I'm more than ready for a Black president. Just not
THIS Black president. I believe Barbara Jordan would have been a fine president, but a Black woman didn't stand a snowball's chance in Hades in her day...or any woman, for that matter.
If Michelle Obama has never before been proud to be an American, then she is an ingrate.
I'd say America has been pretty good to her and her family. I grew up never seeing a female president, female astronaut or female executive, but that didn't cause a lack of pride in America. If someone cannot be proud to be an American simply because someone of their race, sex, religion, ethnicity, etc. has never been president then that says to me that all they
really care about
IS race, sex, religion, ethnicity, etc. That is their focus, their main concern.
And that gets us back to that nutcase preacher. After listening to several of his sermons in which he blames The Man for all of the Black Man's ills, I want to barf. His sermons are full of racism, hate and anger.....Just as a church should be. NOT! And they are targeted at Whites. There is a not only a Black pride message there, there is an anti-White message. And that is quite a distinction. One is positive, one is negative, and you can certainly have Black pride without White hate.
Why does this matter, so many of you keep asking? Why should we care what his minister says? How will that affect him as POTUS? Here's how: This is a man who takes his religion very, very seriously. He has made that plain and clear. If he gave mere lip service to it as many do, it probably wouldn't matter. But it is a big part of
WHO HE IS and
WHAT HE IS. He chose this church knowing what this pastor was like, what his positions were and he chose to stay there 20 years. He proudly identifies his as his spiritual advisor. That is a person you turn to for
guidance.
He relies on this person. He doesn't hide that at all. In 20 years, he had to hear this crap many times. It's clearly available and not hidden. Yet he stayed and financially supported this church. He put his money where his heart was. Had he found the racist, hate-filled, angry rantings of this whack job objectionable, let alone intolerable, he would have walked away years ago and found another church. But he did not. That tells me he agrees with it, whether he is saying the words out loud or not. And that ingrate wife of his has made her attitude clear by her snarky comments.
I don't care what he
SAYS. I can say I'm a 6 foot tall supermodel, but that doesn't make it so. Geez, people....It's not as if a politician has never lied through his teeth to get elected before. He stuck by this man for 20 years and relied on him for help in matters of faith....a faith that is an
essential part of him. It has formed his morals and ethics. He roosted with one nasty chicken and he liked it.
If I had been in a church that started badmouthing Blacks and spewing hate the way his pastor did, I'd have walked out right then and there. Forget staying 20 years! I did that once when the minister went off on alcoholics, because he was being too pious for my taste.
The fact that he selected this church and remained a faithful member for 20 years, using this man as his spiritual guide, tells me what is in his heart of hearts and it ain't pretty. He may come across like Opie, but Sheriff Andy was NOT his role model, was he?
There is a definite double standard at work here. If HC or JMc went to a church for 20 years and its minister spouted the kind of racist hate-filled filth against BLACKS that this guy does against WHITES, they would be dead politically. And they would deserve it, IMHO. Obama should be held to the same standard. Racism is racism. Hate is hate.
