Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Tell me who your friends are.... part 2

I started this blog by asking "Tell me who your friends are and I'll tell you who you are" and listed some of Barack Hussein Obama's friends. First on the list, the pastor of his church, a foul-mouth racist - Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr.
Many of Obama's apologists tried to cry "guilt by association" and distance the Illinois Senator from his long time friend. But I guess Wright didn't get that memo, because he barked from the pulpit the following:

"Hillary ain't never been called a nigger. Hillary has never had a people defined as a non-person."

The title of Obama's second book, "The Audacity of Hope," was taken from a sermon by Wright.
Obama issued the usual lip-service of distancing himself from the pastor, but last week, while campaigning in Ohio he said this:

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Jeremiah Wright ... has said some things that are considered controversial because he's considered that part of his social gospel."

Wright preaches a racist Afrocentric theology that interprets the Bible through shared suffering of African Americans. His sermons often address themes of perceived "white supremacy" and "black repression". Obama's campaign may try to paint Wright as a legitimate black leader, but once his remarks were widely publicized last year, Obama backed out of plans for his pastor to speak at his Feb. 10 presidential announcement. He was probably afraid to have his friend say something like this:

"(...) Racism is how this country was founded and how this country is still run.

We are deeply involved in the importing of drugs, the exporting of guns and the training of professional killers. ... We believe in white supremacy and black inferiority and believe it more than we believe in God. ... We conducted radiation experiments on our own people. ... We care nothing about human life if the ends justify the means.

(...) And! God! Has got! To be sick! Of this shit!"

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