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  • THURSDAY MARCH 20 2008 6:00 AM

Angry Black Men Are Scary

America seems to be in a lot of trouble. We have a possible Democratic presidential candidate who has been spiritually mentored by a black pastor who is clearly a madman. Obama’s pastor, Jeremiah Wright, actually said things out loud that any true American would never agree with. This is unparalleled in American history and we should now be very suspicious of Senator Obama.

For those of you unaware of Wright’s horrifying “hate speech,” here is a sample.



This is disturbing. I cannot believe any politician would be associated with a man who uses such hateful language. Never in the history of America have we faced such a troubling situation. We have a long history of compassionate and loving religious leaders influencing our political leaders.

It seems like just yesterday that the kind and wonderful Religious Right leader Francis Schaeffer was delivering his loving words to America.


There does come a time when force, even physical force, is appropriate...This brings us to a current issue that is crucial for the future of the church in the United States, the issue of abortion... It is time we consciously realize that when any office commands what is contrary to God's law it abrogates its authority. And our loyalty to the God who gave this law then requires that we make the appropriate response in that situation...


God bless him and his sweet call for the violent overthrow of the US government. Years of making these types of comments got Francis invited to lunch with Presidents Ronald Reagan, Gerald Ford and George Bush Sr. – as he should have been. He was a true American.

Wright’s comments, on the other hand, are inexcusable, especially when compared with some of our nation’s greatest spiritual leaders, like Pat Robertson.


If I could just get a nuclear device inside Foggy Bottom, I think that's the answer. We've got to blow that thing up.


He was right, of course. Foggy Bottom is the nickname for the State Department’s DC headquarters. Pat knows that the State Department has spent years trying to kill us and therefore, should be annihilated with a nuclear weapon. God bless him for his kind and understanding heart.

Comments like this are the reason George W. Bush relied on Pat Robertson as a trusted consultant. And we should be thankful that he did so, unlike the horrible Jeremiah Wright, who clearly hates America. See, President Bush understands that Pat does not have a hateful bone in his body. The nuclear weapon Pat spoke of was made by Jesus. He only wants what is right for our country and the people living on her soil.


"I would warn Orlando that you're right in the way of some serious hurricanes, and I don't think I'd be waving those flags in God's face if I were you, This is not a message of hate -- this is a message of redemption. But a condition like this will bring about the destruction of your nation. It'll bring about terrorist bombs; it'll bring earthquakes, tornadoes, and possibly a meteor." –Pat Robertson, on "gay days" at Disneyworld.


Pat is just carrying on the tradition of warmhearted American spiritual leaders. The recently departed Reverend Jerry Falwell was another great man of God. After 9/11 he helped to heal our nation.


The abortionists have got to bear some burden for this because God will not be mocked. And when we destroy 40 million little innocent babies, we make God mad. I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People for the American Way -- all of them who have tried to secularize America -- I point the finger in their face and say 'you helped this happen.


God bless you, Reverend Falwell -- and Pat Robertson for agreeing. Statements like this are the reason Falwell had an open line to the White House and called whenever he wanted.

Falwell's passing was a great loss, according to our political leaders.

John McCain


I join the students, faculty, and staff of Liberty University and Americans of all faiths in mourning the loss of Reverend Jerry Falwell. Dr. Falwell was a man of distinguished accomplishment who devoted his life to serving his faith and country.


George W. Bush


A man who cherished faith, family, and freedom. As the founder of Thomas Road Baptist Church in Lynchburg, Virginia, Jerry lived a life of faith and called upon men and women of all backgrounds to believe in God and serve their communities.


Yes, indeed. George even sought the advice of his "loyal friend" Jerry when selecting Supreme Court nominees.

John McCain’s has a new friend, pastor John Hagee, who has often expressed his Jesus-like views of the Katrina disaster.


All hurricanes are acts of God because God controls the heavens. I believe that New Orleans had a level of sin that was offensive to God and they were recipients of the judgment of God for that.


Bless you, John Hagee, that is exactly why you have "the ear of the White House." You embody the spirit of Jesus and American patriotism.


"Could it be that America, who refuses to defend Israel from the Russian invasion, will experience nuclear warfare on our east and west coasts?" He says yes, citing Genesis 12:3, in which God said to Israel: "I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you."


Preach on, brother! Clearly the man loves America, because he says the liberal coasts will experience nuclear warfare. That’s patriotism. Hateful Jeremiah Wright could learn something from love filled John Hagee.

Jeremiah Wright’s language is so hateful that I can barely contain myself. How dare anybody know him! Look at this drivel.


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.

We bombed Hiroshima, we bombed Nagasaki, and we nuked far more than the thousands in New York and the Pentagon, and we never batted an eye.

We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we are indignant because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back to our own front yards. America's chickens are coming home to roost.


It’s not the kind of speech we are used to hearing from our white, white, and very white ministers. It doesn’t include the usual simplistic attack on a minority because of their sexuality. Nor does it justify the deaths of thousands because of their ideology. Wright does not call for the death of American citizens living on the coasts of America and he doesn’t hope for the nuclear destruction of a department of the US government. What a jerk.

Wright has the gall to suggest that there is a link between the United State’s bombing of or meddling in other countries, and the desire of fanatics to attack America. The last thing America wants is to hear someone speak the truth. For God’s sake, the man is saying there is a cause and effect relationship. BUT HE’S NOT BLAMING QUEERS! Didn’t he get the fucking memo? God lets terrorists kill us because men are putting their penises in other men’s bottoms.

Here are the things Jesus hates:


    The State Department
    The IRS
    Global Warming
    The UN (Oh man, does Jesus hate the UN)
    Old Europe
    Gays (duh)
    Liberals
    Jews
    Muslims
    Anybody but Christians, actually
    People who don’t own guns
    Soccer
    ACLU
    Abortionists
    Feminists


That's it. Anything not on that list, Jesus does not hate. Those are the subjects our spiritual leaders are allowed to cover. Or, at least our white religious leaders.

This entire “controversy” never would have erupted if Wright was a white man. That is so fucking obvious – and if you don’t think so, then you are a moron. This is white America getting angry at an uppity black man. This is the side of the US that whites would like very much to keep hidden away, out of view. Angry blacks are supposed to shoot and murder, not speak in ways that force us to think. This is the kind of shit that makes us look at ourselves and we don’t like it. That’s two hundred years of justifiable anger. A lot of people thought they were getting a nice house Negro in Obama, but now they find out he's been hanging out with the angry field Negroes. And they lost their minds. The hypocritical reaction of those who give the Robertsons of the world a pass is sickening.

God damn America is right.

The Republicans idiots will continue to hammer this point home, even after what may have been the best speech in modern politics two days ago. They will ignore the vile hate spewing out of the mouths of their insane religious leaders and continue their constant attacks on Wright. And no “journalist” will ever call if for the obvious racist attack it is. Because this America -- and we have the worst media in the free world.

 

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smithers_jones

smithers_jones

I'm lost
November 2003

MAR 20, 2008 03:24 PM

I meant to do that.

Varuka_Salt

Varuka_Salt

I'm lost
October 2006

MAR 20, 2008 03:27 PM

smithers_jones said:
I meant to do that.



Riiiiiiiiiggght....

SPOILERS! (Click to view)
Sad thing is, I sat here and hit refresh and watched you do that, and knew exactly what happened. I really need to get a life. wink

smithers_jones

smithers_jones

I'm lost
November 2003

MAR 20, 2008 03:30 PM

Shiny_Metal_Ass said:

smithers_jones said:
I meant to do that.



Riiiiiiiiiggght....

SPOILERS! (Click to view)
Sad thing is, I sat here and hit refresh and watched you do that, and knew exactly what happened. I really need to get a life. wink



Will some please ban this racist.

hk85

hk85

Guerneville, CA
October 2007

MAR 20, 2008 03:30 PM

BlastProcessing said:
Wright doesn't post on this board. If he did, I wonder if he'd bring up the unimportance of anecdotal bullshit.



That is worth posting again.

SergeantPsycho

SergeantPsycho

USA
January 2007

MAR 20, 2008 03:34 PM

mamet said: Do you have a source for any of the drivel you just spouted? Where are these racist, white-hating preachers? Where did Wright claim he blames all white people for the plight of black Americans? Because that's certainly not what I got out of those videos.



Here's a racist professor, does that count?


I suppose i should offer a disclaimer here that I recognize this guy is an ideological minority. However, the fact remains that racism works both ways.

smithers_jones

smithers_jones

I'm lost
November 2003

MAR 20, 2008 03:40 PM

SergeantPsycho said:

mamet said: Do you have a source for any of the drivel you just spouted? Where are these racist, white-hating preachers? Where did Wright claim he blames all white people for the plight of black Americans? Because that's certainly not what I got out of those videos.



Here's a racist professor, does that count?


I suppose i should offer a disclaimer here that I recognize this guy is an ideological minority. However, the fact remains that racism works both ways.



And that is relevant to Rev. Wright how exactly?

Coyotemike

Coyotemike

USA
May 2006

MAR 20, 2008 03:46 PM

SergeantPsycho said:

mamet said: Do you have a source for any of the drivel you just spouted? Where are these racist, white-hating preachers? Where did Wright claim he blames all white people for the plight of black Americans? Because that's certainly not what I got out of those videos.



Here's a racist professor, does that count?


I suppose i should offer a disclaimer here that I recognize this guy is an ideological minority. However, the fact remains that racism works both ways.




Professor? Where do you get that? He's an author and owns a bookstore.

thefreak

thefreak

NEWSWIRE

Gardner, MA

MAR 20, 2008 03:50 PM

coyotemike said:

SergeantPsycho said:
Here's a racist professor, does that count?


I suppose i should offer a disclaimer here that I recognize this guy is an ideological minority. However, the fact remains that racism works both ways.


Professor? Where do you get that? He's an author and owns a bookstore.


Well, former professor.

-TM

phrogg

phrogg

Greenville, SC
August 2005

MAR 20, 2008 03:55 PM

First, thank you FearTheReaper for what, to my mind, may be the best piece of yours I've read. Your facility for calling bullshit is - may I say - Sharptonesque, which is high praise indeed.

Second, one of the most surprising things to me, having heard much of the news coverage and only then watching a few of the Rev. Wright's video clips, is that allowing for his yen for controversy and creating an effect how much I actually agree with him. WTF? I will say that I gained few if any friends around my hometown by expressing my own belief, in slightly softer language, that the chickens had come home to roost on 9/11. Does this mean I hate America? What it means to me is that from my point of view the Middle East policies of the U.S., taken as a whole, historically and currently, did, and continue to suck. "Privaleged white people". How is this racist? Is it true, or not? Is there a legitimate reason for outrage, or is there not? How do I, a southern white male, get this stuff when it is seemingly lost on so many presumably well-educated and informed political wonks. I was born in Jackson, Mississippi, so I think it wasn't likely by birthright. eeek

One of the Rev. Wright's parishioners was asked if she though he or his sermon was radical. "Not radical, really." (I paraphrase). "It's about being black in America, but not really radical."

Coyotemike

Coyotemike

USA
May 2006

MAR 20, 2008 03:57 PM

thefreak said:

Well, former professor.

-TM



Damn You Wikipedia!!! tongue

mamet

mamet

Charleston, SC
March 2005

MAR 20, 2008 03:57 PM

coyotemike said:

SergeantPsycho said:

mamet said: Do you have a source for any of the drivel you just spouted? Where are these racist, white-hating preachers? Where did Wright claim he blames all white people for the plight of black Americans? Because that's certainly not what I got out of those videos.



Here's a racist professor, does that count?


I suppose i should offer a disclaimer here that I recognize this guy is an ideological minority. However, the fact remains that racism works both ways.




Professor? Where do you get that? He's an author and owns a bookstore.



It says in the description he taught a class one semester at NC State. Professor or not, it doesn't have a thing to do with Reverend Wright, nor this supposed slew of racist ministers at black churches. Of course you're going to be able to find some people speaking against white people as a whole, but that doesn't prove widespread "racial hatred preached in black churches."

thefreak

thefreak

NEWSWIRE

Gardner, MA

MAR 20, 2008 04:11 PM

coyotemike said:


Damn You Wikipedia!!! tongue


Between Wiki, YouTube, SG, and porn, it's a miracle I even walk away from the computer sometimes.

-TM

LostLucy

LostLucy

USA
December 2006

MAR 20, 2008 04:12 PM

Does this mean the thread is now going to just be devoted to trying to post photos and videos and such from any old known racist of any ethnicity? Is this an accurate distillation of what is happening here?

ok then...

wildswan

wildswan

I'm lost
June 2006

MAR 20, 2008 04:27 PM

SergeantPsycho said:
I suppose i should offer a disclaimer here that I recognize this guy is an ideological minority. However, the fact remains that racism works both ways.



Trying to draw a moral equivalency between white racism and black 'reactionary' racism is to overlook (and I'm being really generous, here) the historical and contemporary realities:

-Blacks have never enslaved Europeans.

-Europeans have never been the subjects of oppressive colonialism at the hands of blacks.

-Whites have not been on the crappy side of Jim Crow, or contemporary 'passive', 'dismissive' (the idea that blacks aren't even allowed to express their anger and pain over what has happened, and what continues to happen, to them), or 'underground' racism.


While you're making your judgments, try to keep that in mind.


PS If I had the time, I would clarify and elaborate on my point. I happened to be lucky enough to have an insider's view on black and white America, and boy do I have stories.

SergeantPsycho

SergeantPsycho

USA
January 2007

MAR 20, 2008 04:31 PM

mamet said:
It says in the description he taught a class one semester at NC State. Professor or not, it doesn't have a thing to do with Reverend Wright, nor this supposed slew of racist ministers at black churches. Of course you're going to be able to find some people speaking against white people as a whole, but that doesn't prove widespread "racial hatred preached in black churches."



Yes, but you asked for a racist white-hating preacher, and that's a guy preaching the hating of whites. That post had about as much contrabution to the over all conversation as I intended (which is to say little to none). Now, for an actual contribution, so I don't enstill a notion of me being a total A-hole:

It's all well and good to listen to a guy say "God damn America" this, or "US of KKKA" that, regardless of whether those positions have any merit, but I can't help but be concerned if a presidential candidate has been going to these sermons for the last twenty years.

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