NAACP assails N.C. Republican ad (an effort to smear the black community and “prophetic ministers”)

FayObserver ^ | 4/26/08 | Mike Baker

[kcvl]

Campaigning in a church (AGAIN!)

Rev. William Barber of Greenleaf Christian Church and Liv Boykins of Rep. Conyer's staff at the pulpit

But Barber shared more with his flock. "We must remember," he said as he spoke in support of Conyers' universal health care bill, "we must always know,'Power concedes nothing. It never has and it never will without a struggle,'" the pastor hearkened to the words of Frederick Douglass. He told his church that being ready for a fight to secure this most basic of rights should underscore the validity of the cause.

"I wonder do those so bent on saying Merry Christmas understand that when they cut student loans, Medicare and Medicaid, programs for the poor they reduce merry to an empty phase and their action look nothing like Christ."

The Leadership of the NAACP is the Lobby for the NAACP period!

Our business is the business of Civil Rights and Social Advancement. We are to do the work of the people and the work of justice.

[Godwin1]

“It inserts racist sentiments.” It sure does: Wright is a racist. His lies—America created AIDS and his overt racial hatred—mocking the missing and almost certainly murdered teenager Holloway because she was “a white girl from Alabama”—is designed to inflame racial hatred. I can understand why Obama’s political allies don't want this stuff exposed. But I'm surprised and disappointed that others think it is racist to expose Wright as a racist.

[FreedomPoster]

>>The Victim Industry needs new technology.

OK, LOL on that one. And you’re spot-on.

[kcvl]

Rev. William Barber on Duke Lacrosse alleged rape...

Barber, the state conference president of the North Carolina chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, released a statement hours earlier detailing 10 steps that he thinks should be taken in order to ensure “justice, integrity and healing” in the wake of recent accusations that three members of the men’s lacrosse team raped, choked and sodomized an exotic dancer March 13.

“The current events and allegations surrounding the Duke lacrosse team and a twenty-seven-year-old African American student-mother taps into deep emotional and historical themes of our flawed society,” Barber said in the statement.

The statement called for a more proactive approach on the part of the University. Barber encouraged the community to denounce any code of silence, show compassion for the alleged victim and push forward, among other things.

“We have been there when women have been victimized and the actions of the perpetrators were dismissed by suggestions that the victim herself deserved what happened to her or by statements like, ‘Boys will be boys,’” he said in the statement. “How we proceed will have great impact on our ability to remain a community and meet the demands of justice.”

Speaking from the pulpit of the Divinity School’s Goodson Chapel, Barber, Divinity ‘89 and an adjunct professor, said the alleged incident brings to the forefront important issues of violence, racial degradation, alcohol and elitism at the University.

“I want to spend a moment talking to you about trouble at the table,” Barber began. “Ain’t no need to run from it tonight. We can’t come here tonight and act like this is an ordinary night and an ordinary service.... There is a victim.”

“We’re in the midst of a crisis. Not nobody, not even a dog deserves to be gang-raped,” Barber said. “We don’t want to rush to judgement, but neither do we want to delay justice.”

[Binghamton_native]

The group said the ad takes Wright’s words out of context in an effort to smear the black community and “prophetic ministers.”

On the PBS interview Wright complained about being taken out of context. Well, Hugh Hewitt took care of that yesterday, playing 2 complete sermons on his show. They are posted at townhall.com

http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/blog

I'm afraid the full sermon isn't going to be of much help to Wright.

[Enchante]

Man, that dude is much too well fed to complain about lack of funding for any programs. He could go on a diet and feed half the state with the remaining funds......

[hinckley buzzard]

"It’s a fundamentally race-baiting ad,” said Rev. William Barber, state NAACP president. “And it inserts racist sentiments.”

I for one have had more than my fill of psychopathic black con-artists masquerading as preachers who use malignant racial whining to lie to their own hapless constituencies.

Jeremiah Wright and Barak Hussein Obama are obscenely anti-American-- enemies of this Republic which normal healthy people cherish. To say that they are "too extreme" is charitable. They are beyond extremists and it has nothing to do with the happenstance of their race.

[TexasCajun]

Yo Obama, Don't Hate Me Bro!

[hinckley buzzard]

Thanks for the pictures of the psychopath in question. I note a startling similarity to Muktada al-Sadr...enough to make one wonder...

Mookie and Rev-rund Willyum...turkeys of a feather.

[Godwin1]

Is this the same racist North Carolina NAACP that was prepared to lynch a group Of young athletes on the word of a woman of doubtful background and flawed virtue? Is this a state chapter of the organization that prepared and distributed posters suggesting that Bush had been a member of a lynch mob? Why would anyone listen to the NAACP?

[uncbob]

AS bad as the Rev is on that ad the real story is the tumult and cheering by the congregation -—they ALL hate WHITEY

[Mike Darancette]

We cannot elect a man as president who is immune from criticism.

[freema]

I guess the dumb ass doesn’t know about the Wilmington Race Riot of 1898, started by the Democrats, or Margaret Sanger’s Eugenics program...

[Alia]

There's plenty about Rev/Mr/Dr/Rev Mr Barber to go around. The following events taking place at Smithfield's was in re the Rev's support of "illegal immigrants" (aka: People of Color as the Good Rev would most certainly coin it) and was written by a pro-illegal immigrant website:

---Civil Rights & Faith Leaders Ejected

On July 19th managers at Smithfield's Tar Heel plant refused entry to a delegation of civil rights and religious leaders, forcing them to stand outside in the 100 degree North Carolina heat for an hour before escorting them off company property—evcn though they had been invited to meet with company officials!

The group had an appointment to meet with plant managers to discuss the treatment of workers, but when they arrived, a company spokesman demanded that they relocate to what he called a "neutral" site to conduct their meeting, apparently concerned that the presence of the delegation would encourage workers to speak out against plant conditions and injury rates.

When the delegation declined to move off site, Smithfield officials refused to allow them inside the plant, keeping them in the parking lot for an hour before calling security to escort them off the premises.

The delegation was made up of a handful of North Carolina's best known and respected voices of faith and civil rights, including North Carolina NAACP President William J. Barber, Rev. John Mendez of the National Council of Churches, Rev. Nelson Johnson from Interfaith Worker Justice, Rev. Joyce Hollyday from Word and World, and Rev. Gaston Warner of Duke Chapel, a Methodist divinity school.

During the standoff, the delegation was joined by more than one hundred additional religious and lay leaders, who were in the area for a social justice conference [MY NOTE: RIIIIIGHT...]. Hearing about the actions of Smithfield managers, the group changed their afternoon plans, turning out to stand alongside the delegates and demand that Smithfield leaders uphold their promise to the faith and civil rights leaders.

Read more from the Associated Press coverage of the standoff.

[Alia]

And from a pro-UNION website:

-- Smithfield has been engaged in a long public exchange with the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, which has been trying to organize the plant for more than a decade. The plant is the largest hog slaughterhouse in the world, processing up to 32,000 hog a day in Tar Heel, a tiny town about 80 miles south of Raleigh.

--end snip

[alarm rider]

VERY well said. Salutes.

AR

[Alia]

Obama's Pastor Slurs Italians in Latest Magazine By Penny Starr
CNSNews.com Senior Staff Writer
March 26, 2008

(CNSNews.com) - Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., pastor emeritus of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago where Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) has been a member for two decades, slurred Italians in a piece published in the most recent issue of Trumpet Newsmagazine.

Rev. Jeremiah Wright writes of Jesus' enemies: "(Jesus') enemies had their opinion about Him," Wright wrote in a eulogy of the late scholar Asa Hilliard in the November/December 2007 issue. "The Italians for the most part looked down their garlic noses at the Galileans."

Wright continued, "From the circumstances surrounding Jesus' birth (in a barn in a township that was under the Apartheid Roman government that said his daddy had to be in), up to and including the circumstances surrounding Jesus' death on a cross, a Roman cross, public lynching Italian style. ...

"He refused to be defined by others and Dr. Asa Hilliard also refused to be defined by others. The government runs everything from the White House to the schoolhouse, from the Capitol to the Klan, white supremacy is clearly in charge, but Asa, like Jesus, refused to be defined by an oppressive government because Asa got his identity from an Omnipotent God."

Every issue of the magazine published last year included Wright's column, "The Message," in which he covered a range of subjects, including his views on other African-American churches as expressed in his April 2007 commentary "Facing the Rising Sun."

"In a world that is controlled by white supremacy, in a country that is on its way to hell in a hand basket because of lying politicians, in a culture that still thinks 'white is right' and with young people who do not have a clue as to our story, our history, our legacy or our destiny, we still have African-American Christians who are more concerned about 'bling bling' than about freeing our minds," Wright wrote.

---end

...and the NC NAACP thinks quoting the Rev Wright on exactly his racism is racist thing to do..

Yes, Obama Wright is too extreme for our country.

[Alia]

I suppose Rev Barber might also consider Eduardo Pena, actively involved with trekking illegal immigrants into the State of NC, a "prophetic minister".

Eduardo is also a Route Coordinator for The Miami Route. He and Rev Barber do NC State Boycotts together.

---snip

The United Food and Commercial Workers Union accepted the NAACP’s involvement by softening its position on how the election should be conducted.

“We’re moving from saying, ‘We want this, and you want that,’ to saying, ‘We’re ready for a conversation,’” said union organizer Eduardo Pena of Lumberton. “If you get caught up in all the details when you haven’t sat down and talked, it’s not doing any good to any of the parties.”

--end snip

But then again... Eduardo has this route to stick up for....

Now to cut to the chase... Rev Wright and Bill Moyers are both United Church of Christ. United Church of Christ is going FOR gay marriage and against traditional marriage according to those at the synod where this was agreed upon.

So I guess its okay to have a union of pro-union workers and Illegal Immigrant Peddlers get together to force a privately owned company to go... UNION. Buy then again, John Edwards did his own campaigning at Smithfields, so I guess it really all boils down to Gay Marriage and Why Dems have got to push Universal Healthcare for illegals, polygamists, etc..

Some prophecy, Rev Barber.

[Alia]

http://www.counterpunch.org/johnson01312007.html

lOOK FOR THE BOLD

In early January, 4,000 workers at the Tar Heel plant signed a petition requesting a paid holiday on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, which is recognized as a state holiday in North Carolina. When they presented the petition to Smithfield Vice President Larry Johnson on January 9, he refused to accept it.

According to Smithfield worker Keith Ludlum, the company explained its refusal in part by noting that workers were recently allowed to vote on whether they could have a paid holiday for Martin Luther King Day or Easter. The workers chose Easter, but Ludlum said that the vote left a bad taste in his mouth.

"What we're telling the company," said Ludlum, "is they're asking us to choose between Jesus and Martin Luther King. We think they're both important and we should honor both of them."

Ludlum said that Tar Heel workers were "extremely upset" that Smithfield refused to even consider the petition. According to Ludlum, "It got a lot of workers saying they're not going to show up for work, or that they'll show up, get the line started, get some hogs killed and hanging, and then walk out."

BRIDGING THE DIVIDE

Campaigning around Martin Luther King Day allowed UFCW organizers to tackle one of their biggest obstacles: the divide between Tar Heel's Black and Latino workers. Last spring, when immigrants rallied across the country demanding fair immigration reform, many of Smithfield's Latino workers walked off the job in solidarity, while most Black workers remained at work.

Ludlum explained that the vote to choose between Easter and Martin Luther King Day reflected, and exploited, those divisions: "A majority of the workers at the plant were Latino and immigrant, they didn't know the history of Martin Luther King, but of course they know what Easter is."

To bridge the Black/Latino divide, Smithfield workers organized an educational campaign during the lead-up to Martin Luther King Day. Said Ludlum, "We've been passing out flyers in Spanish explaining the history of Dr. King, the fact that he fought for all people, that when he took the bullet he was supporting sanitation workers in Memphis who wanted to be treated with respect."

According to Eduardo Peña, who's been organizing in Tar Heel for more than four years, the educational work paid off. Said Peña: "We've got Latino workers here ready to walk out for the holiday. I hear them saying things like, 'People assume that we don't know who King was-his struggle was the same struggle we're going through now.'"

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Yep, that's how the left played it: Demanding workers choose between Jesus Christ and MLK.

Ah. Yes. The "prophetic minister" thingee....

[Alia]

There’s only a ton of links between Barber’s “Greenleaf Christian Church” and “United Church of Christ”. As in Trinity “United Church of Christ”. Darn. There’s a specific link between Greenleaf and Rev Wright’s Trinity but it has been removed!