Malik Zulu Shabazz and members of the New Black Panther Party at Saviours' Day 2007 in Detroit, MI.
Posted on 04/28/2008 2:08:51 PM PDT by neverdem
Curious sentence. What's he trying to say here? That obama speaks arabic? Or that obama is an arab?
And what does he mean by stop trying to scare folks by giving them an Arabic name as if it's some sort of a disease...
obama CHOSE call himself BARAK HUSSEIN OBAMA to identify with his Kenyan father.
READING BWTEEN THE LINES. LINK.
The question no one wants to answer - particularly Mr. Obama and his supporters, is, "Why do you think he has an Arabic name? Why does his father have an Arabic name? Why does every ancestor on his father's side have an Arabic name?"
The answer is obvious: They have Arabic names because his father's side of the family tree is Arabic.
And the 'reverend' Wright knows it!
Your analogy doesn’t fit.
My grandmother was born a Canadian Methodist in 1906, Ontario. She was raised Christian by her parents, lived a Christian life and died a Christian at the age of 91.
Her mother named her Leila, a common Arabic name.
Her mother had no ties to the Arabic world, but liked the sound of the name.
There are children on my street that have Arabic names, and yet they go to Christian churches and have no contact with the Arabic world.
In America, people are commonly given names that do not fit with their nationality, their religion or their culture. Many black families name their children these Arabic names without realizing any connection between a name and a Middle Eastern culture. They use these names and believe that they are part of an African-American culture.
Obama did not name himself. His parents did. But, in using his given name is not dishonoring anyone. If he didn’t use his given name many would say, “What his he trying to hide! We know what his first name truly is!” He is using the name given to him by birth, a decision he had no say in.
You are trying to divine the meaning of his given name. Do you know what his mother’s thoughts were when she named him that name? Tell me if you can why he named one of his daughters Natasha. When he did so, was he honoring a Russian culture?
I gave my daughter a French name, and it was the first name of a significant teacher in my life. This teacher’s first name was Andrea and she was Jewish with Russian ancestry. Our family is neither French, Russian or Jewish. There is no cultural significance in the giving of this name. There is only the significance that my husband and I liked the name and I remember my teacher fondly when I smile at my daughter.
Sometimes a name is just a name.
Mr. Obama recalled the opening lines of the Arabic call to prayer, reciting them with a first-rate accent. In a remark that seemed delightfully uncalculated (it’ll give Alabama voters heart attacks), Mr. Obama described the call to prayer as “one of the prettiest sounds on Earth at sunset.”
Moreover, Mr. Obama’s own grandfather in Kenya was a Muslim. Mr. Obama never met his grandfather and says he isn’t sure if his grandfather’s two wives were simultaneous or consecutive, or even if he was Sunni or Shiite. (O.K., maybe Mr. Obama should just give up on Alabama.)...
I do not condone Wright’s church or Obama’s connection to it.
And yet, he doesn’t belong to Farrakhan’s group, nor do he and his wife worship at a Mosque.
I believe Obama connected with Wright in order to establish a bond with African-Americans. It may cost him politically, but the white Christians in Iowa who voted for Obama were probably more concerned about ethanol when they voted, or a Democratic ticket, than they were with Wright’s rhetoric, or Obama’s religious affiliation.
For example, his brother Roy opted for Islam over Christianity, as Obama recounted when describing his 1992 wedding.
“The person who made me proudest of all,” Obama wrote, “was Roy. Actually, now we call him Abongo, his Luo name, for two years ago he decided to reassert his African heritage. He converted to Islam, and has sworn off pork and tobacco and alcohol.”
Abongo “Roy” Obama is a Luo activist and a militant Muslim who argues that the black man must “liberate himself from the poisoning influences of European culture.” He urges his younger brother to embrace his African heritage.
http://www.theobamafile.com/ObamaFamily.htm
Yes, and my uncle is a devout Buddhist and a personal friend of the Dalai Lama. (No joke.)
I do not adhere to his religion, but as an American, I support his right to practice it.
Loving a family member does not mean that you share the same beliefs about God, necessarily. It means accepting your loved one as they are. Obama accepts his brother. That does not mean that he and his brother attend mosque together.
Yeah, and after five generations it's a tradition.
Documentation of his actual ethnic background demonstrates Mr. Obama is not an “African-American” as defined in United States law. This research was initiated by a request from a daily news publication of international reputation in New York City.
The story then moves to documenting his father’s genealogy. This study indicates Sen. Obama is actually Arab-American. The significance of this is that “the soul and substance of Mr. Obama’s claim to fame” rest entirely on his being “the first” African-American to achieve whatever it is that Mr. Obama is claiming at the time. If Mr. Obama is not legally an African-American, then his claims collapse. While there may still be historic firsts, for example, being the first Arab-American to be the president of the Harvard Law Review, those claims are not the star-appeal of his entire political life, and the basis of his current celebrity star status. If he is not African-American, then he is not what has propelled him up the political ladder; he is not, as described by one journalist riding Mr. Obama’s campaign plane, what is currently capturing America’s “cult” attention.
Wright’s comments yesterday :
“Louis Farrakhan is not my enemy. He did not put me in chains, he did not put me in slavery, and he didn’t make me this color.”
That line wouldn't work half as well for him in Australia where most people I know have as much SUNTAN as he has COLOUR!
What a freakin' FRAUD!
Obama, March 18: “I can no more disown him than I can disown the black community.”
Wright, April 28: “This is not an attack on Jeremiah Wright. It is an attack on the black church.”
Wright was born in Philadelphia in 1941.
Was slavery allowed in Philadelphia in 1941 ?
Who put Wright... “in chains” and “in slavery” ?
The only chains and slavery there are, exist within BLACK THEOLOGY!
BLACK THEOLOGY is nothing but a mental prison designed to keep the congregation (black sheep) in control while fleecing them!
Wright approves of Farrakhan as he “is not my enemy”
Second, remember that lifetime award and their trips together ?
Link from the OBAMA FILE:http://www.theobamafile.com/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2001/jul/31/race.world1
Quotes from Louis Farrakhan
Louis Farrakhan has a talent for provocation that has won him many enemies and vast publicity. Here are some of his pronouncements
“White people are potential humans - they haven’t evolved yet.”
Philadelphia Inquirer, March 2000
“They [the Jews] are the greatest controllers of black minds, black intelligence. They write the scripts - the foolish scripts on television that our people portray. They are the movie moguls that feature us in these silly, degrading, degenerate roles.
“The great recording companies that portray our people in such a filthy and low-rating way, yet they would not allow such a man as Michael Jackson to say one word that they thought would besmirch their reputation, but they put us before the world as clowns and as purveyors of filth. No, I will fight that.”
Meet The Press interview, October 1998
“The Jews have been so bad at politics they lost half their population in the Holocaust. They thought they could trust in Hitler, and they helped him get the Third Reich on the road.”
Saviours’ Day speech, Chicago, February 1998
“Of course, they [the Jews] have a very small number of people but they are the most powerful in the world, they have the power to do good and they have the power to do evil ... Now what do the Jews do best? Well, they have been the best in finance that the world has ever known ...
“They finance a lot of stuff in the world, and there’s nothing wrong with that, but they are not good politicians, they are the worst politicians because they don’t recognise really their friends and as well their enemies ... “
Saviours’ Day speech, Chicago, February 1998
“It seems like being gay or whatever sin you wish to be a part of is okay ... but I have the duty to lift that gay person up to the standard to ask if they want to live the life that God wants them to or live the lifestyle that they want to live.”
Boston speech, August 1997
“I believe that for the small numbers of Jewish people in the United States, they exercise a tremendous amount of influence on the affairs of government ...Yes, they exercise extraordinary control, and black people will never be free in this country until they are free of that kind of control ... “
Meet The Press interview, April 1997
“I don’t own Hollywood. Who depicted black people? Who writes the books? Who writes the plays, the songs that make us look less than human? Do you mean to tell me that Jews have never done any evil to black people? ...
“Were they not involved in the slave trade? Yes, they were ... and to the extent that they were involved, somebody has to bring them to account. And I believe that has fallen on me.”
Interview with New York Amsterdam News, January 1994
Malik Zulu Shabazz and members of the New Black Panther Party at Saviours' Day 2007 in Detroit, MI.
JERUSALEM – Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. demonstrated he is a “man of principle” by sticking to his teachings of “black liberation theology” during today’s highly publicized session with the news media, Malik Zulu Shabazz, national chairman of the New Black Panther Party, told WND in an interview.
Shabazz, who was at the National Press Club event in Washington for Sen. Barack Obama’s pastor of 20 years , said he was particularly proud of Wright’s defense of Nation of Islam head Louis Farrakhan.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2008916/posts
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Malik Zulu Shabazz, national chairman of the New Black Panther Party...
Shabazz, who was at the National Press Club event in Washington for Sen. Barack Obama’s pastor of 20 years , said he was particularly proud of Wright’s defense of Nation of Islam head Louis Farrakhan.
Does anyone have the transcript with CHRIS WALLACE?
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