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Originally Posted by gunnut
Maybe I have already and that's the conclusion I got.
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Maybe? Did you take a close look at their afro-centric liberation theology.
You won't find any racism in it. It simply aims to resolve the Afro-American experience then and now within Judeo-Christain teaching. You don't have to be black to find, for example, that most whites in early America glossed
over parts of Christ's teachings so they wouldn't have to face contradictions between their religious belief and slavery. The phenomenon still exists, albeit in a more subtle form. What Wright was referring to in God damn America was drawn from a quote in the bible that God will damn a people who deny freedom to another. Wright should have known better than to say it because it is much too ambiguous a statement; it can be taken as anti-white, anti-American and so forth.
I don't agree with his statement that we brought 9/11 on ourselves, but he is hardly the only one to hold that view...a good percentage of liberal democrats agree with him.
Look, I don't condone shocking statements from pulpit pounding preachers any more than you do. But Wright is responsible for what he said. Not Obama. If Obama found the better angels in Wright to his liking then I see no reason why he can't continue to be connected with him on a religious level.
What are we afraid of, anyway? That Obama will become Wright incarnate if he becomes president. Just how far would a "President" Obama get pushing a radical black philosophy? Obama is too intelligent for that. He knows that if by fate he become president, his tenure will the measure by which all future black candidates will be judged. If he were to try radically to reshape the nation to suit the black agenda, he will fail. He only choice is to be the president of all Americans. Just remember, whites outnumber blacks by a huge margin.