http://www.moonbattery.com/archives/2008/04/a_slavic_americ.html

While the United States has not been perfect, over the years we have managed to undo the worst errors, although at great cost. Wright should give credit to the citizenry as a whole for that.

Bill Moyers (4) part video interview (love fest) with Rev. Wright
Click on the links below to view them in the screen below
Clip #1 – Clip #2 – Clip #3 – Clip #4

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The Beginning to the God Da-n America sermon by Reverend Wright
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In fact, September 11th, I was in Newark. September 11th, I was trapped in Newark ’cause when they shut down the air system I couldn’t get back to Chicago. September 11th, I looked out the window and saw the second plane hit from my hotel window.

I’m throwing a flag on this one. I think he made it up after seeing a documentary on a few air-traffic controllers in the tower at Newark-Liberty who tracked the radar and saw the second plane hit.

Wright had a one in four chance of looking out of a hotel window, fourteen miles from the WTC, and then get an unobstructed view of the South Tower (through the Newark and Jersey City skylines)when most people hadn’t even turned a television on yet?

Sorry, but his story is too improbable. And I can’t believe Bill Moyers (a journalist who actually lives in New Jersey) didn’t follow up on this whopper of a tale.

We say that God will bless the shock and awe as we take over, unilaterally, another country, calling it a coalition government, we’ve got three guys from Australia, going against the United Nations, going against the majority of Christians, Muslims and Jews throughout the world, making a preemptive strike in the name of God. We cannot see, however, what we are doing is the same thing al Qaeda is doing under a different colored flag, calling on the name of a different God to sanction and approve our murder and our mayhem.

We believe God approves of 6% of the people on the face of this Earth, controlling all of the resources on the face of this Earth, while the other 94% live in poverty and squalor, while we give trillions of dollars of tax breaks to the white rich.

Our money says In God We Trust, and our military says we will kill you under the orders of our commander-in-chief if you dare to believe otherwise.

The government still thinks a woman has no rights over her own body, and between Uncle Clarence, who sexually harrassed Anita Hill, and a closeted Klan Court that is a throwback to the 19th Century, hand-picked by Daddy Bush, Ronald Reagan, Gerald Ford, between Clarence and that stacked Court, they’re about to undo Roe V. Wade, just like they’re about to undo affirmative action.

The government lied about Pearl Harbor. They knew the Japanese were going to attack.

The government lied about adventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color.

If they don’t find them some weapons of mass destruction, they’re going to do just like the LAPD, and plant them some weapons of mass destruction. Governments lie. (applause)

Jim C

When you can think for yourself freemind, you’ll have some credibility.

In fact, September 11th, I was in Newark. September 11th, I was trapped in Newark ’cause when they shut down the air system I couldn’t get back to Chicago. September 11th, I looked out the window and saw the second plane hit from my hotel window.

He was trapped in his hotel in N.J. when the planes hit? The air system was shut down after they hit, not before!

You move from anger with the military to taking it out on the innocents. You wanna kill babies.

Who is he talking about? I don’t remember anybody wanting to kill innocents or babies.

And that’s the context, the biblical context I used to try to get people sitting again, in that sanctuary on that Sunday following 9/11, who wanted to know where is God in this?

I really don’t see anything in this whole explanation that explains the “coming home to roost” statement or provides any context for it. Still, I am going to look over the sermons to see what the hell he was talking about.

Out of curiousity, my ancestors fought for the North in the Civil War. Shouldn’t I get some sort of free pass on the racism thing?

REVEREND WRIGHT: Yes, I did. I was trying to show how people- how the anger- and we felt anger. I felt anger. I felt hurt. I felt pain. In fact, September 11th, I was in Newark. September 11th, I was trapped in Newark ’cause when they shut down the air system I couldn’t get back to Chicago. September 11th, I looked out the window and saw the second plane hit from my hotel window. Alright, I had members who lost loved ones both at the Pentagon and at the World Trade Center. So, I know the pain. And I had to preach to them Sunday. I had to preach. They came to church wanting to know where is God in this. And so, I had to show them using that Psalm 137, how the people who were carried away into slavery were very angry, very bitter, moved and in their anger from wanting revenge against the armies that had carried them away to slavery, to the babies. That Psalm ends up sayin’ “Let’s kill the baby-let’s bash their heads against the stone.” So, now you move from revolt and revulsion as to what has happened to you, to you want revenge. You move from anger with the military to taking it out on the innocents. You wanna kill babies. That’s what’s going on in Psalm 137. And that’s exactly where we are. We want revenge. They wanted revenge. God doesn’t wanna leave you there, however. God wants redemption. God wants wholeness. And that’s the context, the biblical context I used to try to get people sitting again, in that sanctuary on that Sunday following 9/11, who wanted to know where is God in this? What is God saying? What is God saying? Because I want revenge.

REVEREND WRIGHT: The people of faith have moved from the hatred of armed enemies, these soldiers who captured the king, those soldiers who slaughtered his son and put his eyes out, the soldiers who sacked the city, burned the towns, burned the temples, burned the towers, and moved from the hatred for armed enemies to the hatred of unarmed innocents, the babies, the babies . “Blessed are they who dash your baby’s brains against a rock.” And that my beloved is a dangerous place to be. Yet, that is where the people of faith are in 551 BC and that is where far too many people of faith are in 2001 AD. We have moved from the hatred of armed enemies to the hatred of unarmed innocents. We want revenge. We want paybacks and we don’t care who gets hurt in the process.

In a way though Reverend Wright provides a useful service. He is a near perfect personification of the cultural illness that has infected black culture in America. A look at him and his teachings provides a snapshot of the culture of under achievement and misplaced blame that cripples his people.

It is a genuine tragedy. Nothing biological makes high achievement difficult for blacks. Rather it is the self perpetuating cycle of hopelessness, where many young blacks simply give up because they are indoctrinated with the idea that success is nearly impossible due to white oppression and any black who does succeed in the “white world” necessarily does so at the expense of poor minorities.

No amount of charity or community activism could even begin to counter the bad done by Jeremiah Wright. His legacy will be that he helped perpetuate continued suffering of lower class blacks in American society.

Here is an analogy for you:

Suppose I was going to preach a sermon to a predominantly white audience. I know this audience intimately, and many of them harbor a deep resentment, anger, and fear towards black people.

Suppose I decide to use a sermon illustration where black people are involved in a grand conspiracy against white people. It is completely made up, but I know it will get my crowd in an uproar. But remember, this isn’t the main point of my sermon, just an illustration. My sermon is really about nonviolence. It is still hate mongering, anyway you slice it.

Jesus did not do this. Rather than play to the anti-Rome, anti-Gentile, anti-Samaritan sentiment of His Jewish audience, He instead made the Samaritans and the Gentiles the heroes of His stories, and the Priests and Scribes were the villains. He was concerned with making a point, not puffing Himself up by telling people what they wanted to hear.

Jeremiah Wright claims to do the same, except he does tell his audience what they want to hear. In his sermon illustrations, America and “white folks’ greed” is the villain and black people are the victims. He is a fraud.

And if you think replacing “o” with a “-” makes you right with God, you had better think again. Which is more important to God, that you refuse to spell out that word, or that you silently stand by while people slaughter those made in His image?

If men struggle with each other and strike a woman with child so that she gives birth prematurely, yet there is no injury, he shall surely be fined as the woman’s husband may demand of him, and he shall pay as the judges decide. But if there is any further injury, then you shall appoint as a penalty life for life. Exodus 21:22-23

In this passage, God implicitly recognizes that children in the womb are human lives.

The message of black theology is that the African American struggle for liberation is consistent with the gospel–every theological statement must be consistent with, and perpetuate, the goals of liberation. This theology maintains that African Americans must be liberated from multiple forms of bondage—social, political, economic and religious. This liberation involves empowerment and seeks the right of self-definition, self-affirmation and self-determination.

Black Liberation theology IS preaching the bible. African Americans look to the book of Exodus and the struggles escaping bondage in Egypt with the struggles with their oppressors. It is basically applying the teachings of the Bible to the lives and struggles of the African American community. One argument that really stuck me is this:

How could the slave owners on the top of a slave ship and the slaves rowing the boat below be praying to the same G-d? If they are who would G-d listen too?