Race-baiting is such a HOPEful CHANGE.

“Race is a social construct derived mainly from perceptions conditioned by events of recorded history, and it has no basic biological reality.”
“Darwinian evolution was (and still is) inherently a racist philosophy”.

Get real. Putting that PC pseudo-science in your head perpetuates the problem. Better we start being honest, accurate and open with each other, judging people by the content of character.

Not at my church.

baldilocks on March 1, 2008 at 8:49 PM

Amen, baldi. Mine, neither.

What if each of your four grandparents was from a different one of the “race groups” they tell you to pick from? What “race” are you in that case?

Which box am I supposed to check to indicate that my mother’s maternal grandmother was born on a riverboat on the Amazon river? (Truthfully, she was).

We are all one blood, one race. It’s the racists who always try to bring “race” into every discussion. If we were truly living out Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s dream, we wouldn’t even talk about people’s skin color. We would talk only about the content of their character.

Amen to that.

baldilocks on March 1, 2008 at 8:49 PM

Ditto here. The “typical corporate America” companies I consult for or have worked for, from private startups to multi-billion dollar corporations, are no more diverse (and frequently much less diverse) than the congregation at my church.

In my opinion, any discussion of “race” is, in itself, racist.

“Race is a social construct derived mainly from perceptions conditioned by events of recorded history, and it has no basic biological reality.”

…

Darwinian evolution was (and still is) inherently a racist philosophy, teaching that different groups or “races” of people evolved at different times and rates, so some groups are more like their apelike ancestors than others. Leading evolutionist Stephen Jay Gould claimed, “Biological arguments for racism may have been common before 1859, but they increased by orders of magnitude following the acceptance of evolutionary theory.”
Are There Really Different Races?

Get Answers: Racism

Sunday is the most segregated day in America. I’m sure god is sick of that, too.

SouthernGent on March 1, 2008 at 7:55 PM

Not at my church.

I doubt that, the UCC exists to baptize liberal politics.

I take that back somewhat, there was a guy in the Spectator who was conservative yet was part of the UCC but bemoaned what was going on in the national denomination. UCC is congregational, so there is leeway for each individual church.

It’s worth noting that the online Rolling Stone story carries a correction regarding the Obama/madrassa point. If the reporter had the wrong Wright, I would think camp Obama would have raised that objection as well.

Moreover, the author of the Rolling Stone story clearly is making an eyewitness report of the sermon. The Rev. Granderson Wright is apparently not affiliated with Obama’s church. So what are the odds that the Rev. Granderson Wright was doing the sermon in Obama’s church on the day that RS was there?

Here’s what the alt-weekly the Stranger wrote about it:

Six miles from the university, down Interstate 84, on Chicago’s far south side, in the nondescript, low-rent, mostly low-rise neighborhood of Brainerd, is the Trinity United Church of Christ, which Obama attends and where his pastor, the Reverend Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., apostle of black liberation theology, delivers magnificently cranky sermons on how the “African diaspora” struggles under the yoke of the “white supremacists” who run the “American empire.” Obama’s membership of both institutions, the radical black church and the conservative law school, is a measure of the chasm that this latest candidate of hopes and dreams, uplift and national reconciliation, is trying to span. It’s also a measure of his political and intellectual agility that the senior lecturer in law has managed to recast the language of black liberation theology into an acceptable—even, conceivably, a winning—creed for middle-of-the road white voters.

The fact that Obama’s church posts YouTube clips where Wright sounds mild-mannered is no more dispositive than a clip of the Rev. Granderson Wright sounding fired up, but not saying the same thing the RS writer attributed directly to the Rev. Jeremiah Wright as an eyewitness.

Alternatively, left-leaning mags like RS and the Stranger are secretly part of the VRWC and have not updated my phone list yet.

http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Granderson+Wright%22+%22Jeremiah+Wright%22

Stephanie makes a post here on Jan 23, here on Jan 25, and here on Jan 31. The rest have been within the week.

I’ve been wondering about that for years. I had heard that there is a tension in the black community between lighter skinned blacks and darker skinned blacks — I don’t know about what — but it’s funny to me to see a guy who appears to be as white as my French Canadian butt rapping all his race hate about whites and racist America.

Methinks he doth protest too loudly.

Jaibones on March 1, 2008 at 4:36 PM

That’s because he’s not black, and neither is Obama. They might be Black, but they aren’t black.

Hagee is NOT McCain’s Pastor.

Fact number one: we’ve got more black men in prison than there are in college. Rev. Wright

And who’s fault is that?? Did we hold a gun to their heads and force them to commit crime?

ya can fool some of the sheeple all the time.. yada yada

soros has to be grinning from ear to ear..

If that’s the preacher with barry he isn’t even mostly black. Sounds like self hatred to me.

peacenprosperity on March 1, 2008 at 2:26 PM

I’ve been wondering about that for years. I had heard that there is a tension in the black community between lighter skinned blacks and darker skinned blacks — I don’t know about what — but it’s funny to me to see a guy who appears to be as white as my French Canadian butt rapping all his race hate about whites and racist America.

Methinks he doth protest too loudly.

There it is, the belief that there is a finite amount of wealth in the world and that success for one by definition entails failure for another. This of course underlies the leftist notion that wealth must be redistributed, a core tenet of Senator Obama’s policies.

nottakingsides on March 1, 2008 at 3:29 PM

Thank you

What was the Great Society?

Why would someone who says, as Obama does, that we need to transcend racial and ethnic and ideological differences to solve this country’s problems be a member of a church where the complete opposite is preached?

SteveMG on March 1, 2008 at 2:51 PM

Doesn’t make sense, does it. It puts Obama’s authenticity squarely at issue.

Electing someone who believes in what his church preaches would throw this country into violent turmoil.