Posted by
Bert Chapman on Tuesday, March 18, 2008 9:26:38 AM
We've recently had the experience of seeing the "Revererend" Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama's "pastor" spewing his despicable anti-American ideology on tv screens. The usual formulaic and resigned denunciations of such incendiary rhetoric have been provided by Obama and his apologists but it's doubtful they really mean it. Was Obama actually present in church when "Pastor" Noam Chomsky was calling on God to eternally damm America, said the 9/11 attacks were morally justified, and praised Palestinean terrorism? Will Obama actually be willing to move to another church and remove his financial support from Wright and his despicable demagogic doctrine? It's clear that Wright's infantile diatribes have shot Obama's claims of being an inclusive and "post-racial" political candidate to shreds. You learn an awful lot about a person from the people they associate with and associating with a charlatan and crybaby like Jeremiah Wright (who also happens to have a high opinion of Louis Farrakahn) does not reflect highly on Obama and the quality of his judgment. Will Obama's high-strung wife Michelle let him make a complete break with Wright or does Wright enhance her recently found pride in being an American?
Wright's outrage also is an effective illustration of how so many black churches have been corrupted by their ties to the Democratic Party and how "pastors" such as Wright have used such ties to enhance their personal political power base and keep their parishoners dependent on government largesse. These "pastors" should be encouraging their congregation members to live as redeemed individuals who will only practice sex within the boundaries of committed heterosexual marriage, raise children with loving and committed parents, encourage their children to apply themselves at school to take advantage of America's unlimited opportunities, and stand against the pervasive sexualization of American culture. Instead, Wright and his ilk wallow his self-pity and launch tirades against amorphous racism which has not had any legal power over blacks since passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and 1965 Voting Rights Act. They coast on the fumes of the civil rights movement and do not engage in prophetic witness denouncing the alarming rise in illegitimate birth rates, the glorification of criminal behavior in hip-hop culture, and the penchant for promoting personal rebellion and mediocrity for fear of being seen as "white" in many sectors of black culture.