Alpha Kappa Alpha Denounces Inflammatory Ad Attacking Michelle Obama

Yahoo! Finance News ^ | May 24, 2008

[Ezekiel]

Pepe Le Pew there looks like she just graduated from the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls.

Hahaha, that sure works on a number of levels.

[Eva]

So, they think that the Republican ad is racist, sexist and unpatriotic. Did I miss any criticism?

Well, if Michelle Obama was not a Black Supremecist, who has been spouting the rhetoric of Jerimiah Wright, we wouldn’t be having this conversation.

Here’s a sample of the BLT thinking from an article by Stanley Kurtz. After you read it, you tell me who is the racist.

Cone understood his task as both “radical” and “prophetic.” It was radical in demanding deep transformation in the structure of society and prophetic in its determinedly angry and denunciatory tone. Black Theology and Black Power, says Cone in the book’s introduction, is “written with a definite attitude, the attitude of an angry black man.” Cone demands and commends anger, criticizes contemporary theologians for the “coolness” of their writings, and notes that “there is some evidence that Jesus got angry.” In the book, Cone sometimes addresses or refers to whites as simply “the oppressor” or “Whitey.”

The black intellectual’s goal, says Cone, is to “aid in the destruction of America as he knows it.” Such destruction requires both black anger and white guilt. The black-power theologian’s goal is to tell the story of American oppression so powerfully and precisely that white men will “tremble, curse, and go mad, because they will be drenched with the filth of their evil.” In the preface to his 1970 book, A Black Theology of Liberation, Wright wrote: “There will be no peace in America until whites begin to hate their whiteness, asking from the depths of their being: ‘How can we become black?’”

[T. Buzzard Trueblood]

"The impulse to take a statement of hers out of context and make it a focus of an unpatriotic ad is to trivialize her and to attempt to devalue her," said McKinzie. "This is unacceptable!"

Wha?

[SueRae]

I must have missed her proclamation on Reverend Wright’s racism. /sarc/

[weegee]

It is a clip taken out of context. To put her comment in proper context, you need to read her college thesis as well. < /s >

[Charles Martel]

Now, that shows that she can thrash about in the rank undergrowth of the English language as well as anyone, but it actually says nothing at all.

I'm impressed.

Actually, it's just a fancy-pants variation of "It's the economy, Stupid!"

"Economic psyche"? Good grief.