Charlotte Ponders Obama

Article By Writer Michael Kraft Author: Michael Kraft
Published: May 1, 2008
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I am a regular listner to the common sense that comes from WBT in Charlotte. Local conservative voice of common sense Jeff Katz recently brought us some food for thought in his new column with the Rhino Times.

We are left to think who is really trying to use race as a weapon for their own personal gain? And who is actually guilty of trying to define us all by the color of our skin? What ever happened to the “content of our character” being the only thing that should matter?

I guess preaching that we are “all the same” doesnt help the Reverend Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr., buy his $10,000,000 home in the all white neighborhood that he chooses to lives.

I guess he likes donations from black folks, and the support of black folks, and the money of black folks…but just doesn’t want to live next door to them? Maybe we should add hypocrite to the list of character issues right under racist, liar, and ignorant bigot?

Jeff Katz writes:
“The junior senator from Illinois has consistently told us that he is in favor of change. Now that we have learned more about his spiritual guide and political confidante, the Reverend Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr., we are starting to get a taste of just what that change might entail.

Instead of a United States of America that is focused on the greatness possible in the future, we’ll get a nation that wallows in the shortcomings of the past. Mr. Wright is one of the leaders in a twisted and bizarre school of thought that seeks to define us all by the color of our skin. Wright, who is Senator Barack Hussein Obama’s self-professed spiritual leader, believes that white people are firmly in control of everything to the exclusion of all others. As you gaze around the world it is easy to see the fallacy of Wright’s doctrine, but that has not stopped his congregants from believing his nonsense.

Wright claims to be a Christian minister, but you would be hard pressed to find any examples of those attributes normally associated with the Christian faith. He demands that his congregants pledge allegiance only to Black leaders and follow only so-called Black liberation theology. This movement was established by James Cone and was expanded on by Dwight Hopkins and, eventually, in the writings of Wright himself. It places skin color above all else, identifies Jesus as a Black man and like other liberation theology schools of thought it seeks to supplant a belief in God with a belief in man.

It is the liberation theology movement that has been used by political revolutionaries around the world since it consistently places the group looking for liberation (in some cases race, in some cases economic status, in some cases national origin) in the context of the victim who has been oppressed by someone else (in almost all cases, the victimizer is identified as the white male in society). Indeed, it is more about a political agenda than it is about a serious search to discover the glory of God.

As many people are becoming aware of Wright’s despicable speech and odious conduct for the first time, many are asking what this has to do with Barack Hussein Obama. That is a legitimate question. After all, Obama did not utter these words. Obama was not on the stage or in the pulpit along with Wright. So how and why take Obama to task? Obama has said Wright is like his crazy old uncle and he does not always agree with what Uncle Jeremiah has to say. In moving the conversation to Obama, you have to question whether he is guilty simply by association.

Let’s suppose for a second that Obama’s crazy uncle said one stupid thing a long time ago. Maybe he was feeling really lousy that day. Maybe he had been wronged and was just blowing off some steam. Cut him some slack, you might think. Now let’s say that same crazy uncle spews more of the same hate-filled, bigoted nonsense on a regular basis – say once a week or so; you know, like every Sunday morning.

Now let’s say that you go to great lengths to be close enough to hear his diatribes weekly. In fact, you take steps to bring your wife and impressionable children with you to hear these disgusting speeches. Week after week, year after year, decade after decade you take the time to sit and listen to that crazy old uncle ramble on about evil white people. Is it unfair that at some point enquiring minds might wonder if you really agree with your crazy old uncle?

Obama has to be judged on his choices and decisions. That is, after all, how we judge all of our candidates. He chose to attend these racist speeches regularly. He decided that his children were to undergo this indoctrination. For more than 20 years Obama has listened to, studied and admired Jeremiah Wright.

Obama thought enough of Wright to have him officiate at his marriage to the woman who announced just a few weeks back that she had never actually been proud of this country. He loved his nutty uncle enough to ask him to baptize both of his daughters. He clearly subscribed to the church’s separatist doctrine by supporting it as a member for two decades.

I would not sit in a synagogue week after week and listen to such awful comments, and I surely would not bring my children to hear them. I don’t know any of my Christian friends who would willingly listen to such garbage in a church, let alone subject a child to it. We all would change churches or temples. It’s not that complicated, really.

You would think that a man who loves change as much as Obama does would simply follow the example of his friend, and former fellow congregant, Oprah Winfrey, and change churches.

Yes, Oprah Winfrey was a member of this same church for a few years until she decided that the hate coming from the crazy uncle was a little much for her and she left. Oprah apparently chose to leave because she did not agree with Wright’s message, while Obama chose to stay and bring his children, as well, which gives us all a peek into his soul and real belief system.

As the late great Warren Zevon said, “It ain’t that pretty at all.”"

From the Rhino Times.

Reverend Jeremiah A. Wright is a racist ignorant bigot