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Home Front: Culture Wars
Obama's Race-Baiting Rev Wright Back At It
2010-06-27
HT to Weazel Zippers
He's been keeping such a low profile since nearly derailing Barack Obama's campaign for president in 2008 -- is it possible that the controversial Rev. Jeremiah Wright has mellowed?

Hardly.

During a five-day seminar Wright taught last week at the University of Chicago, he was back at it, claiming that whites and Jews are controlling the flow of worldwide information and oppressing blacks in Israel and America.
Just look at that -- the right reverend Wright has noticed there are Black Israelis... although possibly that's his delicate way of referring to the Arabs in the occupied territories. Even more likely, he hasn't any idea of the racial make-up of Israel, and is blindly making assumptions that there must be oppressed people in Israel, and naturally they must be dark of skin.
"White folk done took this country," Wright said. "You're in their home, and they're gonna let you know it."

The course, advertised as focusing on politics and public policy in South Africa and America, was taught in a small, ground-floor room at the Chicago Theological Seminary on the university campus, where Wright's voice echoed out an open window. The class was composed of about 15 to 20 students, mainly older African-American women who would arrive early and giddily linger during lunch breaks and after class, looking for the reverend's attention. (The course cost a little over $1,000 if taken for college credit and $300 if taken without.)

The absence of young people was telling: The lectures seemed ossified, relics of a pre-civil-rights America -- a point that Obama himself made during his famous speech on race in March 2008, prompted by the incendiary comments ("God damn America!") made by his former pastor and mentor.

"Not once in my conversations with him have I heard him talk about any ethnic group in derogatory terms, or treat whites with whom he interacted with anything but courtesy and respect," Obama said.
the bullshit just flows
Listening and hearing are very different things, we are so often told.
Yet during this course -- which was described as asking, "What is the response and public witness of persons of faith to ongoing developments in both countries?" -- Wright made many statements about what he believes are the true aims of whites and Jews.
A man is known by the friends he chooses. This man was one of President Obama's dearest friends for a great many years.
"You are not now, nor have you ever been, nor will you ever be a brother to white folk," he said. "And if you do not realize that, you are in serious trouble.
Can't you feel the healing love? Can I get an amen?
Posted by:Frank G

#3  As one who attended grad school at the U of C, I am appalled but not surprised. One can be so open minded that one's brains fall out. This also goes for institutions of higher learning. BTW, I lived three blocks from the Reverend Louis Farrakhan - at least I'll give him credit for style points and charisma. Wright is merely a very successful huckster - as is the current occupant of the W.H. - but on a much lower and viscious level.
Posted by: borgboy   2010-06-27 21:20  

#2  Doug Ross documents how Wright's lived the high-life ($1.6 Million mortgage paid by his house of hate church, $10 mil line of credit, 10,400 sq ft mansion....

yep, The Man™ is keeping the brutha down!
Posted by: Frank G   2010-06-27 16:02  

#1  (The course cost a little over $1,000 if taken for college credit and $300 if taken without.)

Gummit funded no doubt.
Posted by: Besoeker   2010-06-27 14:10  

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