Posted on 06/24/2008 3:00:16 PM PDT by lonster
Another good one from the current, supposedly subdued Trinity preacher.
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=hunterandthompson&feature=iv
He has announced that he will find a new church after the election. So he is a Christian without a home.
Reverend Wright baptized his children, so I’m going to assume that he was baptized there also.
I think Mr. Obama is claiming to have been an atheist up to his conversion at Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago.
SSHHHHHHHHH you’re ruining it and I nominate you to be thrown out of the thing we have.
WHEREAS: The institution of Slavery is internationally recognized as crime for which there is no statute of limitations, AND
WHEREAS: Uncompensated labor was demanded from enslaved Africans and their descendants for more than two centuries on U.S. soil; AND
WHEREAS: The principle that reparations is the appropriate remedy whenever government unjustly abrogates the rights of a domestic group or foreign people whose rights such government is obligated to protect or uphold has been internationally recognized including, but not limited to:
- German reparations to the State of Israel for the Holocaust
-United States reparations to Japanese Americans for illegal internment
-Reparations by the United Kingdom to the Maori people of New Zealand, AND
WHEREAS: This violation of human rights of Africans led a long legacy of subordination, segregation, and discrimination against descendants of slaves, AND
WHEREAS: In January 2000 a bill was presented in the U. S. House of Representatives: THE COMMISSION TO STUDY REPARATIONS PROPOSAL FOR AFRICAN AMERICANS’ ACT (H.R. 40) by Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.), “To
acknowledge the fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality and inhumanity of slavery in the United States and in 13 American colonies between 1865 and to establish a commission to examine the institution of slavery, subsequently de jure and de facto racial and economic discrimination against African Americans, and the impact of those forces on living African-Americans, to make recommendations to the Congress on appropriate remedies and other purposes” AND
WHEREAS: In the century and a half since the abolition of slavery the United States government has never acknowledged or taken responsibility for its role in the enslavement of Africans and the promotion of White Supremacy, AND
WHEREAS: The experience and legacy of enslavement, segregation and discrimination continues to limit the life chances and opportunities of African Americans, AND
WHEREAS: Christians must not only continue to call for the release of the captives (Leviticus 25:52) but also to proclaim liberty, bring good tidings to the afflicted, and build up the ancient ruins, (Isaiah 61) AND
WHEREAS: General Synod of the United Church of Christ has voted ten resolutions, statements, and pronouncements on racism since 1963; AND
WHEREAS: the Chicago Metropolitan Association at its Spring Annual Meeting held May 5, 2001 adopted a Resolution supporting Reparations For Slavery.
THEREFORE: be it resolved that the Illinois Conference of the United Church of Christ meeting June 6, 7 and 8, 2002, go on record supporting Reparations for Slavery and a process of study for; AND
THEREFORE: be it further resolved, that this resolution be communicated to the Associations, Congregations, and related agencies of the Illinois Conference for study and reflection and that the Illinois Conference; AND
THEREFORE: be it further resolved, that the Illinois Conference instruct its staff to communicate our support to Representative John Conyers for House resolution 40 which he presented to the U.S. House of Representatives; AND
THEREFORE: be it further resolved, that the Conference Minister write letters to all Illinois Members of the US House of Representatives asking them to sign on as co-sponsors of the resolution; AND
THEREFORE: be it further resolved, that the Illinois Conference UCC explore what actions it might take to seek forgiveness for its
participation in the benefits of slavery and explore creating models of Reparations that might be adapted by other ecclesiastical and governmental bodies; AND
THEREFORE: be it further resolved, that this Resolution be enabled by the appointment of a Reparations Task Force, that includes members of the sponsoring congregations (Trinity UCC and University Church) and that the Task Force be instructed to engage associations, congregations and related agencies of the Conference in study and action; AND
THEREFORE: be it finally resolved, that funds for these efforts come from the Conference Justice and Peace Funds.
Presented to Annual Meeting June 2001
Amended and passed at Annual Meeting June 2002”
Here is a link to the complete text of the resolution:
http://www.millionsforreparations.com/theologicalresolution.html
The US Gives Trillions of Dollars in Reparations to African Americans (humor / video)
Obama’s mother was an atheist so at best he was what he is today, a secular self-absorbed developing marxist with a socialist voting record. And deep associations with a known American terrorist.
Perhaps it’s a coincidence he has such ties to such a select circle of American haters or perhaps not.
Doesn’t everyone entering into public life have a coming out fundraiser with terrorists?
It’s the American way isn’t it?
Bingo.
“Since the days of Weather Underground Ayers has advocated a viewpoint that argues that the fundamental issue in American life is “white skin privilege” - that white Americans benefit from being white at the expense of blacks. As Ayers’ wife Bernardine Dohrn wrote in the introduction to a 2002 book she co-authored with Ayers and their fellow Weather Underground member Jeff Jones:
“One cannot talk separately about class, gender, culture, immigration, ethnicity, or biology without being intertwined with race, as Katrina and the systematic destruction of a major black U.S. city reinforms us. We were waking up [in the late 1960s]. What to do once we had knowledge of the dimensions of white skin privilege? How to destroy white supremacy? Well, that is another matter. And as burning today as it was then.”
Ayers himself wrote on his website in a January 19, 2008 essay on school reform:
“The dominant narrative in contemporary school reform is once again focused on exclusion and disadvantage, race and class, black and white. ‘Across the US,’ the National Governor’s Association declared in 2005, ‘a gap in academic achievement persists between minority and disadvantaged students and their white counterparts.’ This is the commonly referenced and popularly understood ‘racial achievement gap,’ and it drives education policy at every level. Interestingly, whether heartfelt or self-satisfied, the narrative never mentions the monster in the room: white supremacy….Gloria Ladson-Billings upends all of this with an elegant reversal: there is no achievement gap, she argues, but actually a glancing reflection of something deeper and more profound—America has a profound education debt. The educational inequities that began with the annihilation of native peoples and the enslavement of Africans, the conquest of the continent and the importation of both free labor and serfs, transformed into apartheid education, something anemic, inferior, inadequate, and oppressive. Over decades and centuries the debt has accumulated and is passed from generation to generation, and it continues to grow and pile up.””
http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/05/23/the-monster-in-the-room-does-obama-support-reparations/
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