The Hate Rants of Obama’s Pastor
For the entire time of our website’s existence, we have stayed clear of issues dealing with race, be it white, black, brown, yellow or any other color. As Common Sense Authors, we believe that race is not a topic we can intelligently address and have stayed away from it for that very reason. However, we can talk about hate or hatred when it is uttered or spread, regardless from whose mouth or pen it comes. Hate is destructive in nature and has never served constructively in any form or fashion and benefited no one. Hate is not based in race nor is it anchored in logic. It is at best a negative motivator.
About a week ago, video clips (excerpts from a FOX News interview) from sermons delivered by Reverend Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. of the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago have been aired on several television networks and the content has been the center of a storm of sorts because this is the church that has Democrat Presidential candidate Barack Obama as member for about twenty years. As a matter of fact, Mr. Obama has referred to the Reverend as his (Obama’s) spiritual advisor, longtime friend and minister who married Barack and Michelle in 1992 and also baptized their two daughters in 1998 and 2001. An article posted in the Wall Street Journal on March 14, written by Ronald Kessler prints out some of the outrageous statements made by the Reverend and we do not want to repeat them here in totality, instead we want to address the content and the potential consequences in this Presidential election year.
In our opinion, the words of the Rev. Wright are pure, unadulterated Hate, there should be no doubt about that in any person’s mind unless one is totally void of common sense and rational. We have heard in the past from Islamic fanatical Mullah’s that “America is still the No. 1 killer in the world” but to hear those words spoken loudly from the pulpit of a Christian church in America is unacceptable as it is open Hatred and cannot be excused in any form or fashion. Not even the famous excuse called the “First Amendment Right of Free Speech” allows for that. And to be clear about it, when anybody proclaims and we quote “We (that is America) started the AIDS virus” and that singing “God Bless America” should be replaced by “God Damn America” is hatred and has to be rejected by everybody as totally unacceptable. It does not matter whether a white man or a black man utters those words, it is not racism but one must hate this country very much to make statements like this. Let’s not confuse or diffuse these two issues!
Comments like this have in the past come from the mouth of Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan and it is therefore not surprising that last December the Trinity United Church of Christ honored Farrakhan by honoring him with a lifetime achievement award. To refresh your memories, Mr. Farrakhan called Judaism ‘a gutter religion’ and his speeches were equally filled with hate towards others for many, many years.
Now then, extremes have existed in America for hundreds of years and we cannot change that but we can address today. This kind of hate speech is totally unacceptable and should immediately be rejected by all, or at least, a vast majority of those hearing that kind of language. Here is where it becomes interesting and foggy: Mr. Obama has spoken about these comments by his pastor and has also stated “he (Obama) has never heard these kinds of words spoken when he attended services in his church”. He also has compared his mentor and spiritual advisor when asked about him as “the kind of crazy uncle who sometimes will say things that I don’t agree with”. This is unacceptable as a general explanation.
Allegedly, Mr. Obama has attended over the twenty years about 800 services and he acts now surprised to hear “for the first time the angry words of Rev. Wright spoke at other times”. He wants us to believe that the Reverend would always check first if Obama was in attendance before he, the minister, began thundering from the pulpit his hateful speeches. So what happened when he saw Obama sitting in a pew, did the pastor simply pull out another speech that only addressed his love for Jesus Christ and how to be nice to your fellow man?
We find this hard to believe, in fact, we cannot believe it at all! Mr. Obama is trying to keep from us what he really knows or knew all along. There must have been sermons he heard that were inflammatory in content and language but he wants us believe that not to be the case. For a candidate who wants to unite us and who asks us to trust his judgment and to vote for him, he has not come clean. To repeatedly claim that he was against the war in Iraq from the beginning is not proof enough to trust his judgment since we suspect that his minister might have been of the same opinion from what we know about him from his sermons and therefore influenced Mr. Obama to be taking the same position. Having the good Rev. Wright as his spiritual advisor and longtime friend tells us a lot more about Mr. Obama’s judgment than having been against the war.
After all, Barack Obama was member of this congregation for twenty years and his political ambitions did not come until recent times. He was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2004 and is now running for President. The minister had no reason to be careful what he said when Obama was in attendance until recently. What Obama wants us to believe is that the pastor’s comments are a thing of current times, the last year or so. Rev. Wright also has said after September 11, 2001 that he blamed America for it and we quote “the American chickens are coming home to roost”. Now then, did Mr. Obama have no problem with that or was that just ‘his old uncle talking stupid stuff again’ or was he not in attendance when those words were spoken in his church?
We do not know what this issue will evolve into but we reject any excuse or explanation that in any way will defend or even tolerate this kind of Hate speech. Common sense should simply reject it wherever it happens.
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