Posted on 03/18/2008 1:15:35 PM PDT by CA Conservative
Barack Obama took the stage this morning to give what was billed as a "major speech on race." It was, of course, an attempt to rescue his campaign from the revelation that his so-called spiritual mentor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, espouses a virulently anti-American and antiwhite worldview called "black liberation theology."
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What Obama is evading is that this "profoundly distorted view" is not just some passing emotion. It is what Wright himself, in the "talking points" page of his congregation's Web site, describes as "systematized black liberation theology." As we noted yesterday, Wright credits James Cone of New York's Union Theological Seminary with having undertaken this systematization. Here again is Cone's description of black liberation theology:
"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."
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Rescue is right. I didn’t see a rescue today. I guess his speech was about giving his supporters something to point to in the coming days when the questions continue to get asked and not answered.
Does he plan on attending this church in the future? Of course he does. It’s 8,000 votes for him, in the pocket. Oh wait, it’s his chance to be close to the man who lead him to Jesus.
Puhlleeezze
You can’t ask Barry any real questions about what he believes...that’d be racist.
That’s what the MSM told me.
He’s just morally equivocating againt - it’s okay that Wright is a black racist, his own granmother was a racist as well! But, by Golly, they’re all *family* after all.
(gag)
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
That’s one crazy MFer.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Can you possibly get any more racist than this?
Obama's 20 year of silence in regards to this venom is defeaning.
I think that any awkward questions which are asked between now and Nov will be answered with: "It was in the speech! Didn't you listen?? We're not through that again! It's old news! It's over!"
The first time he mentions his white grandmother is to call her a racist.I’m so proud of my grandson.
The important thing is to not focus on the speech per se, but continue to pass along the information to potential voters, family and friends included.
The only way to help folks look beyond the superficiality of the speeches is to show the cold hard facts. I’ve posted a group of 7 videos that shows a LOT about this guy in several places on FR today.
There might well be more (good AND bad) in Wright’s rants. And there might even be some frame that shows the youtube clips were taken “out of context.
Except the church has taken the sermons offline rather than share them with the public. So it looks like a coverup.
Hardly an honest church when it comes to dealing with this issue openly.
woah
If God is not for us and against black people, then he is a murderer, and we had better kill him.
White theology will accept only the love of God which participates in the destruction of the black enemy.
What we need is the divine love as expressed in White Power, which is the power of white people to destroy their oppressors here and now by any means at their disposal.
Is Obama’s grandmother still living?
Are we suppose to vote for a man who is the son of a woman who most likely at a young age with no experience or the benefit of thinking got caught up in idealistic ideas and obviously never had to look at both sides?
I don’t think so.
“The first time he mentions his white grandmother is to call her a racist.I’m so proud of my grandson.”
I thought so too. I was wondering if he ran that past her before he used it. Do they stay in touch? He is so “black” that it’s hard to believe he can even be loving toward the woman. Wow.
“Why isn’t anyone asking Obama if he agrees with te tenets of black liberation theology?”
According to Hannity, Obama wrote in one of his books that he agreed with black liberation theology.
Whoa is right. That line should be on the tongues of every talk show host in the country. Wow.
Plus Obama attributes all of this, white and black racism, to corporate greed and class warfare. This was a deeply left wing speech.
What's the problem? You are not a racists?
Lincoln said "You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time."
I guess Barry Hussein just found that out.
HE AIN'T FOOLING NOBODY ANYMORE.
Yes, but he's ashamed of her, so he's keeping her hidden from the press.
Is "systematized" even a word?
That is the bigger problem with this church. Liberation theology in all its forms boils down to socialism. This guy is a far lefty masquerading as a moderate unifier. So far a bunch of gullible white people are buying it.
All racial nationalism is FASCIST, yet the left has indulged it since the days of Franz Fanon.
ObamaMomma, ObamaPapaw, and ObamaBigmomma.
Naughty, naughty Bigmomma.
There is nothing Godly or Christian about that theology.
Back when Romney’s religion was the issue, I was approached for a “man-on-the-street” opinion. The questioner was excited when I revealed that I was Catholic. She was a somewhat dumbfounded by my answer: “Obama’s church should be much more frightening to people than Romney’s.” Needless to say, I didn’t make the cut.
Any time someone claims that “black liberation theology” isn’t racist, challenge them to substitute the word “black” with “white” and re-read the core tenets of that “theology” to see how plainly and malignantly racist it truly is.
Yep, White Grandma lives in an apartment in Hawaii. Reportedly, she’s off-limits to the media.
Fortunately, we don't really pay much attention to what the "mainstream" (yeah, right!) media directs us to believe.
I think this thing of throwing his grandmother under the bus to save his own skin may end up being a pretty big deal ... probably not in the MSM, but on the Internet, talk radio, maybe late night comedy.
The more you think about it, the more seaminess it oozes.
As we noted yesterday, Wright credits James Cone of New York's Union Theological Seminary with having undertaken this systematization. Here again is Cone's description of black liberation theology: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.
Throughout the early 1990's during the Latasha Harlans, Rodney King and OJ Simpson cases, local talk radio here in L.A. was rife with black venom and hatred of the type spewed by "Rev." Wright. I heard it on radio and saw it in the streets where I live and work. So Wright's screed did not shock me. However, this so-called black theology, as expressed in the above quote, packs an enormous wallop.
Wow! This is something way beyond hatred. This is a militancy almost at the level of jihad-spewing Muslim clerics.
Do we really need to ask? Well, maybe not here we don’t, but hasn’t he revealed himself?
Certainly makes his reasons for his refusal to wear the American flag lapel pin that much more insidious.
Did I hear Obama correctly? Did he actually say that his aged grandmother, who loves him more than anything in the world, was guilty of making upsetting racist comments? Well, isn’t that a fine remembrance! Hi there, grandma — Welcome to my campaign!
From the article:
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.
Didn't "Rev." Wright say Jesus was black?
If anyone should have doubts Barack Obama subscribes to a similar view of the United States of America as does his pastor, Jeremiah Wright, then his open refusal to wear the Stars and Stripes lapel pin and his publicly announced decision to not offer a salutation during playing or singing of the National Anthem ought settle any questions.
Yes, I believe so.
Black Theology . . . and the difference between this and what is taught in the Mosques is what???
The first time he mentions his white grandmother is to call her a racist.I’m so proud of my grandson.
If I was his white grandma I would kick that ungrateful POS to the curb - I don’t care what color he is. If I fed and clothed my grandson and he was ashamed of me because of color that would be the last time he saw my white butt.
and what's better is that they will use Hillary's campaign rhetoric to boot.
Paid the rent at the expensive Penahu School also.
When he told the anecdote about his grandmother being afraid of black men — implying she is a racist — he left out the part that, when he moves to the South Side of Chicago in 1984, he eventually discovers that, like his grandmother, he’s sometimes scared of black males on the street, too. (from: “Dreams...”
putting his grandmother, who took over for his white momma and black father (who abandoned him and split to kenya)
in the same category as wright is disgusting, he should be ashamed, is he so ashamed that his mother was white, that he hides is grandmother?
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