Obama and the Racist Minister

Given the fact that life around our house is always so hustled, I hadn’t caught the mention of the controversial and racist minister on the news.  There’s not a day that goes by that my mother doesn’t give me the rundown of top news on CNN and this happened to be one that I made mental note to check out when I had a moment to myself.

Now, I’m thinking if I were a senator who was even entertaining dreams of running for President one day, I would make it clear to those around me that they should act accordingly or I would distance myself from them and not give the people the impression that I believe the same way - even if the person does act like a crazy old uncle.

If this minister has been delivering racist sermons since 2003 - you can bet he’s been delivering them a lot longer and Obama made the choice to associate himself with the church, the minister and the congregation.  That to me means that he has to support the teachings to some degree.

In a 2003 sermon, Wright said of America’s treatment of African-Americans: "The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law and then wants us to sing ‘God Bless America.’ No, no, no, God damn America, that’s in the Bible for killing innocent people."God damn America for treating our citizens as less than human. God damn America for as long as she acts like she is God and she is supreme."

At one December service, Wright argued Clinton’s road to the White House is considerably easier than Obama’s because of his skin color.

"Hillary was not a black boy raised in a single parent home. Barack was," Wright says in a video of the sermon posted on YouTube. "Barack knows what it means to be a black man living in a country and a culture that is controlled by rich white people. Hillary! Hillary ain’t never been called a ‘nigger!’ Hillary has never had her people defined as a non-person."

Barak Obama has a 20 year history with Jeremiah Wright - personally I refuse to call him a paster or a man of the cloth because he’s doing little more then spewing hate and furthering his own cause on the shirt tales of Obama pandering racism.  He’s no better then Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton as far as I’m concerned.

I think this should speak volumes to the voters in America.  Is this really the type of person we want running our county?  The type who follows a clergy with such miserable teachings?

It’s really something to think about!  It’s things like this that are making this election all the more scary and every single vote all the more important.

With that said, I dedicate this Flippin’ It post to Jeremiah Wright for being such a hypocrite hiding behind the cloth.

    March 15, 2008 | Filed Under Flippin It, Politics, Presidential Candidates, Random Rants 

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