Posted on 06/04/2008 10:06:49 AM PDT by conimbricenses
1. Search for the videos. We know the dates and titles now.
2. Look for dates when Barack Obama was known to be in attendance. For example, the archive.org calendar on Trinity's website has several listings for events where Barack Obama signed books after the sermons. That means he was there on the date corresponding to the sermon. Then look for him in the video of the audience.
Nice contribution. Good work.
When Your Past Catches Up With You! Sunday, August 7 2005 6:00 PM by Rev. Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr.
Snicker....
Afraid Of Sanity! Sunday, January 2 2005 11:00 AM by Rev. Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright
Well, I guess he’s an expert on THAT subject...
Shouldn’t somebody save them to a file or something, quickly? If the dems get word that the sermons are there, they will scrub them before we can bat an eye.
Surely Barry was present for this one.
BTTT
Diary of a Mad Black Woman Tuesday, August 2 2005 7:00 PM by Rev. Dr. Otis Moss III
Hehehe - not Wright, but ya gotta wonder if Michelle’s name came up...
Is that the Michelle Obama "Whitey" speech?
January 24, 2007.
Barack Obama DEFINITELY was in attendance at Wright's sermon on that day because he had an advertised book signing immediately after the sermon.
http://web.archive.org/web/20070124175402/http://www.tucc.org/home.htm
Here's what's known so far:
The Michelle Obama Rant Tape was filmed between June 26th - July 1st 2004 in Chicago, IL at the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition Conference at Trinity United Church: specifically the Women's Event.
Michelle Obama appeared as a panelist alongside Mrs. Khadijah Farrakhan and Mrs. James Meeks.
Bill Clinton spoke during the Conference, as did Bill Cosby and other speakers, but not at the panel Michelle attended.
Michelle Obama spoke at the Women's Event, but referenced Bill Clinton in her rant -— his presence at the conference was the impetus for her raving, it seems.
For about 30 minutes, Michelle Obama launched into a rant about the evils of America, and how America is to blame for the problems of Africa. Michelle personally blamed President Clinton for the deaths of millions of Africans and said America is responsible for the genocide of the Tutsis and other ethnic groups. She then launched into an attack on “whitey”, and talked about solutions to black on black crime in the realm of diverting those actions onto white America. Her rant was fueled by the crowd: they reacted strongly to what she said, so she got more passionate and enraged, and that's when she completely loses it and says things that have made the mouths drop of everyone who's seen this.
The “tape” is a DVD that Trinity United sold on its website, and possibly offered free for download up until March 2008 when Trinity's site was scrubbed and the DVDs were no longer offered for sale.
This outburst happened just one month before the 2004 Democratic Convention, when Barack Obama delivered the keynote address.
UPDATED: It seems really easy for Chicago local media, especially, to determine whether or not this is the right tape of Michelle Obama. All they need to do is pull the tape from this 2004 Conference (particularly the panel Michelle was on), which should be readily available (since this was a very large multi-day event). All a journalist needs to do is watch this tape: if this is not the right one, they'd know immediately and this issue would be debunked. But, logically, this seems to be the most likely source of the tape people have been talking about at NoQuarterUSA.net”
http://hillbuzz.blogspot.com/2008/06/whats-on-michelle-obama-rant-tape.html#links
Supposedly, it was the Giuliani campaign that found this dvd.
Here's another dvd for which we've got a narrow number of dates, at least.
When trying to use the Way Back Machine - http://web.archive.org/ - on all these sites, be aware that the owner of the website can contact them and have pages that were in the archive removed.
That is why no one will be able to find the Mrs Obama speech at the Rainbow/Push conference in July of 2004 on the net. Gives a whole new meaning to the term “white washed”, eh? Maybe this whole dust up needs to be labeled, “Whiteywashedgate”!
“The Gospel According To Katrina Sunday, October 2 2005”
I’m sure that one has some tasty snippets on it..........
Rainbow/PUSH Coalition holds 33rd annual conference in Chicago
With "2004: A Year Of Critical Choices for Inclusion and Growth" as its theme, the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition and Citizenship Education Fund held its 33rd annual conference in Chicago.
The six-day conference at the Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers also marked the 20th anniversary of Rainbow/PUSH Founder and President the Rev. Jesse Jackson's 1984 U.S. presidential campaign--the first serious bid by a Black American for the nation's highest office.
Rev. Jackson, noted that the theme of the conference reflects Rainbow/PUSH's ongoing mission to protect and expand civil rights in every aspect of American life--including access to quality health care, education, law and justice.
"In our quest for civil rights and social justice, the stakes have never been higher and the resistance is more tense. Nevertheless, our ability to affect change has never been greater. We can elect a U.S. Senator, Barack Obama, the first (Black) male since Reconstruction. We can determine the outcome of the presidency. We can open up doors to corporate America. We can expand our gains, but if we do not unite and rally together, we risk losing it all."
Jackson stressed the need to vote in the November 2 presidential election. "We know that we will focus on counting the votes. So many votes were stolen in the last election that it is imperative we keep our eyes on the prize-and this time, the prize is every single voter, every single ballot." He added, "You know, the White House is public housing--and we plan to remove George W. Bush from the public housing rolls in November."
Among the conference highlights was entertainer Bill Cosby's appearance at the "Parent Power for Excellence" breakfast. The outspoken advocate for education was welcomed to the conference with a standing ovation. He stood by his comments he made at the 50th anniversary celebration of the Brown v. Board of Education event in Washington, D.C., about the values of some low-income Blacks when it comes to education and social behavior (JET, June 14). At the time, Cosby criticized some poor Blacks for their bad grammar and accused them of squandering opportunities the Civil Rights Movement gave them.
He said at the PUSH conference that those who criticized him for making the comments were trying in vain to hide the Black community's "dirty laundry."
"Let me tell you something: Your dirty laundry gets out of school at 2:30 every day, it's cursing and calling each other n--r as they're walking up and down the street. They think they're hip. They can't read; they can't write. They're laughing and giggling and they're going nowhere."
Cosby also said Blacks can't blame Whites for problems such as teen pregnancy and the school dropout rates that plague some segments of the Black community. "For me there is a time ... when we have to turn the mirror around. Because for me it is almost analgesic to talk about what the White man is doing against us. And it keeps a person frozen in their seat, it keeps you frozen in the hole you're sitting in."
Rev. Jackson said, "Our people agree with Bill. Bill took it to another level. His point was to lift up and not tear down.... Poor people can't have poor habits. Poor people must have rich habits to get out of poverty." He added, "Bill Cosby's point was, after 50 years of access to education, that there are some people doing less than their best. None of us should do less than our best."
Throughout the conference, a pledge drive asked parents to sign a seven-point pledge whose promises include taking the child to school, meeting with teachers to assess the child's progress, and coming to school to pick up the child's report card.
The conference also featured several workshops including "Hip Hop Fusion" to educate America's youth about their civic and adult responsibilities--from voting to job hunting to money management. The workshops also exposed the youth to some of the nation's top decision makers and leaders.
Jackson noted, "Every generation has a responsibility to move our community forward. The hip-hop community must use its own special talents to go forward by skills and strength, and not self-destruct through violence."
During the conference, Rainbow/PUSH and Citizenship Education Fund announced its extensive college scholarship program that will award up to $125,000 in scholarships over the next four years.
During an interview with Rev. Jackson, former President Bill Clinton, whose memoirs My Life is a No. 1 best-seller, discussed everything from his impoverished childhood to Bush administration's policies on taxes at the conference. "If you think that's good policy, you should ratify it. If not, we've got a better deal for you with John Kerry and the Democrats in November."
He noted that the Bush administration had "decided to go back to Reaganomics, trickle-down economics with a vengeance ..."
Pastor Wright... TOO HOT FOR TV!
Found this one by Obama’s new pastor, Rev. Otis Moss — before Barry “resigned” from the church, that is...
It’s not listed in your list here; it is evidently newer.
http://www.theafricanamericanpulpit.com/files/videoroom.asp?name=OtisMoss.wmv
If you make it through the exaggerated oh-so-reverent slow drone of the first four minutes of scripture reading, it then descends into some sort of reading of an imagined letter from an African-American version of Moses, to Joshua. The gist of which is oppression by and then liberation from euro-whiteys. I didn’t see Obama in the audience, however.
Obama reportedly had tapes of some of the sermons he did not attend. Wonder if he saved any of them and would loan them to members of the media?
Believe...... hummmm..
Is that another variation on the “story” that Jesus and the Jews were oppressed by “white Europeans” in Rome, Italy?
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