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March 16, 2008

Have The Democratic Party's Chickens Come Home To Roost - Courtesy of Barack Obama?

Money Quotes: ""Obama's Kenyan father deserted him when he was 2 years old. Thereafter, he was raised by his white mother and his maternal grandparents. Why then does he make a point of celebrating his blackness rather than his whiteness?"

"The time has come for white America to be silent and listen to black people. . . . All white men are responsible for white oppression. . . . "

Related: Check out "Obama's Mentor's Mentor" in extended post.

In his piece, "Obama's Feeble Attempt to Distance Himself From His Pastor's Anti-American Screeds," John Kinsellagh calls to question Obama's justification for remaining in a church whose pastor inveighs against the white establishment, describing Obama's justifications as tepid and lame, and finds little comfort from BO's ridiculous comment referring to Wright as "an old uncle who sometimes will say things that I don't agree with." Like Kinsellagh points out, "You are free to choose your pastor and church, not your uncle." In other words, Obama chose to go to this particular church and make it his source for the spiritual teaching and indoctrination for him and his family. So what does this tell us about Barack Obama, and what, if anything, does it say about the Democratic Party? Is the ugly truth that Democrats by their silence, have enabled the proselytization of such wacky sermonizing?

As I read through Kinsellagh's article, two main points came to mind. Barack Obama attended Jeremiah Wright's "Black Nationalist," Trinity United Church for over 20 years. So, clearly Obama knew of Wright's so-called "Black liberation theology"- a theology not of hope but one that purposefully dredges up and ferments feelings of victimization. BO could have chosen to be a Catholic, a Lutheran, a Methodist, a Presbyterian, a Pentacostal, or some other denomination. What drew him to a church that most Christians find questionable and one that is so extremely Afrocentric - one that so strongly encourages blacks to separate themselves from the rest of American society? And haven't we seen much of these extreme views involving Afrocentricity and Black victimization before? Isn't Jeremiah Wright, albeit more openly exteme, just one of a long stream of Black charlatans and race-baiters - take Al Sharpton and Jessie Jackson for example - Democrats all? These questions bring us full circle back to one of Jeremiah Wright's venomous statements - one in which he was wrong; it's as Kinsellagh notes, "it's not America's, but the Democratic Party's chickens that have come home to roost:

[...] Mr. Clean, the self-appointed New Messiah of Unity and Harmony, has been badly sullied by the controversy surrounding his long association with the pastor of his church, who on numerous occasions, has said some very disparaging things about white people-- those same folks, who to a large extent, are responsible for many of his primary victories.

Watching the videos of Obama's lunatic pastor stirring up his congregation with racist rhetoric and then seeing them nod their heads in agreement to his inflammatory charges was downright disquieting. And, I suspect that I am not the only one who is going to have similar sentiments on this score. What does it tell you about a political party that has encouraged the dissemination of such beliefs and done nothing to challenge them? Remember the conspiracy theory about the CIA being involved in distributing drugs to the black community in Los Angeles? Instead of instantly debunking such patent nonsense, the Clinton Administration dispatched the head of that agency to participate in a humiliating public forum where he tried to assuage African-Americans that this was not an enterprise in which the CIA was involved.
Remember also, how long the charlatan and race-baiter Al Sharpton lasted in the previous Democratic battle for the Presidency. He remained on stage long after he was due to be shown the door. Why? In order to win elections, the Democrats need nearly 100% of the African-American vote. Any pressure applied by party insiders for Sharpton's early exit would have met with howls of indignation from among others, the Congressional Black Caucus. If Al Sharpton has been continually legitimized by the Democratic Party, is it any wonder that the views of a Reverend Wright go unchallenged by a party that approaches the subject of potential criticism always with great trepidation? The ugly truth is that Democrats by their silence, have enabled the proselytization of such wacky sermonizing.

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The take home message here is that the Democratic Party have indeed enabled, if not encouraged, such proselytization, whacky sermonizing, race baiting, and perpetuation of the Black victimization; Obama just happens to be the most well-spoken and charismatic covert Black Nationalist politician we've seen thus far. And there is absolutely no way he could have had a close 20 year relationship with Jeremiah Wright, have purposefully chosen him as his closest spiritual adviser, have sat in Wright's pews time and time again, and not have been indoctrinated into Black Liberation Theology.

Posted by Richard at March 16, 2008 12:19 PM