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Rev. Wright, King of Urban Legends (Please List Here)
April 29, 2008

Posted on 04/29/2008 9:34:59 AM PDT by Ooh-Ah

As one who is distressed hearing the Urban Legends pouring from the mouth of a popular minister, I think it is important to document how he cleverly weaves stories which many either want to believe or can be swayed to believe, but are not true.

Please post and document the Urban Legends, lies and distortions you find.


TOPICS: Politics; Reference
KEYWORDS: elections; newscurrentevents; obama; revwright; urbanlegends; wrightwingconspiracy
ACCORDING TO REV. WRIGHT: Transcript: Rev. Wright at the National Press Club (April 28, 2008)

Our congregation stood in solidarity with the peasants in El Salvador and Nicaragua, while our government, through Ollie North and the Iran-Contra scandal, was supporting the Contras, who were killing the peasants and the Miskito Indians in those two countries.

REFERENCE: Miskito Indians

...several Miskito groups eventually formed guerrillas in the 1980s, which carried on armed struggle against the central government. They were accused of separatism by the latter. On 25 February 1982, Steadman Fagoth, one of the guerrilla leaders, fled to Honduras along with 3,000 Miskitos, while the Sandinistas began to denounce the incursion of Contras in the Rio Coco zone. The Miskitos occupied the village of San Carlos during the "Red December" (20-21 December 1982) during which several Sandinista soldiers were killed. In retaliation, the state massacred 30 Miskitos in the following days, prompting many of them to escape to Honduras to live in a difficult state of exile. The state of emergency in the Rio Coco zone was proclaimed in 1983, and lasted until 1988.[4] In 1983 the Misurasata movement, led by Brooklyn Rivera, split, with the breakaway Misura group of Stedman Fagoth allying itself more closely with the FDN, one of the first Contra commanded by Enrique Bermúdez. A subsequent autonomy statute in September 1987 largely defused Miskito resistance.

TRUTH:

THE MISQUITO INDIANS WERE ALIGNED WITH THE CONTRAS!

1 posted on 04/29/2008 9:34:59 AM PDT by Ooh-Ah
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To: Ooh-Ah
The more he talks, the more people realize what sort of person Wright is. Since his ties to Obama are so deep and long standing, this leads one to look into what Wright actually teaches, his ideology and theology, and what Obama has listened to for the last 20 years.

Wright teaches Black Liberation Theology that was the creation of the black radical James Hal Cone, who took the Latin American Liberation Theology that had been created by Marxists to lure poor catholics into their "revolution" (because they knew their totally Godless marxism would not work), and revamped it for blacks in America.

One of the most critical "urban legends" that Wright teaches, and one thet transcends all others IMHO, is that Christ was an oppressed black man living under whitey rule (the Romans) who was as much or more of a social revolutionary against white oppression as he was about spiritual salvation. In this sense, the theology is much closer to what the Islamics teach about Christ than what true Christians teach about Him.

It is a hate-filled, bigoted, anti-American, race bating, marxist construct. Here is what it's creator, James Hal Cone, says about it, the same James Hal Cone who Wright constantly refers to and holds up as an icon:

"Black theology refuses to accept a God who is not identified totally with the goals of the black community. If God is not for us and against white people, then he is a murderer, and we had better kill him. The task of black theology is to kill Gods who do not belong to the black community ... Black theology will accept only the love of God which participates in the destruction of the white enemy. What we need is the divine love as expressed in Black Power, which is the power of black people to destroy their oppressors here and now by any means at their disposal. Unless God is participating in this holy activity, we must reject his love."
This then is the trough from which Barack Hussein Obama has fed and the well from which he has drunk deeply for the past 20+ years.

THE AUDACITY OF TRUTH - BLACK LIBERATION THEOLOGY AND OBAMA'S CHURCH

THE AUDACITY OF TRUTH - OBAMA'S CIRCLE OF FRIENDS AND SUPPORT

THE AUDACITY OF TRUTH - BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA

2 posted on 04/29/2008 9:38:14 AM PDT by Jeff Head (Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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To: Ooh-Ah
Couple of days ago the Rev. Wright got into how blacks supposedly learn differently than everyone else.
He was talking about how he believes blacks use the opposite side of the brain than everyone else.
He then went on to talk about tribes (I guess) where they repeat the lineage going back hundreds of years and equates that as to some amazing learning ability.

I would be impressed if those tribes could also read, write and do math.
I do not think it is amazing if a few people in a tribe remembers an hours long story they memorized over maybe a couple of decades, you can probably get most anyone (including a retarded person) to do that over time through repetition IMO.

So I challenge his right brain left brain BS.
There is no merit to ANYTHING he said.

Where is the science to back that BS up, in a Marvel comic book?

3 posted on 04/29/2008 9:46:20 AM PDT by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: Ooh-Ah
"The government lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color."

--Jeremiah Wright

4 posted on 04/29/2008 9:46:37 AM PDT by cake_crumb (Boycott Genocide. Boycott the Olympics.)
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To: A CA Guy

There IS no science to back that BS up, because it’s BS. There are right-brain dominant people of ALL races and both genders.


5 posted on 04/29/2008 9:52:49 AM PDT by cake_crumb (Boycott Genocide. Boycott the Olympics.)
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To: cake_crumb; A CA Guy
"There are right-brain dominant people of ALL races and both genders."

The extension of Wright's logic is that there is something inherently defective with a black person that performs well in school.

6 posted on 04/29/2008 9:55:04 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: cake_crumb

You realize he doesn’t actually believe that the government invented HIV. It’s KGB-style agitprop. Whether Wright was ever a part of a Communist front-organization, I don’t know, but he obviously hung around with the Hyde Park left, which was dominated by front-organizations during the Cold War, and picked up their techniques.


7 posted on 04/29/2008 10:03:51 AM PDT by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know. . .)
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To: Joe 6-pack

According to Wright I am a rock when compaired to apples.


8 posted on 04/29/2008 10:09:53 AM PDT by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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To: Joe 6-pack

The extension of Wright’s logic is segregation.


9 posted on 04/29/2008 10:14:52 AM PDT by DManA
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To: Ooh-Ah

It’s the VAST WRIGHT WINGNUT CONSPIRACY !


10 posted on 04/29/2008 10:18:49 AM PDT by Wil H
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To: Joe 6-pack
"The extension of Wright's logic is that there is something inherently defective with a black person that performs well in school."

Yes. He reminds of Hitler more and more.

11 posted on 04/29/2008 10:33:22 AM PDT by cake_crumb (Boycott Genocide. Boycott the Olympics.)
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To: The_Reader_David
Sure. When the first victim of HIV died in the Belgian Congo in 1959, we were decades away from discovering the EXISTENCE of retrovirii. Still, it's an urban myth that Wright continuously repeats as fact.
12 posted on 04/29/2008 10:37:49 AM PDT by cake_crumb (Boycott Genocide. Boycott the Olympics.)
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To: Wil H

LOL!


13 posted on 04/29/2008 10:38:29 AM PDT by cake_crumb (Boycott Genocide. Boycott the Olympics.)
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To: cake_crumb

>Sure. When the first victim of HIV died in the Belgian Congo in 1959, we were decades away from discovering the EXISTENCE of retrovirii. Still, it’s an urban myth that Wright continuously repeats as fact.<

What makes this worse is the fact that our tax money (and private funds and charities) have raised and distributed more money to develop a cure and treatments for AIDS/HIV, especially for Africa. We’ve given more than all the rest of the world combined and G. Bush increased this level twice!

Another myth: The US gave Blacks syphlis (sp?). No. The Blacks that contracted this disease on their own were not properly treated, just observed (which also happened to Whites.)

And another: Women earn 75% of what men make on average. No. Comparing women that do not leave the workplace, with the same education, etc. to men with the same experience, and the pay is virtually the same. Otherwise, where are all of the lawsuits that would be filed because of this?

Like Larry Elder says, “If this were true, the ‘evil companies’ would fire nearly all of the men for an instant 25% savings in payroll expenses.”

It’s ironic that the Rev. Wright complains about drugs and viruses being created and distributed to specifically target Black and Brown people. What’s sad is that Rev. Wright IS a virus of the worst kind. He, and others, profit by spreading nonsense, which stunts the mental growth of so many. No real drug or virus could have the effect that whitey-hating rhetoric, urban myths and the like are having in Black barbershops, workplace break rooms, family settings and churches throughout the country.

Sneakyuser


14 posted on 04/29/2008 11:00:07 AM PDT by Sneakyuser (Sneakyuses.com)
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To: Sneakyuser
"Another myth: The US gave Blacks syphlis (sp?). No. The Blacks that contracted this disease on their own were not properly treated, just observed (which also happened to Whites.)"

Yep. WHY that myth stuck around is a mystery.

OH, Wright is ALSO a pusher of the "disproportionate number of blacks in the US military" myth. The actual numbers prove exactly the opposite.

15 posted on 04/29/2008 11:25:28 AM PDT by cake_crumb (Boycott Genocide. Boycott the Olympics.)
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To: cake_crumb

“OH, Wright is ALSO a pusher of the “disproportionate number of blacks in the US military” myth. The actual numbers prove exactly the opposite.

That is three myths in one: They say that Blacks, the uneducated and the poor serve in higher numbers than others. It’s...not...true.

There are TOO MANY myths that stay in the minds of people like: Blacks don’t make as much as Whites ( married Blacks that stay on track make almost as much as their White counterparts); the rich don’t pay taxes, etc.

Why is it at tax time the major media will print plenty of stories about where and when to file, last-minute tips, and camera crews will be out on the evening of April 15th showing people dropping off returns to the Post Office personnel? But, have you ever seen a story, in a local or national paper or on TV, about the amount that the rich, middle class and the poor pay (and don’t pay?) I never have.

As to WHY these myths stay around: because the media and the left want people to be confused and angry to have a reason to vote in the left, to expand government control, which the media desires.

Many times the Right actually solves problems like Welfare Reform, terrorism on US soil, the economy (when they can get Congress to approve tax cuts and back off some regulation). And yet, they don’t get credit for it. Even when the right spends on left-wing issues they don’t get credit (Nixon setup the EPA and King’s birthday, Bush Sr. and Junior have spent plenty on AIDS funding, No Child Left Behind, Prescription Drug Benefits and much more.) Yet the media complain they didn’t spend enough!

Go figure.

Sneakyuser


16 posted on 04/29/2008 3:29:00 PM PDT by Sneakyuser (Sneakyuses.com)
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