Rev. Wright isn’t crawling under a rock, he’s standing up for himself, good for him, today reminding the media that he served six years in the Marine Corps, somewhat longer than Dick Cheney served. And two nights back, he gave an upbeat speech to the Detroit NAACP.
“I come from a tradition, where we give God the glory, and we give the devil the blues.”
Speak of the devil, the Zionist Organization of America has latched on to Wright. ZOA head Morton Klein wrote to the Detroit NAACP urging it to cancel the speech because Wright is supposedly a black supremacist hatemonger. Klein invoked the great civil rights struggle:
[Wright's] record of words and deeds does not challenge the nation – it defames it, not least the many who have fought racism and the hundreds of thousands who gave their lives in a civil war that ended slavery….
Nice that the ZOA is talking up the civil rights struggle. But I think ZOA’s ends are devious. It wants to hurt Obama because it knows that Obama is going to "change the mindset" on Israel/Palestine. And the ZOA needs Rev. Wright in hateful caricature, because ZOA can’t survive in a multicultural world. Zionism is an ideology that holds that Jews aren’t necessarily safe in liberal societies. So long as a threatening picture of Wright as an extremist race-man is out there, it justifies that nationalist agenda. (And rationalizes ZOA’s own efforts to justify ethnic cleansing.)
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The paranoid rhetoric of Wright proves that
he is, indeed, an extremist race-man, albeit
one who prefers to dwell among affluent white people.
i will vote for rev wright for president. america needs him.
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From the linked article: 'In a sermon days after the Sept. 11 attacks, Wright said "America's chickens are coming home to roost" after the United States dropped atomic bombs on Japan and "supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans." '
Rev. Wright nails the critical cultural change which WW II brought about. The U.S. held war crimes trials of German and Japanese leaders, ostensibly upholding universal values as it charged them with waging aggressive war.
Yet the U.S. refused to recognize the allied bombing of civilians in Dresden, or the nuclear bombing of civilians in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, as state terror. Now it refuses to recognize its own war of aggression against Iraq, or Israel's occupation of the Palestinian territories, as the crimes they are.
Rev. Wright is articulating socially unacceptable truths. Fifty years ago, Martin Luther King's truths were no less unacceptable. He was denounced as a Communist; J. Edgar Hoover put him under surveillance. Today he has a federal holiday named after him.
Whether Rev. Wright is viewed more charitably by posterity has a lot to do with the future of this country. If not, the creeping militarization and the rise of secret government whose origins he has identified will end up nullifying most of human cultural progress since the Renaissance, ushering in a second Dark Age.
My regret is not that Obama attended Rev. Wright's church; it's that Obama has endorsed the sinister policy of targeted assassination, projecting that 30,000 to 50,000 executive-ordered summary executions will be required. Rev. Wright tried to save him, but Obama has already sold his soul.
* * * Susan Davis writing for the WSJ about Wright's appearance at The National Press Club.
"Rev. Wright Talks About Reconciliation"
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2008/04/28/rev-wright-talks-about-reconciliation/?mod=WSJBlog
"The verbally limber Wright was both combative and humorous. What about the sermon where he said the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 were the “chickens coming home to roost”?
“Have you heard the whole sermon?” he asked the questioner, who said no. “That nullifies that question.”
What about the people who say he is unpatriotic? “I feel that those citizens who say that have never heard my sermons, nor do they know me. They are unfair accusations taken from sound bites, and that which is looped over and over again on certain channels. I served six years in the military. Does that make me patriotic?” he said, quipping, “How many years did Cheney serve?"
* * * Forgot to add that it was Wright's appearance at The National Press Club this morning.
Wright makes an excellent point. Too bad the USA's leaders
are not cut from the same cloth. How many congress people or their kids have served in the US military?
Witty would say they were too smart to, as he did about a year ago on Phil's blog.
Maybe if we want to check Americn leaders' patriotism, we should verify their kids joined the IDF?
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