Character self-assassination
posted at 3:59 pm on March 16, 2008 by Ed Morrissey
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The victimization continues. The Trinity United Church of Christ accused the media of character assassination today in response to the coverage of repeated instances of controversial rhetoric coming from its pastor and confidante of Barack Obama, Jeremiah Wright. But does it count when the victim provides the poison himself?
The Chicago church attended by Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) issued a statement Sunday contending that coverage of his pastor’s inflammatory statements amounted to character assassination and “an attack on … the history of the African American church.”
Obama condemned inflammatory statements by the church’s retiring pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., after they circulated on YouTube last week and were played repeatedly by cable news channels.
Wright, condemning society as racists, said, “God [expletive] America” and referred to the “U.S. of KKK-A.”
The statement begins: “Nearly three weeks before the 40th commemorative anniversary of the murder of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the Reverend Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr.’s character is being assassinated in the public sphere because he has preached a social gospel on behalf of oppressed women, children and men in America and around the globe.”
The statement adds: “Trinity United Church of Christ’s ministry is inclusive and global.”
Inclusive and global? Even Wright himself admitted that wasn’t the case in one of the more infamous of his sermons passed around the Internet. He scolded his audience for its initially reticent reaction to the accusation that rich white people exploited the poor, saying that “I know we have a few white people in our congregation.” Calling the nation the “United States of white America” and the “US of KKK-A” doesn’t exactly sound “inclusive and global.”
This is just a tone-deaf way of fighting back against the exposure of Trinity’s senior pastor as raging demagogue and a hater. It isn’t the media delivering that message; it’s the Reverend Wright himself. It doesn’t count as an assassination when the victim exposes his own character, and the media simply rebroadcasts the suicide.
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I blame Sean Hannity.
ninjapirate on March 16, 2008 at 4:02 PM
cept for whitey
windansea on March 16, 2008 at 4:05 PM
HA Ninja Pirate. I have been thinking the same thing. Sean Hannity has been talking about this for months!!! I am sure he feels pretty darn vindicated.
HawaiiLwyr on March 16, 2008 at 4:06 PM
How dare they quote him correctly.
RobCon on March 16, 2008 at 4:06 PM
BTW, UCC Truths is a good blog for getting the opinion of UCC member(s) who dissent from their leadership.
ninjapirate on March 16, 2008 at 4:06 PM
A simple “sorry” would have worked just fine. But NOOOOOOOOO.
SoulGlo on March 16, 2008 at 4:07 PM
Inclusive and global??? These people are quite simply insane. Better to find out now than after Barry-O is sworn in.
Mojave Mark on March 16, 2008 at 4:07 PM
His character isn’t being assassinated just illuminated.
Oldnuke on March 16, 2008 at 4:08 PM
I don’t feel included. I wonder why?
unclesmrgol on March 16, 2008 at 4:09 PM
By the way, who put those sermon videos out in the first place? Were they always there and no one had bothered to look?
doodleduh on March 16, 2008 at 4:09 PM
Yeah, read around the ’sphere. The sense of fear and recognition amongst the left regarding Wright is palpable. They know that this is big, and they are backpedaling like crazy. VDH nailed it. More than half of America just made a big “note to self” for November.
JeffB. on March 16, 2008 at 4:09 PM
LOL! Hell they’re not even quoting him, just playing his videos. He’s quoting himself!
Oldnuke on March 16, 2008 at 4:10 PM
In othre words what Rev Wright said was the truth and we are all just racists for taking him at his word.
William Amos on March 16, 2008 at 4:12 PM
Message to Black America, just when do you think ya’ll will stop needing the victimhood gig? Maybe by the 26th century? Just asking.
mustng66 on March 16, 2008 at 4:12 PM
Funny how liberals allow the demagogues to get away with anything so long as they slam the US and the GOP.
Reminds me of the pathetic ‘out of context’ defence of the Islamists in Britain when they were caught out by the Undercover Mosque documentary even though it was simply relaying tape of the imams preaching their hate.
Pax americana on March 16, 2008 at 4:12 PM
I gotta stop reading these threads. My sides are hurting I’m laughing so hard.
Oldnuke on March 16, 2008 at 4:14 PM
It’s only racism, bigotry, and hate if you’re white and vocal with a vast audience.
Otherwise, it’s just non-monetary reparations for everyone else. Non-whites are almost NEVER ever charged with so-called hate crimes. It’s the God given right, for people-of-color exclusively, to rant and rave spreading hate and malcontentment. It’s the right of African American activist preachers to preach from the pulpit every Sunday in the same manner that the imams preach every Friday from the ye olde Mosque. The style and the book are different, but the message is very similar.
SilverStar830 on March 16, 2008 at 4:16 PM
It’s too bad the church is not a mosque. They could employ the all powerful “taken out of context” Muslim palaver.
BL@KBIRD on March 16, 2008 at 4:18 PM
On Friday, Mark Levin called Rev. Wright “a piece of crap”.
I don’t think that description can be improved upon in any way.
TexasJew on March 16, 2008 at 4:18 PM
Why would Obama attend a Church for 20 years where his own mother would feel unwelcomed?
TheBigOldDog on March 16, 2008 at 4:18 PM
The Reverend could have just as well have said, “How dare you play my videos and show the world what sort of racist, anti-American statements I make! The fact that Senator Obama claims that these clips have been compiled out of hundreds of sermons in no way suggests a pattern of hate-mongering or divisiveness on my behalf, much less that it had any impact whatsoever on him over the period of twenty years or so!”
Lockstein13 on March 16, 2008 at 4:20 PM
Duh, most of the quotes are coming from videos of Wright produced and promoted by the church itself. These aren’t spy videos, this is the way Wright wanted to promote his views. He can’t deny them. Neither can BHO.
Maquis on March 16, 2008 at 4:21 PM
“Social gospel”?
Since when is anti-white, anti-American, demonstrably false (e.g., America created and spread AIDS to kill people of color) hate speech any type of “gospel”?
AZCoyote on March 16, 2008 at 4:21 PM
I wish I had $1 every time I’ve heard that it’s impossible for minorities to be racist…
The white unber-moonbat-liberal-morons in MA use that idiotic argument far too often.
TheBigOldDog on March 16, 2008 at 4:22 PM
They need to interview some other members of this church. See how many of them “vehemently disagree” with Wright’s lunacy like Obama does (supposedely).
WisCon on March 16, 2008 at 4:22 PM
That is precisely what Obama is doing by saying that Wright is not really “Like that.” Not a good strategy if you’re talking to someone of average intelligence.
Oldnuke on March 16, 2008 at 4:26 PM
Cretins like him are like vampires: Illumination is assassination.
The difference, of course, is that vampires are merely cannibalistic blood-suckers. Dr. Wright and his ilk are far worse.
Lancer on March 16, 2008 at 4:26 PM
This letter will further propel their church into the public’s attention. At some point the “media” will be forced to cover it. I at one point liked Sen Obama as a person. I am having severe doubts now because of his association with such a vile person as his pastor is turning out to be. It is hard to believe that anyone can continue to attend a church where its leader is of the likes of this so-called “Reverend” and not agree with any of the sentiments provided by the pastor.
It it irrelevant if Wright had only made these speeches on occasion — there is clearly a pattern of behavior here to explain the bigotry and hatred of country this man has demonstrated. Forget Republican, Democrat, whatever, any reasonable person would cease to attend a church if the likes of a Rev Wright were running it. A reasonable person would not tolerate a David Duke to be their religious leader. Anyone who regularly attends such a church should be held with severe scrutiny, especially if such a person is seeking political office.
Mr Obama, your close ties to such a vile person as you are running for the most powerful position in the world legitimately questions your character. Would a good man attend a service where its religious leader only espouses terrible, hateful, racist, anti-american sentiment only every once in a while?
Weebork on March 16, 2008 at 4:26 PM
Ugh, this preacher’s comments are going to be spun as coming from the “black community” while they are garden-variety academic Leftism, not out of place in any college’s social-science department.
Hannibal Smith on March 16, 2008 at 4:27 PM
Gosh D@MN Obama! Gosh D@MN Obama!
Chakra Hammer on March 16, 2008 at 4:28 PM
If Revrum Wright is selling his videos at thirty bucks each he’s gone way past promoting his views and has joined the Revrum Al & Jazzy Jack$on club of new limos to buy and more comforts for da crib.
viking01 on March 16, 2008 at 4:30 PM
I’m getting the feeling that Barack has some serious psycological issues regarding his mixed race.
Some of them involve being filled with shame and hatred over his mother’s skin color IMHO.
20 years in this den of hate cannot be explained away innocently- he LOVED being there and bought into it full force. How many people give 20 K to someone they aren’t tight with?
He’s at best a con-man and at worst a dangerous radical.
And the people who will vote in November will know this also.
jjshaka on March 16, 2008 at 4:30 PM
Inclusive and Global are just shorthand terms for a whole a whole slew of anti-this-and-that titles. The connotation is supposed to run along the lines of: anything that has an international imprint that seeks to unseat the West in general and the USA in particular is considered “global.” And the acceptance of any social agenda, that is currently interpreted or received as “outside” the mainstream, is viewed as “inclusive.” It is basically the same application as the word “partisan.” Thus, hating whites, Europeans, America, and the West is in fact “global” and “inclusive.”
Weight of Glory on March 16, 2008 at 4:31 PM
Hannibal Smith,
You may wish to extend the leftism in the academics beyond the social sciences. I am a physics major and one of our professors has that page-sized “Not In My Name” anti-war ad ANSWER put out several years ago. This guy is also a Doonesbury fan.
Yippie!
Weebork on March 16, 2008 at 4:32 PM
Jeremiah Wright, Secretary of Defense?
Travis1 on March 16, 2008 at 4:33 PM
Obama is only half black, so he only stayed for half the sermon.
Wade on March 16, 2008 at 4:35 PM
It’s just damn sad that so many people apparently feel the way the good reverend does. Whoever saw the two church goers on O’Reilly can attest to that, they thought he said nothing wrong. And it wasnt like it was only older people who go back to the days of really serious racial tension, one of the women looked to me to be in her 30’s tops.
Dash on March 16, 2008 at 4:35 PM
Imagine how they’d react if they were held accountable for race hate just as some other organizations have been.
Maybe the SPLC will sue.
Speakup on March 16, 2008 at 4:39 PM
I don’t think so. That very point has been covered quite a bit on several news channels. Newt Gingrich made the same analysis even going so far as to say that nothing Wright said was really racist, just typical far left lunacy. I disagree with Newt on the racist point but agree that it is typical far left rhetoric.
Oldnuke on March 16, 2008 at 4:42 PM
The inevitable liberal defense is the charge that those who attack Jeremiah Wright are attacking him because they themselves are racists. This will resonate with most Americans, who have no stomach for Wright’s vile rhetoric, like fire resonates with gasoline.
I say ‘good.’ A boil needs to be brought to a head before it can be lanced.
The hate that Wright espouses is the lifeblood of progressive Marxists of all races. It contributes nothing positive to our political culture, and a lot that’s terribly negative. It needs to be brought out into the open for all Americans to see, brought to a head, repudiated and crushed.
Wright’s message of hate and Obama’s message of hope couldn’t be more opposite. The current juxtaposition frames the issue well.
petefrt on March 16, 2008 at 4:42 PM
Anyone remember Reverend Ike?
Oldnuke on March 16, 2008 at 4:46 PM
I love condemnations that begin like this:
Presumably if it had been in January they would have complained about “Just one week after the day that honors the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr…” If the story had broken in February it would have been, “During the month that honors the contributions of African Americans…” Etc, etc.
aunursa on March 16, 2008 at 4:49 PM
The chickens at Trinity United Church of Christ have finally come home to roost. No one brought this upon them but themselves. They are the ones responsible for providing Rev. Jeremiah Wright with a bully pulpit from which he preached his racial hatred and idolatry. No amount of rhetoric or racial spin will make this tragedy go away. The more they spout off the worse it will get. Perhaps B. Hussein Obama and his wife as well as the entire congregation at Trinity United Church of Christ ought to search the Bible for the word repent. Then, follow Jesus’ instructions on what repentence consists of.
The question remains: Who will B. Hussein and Michelle Obama unleash all of that racial hatred on now that they’ve so willing learned it?
Larry L. Sharp on March 16, 2008 at 4:49 PM
After further reflection, it has become apparent to me why Michelle Obama, the potential future First Lady of the United States, once despised her homeland and only just became proud of the United States of America.
She attended the same church. And now her hubby is running for POTUS. Seems to me that she may have more foresight than her husband.
SilverStar830 on March 16, 2008 at 4:52 PM
Somehow the Biblical admonition that we pray (bless) for our rulers, good or bad for God has placed them in authority over us doesn’t jibe with Pastor Wrong’s sermons damning (cursing) America.
Another nit to pick regarding evil white Romans lording it over the black Jews. When Jesus said give unto Ceasar what is his, what does that make Jesus? Acting White? What does that make Pastor Wrong? One of the Pharisees plotting against Jesus for the sin of betraying the race? In that case, carrying the political analogy further, Condi, Thomas, Steele and Watts among others are comparable to the Disciples.
AH_C on March 16, 2008 at 4:53 PM
Just as a side, the kind of theology that Wright holds to has been established for some time and is very developed and quite sophisticated. It’s not merely the thoughtless rantings of an old preacher. In fact there are a lot of similarities between their Christological views and that of Karl Barth. What he says may not resonate with most people, but it has enough development to ensure that it will be around for a while, and I don’t think it has reached its peak yet. So ready your arguments, and don’t think it can just be shrugged off.
Weight of Glory on March 16, 2008 at 4:58 PM
TheBigOldDog on March 16, 2008 at 4:18 PM
Why
wouldwouldn’t Obama attend a Church for 20 years where his own mother wouldfeel unwelcomedbe hailed as a righteous & remorseful European with her reparations debt settled in full?Now do you understand?
AH_C on March 16, 2008 at 5:01 PM
I am pleased to hear the African-American church’s (is that a sep. religion?) cries of racism and discrimination and character assassination and not give a damn. Free at last from racial blackmail. Thank you Obama. Your hari-kari wasn’t in vain.
JiangxiDad on March 16, 2008 at 5:01 PM
They actually said that quoting this creep is
Uh, the entire, nation-wide AA church?
funky chicken on March 16, 2008 at 5:02 PM
Perfectly put!
The unease factor will obtain critical mass over this and Hillary will be seen as the “reasonable” alternative.
jjshaka on March 16, 2008 at 5:04 PM
Depends on your definition of ‘is.’
jukin on March 16, 2008 at 5:04 PM
Even scarier than Jeremiah Wright’s preaching is how animated the congregation gets when hearing these anti white and anti American sermons. Should I assume that the Obamas are the only ones in the church sitting on their hands with pained looks on their faces when Wright preached the messages? There are many lunatics in this world but when they have an audience of thousands and you are the target, you best pay attention.
Buddahpundit on March 16, 2008 at 5:05 PM
It’s interesting to note that Obama has said that “socially” he’s a Christian I think this is an insult to “social” drinkers everywhere…. for social drinkers don’t consider themselves “real” drinkers… unless ofcourse he was intending to make the point that he is not a “real” Christain….
CynicalOptimist on March 16, 2008 at 5:07 PM
Anybody who even bothered to look at the home page of UCC would’ve understood right away that UCC spews the same sort of anti-white mentality as the Elijah Mohammad followers - you know, “Whites are the spawn of satan” stuff.
Must be something in the water in Chicago.
East Villager on March 16, 2008 at 5:10 PM
Regarding the sermon, a preview of the TUCC Bulletin would have clued anyone in as to the sermon for today. Check it out at http://www.tucc.org/upload/tuccbulletin_mar16.pdf.
Unlike typical bulletins, a lot of trees died to bring you 30 plus pages every week. Also interesting are the multitude of eye-opening talking points, ie boycott Walmart, enrolling at the Kwame Nkrumah Academy - yeah that failed communist of Africa’s 1st independent colony that only went downhill from there.
Makes me wonder if there isn’t a tape somewhere once upon a time praising Mugabe for taking control and sticking it to whitey. Zimbabwe, that shining African example of modern day liberation theology.
AH_C on March 16, 2008 at 5:11 PM
Noted. Excellent advice.
baldilocks on March 16, 2008 at 5:15 PM
That’s as accurate a definition of those terms, global and inclusive, as I’ve seen. The left is adept at rhetorical thuggery, and we’re adept at allowing it to put us on defense. If more of us could pierce the veil of semantic deceit, we might win more elections.
petefrt on March 16, 2008 at 5:16 PM
I think it’s time for an SNL take on a Wright sermon ala “The Blues Brothers,” complete with gymnasts on trampolines and a bobble-head Obama.
Maquis on March 16, 2008 at 5:17 PM
He is One of the Ones we have been waiting for. Our patience is so being rewarded.
shaken on March 16, 2008 at 5:18 PM
My Grandparents Attended an African Methodist church and I was welcome there (I’m Bi-racial and “look” white) and there were several White members. While not a regular attendee my experience was that even though some pastors leaned left none would dare say what Wright said. Trinity isn’t an example of a Black church but a hate cult no different than Westboro baptists.
Hannibal Smith is right on the money, this is big city leftism mixed with Black nationalism. It’s no coincedence that my Grandparents church was in a little town in Upstate New York where traditional values were still in vouge.
I’m disgusted.
Rob Taylor on March 16, 2008 at 5:19 PM
I would call this religion–Black Liberation theology the African-American “Church.” They pretty much preach earthly salvation via freeing one’s self of the “white” mentality–which puts several of Obama’s statements and mottoes into perspective.
“We are the ones we have been waiting for.”
“I am confident that we can create a Kingdom right here on Earth.”
baldilocks on March 16, 2008 at 5:25 PM
It’s the Jooooooos that run the media.
SouthernGent on March 16, 2008 at 5:28 PM
Social fairness & convenience is what the High Priest had in mind when he allowed the money changers and sellers to ply their trade within the hallowed grounds of the temple.
Social Gospel is what Pastors Wrong & Moss had in mind with their Church bookstore to sell works of bigotry, hatred, victimization and blame America.
http://tucc.org/store/index.cfm?action=catbrowse&catid=74
Recall what Jesus did to those defilers at the House of God…
Sorry, but I’m at a loss for a Biblical equivalent for the Pastor’s dry humping at the pulpit.
AH_C on March 16, 2008 at 5:30 PM
Some things are, and will remain, just abstracts.
Entelechy on March 16, 2008 at 5:31 PM
Yes, that’s it in a nutshell. Undoubtedly there’s more to Wright’s theology than we’ve heard so far in the news, but what we’ve heard is little more than “Big city leftism mixed with Black nationalism”… passed off as religion.
petefrt on March 16, 2008 at 5:32 PM
Sorry, forgot the word Utopian, up there.
Entelechy on March 16, 2008 at 5:32 PM
What the good Reverend is teaching white liberals is that all of their efforts since the Civil War are for nought: they are still hated.
Does he expect the response to be, “right then, sorry, we’ll try harder”, or, “ok, this is a rigged game, so go stuff yourself, we give up”.
Those who truly want better race relations will offer recognition for what has been accomplished, and encouragement to continue moving ahead, while all acknowledge more remains to be done.
If BHO still wants to have a shot, he needs to teach the good Reverend a very public lesson with a very public dressing down. Otherwise, I’m not buying his rhetoric.
shaken on March 16, 2008 at 5:34 PM
I have to shake my head each time I hear Obama and others speak of this ’social gospel’ that Wright is preaching. Huh? At any church I have ever attended they preached ‘the gospel’ pure and simple. You know, the one that comes straight from the Bible. I have no idea what or where the ’social’ one is or comes from and it brings up another question……does that mean that somewhere, someone is preaching the “anti-social gospel”?
dustoffmom on March 16, 2008 at 5:35 PM
What is the “white mentality” baldilocks? (if you know). Wright talks a lot about “greedy” whites. I’m curious if freeing oneself of the “white mentality” and the rejection of “middle class values” (that was once listed on the church website; don’t know if it’s since been expunged or not) means a rejection of the pursuit of material wealth. If so, it seems that there are several in the church (including the Obamas) who aren’t in sync with that aspect of the “gospel.”
AZCoyote on March 16, 2008 at 5:36 PM
MLK looked forward to the day when all men (humans) “would be judged not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character”. Pastor Wright is still stuck on judging people by the color of their skin. Ironically, he himself has no character. Thus, his accusation of “character assassination” is hollow, as devoid of meaning as are his history of inflammatory words. He is a con artist, wrapping himself in false pieties and mocking the spirit of the Lord.
Obama would have been better off directly donating his $20-some thousand to meeting the needs of those he feels are oppressed instead of enriching the coffers of this race baiter.
onlineanalyst on March 16, 2008 at 5:36 PM
Trinity United Church of Christ now has a new preacher of sorts, a younger preacher. I heard him speak, or preach on the tv.
Sounds about like the preacher they had !! Topic was a little different, same hate.
2theright on March 16, 2008 at 5:38 PM
He could chase the moneylenders out of the temple, spend 40 days and nights fasting in the desert, climb the mount and come down carrying stone tablets with a halo and I wouldn’t trust him.
Oldnuke on March 16, 2008 at 5:40 PM
Religionists gone wild!
Dey lub Jeesus. Dey wheelie doo.
saved on March 16, 2008 at 5:41 PM
The drive-by’s were inside the pulpit.
SouthernGent on March 16, 2008 at 5:42 PM
Ahem…….
“Hitler’s propaganda minister, Goebbles, believed that the bigger the lie, the more convincing. Machiavelli taught that the ends justify the means. Both “principles” are applied in character assassination.”
Shall we bring history into the mix boys and girls? Like this has never been tried before…..?
Seven Percent Solution on March 16, 2008 at 5:43 PM
I smell the end of Obama.
Seixon on March 16, 2008 at 5:46 PM
You know, Obama gave this guy’s church around $20,000 in 2006, which was a year where the Obamas brought home close to a million bucks. Typical liberal cheapskates, or did Obama only agree with a fifth of what Wright said, so they only gave a fifth of a tithe?
funky chicken on March 16, 2008 at 5:48 PM
Remember when Michelle was accused of this when she accurately quoted those women who ran the John Edwards blog? This is the same deal.
AbaddonsReign on March 16, 2008 at 5:51 PM
Interesting how the Trinity UNITY Christian Church counters public reprobation through the risible tactic of presenting itself as a paradigm of the Black church in America.
Defeat the condemnation via a divisively guilt-inducing defense.
Talk about holy smoke-and-mirrors!
Black Liberation Theology explicitly REJECTS the conservative thrust of the traditional black Evangelical (mostly Baptist) churches as being too “Massah”-oriented.
I found it hilarious that FOX News Channel pundits and anchors solicited Prof. Dwight Hopkins of the Univ. of Chicago Divinity School, also a TUCC parishioner, to comment on the Rev. Wright’s rantings.
Prof. Wright himself is another prominent proponent of Black Liberation Theology! Get a fox to screen-defense another fox on Fox?
Ed, wouldn’t it be lovely if you or Michelle or AP did a post further exploring the Obamassiah’s youthful radical leftist tutelage under his Hawaiian white Communist “philosopher”-mentor?
Mojamaiko on March 16, 2008 at 5:53 PM
Hasn’t there been a lot of discussion about this purchase? I have been understanding the chatter to say that this Reszko (sp?) fellow ‘helped’ him considerably with that. That the O’s ultimately paid well less than the house value. Anyone clear on this?
dustoffmom on March 16, 2008 at 5:54 PM
Character assassination . . . my backside. Wright is a despicable abomination that slaughtered his own character years ago. The disgusting pig must be watched closely and all of his activities should be exposed and reported.
rplat on March 16, 2008 at 5:54 PM
“Bill, I like that smell” - - Hillary
Seixon, don’t bet on anything, yet.
Entelechy on March 16, 2008 at 5:55 PM
It’s BO’s character that bothers me. The Rev can say whatever he wants, but when we have someone who could be the next POTUS, then I got a problem.
d1carter on March 16, 2008 at 5:56 PM
Somewhat irrelevant sidenote:
The Right Rev. Jeremiah Wright may thunder jeremiads at the white man and his culture, but he sure has no problem enjoying the white man’s playthings …. he drives a late model blue Porsche.
Mojamaiko on March 16, 2008 at 5:57 PM
For the sake of the country, and for the safety of many, I’m just glad this got exposed. Though, why wasn’t this exposed sooner, by anyone, Obama or not?
Entelechy on March 16, 2008 at 5:58 PM
You haven’t heard of White Man Guilt Credits yet? Get with it.
Entelechy on March 16, 2008 at 6:00 PM
I’m not a practitioner of the religion specified.
baldilocks on March 16, 2008 at 6:00 PM
Or White Mentality Credits? The esteemed rev. needs to talk to the esteemed Mr. Albert Gore, for business advice. He sure has enough followers to pay for his ventures.
Entelechy on March 16, 2008 at 6:02 PM
Erratum re 5:53 pm:
“Prof. HOPKINS himself is another prominent proponent of Black Liberation Theology!”
Mojamaiko on March 16, 2008 at 6:03 PM
My Dad recounted to me how he once went to visit Ike’s church out of curiosity. The way Ike shook down the faithful was to lock the doors and pass the offering plate until the take was satisfactory. After observing the rich trappings, golden cadillac and pompously empty rhetoric, Dad concluded this was a false teacher writ large.
Thanks to modern technology, Pastor Wrong doesn’t have to physically lock the doors to keep in the faithful — he’s already got them trapped on the plantation psychologically, locking the doors would only serve to deter competing thieves. His shakedown collects from them several times over on any Sunday. Once with the offering plate, rather large by appealing to middle-class guilt and again & again with the books & multimedia sales.
So when Obama says he donated $20 K, did that include the DVDs etc or was that separate? My guess, as rich as he is, he could afford to get one of everything off the shelf to stock his ornate library.
AH_C on March 16, 2008 at 6:05 PM
Reminds me of that speech Michelle O. made complaining about people calling her husband by his name.
America should think twice about entering the alternate reality created by Michelle O. and Jeremiah Wright. It might have some attraction to outsiders but once you’re inside, Michelle and Jeremiah make all the rules.
snaggletoothie on March 16, 2008 at 6:07 PM
Funnier is watching two bastions of white leadership, SENs Dodd & Schumer spin Pastor Wrong’s influence on Obama as negligible because like Obambi has strength of integrity and inclusiveness to Chris Wallace.
AH_C on March 16, 2008 at 6:12 PM
Also I asked my parents (mom and step-dad) who are of the same generation as Wright and ran, shall we say, in similar-minded company. They hadn’t heard of it either.
baldilocks on March 16, 2008 at 6:12 PM
Good point, also consider that the church would not keep him around as pastor unless the congregation believes and accepts his poison. By the way, that includes the most famous member of his congegation. You can’t listen to the man for 20 years and keep going back unless you agree.
conservnut on March 16, 2008 at 6:14 PM
“White mentality” simply means the mentality of the “oppressor.” Liberation Theology is an umbrella theology, under which many smaller branches of theology spring, such as Black Theology, Feminist Theology, Gay Theology, etc. Liberation theology developed out from Praxis Theological ideas. What Praxis theology was was a reaction against the classical “intellectualizing” of theology used by the West for hundreds and hundreds of years. Its focus wasn’t so much thinking correctly about theological issues, rather DOING (praxis) correctly. It was strongest in Latin America. This focus on doing (literally) theology rather than a contemplative approach to theologizing, leads to a heavy social focus. When theology is then sunk exclusively in a social framework, it naturally produces an “us vs. them” mentality. Thus, for Black theology, which stemmed from Liberation theology (liberation from the oppressors “them”), which stemmed from Praxis Theology (the idea of doing social good), the natural historical oppressor is the “white” guy, and the cultural derivatives he has created. For Feminists, the oppressor is the “Man,” whether white or black, and all of his paternal cultural derivatives.
Weight of Glory on March 16, 2008 at 6:14 PM
A Porsche is about as white as it gets. But is the Porsche itself white? If not, he may have an out.
Harpoon on March 16, 2008 at 6:15 PM
My parents hadn’t heard of African Lib theology, I mean.
baldilocks on March 16, 2008 at 6:16 PM
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