[quote]Professor X wrote:
Zap Branigan wrote:
orion wrote:
Zap Branigan wrote:
greekdawg wrote:
Actually if you were paying attention he did rebuke it on CNN, the negative and controversial things his pastor said.
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He listened to it for 20 years and didn’t say shit. It was only when the media spotlight was turned up high did he comment on it. Pretty phony. Typical politician.
no he didn´t.
He listened to it 3 minutes 50 seconds out of 20 years, assuming he attended each and every one of Wrights sermons.
Assuming these were the only things Wright said in 20 years which seems to be a pretty poor assumption since Obama himself dis-invited Wright to his big event last year.
Since the clips were provided by Wrights own church it seems likely that the worst stuff was edited out before we had a chance to see it.
I fail to see the issue if a man has gone to the lengths Obama has to distance himself from the man.
I have tried to explain it before but some of you think my perspective is too poor…at least less substantial than your own.
Wrights message isn’t much different than you would hear from MANY (shit, MOST) older black people if you happened to be black yourself. Most of us growing up with grandmothers and grandfathers who experienced much of that could go on for hours about it. They would never do that in front of a white person, but they still hold those feelings and views.
It is ridiculous to claim your position (one of a white person who never even apparently knew these emotions existed until recently) knows the proper response. To many of us, it is old hat and barely noticeable. I expect it when speaking to an older black person in private or with a group of other black people.
If you haven’t figured out yet, that is their greiving process. While no one born after 1980 can claim the same experience, there are too many who can. That pain doesn’t evaporate. It also isn’t “shocking” to those of us who actually understand the culture.
You are holding one man responsible for the words of another and judging those words through the ears of someone who has never even experienced what we are discussing. That makes no sense. Something like this shouldn’t happen on either side of the aisle, especially with no attempt to even understand why a black person would handle that situation differently than a white person who had been shielded from how bad things actually were in this country.
How much do you want to bet that most here didn’t even know about the Tuskegee experiment before we discussed it here?
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I am holding Obama responsible for his own actions. He is a typical weasel.
He sat in this mans church listening to his crap for 20 years not because Obama is a racist but because he wanted support from the black community. He claims he considered Wright a mentor but he didn’t even let the man speak at his own presidential announcement because he knew the guy was a problem.
When he was confronted by Wright’s racist sermons he claimed he never heard them (or at least sat in the pew). This was a BLATANT LIE.
When confronted again with more facts he claimed he knew of them but didn’t agree with them. He then threw Wright and his own grandmother under the bus.
Since Obama doesn’t bring anything to the table other the the fact he claims to be a change from the typical politician, yet he acts like a slimy politician on this issue it makes me wonder why anyone would support him.
