Rev. Wright Steps In It Again

defended himself over the controversy, saying that his words were twisted.

They have not been twisted at all. They are what they are, and are representative- not out of context- of the overall message that is laced throughout his sermons.

Nathan wrote:

In the original sermon six days after 9-11, Rev. Wright quoted the statements of a former U.S. Secretary of State

Yes, because he believes the message in those words. Which is exactly why Reverend Wright was quoting from Ambassador Peck. And his “faith footnote” which is bally-hooed by Obama supporters as cherry-picked and taken out of context, is anything but taken out of context. All the “sensationalized” excerpts of his sermons underscores and are the highlights of an overall message of an Afro-Zinntric worldview of blame white Imperialist America for the ills of the world and the misfortune of non-whites.

I listened to the entire post-9/11 sermon, and Reverend Wright is painted accurately.

We need to face up to the fact that our foreign policies are racist in nature and creates new enemies for us.

2.3 trillion spent over half a century of Marshall Plans for Africa? And America’s foreign policy are “racist in nature”?!?!

Is that why President Bush has done more for blacks in Africa than any other previous president?

“I think he’s done an incredible job, his administration, on AIDS. And 250,000 Africans are on anti-viral drugs. They literally owe their lives to America. In one year that’s been done.”– Bono

” … the Bush administration is the most radical — in a positive sense — in its approach to Africa since Kennedy.”–Bob Geldof

Bob Geldof writes for Time Magazine:

I have always wondered why it was never told properly to the American people, who were paying for it. It was, for example, Bush who initiated the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) with cross-party support led by Senators John Kerry and Bill Frist. In 2003, only 50,000 Africans were on HIV antiretroviral drugs — and they had to pay for their own medicine. Today, 1.3 million are receiving medicines free of charge. The U.S. also contributes one-third of the money for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria — which treats another 1.5 million. It contributes 50% of all food aid (though some critics find the mechanism of contribution controversial). On a seven-day trip through Africa, Bush announced a fantastic new $350 million fund for other neglected tropical diseases that can be easily eradicated; a program to distribute 5.2 million mosquito nets to Tanzanian kids; and contracts worth around $1.2 billion in Tanzania and Ghana from the Millennium Challenge Account, another initiative of the Bush Administration.

So why doesn’t America know about this? “I tried to tell them. But the press weren’t much interested,” says Bush.

And our military interventionism?

Here’s an interview of Robert Kaplan on the Hugh Hewitt radio show:

HH: You know, I want to begin in the 9th chapter of this, your second book on the American military, as you were driving out of Timbuktu, 11 hours beyond the gates of Timbuktu. Use that as a metaphor for what you were doing and why you went the places you have gone.

RK: Well, Timbuktu is not the edge of the Earth. The edge of the Earth is miles beyond Timbuktu, north into the heart of the Sahara desert. And I was with a company of American Special Forces officers, about twelve of them, all non-commissioned officers except for a captain. And you would think what is the U.S. military doing in the heart of the Sahara desert. Well, we’re not only in the heart of the Sahara desert, we’re all over the Pacific ocean, we’ll all over South America, and all this is occurring while we are fighting a war in Iraq and in Afghanistan. And what I tried to do in the course of the years in which I embedded with the military was to show the whole thing. Not to ignore Iraq, but not to be limited by it, either, because one big deployment might overstretch us like Iraq, but dozens upon dozens of smaller deployments will do no such thing. So I was with a company of American Special Forces officers who were investigating just what was in the center of the Sahara desert in terms of al Qaeda movements, humanitarian, prospects for humanitarian relief, just getting to know Africa. Because in this global world war on terrorism, really is a global war.

HH: Now you’re accompanied by, extraordinary in the course of this book, an extraordinary array of Americans, one of which on this particular trip is an Evangelical staff sergeant from Oklahoma who doesn’t want to be identified, because he doesn’t want his deeds to serve himself. I thought that was another metaphor for the extraordinary people you’ve spent the last many years with.

RK: Yeah, the people I…what I did was I didn’t report on anybody in this book. I befriended a lot of people, and revealed them to the reader as they revealed themselves to me. And the best of these people didn’t want any publicity, not because they were afraid of being written up badly, but because they were afraid of getting public recognition for anything they do. For them, the real sweet thing is to do it and not get recognition, if you can believe it. And this Evangelical staff sergeant, he drove most of the way through blistering sandstorms, he slept only six hours, which was interrupted by an hour and a half of guard duty, and he got up the next morning to fit little African children for eyeglasses as part of a civil affairs project that this Special Forces A-team was doing. And just, you know, just dealt with one child, one woman after another throughout the morning without any complaining about lack of sleep or anything.

Yet our U.S. foreign policy is the problem in the world?

As for his comments about the government injecting AIDS into the Black community, did everyone suddenly forget about the Tuskee experiments. From 1932 to 1972, the U.S. government injected Black males with syphillis and then did not allow them to get treatment. For forty years Black males were left with untreated syphillis just so we could see what would happen. The outrage has little to do with Rev. Wright and more to do with America’s inherrent racism. The bottom line is this country of ours will never ever elect a Black or Jew as President.

The U.S. did not “INJECT” black males with syphillis. They were left untreated as an experiment. Still unethical, but certainly not the spin and slander it’s been given by those who wish to find validation in their unreasonable America-hating and afrocentric racism against white America.

This is not the 1930’s. This is not the 1960’s.

This country has been ready for a non-white president for some time, now. We just need the right one to come along who is qualified.

Obama is not that man. He speaks of unity, but he is a divider. He is not his hype; he is not the trans-racial, post-ethnic candidate the wishful thinkers ache for. He is not the second coming of MLK; he is not the “black Kennedy”. “Hope” is a four letter word that appeals to emotions. Obama believes words are important. And he is correct. So looking to the substance of his words, beneath the veneer, you will see the sneer of everything that is wrong about him for America.