“Americans United” Pastor from Obama’s Church of Christ watches separation of church and state–like a fox watches a chicken house
April 9, 2008 — NijmaIt’s a good thing that Americans United for Separation of Church and State is watching out for our religious freedom. But who is watching the watchers?
The IRS announced it would be investigating the Church of Christ for electioneering after one of the denomination’s most visible members, Senator Barack Obama, gave a speech at its 2007 convention. But the Americans United for Separation of Church and State decided not to file a complaint with the IRS. “We saw no evidence of UCC officials seeking to appear to endorse his candidacy”, says Americans United Executive Director Rev. Barry W. Lynn, who is also an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ.
Americans United might take a look at the comments made by Rev. Jeremiah Wright from the pulpit of Barack Obama’s own Trinity Church of Christ. Video |here| Transcript of video:
“it just came to me with in the last few weeks y’all why so many folk are hatin’ on Barack Obama. He doesn’t fit the model. He ain’t white, he ain’t rich, and he ain’t privileged. Hillary fits the mold. Europeans fit the mold. Guiliani fits the mold. Rich white men fit the mold, Hillary never had a cab whiz past her and not pick her up because her skin was the wrong color. Hillary never had to worry about being pulled over in her car as a black man driving in the wrong aaaaaaahhh sick of Negroes who just do not get it (two males run up behind Wright and pound him on the back). Hillary was not a black boy raised in a single parent home, Barack was. Barack knows what it means to be a black man livin’ in a country and a culture that is controlled by rich white people. Hillary can never know that. Hillary ain’t never been called a n***** , Hillary has never had her people designed as non-persons. Hillary ain’t had to work twice as hard to get accepted by the rich white folk who want everything or to get a passing grade when you know you are smarter than that C student sittin’ in the white house. Ooooooh, I am so glad that I got a god who knows what it is to be a poor black man in a country and culture that is controlled by and run by white people. He taught me, Jesus did, how to love my enemies, Jesus taught me how to love the hell out of my enemies, and not be reduced to their level of hatred, bigotry, and small-mindedness, Hillary never had her own people say she wasn’t white enough. Jesus had his own people siding with the enemy. That’s why I love Jesus y’all. He never let their hatred dampen his Hope.”
If that doesn’t say Barack Obama is God and Hillary Clinton is The Enemy, I don’t know what does. But is that electioneering or is it theology?
May 7, 2008 at 12:09 am
Hillary has never been called a ni**er and Barack has never been called a c**t! She has had to endure such vulgar sexism even in this election process, as well as hits about being “uppity” for being assertive, for being a “ball buster” when she’s strong, and for being “old and wrinkled” when she’s younger than most of the popular recent presidents. This doesn’t even address the issues that a WHITE woman–like all women–has faced throughout a childhood during which doors are slammed shut on her for being born a girl. She’s kept from sports club, financial clubs, science and political groups, discouraged from leadership by her mates since “girls can’t be leaders” and like all women in this culture, she must fight off aggressive men, avoid rape, avoid dating violence, must take her father’s name, then her husband’s name, must go to a church with her parents to worship a male god, a male messiah, taught by male priests or ministers of a Bible about men, for men, where men ruled and still do….
Jeremiah Wright has no idea what it’s like to be female in Man’s World. Obama is a popular member of the Boys Club where more of his supporters are men–of all colors–who want to keep power out of the hands of women. Wright is clueless and profoundly egotistical. No one who enslaved blacks looks like Hillary, because men ruled everything. Married women of the 1700 and 1800’s had no rights, no property, no access to the professions, no power to protect themselves from violence in their own homes. They belonged TO their husbands, and before that their fathers. They got the right to vote 60 years after Black Men. Today they are unrepresented overwhelmingly in media and business. What fools are those who no little of history.