Pastor: 'Anger with oppression' preached

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[Patriot]

Racism comes in many forms and black preachers stirring it up is racism as well. No one alive today has ever owned slaves so guess what?Get over it that is the past and stop using the past as a reason to preach racism. The way Hillary and Obama have snipped and snapped at each other is making me vote for McCain. These other two idiots can get along and they are in the same party. Do you think I want them making decisions about my life? No way they are both immature back stabbing punks period.

[freebee]

Jerry Wright deserves the "title" pastor like Michael Vick deserves the title dog lover. Apparently there is a lot of hatred being preached in some black churches. So why do they want black youth to drop their guns and go to church? To be incited by a lunitic like Wright? As long as some black people continue to remember the past without looking to the future they will continue to be enslaved by white people from decades ago that are now dead. There is as much if not more weight being put on young blacks by old blacks than bigots in 2008. Everyone needs to go forward and not backwards.

[My vote changed]

My vote changed because of this situation. I didn't really care to vote for Hillary, but am.

I find Pastor Wright's remarks I have seen and read to be racist and offensive. I figure you dont appoint someone as spiritual leader of your campaign without knowing their views and agreeing with them.

I did read Obama's speech but I did not see it. It is tough for me not to think of it as 'damage control'. I was really excited to vote for Obama... honestly, now I'm afraid to.

[Chris from Indiana]

I thought the Church & State were suppose to be separate..........START TAXING THE CHURCHES TOO...then they will keep it separate!!!! I bet these preachers are living alot better than their church members!!!!

[Eye]

The true 'colors' come out.....

[So disappointed]

I really have been excited about Obama until now. I didn't realize how much blanket animosity there is is in the black community. I will do what 86% of blacks are doing- support one of my own.

[Look out for yourself]

Chris from Indiana wrote:

I thought the Church & State were suppose to be separate..........START TAXING THE CHURCHES TOO...then they will keep it separate!!!! I bet these preachers are living alot better than their church members!!!!

I have to agree here. How many tax dollars are we missing out on (or paying for as individuals and businesses) by not taxing churches and non-profits?

[hm smith]

a white person can never understand what it is like to be black, neither can a black person understand what it is like to be white. One is just as wrong to think all white's have it made because they are white and one is wrong to think all black's are lazing and untrusting. Also I though politics was to stay out of the pulpit or they would lose there tax exemp status??

[Casual Observer]

I listened to all of Obama's speech and it really is time for America, both black and white, to get ALL of the feelings out in the open. While the fact of the effects of racism still linger in the black consciousness, we can't use that as a reason to not try, accomplish, or perform.

White people have their issues too. And it's only when we can talk with meaningful dialogue, that all these issues can be understood in the context in which they are percieved.

There are PLENTY of people in this city who quietly go about making race relationships work everyday. They are not in the news, and they are not ranting and raving infront of a TV camera. THESE are the ones who are truly committed to making it work...not the ones making all the noise.

[Proud black man]

Until we get Slavery Reparations, we can never truly heal from our wounds caused by the white man

[Reverend]

So-called 'Reverend' Wright, his excuse makers, and those who drink that kool-aid are the problem, not the solution. Listen to "Afternoons with the bigot," a divisive two hour program aimed at the dumbed down racist type listener. Nothing but chip-on-the-shoulder mentality. Yet it's protected by the FCC for some illogical reason. At least Obama told Wright and others to politely "stick it."

[Robert Mullett]

I once had a black friend tell me that he would be a supervisor before me just because he was black. Almost all successful people are where they are because they worked very hard to get where they are. I think.

[Lindy M]

My vote changed wrote:

My vote changed because of this situation. I didn't really care to vote for Hillary, but am.
I find Pastor Wright's remarks I have seen and read to be racist and offensive. I figure you dont appoint someone as spiritual leader of your campaign without knowing their views and agreeing with them.
I did read Obama's speech but I did not see it. It is tough for me not to think of it as 'damage control'. I was really excited to vote for Obama... honestly, now I'm afraid to.

so. you're going to change your vote from someone who got caught surpressing his past to someone who is campaigning on 35 years experience? where is her experience? i sure wish someone would tell me because i don't see it. 8 years in the senate, yes. i agree there. here is a list of hillary's experience:

1. Missing law billing receipts (when she was a practicing attorney). these were found, two years later, in the white house with hillary's fingerprints all over them.

2. making a 100k profit on cattle futures off a 1k investment (analysts say that was impossible w/o some inside help)

3. going thru 900 fbi files of republicans, in the bush adm, looking for dirt on them.

4. firing the white house travel staffers and giving the job to her friends, the thompsons, who happen to be from arkansas.

5. whitewater (almost everyone involved with that was indicted, and, found guilty, with the exception of the clintons. this land deal cost the taxpayers of arkanses 60 million dollars.

yesterday, in bill clintons address to the residents of lawrenceburg, he was taking about how this administration takes money away from the little people and gives to the rich. as a public speaker, bill, himself, makes ONE MILLION DOLLARS per speaking engagement. hillary used FIVE MILLION DOLLARS, of her own money, to "shore up" her own campaign fund. these people don't sound like they're hurting.

so, you go ahead and vote for her 35 years of experience. i guess it doesn't matter what you had to do to get the experience or in what form it came.

[Jesse]

I'll do my talking at election time.

I've had so much of Hilary and Obama that they both turn my stomach.

[HolyCow]

Another hate whitey preacher. This is Obamas spiritual leader??

[Bottom Line]

I have never even considered voting for Obama or Clinton because I am a Republican and don't believe in government getting involved w/medicine and want to stop handouts and start enriching the working poor.

With that said I watch from afar so I am informed and understand their side, I was truly disappointed in the double talk as usual.

Obama is condoning inapproiate behavior. There is no way anyone can come away from a sermon like that on Sunday and not have hatrad in their heart for whites. What happen in history is not my fault.

I am not a racist, but disrespect those who use the race card as trump.

I have great respect from anyone who uses their God-given talents to achieve their goals, but have no respect for those w/negative attitudes who blame others for all of their problems and sit around and demand, gimme, gimme, gimme.

I challenge every pastor to encourage their people to replace resentment, hatred and negative thoughts w/hope and possibility, that would change the world.

[Michael]

Proud black man wrote:

Until we get Slavery Reparations, we can never truly heal from our wounds caused by the white man

If you are a "proud black man" and represent the average black person,then I don't think that I would really want to associate myself with many black people, using your criteria of being "proud". Hopefully, and I think I am right, you're an anomaly! However, our society unfortunately refuses to stigmatize people who demand handouts (regardless of race, creed, or religion)and lends unwarranted credibility to people like you.

[Bob Marlee]

Proud black man wrote:

Until we get Slavery Reparations, we can never truly heal from our wounds caused by the white man

You're right. But do you count all the welfare payments you've received as payment in lieu of? Or the college grants/scholarships you or your family have gotten because of your skin color and no other reason...or the promotion because you are only black? Or don't those things count?

[Realistic Expectations]

Eye Roll wrote:

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Yeah... riiiight.
TROLL Alert!

We interned Japanese-Americans during World War II because our unfounded fear of them and racism. We assumed that because they were of Japanese descent that they would be traitors. This was another example of our country's double-standards. Though many German-Americans were harrassed by neighbors, no government action was taken against them. Do you know what we did in that case? To assuage our national shame, we paid these folks years later.

Now, admittedly, you'd have a hard time finding a living slave to give reparations to, but I daresay you could find their grandchildren. But we won't even try. It's as if the larger the injustice in America, the LESS likely it is to be remedied. Where would many black families be today if they had reaped the rewards of the work they did? The entire country, and the South in particular, accumulated a staggering amount of wealth on the backs of slaves which got handed down from one white generation to the next. And even AFTER the black man was freed, he was denied any semblance of equality until as recently as 45 years ago. But even then, the passage of the Voting Rights Act didn't change the animosity white people still felt toward black people. To bring it to Indiana, I'll never forget reading around 1990 about a city that I won't name here had a lodge that voted AGAINST a black man's admittance even though he had just been named the city's man of the year. This community's business leaders made that vote, and we're supposed to believe the average black man had a chance of getting a job then? You say to me, "Yes, but things are better now. Everybody has a fair chance to compete." I agree. But it takes money to make money, and if you can't hand down any inheritance.....screw it, I'm not going to convince anybody, and that's the saddest arrogance of all. I love America, but we are like the Germans. We would rather sweep our national shame under the rug than ever confront it.

[hhhhmmmmm]

Obama's wife seems to have the same attitude as his preacher. Too bad, I thought Obama had potential. He seems to be surrounded by hate whitey people. It makes me wonder if down deep he may be like them.