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In his speech on race, Barack Obama said "Trinity embodies the black community in its entirety." But that was so 75 days ago. As of last Friday, Obama is out of there.
I sort of, kind of, understand why he did it. But I'm also sort of, kind of, concerned about what this might portend for an Obama presidency.I have written quite a bit about Obama. Black Voices commenters invariably accuse me of being a Hillary Clinton supporter. For the record, I am a registered independent. I have not been involved in partisan politics since 2000. My role as a citizen journalist is to share information, news and analysis. It is not to be a cheerleader for any candidate.
Rev. Jeremiah Wright and Trinity are community building blocks that the right wing has turned into bricks to be thrown at presidential candidate Obama from now until the general election ends in November-and perhaps beyond.
So in an attempt to turn manufactured right-wing ammo into blanks, Obama has completely separated himself from his minister and his church.
If holding Obama to the same standard of accountability as other politicians makes me a "hater," so be it. As a lifelong activist, I have been a vocal advocate of African Americans getting more for their political investment than black faces in high places.
In his post, Monroe observed:
I also know that perception can become reality in our media-defined world. But reality is not always perception. And, the reality is that Obama cannot let the right-wing dictate his principles.In his improbable quest for the Democratic presidential nomination, Obama has thrown his white grandmother, Rev. Jeremiah Wright and the 8,000 members of Trinity under the bus. One does not have to be a hater to wonder: Who's next?
Should this become his practice as president, then for those who have invested so much hope in him, his victory will only be a Pyrrhic one.
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By: Elaine Hackett on 6/03/2008 11:01PM
Let's keep the USA, Mr. Obama, and each other in much prayer daily. We all need prayer. Number 15, this is why each individual must study the Word for himself. It's not about the man, it's about Jesus Christ. Man will fail you, but Jesus Christ will always be with you. Some of us who are critizing Mr. Obama regarding his former church and former pastor, perhaps, need to listen to the words of your own pastor. You might just realize that you should leave your present church. We must be careful about who we follow. Perhaps God is trying to tell all of us something. May God continue to bless this campaign.
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By: Jarreau on 6/04/2008 9:50AM
Analyst was not wrong about "a great man like Dr.Wright comes along..." who said some things which had to be said. As smeared all over the media which presented those things out of context,Obama's opponents were hoping that would sufficiently cause Obama to be tarred as birds of a feather; they were wrong. It led to one of his most important speeches in Philadelphia on "this matter of race". And the context was put back into what Pastor Wright had been talking about "in the words of Ambassador Peck"; overlooking that was just one of the dumb things Obama's opponents have done in a vain effort at the wrong time in history. A very small percentage of white men remaining in the context of the world, having decided to rip off anybody and everybody else to their own personal and individual advantage as politicians (and not to the greater good) have done exactly what Wright spoke to his congregation about; and now those entrepreneurs want you to forget it. Fast. Because they want to continue raking it in at your expense.
Meanwhile, desperate supporters of the conservative agenda, even among those who pro-feminist are conservatives without a doubt, are also prejudiced enough to quote the words: Liberation Theology, back at me like some magic bullet because, they believed, out of context, that it was some Black invention and therefore Black Liberation Theology. They generally parrot whatever the Republican bought media mentions. Liberation Theology began at about the end of WW2 in Europe, and continued in the Latin American countries before it came to the US although lay-men practiced community work here much earlier.
What Barack Obama brings to the picture, as a Constitutional scholar, who has been teaching for most of the years he's lived in Chicago before running for the Illinois senate, is an astute awareness of the Separation of Church and State. I think this campaign season was but a warning of how the churches who handed George Bush a victory for his own ends which did not achieve anything remotely Christian is a lesson writ large.
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By: I C Lotz on 6/07/2008 2:22AM
I wonder if Chelsea Clinton is being groomed to be our first female president of the Unied States?
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