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At the same time, the racial waters boiled over following a report of incendiary remarks by the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., Barack Obama's former pastor. Wright is being criticized for past racially charged statements such as calling America the "U.S. of K.K.K.A."
In full damage-control mode, Obama made the rounds of Fox News, CNN and MSNBC. He rejected Wright's "inflammatory" and "appalling" statements. "I categorically denounce any statement that disparages our great country or serves to divide us from our allies.
I also believe that words that degrade individuals have no place in our public dialogue, whether it's on the campaign stump or in the pulpit. In sum, I reject outright the statements by Rev. Wright that are at issue."While Obama tries to distance himself from Wright, Trinity United Church of Christ's new pastor, Rev. Otis Moss III, said Wright's "character is being assassinated."
It is an open question whether Obama's "call for unity" will calm the racial waters. Fact is, the race genie has been uncorked. It will take more than hope to put it back in the bottle.
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By: Kay on 5/03/2008 7:52AM
For all of you who think that the Rev's comments are 100% accurate please keep in mind that AIDS originated from the monkey/human contact in Africa.
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By: Patricia Vallee on 7/13/2008 12:19AM
The Hallmark Channel used to have a wonderful Sunday show called America Worships. Rev. Wright was the featured preacher many times on one part of that show. More than once he said, "I do not preach the gospel of the United States of America; I preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ." It seems such a shame to me that no one dared or cared to discuss what he meant by that, and that Mr. Obama was automatically put in a position of having to distance himself from Rev. Wright. Yes, the comments sound terrible. The Gospel of Jesus Christ seldom fits in well with the kinds of things we have come to require people to say in order to be accepted as patriotic. Of course it didn't help that Rev. Wright's ego ran amuck and caused him to play the fool on tv. It seems to me he let himself be seduced by some of the same temptations he used to preach against. But I heard many of his sermons on things America has done that I cannot imagine any of those things being blessed by God. We've done a lot of God awful things right from the start in this country--along with a lot of wonderful things. When Rev. Wright was preaching that God was more likely to damn than to bless America for these things, anyone who could push through the knee-jerk reaction we have to anyone who isn't saying we're marvelous, anyone who could read the Scripture and compare what it says to what our government had done in the case being cited, would have to agree that God would be highly unlikely to bless that particular action. Not one time did I hear anyone refer to what Rev. Wright was saying we had done, which was something that we had, in fact, done. 100% of the reaction was to his daring to insult the government. Mr. Obama could very well hate what Rev. Wright said. He certainly had no choice but to say he did. The problem is that we NEVER seem to have any interest in hearing anything negative said about ourselves as a nation, whether it's true or not, and that's sad. Until we acknowledge the truth that our government does both good and evil things, and unless we become willing to admit that as a nation we're considerably less than perfect, and until we worry more about becoming better than about being praised, there's precious little hope that we will become what we long to be, a good people whose actions deserve and can expect to be blessed by God.
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By: HA HA OBAMA WON! on 1/27/2009 10:04PM
HAAAAA Righty Whitey and all the rest of you people who are opposed to Obama. HE WON, The WORLD HAS WON, END OF STORY! EAT YOUR WORDS Racists!
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