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From the moment Barack Obama appeared on America's national political stage, he was always going to be a controversial figure. A half-white, half-black man with the poise and rhetorical flights of a Kennedy. A Harvard graduate abandoned by his Kenyan father to be raised by a single white mother. A man with the middle name Hussein running for the White House in post-9/11 America. Yet, what few could have imagined was the degree of animus he would stir within America's own black community - and, in particular, its African-American leaders. This week, it was revealed that the Rev. Jesse Jackson,...

The Christian Century Magazine News March 25, 2008 IRS probes appearance by Obama at UCC convention The Internal Revenue Service has notified the United Church of Christ that it has opened an investigation into possible "political activities" connected with Senator Barack Obama's speech at the denomination's national convention last year. UCC president John H. Thomas termed the investigation "disturbing," but said that church officials took great care to see that Obama's appearance at the UCC General Synod meeting last June in Hartford, Connecticut, "met appropriate legal and moral standards." Engaging in partisan political acts can endanger a church body's tax-exempt...

I've expressed admiration for Barack Obama's political skills, but maybe, in a time of stress, his inexperience is beginning to show. In an interview earlier today, he referred to his grandmother--the one he slandered in his speech on Tuesday--as a "typical white person." Think about it: can you imagine any Presidential candidate, in any context, describing anyone as a "typical black person?" Or a "typical Asian person?" Worse, what Obama said was that the "typical white person" views others of different races with fear and suspicion. Obama appears to be digging himself in deeper and deeper. =========================== Listen to Obama...

Barack Obama took the stage this morning to give what was billed as a "major speech on race." It was, of course, an attempt to rescue his campaign from the revelation that his so-called spiritual mentor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, espouses a virulently anti-American and antiwhite worldview called "black liberation theology." <--snip--> What Obama is evading is that this "profoundly distorted view" is not just some passing emotion. It is what Wright himself, in the "talking points" page of his congregation's Web site, describes as "systematized black liberation theology." As we noted yesterday, Wright credits James Cone of New York's...

In his Friday night cable mea culpas on the incendiary comments made by his spiritual adviser Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., repeatedly said, "I wasn't in church during the time that these statement were made. I did not hear such incendiary language myself, personally. Either in conversations with him or when I was in the pew, he always preached the social gospel. ... If I had heard them repeated, I would have quit. ... If I thought that was the repeated tenor of the church, then I wouldn’t feel comfortable there." Obama told CNN that he "didn't know...

Pardon my ignorance, but I just found out about this. (see next post) I'm quite sure most Americans do not have this information yet. Not sure what the original source is, but KUDOS to "Fred Nerks" for posting this on his FR thread. I didn't want it to get lost in the shuffle, it's too important. Obamanation looks to be a modern day TROJAN HORSE! Scary shiite. Spread the word... Beloved Levinite

The influence of the black liberation theology of James H. Cone appears in the political philosophy of Barack Obama as well as in the recent controversial statement about national pride made by Michelle Obama.  The spiritual role that Chicago's Trinity United Church of Christ (UCC) and its just-retired pastor Rev. Dr. Jeremiah Wright have played in the lives of Barack and Michelle Obama is well-established, as is the Africentric theology that is the cornerstone of the church's self-proclaimed identity. One largely unexamined element of that Africentric theology, though, is the pivotal role that black liberation theologian Dr. James H. Cone,...

Michelle Obama’s thesis embargoed until after the election? posted at 3:56 pm on February 19, 2008 by Allahpundit Send to a Friend | regular view Eh, I hate these stories. For one thing, they invite you to treat someone’s college thesis as though it’s a Rosetta Stone (or Rosebud) to their entire mentality. More than that, for it to be relevant you have to believe they haven’t evolved/matured politically at all since college. We went through a round of this with Hillary a year ago to no effect, but at least she was a candidate. Can’t say I’m real jazzed...

For the past two decades, Barack Obama has been a faithful member of the congregation at Chicago's Trinity United Church of Christ. Trinity is no run-of-the-mill black church. It's social activism and political awareness on pure, natural holy water. Trinity's progressive pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, preaches the black theology of liberation. And he practices what he preaches. Back when apartheid was the law of the land in South Africa, when Nelson Mandela was a political prisoner and when American corporations, institutions and the U.S. government all gave their blessings to those evil doings, the dashiki-wearing minister planted a ''Free...

Did anyone notice the ebonics correction last night on Hannity & Colmes? A black man was on to talk about how he opposed white organizations supporting black history month. He said something like "we're just givin' it to ya back." Then Hannity said "Giving it to you back? Is that what you said?" I was surprised to hear that on TV. You'd think Sharpton and Farrakhan would be in an uproar.And then at the end, the guest held up the "black power" fist, but his hand was just offscreen. Hilarious.

LONDON (Reuters) - A seven-metre sculpture commemorating the 1968 Mexico City Olympics black power protest by Tommie Smith and John Carlos will be unveiled in San Jose State College on Monday. Smith, who had won the 200 metres gold medal in world record time, and third-placed Carlos bowed their heads and raised one black-gloved hand each in the black power salute on the victory podium while "The Star-Spangled Banner" was played. The pair, who had been team mates at the college, will be present at Monday's ceremony along with second-placed Australian Peter Norman. Smith and Carlos say they were influenced...

SJSU statue to be erected to mark athletes' Olympic black power salute It has been 36 years since sports and politics collided in one searing image during the 1968 Olympics: Sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos silently protesting racial injustice with a black power salute on the winners' stand in Mexico City. The two men returned to San Jose State University on Friday to break ground for a larger-than-life statue that will capture the monumental event for decades to come... The statue, which is the result of the efforts of the school's Associated Students organization, will be erected Oct....

It was as plain as black and white. It was a hate crime. When 30 black teenagers from Marine Park Middle School, most of them girls, chased five white girls from St. Edmund's off a Marine Park basketball court and across a Brooklyn street - punching, kicking, slapping, pulling hair and screaming, "honky bitches," "black power" and "white crackers" - it was a racial attack. It was about hate. Police officers who responded to the scene on March 30, at approximately 4 p.m., arrested five blacks. They were charged with simple assault. Two of the white girls were treated at...

Invoking the name “Martin Luther King” and screaming “Black Power!” a gang of up to 30 black teens attacked four white girls in Marine Park in what police are saying is not a bias crime. The March 30 attack was a hot topic at state Senator Marty Golden’s recent public safety forum. According to witnesses and parents of the victims, four young girls from St. Edmund’s had the day off from school due to Easter recess. They were playing basketball during dismissal from nearby Marine Park Junior High School, when several Marine Park students demanded to use the court. After...

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican President Vicente Fox called recent U.S. measures to stem illegal immigration a step back for bilateral relations on Friday and said Mexican migrants do jobs "that not even blacks want to do." In comments likely to raise the temperature of the immigration debate, Fox defended the role of undocumented Mexican workers in the United States to a group of Texas business people meeting in Mexico. "There is no doubt that Mexicans, filled with dignity, willingness and ability to work are doing jobs that not even blacks want to do there in the United States," he...

"I served in the War in Vietnam, I served in the Revolution. Did I mention my wife is African?" "My name is John Kerry and I approve this message."

Presidential candidate John Kerry clenched his fist and thrust it into the air at yesterday's NAACP convention in Philadelphia - in what appeared to be a "Black Power" salute reminiscent of some of the race-based separatist movements of the 1960s. The Kerry campaign refused to confirm that their candidate "intended" to offer the controversial gesture, the New York Post said. But photographs of the moment left little room for any other interpretation. Kerry's "Black Power" salute was delivered from the podium while standing side-by-side with NAACP president Kweisi Mfume. The top Democrat engaged in the divisive symbolism despite telling...

Some years ago the Harvard sociologist Nathan Glazer declared that "we are all multiculturalists now." One's initial response to such an unwanted announcement is to say: "What do you mean, 'we'?" Yet, even if "we" do not subscribe to that sentiment, it cannot be denied that over the last twenty years multiculturalism has become the ruling idea of America, incarnated in every area of society ranging from educational curricula to the quasi-official establishment of foreign languages, to mandated racial proportionality schemes in private employment and university admissions, to the constant invocations by our political, business, and intellectual elites of "diversity"...

From a brief in the Martinsburg Journal: SHEPHERDSTOWN - Bobby Seale, co-founder of the Black Panther political party, plans to visit Shepherd College [Tuesday] Feb. 3 in a program sponsored by the school's office of multicultural affairs and the program board. "A Night With Boby Seale" is scheduled for 6pm in Reynold's Hall, and the event is free and open to the public. Seale was born in Dallas in 1936 and developed an interest in architecture. After growing up and joining the Air Force, he later enrolled in Merrit College in Oakland, Calif., as an engineering major. While attending college,...

YOKOSUKA NAVAL BASE, Japan Most Kitty Hawk sailors are taking the new emphasis on proper civilian attire in stride, but half a world away, one of the restrictions is causing an uproar.A ban on any clothing articles emblazoned with the Confederate flag or any other words or symbols deemed offensive or inappropriate has some Southerners on a rampage. And they 're expressing their anger via e-mail.The brouhaha began with a single line in a May 6 article about the instructions given to sailors regarding proper dress while on liberty in Japan. Through his command master chief, Capt. Thomas Parker, the...

Students at San Jose State University want to commemorate one of Olympic Games history's most controversial political statements with a "black-power salute" statue, the Associated Press reported. Funds are being collected to honor the medal-winning athletes who stunned the world when they bowed their heads and raised black-gloved fists during the playing of the U.S. national anthem at the 1968 Games in Mexico City. Organizer Erik Grotz, a senior, found out only last year that sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos are San Jose State alumni and believes most students know nothing about them and the significance of the event,...

<p>SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - Thirty-five years after sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos bowed their heads and raised their fists on the Olympic podium in a black power salute, students at their alma mater want to honor their controversial gesture with a statue.</p>

The last of five former Symbionese Liberation Army members to face murder charges in a 28-year-old bank robbery killing pleaded guilty Tuesday in the death of a woman who was shot as she deposited her church's Sunday collection. James Kilgore, 55, one of the nation's most wanted fugitives for a quarter century, pleaded guilty in a courtroom about a dozen miles from the suburban Sacramento bank where the SLA netted $15,000 in cash and Myrna Opsahl died from a shotgun blast into her left side. Opsahl, 42, wife of a Carmichael surgeon and mother of four, entered the Crocker National...

‘Unity amidst diversity’ By TARA MAY The State News The Rev. Jesse Jackson led a cry for peace Sunday afternoon at Breslin Center. Joined at the podium by religious student leaders, he delivered a message of “unity amidst diversity.” Jackson spoke out against war in Iraq and racial profiling, promoting peace and diversity to the about 2,000-person crowd. Called “Rally for Peace: From Tears and Fears to Hope and Harmony,” Jackson’s speech focused on finding alternatives to violence after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Jackson, a civil rights leader and founder of the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition Inc., was greeted with a...

What Ever Happened To The "Millions for Reparations Mobilization?".... August 26, 2002: My, my. After all that advance hype and build-up in the Washington Post, NY Times and various newsmagazines, hardly a word in the liberal press about the Millions for Reparations Mobilization -- the much-publicized march on Washington D.C. to demand reparations for contemporary American blacks (from the U.S. government) for the many ill-effects of slavery. Not that it mattered to the liberal media that the key organizers or this event had, how can we politely say it, rather questionable resumes. For example, four of the outspoken organizers of...