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Archive for the 'Jeremiah Wright' Category

03 Jun

History is here. Post coming…

Spent all day doing democracy as a poll inspector (aka supervisor.) Given all that is happening it was a little surreal to be working in a place so out of the way that there was NO cellphone reception.
And I tell you, I had to check a couple of disgruntled or shall I say freaked [...]

01 May

Rev. Jeremiah Wright: My Thoughts

I don’t believe that Rev. Jeremiah Wright intentionally kicked off the Jeremiah Wright Show Tour to deliberately “hurt” Barack Obama. Now, I don’t think Wright cared if his spectacle had that effect, but I don’t believe that was Wright’s primary reason for exploding out of silence now. What I see is that Rev.Wright saw his [...]

28 Apr

Rev. Jeremiah Wright: What this is about

Well it’s proved true again. Be careful what you wish for, because you just might get it. I’ve never backed away from any opportunity to inspire or engage in dynamic often uncomfortable discussions about race in America. Obviously, that’s why I started this blog more than a year ago. Rev. Jeremiah Wright is now catapulted [...]

26 Apr

See it: Reverend Jeremiah Wright Interview with Bill Moyers

Did you miss it?
Click Here to see the entire interview.

25 Apr

Jeremiah Wright: Obama is a politician

In his interview with Bill Moyers, Jeremiah Wright delivers an uppercut to Barack Obama’s character and in turn his presidential candidacy. I was so wrong about this one. I’d figured that the Obama campaign would benefit from Wright emerging from his self-imposed quiet period and re-framing his big blast sermons in more easily digestible terms. [...]

23 Apr

Hillary Wins.

As an Obama supporter, I am disappointed by the results in Pennsylvania. But unlike many others, I don’t think Clinton’s campaign was in any way surprising or out of line with its vitriol. Politics is indeed a contact sport, not for the faint or fuzzy of heart. I watched Hillary Clinton in an interview with [...]

22 Apr

Rev. Jeremiah Wright interview with Bill Moyers - FRIDAY

From The United Church of Christ website:
Jeremiah Wright to be interviewed by Bill Moyers
In what will be his first interview since snippets of his preaching became a central issue in the U.S. presidential campaign, the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. will speak publicly to veteran journalist and fellow UCC member [...]

15 Apr

Your ‘conspiracy theory’ is my blood and flesh

In the winter of 2004, a source first told me that the Federal government had sanctioned testing an AIDS vaccine on mostly black and Latino foster children ages 1 month to late teens. I did not believe it. When finally convinced that it was true, I sobbed openly as we walked through the park. I [...]

02 Apr

Hillary Clinton’s Icky Ickes - Pushing Wright to the Supers

I had pretty much moved on from posting about the Clinton campaign. There is enough vitriol connected to the Democratic party’s presidential primaries. I didn’t feel the need to add to it. But then this morning there’s another headline illustrating the Clinton campaign’s particular obsession with pushing the most negative racial issues even as much [...]

01 Apr

White member of Rev. Wright’s Church: Through a different lens

We are all so much more than sound bites. And I would say judging by Obama’s latest poll numbers, the public is becoming more savvy about how television news divisions twist information to create whatever impression they most want you to have. Never forget that. There is no neutrality in the news business. Each news [...]

21 Mar

White Pastor confronts Black Genocide

Pastor Rod Parsley yells at the top of his lungs protesting “black genocide.”

Whooo. Can you imagine the Fox news loop if Jeremiah Wright had spoken this sermon in the exact same way?
Big Thanks to n-2-me-i-c for passing this on to us!

19 Mar

Huckabee Defends Wright

Religion sure makes for unexpected allies.

(Huckabee starts at 3:39)

You can’t hold the candidate responsible for everything that people around him may say or do,” Huckabee says. “It’s interesting to me that there are some people on the left who are having to be very uncomfortable with what … Wright said, when they all were all [...]

18 Mar

Stunning: Barack Obama’s speech on Race in America

I urge you to watch this speech in its entirety. You will be moved.

We the people of America cannot settle for racial politics as usual. Not this time.

Here is the text of his speech “A More Perfect Union”:
“We the people, in order to form a more perfect union.”
Two hundred and twenty one years ago, [...]

18 Mar

Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama and Race

How’s he going to do it? How will Barack Obama reconcile the off-putting excerpts of Jeremiah Wright’s fire breathing oratory with his own peaceful, easy feeling vision of bringing our country together beyond the barriers that have existed since Plymouth Rock?
I think it’s impossible.
Barack Obama’s initial wishy-washy and overly parsed response to Wright’s most [...]

17 Mar

Jeremiah Wright

I’ve been away from the keyboard, but I have to address the Jeremiah Wright situation. I should have a post by late day.
What a maddening mess.