Posted on 07/08/2012 12:13:45 PM PDT by Nachum
Speaking at the 100th anniversary of a Washington, D.C. church, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright knocked President Barack Obama and accused America’s elite academic institutions of instilling racism.
Wright opened up his sermon at the Florida Avenue Baptist Church Sunday by reading from the Book of Isaiah and speaking of the importance of foundational stones. Using that as a metaphor, Wright proceeded to list dozens of names that he suggested were foundational stones for the black community, from Nat Turner to Emmett Till to W.E.B Du Bois.
He then seemingly took a shot at his former parishioner, President Obama.
“They are the foundation,” he said of the names he listed. “These stones of memory shall serve as a sign among you so that in the future when your children, who only know Oprah and Obama, when our children who speak the language of Nas, 50 Cent, Lil Wayne (Weezy) and Ludacris. When your children ask you who are these people and what do these stones mean, these stones mean, you can tell them what it is that God did to get us from where we were to where we are.”
“This is how God brought us out,” he continued. “This is how God brought us over, this is how God brought us through.”
Notably absent from Wright’s list of names was the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.
Wright later went on to suggest that America’s elite universities infect African Americans with “white racist DNA.”
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What a misleading headline.
Citing Oprah and Obama as the present ones the children know is not a ‘seemingly’ hit on Obama.
Maybe that is because Dr. King was a Republican who sought to work within the system.
Nat Turner, on the other hand, is a "foundation stone." Nat Turner and his followers killed about 60 white people. Among the 57 documented are 40 children (many of whom happened to be attending school at the time), with most of the remainder being women and elderly men, many of whom were too poor to even own slaves. But they were all soft targets of opportunity.
As a result of Turner's rampage, 56 of his followers were captured and executed. Those with lesser involvement were sold out of the state. A handful were acquitted. Up to 200 more innocent blacks throughout the south were simply lynched in retaliation.
Sadly, a bill being seriously debated in the Virginia legislature to outlaw slavery and compensate slave owners under the same successful model used by William Wilberforce in England, was voted down and the grip of slavery was tightened, including the outlawing of educating slaves as a result.
Great role model, eh?
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