:

About 59 percent agreed with the statement that “a lot of information about AIDS is being held back from the public.”

53 percent agreed that “there is a cure for AIDS, but it is being withheld from the poor.”

Nearly 27 percent agreed that “AIDS was produced in a government laboratory.”

About 16 percent agreed that AIDS was created by the government to control the black population.

About 15 percent agreed that AIDS is a form of genocide against African Americans.

“These beliefs are widespread and demonstrate substantial mistrust of the health care system among African Americans,” said Laura Bogart, a RAND Health psychologist and lead author of the study. “For HIV prevention efforts to be successful, these beliefs need to be discussed openly, because people who do not trust the health care system may be less likely to listen to public health messages. This includes messages about HIV prevention.”

African American men who agreed with conspiracy myths were significantly less likely to report that they use condoms regularly. This was not the case among African American women.

Bogart and co-author Sheryl Thorburn, an associate professor of public health at Oregon State University, said the new study suggests that distrust of the health care system may be one factor contributing to the AIDS epidemic among African Americans. While African Americans make up about 12 percent of the U.S. population, they accounted for more than half of the new HIV and AIDS cases diagnosed in 2002.

“This is one of the first studies to show that these beliefs about HIV/AIDS may be affecting behavior,” said Thorburn, principal investigator for the study. “Our results suggest that these beliefs may have a negative impact on preventive practices. We need more open discussion about these beliefs.”

It's bad enough that Reverend Wright and his ilk stir up racial anomosity with their hate speech, but they are also contributing to the perpetuation of a myth that is literally killing black people.

 

[EMom]

I listened carefully to the new pastor in an interview, and he impressed me as "Wright Lite."

 

[DisneyMomOK]

Dropping the bombs in Japan was absolutely, positively, unequivocably an act of terrorism. Just like them bombing Pearl Harbour to begin with was an act of terrorism.

How anybody could even ask that question is beyond me. Do you not understand that to the countries that you bomb and invade you are the terrorists? You can't be the bully on the playground and not expect somebody to throw a rock at you when you aren't looking.

I am not saying you deserved 9/11. I am saying that given your role on the world stage and the manner in which you conduct yourselves there, the attacks perpetuated against US interests around the world are not surprising.

My Dad was there, lady, fighting in the Pacific, protecting the butts of folks in your country, as well as, his own. He has said many times that the Japanese would have never, NEVER surrendered. If you would read some of the Japanese military's own statements, you would know that. Japan would have never surrendered until after an invasion, which could only have happened AFTER the Allies had liberated numerous Pacific islands, which would have taken years upon years to complete. The number of people, civilians and soldiers, that would have been killed would have easily been many times more than those killed in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. So, I will continue to agree that President Truman did the right thing, and by doing so, saved lives in the long run.

ETA Didn't realize there were so many excellent responses to this post, or I would have not responded. I just read the post and started typing.

 

[FayeW]

My Dad was there, lady, fighting in the Pacific, protecting the butts of folks in your country, as well as, his own. He has said many times that the Japanese would have never, NEVER surrendered. If you would read some of the Japanese military's own statements, you would know that. Japan would have never surrendered until after an invasion, which could only have happened AFTER the Allies had liberated numerous Pacific islands, which would have taken years upon years to complete. The number of people, civilians and soldiers, that would have been killed would have easily been many times more than those killed in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. So, I will continue to agree that President Truman did the right thing, and by doing so, saved lives in the long run.

ETA Didn't realize there were so many excellent responses to this post, or would have not responded. I just read the post and started typing.

My relatives were there also. Some came home, and some didn't.
Justifying why it made sense doesn't change the fact that dropping bombs on the Japanese civilians terrorized them.

How come killers are only terrorists if they are doing it to you? Perception is everything...

 

[Uncleromulus]

Then I'm sure you'll agree that the Japanese dropping bombs on civilians in China and the Phillipenes (and Korea) "terrorized" them--? The Japanese would have bombed the daylights out of San Francisco, if only they had the chance.
va32h: Lots of mothers and children and office workers in the above places also, I would suspect.

 

[DisneyMomOK]

My relatives were there also. Some came home, and some didn't.
Justifying why it made sense doesn't change the fact that dropping bombs on the Japanese civilians terrorized them.

How come killers are only terrorists if they are doing it to you? Perception is everything...

Since you say you had "relatives there", perhaps they mentioned the genocide of Nanjing. The Japanese murdered between 300,000 and 600,000, men, women, children and "office workers". Of course, there were lots of other atrocities that occurred during the war, but that is the one that sticks in my mind. Knowing the mindset of a government that would permit carnage like that, there is no way President Truman could permit them to wage war one more day than necessary. It would have been unconscionable.