Writing for the Claremont Institute, Harry V. Jaffa rebuts the anti-American, anti-white, generally racist and Black victimization sermon excerpts you probably have heard or read of Reverend Jeremiah Wright.

 

In case one has been ignoring the American Race for President of the United States, Wright was the former Senior Pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ and the acknowledged spiritual mentor of Barack Hussein Obama.

 

The one angle I am not sure I agree with Jaffa is his unique theme of justifying White enslavement of Black Africans that eventually have become African-Americans. I don’t disagree with his reasoning; however his case just comes across as the very attitude that has made Black Americans agree with Wright’s vision of Black victimization by the “White Man.”

 

In my way of thinking racism is racism. It is irrelevant if the racists are White or Black. If a Black person hates a person because he is White it is wrong. If a White person hates a Black person because he is Black it is wrong.

 

I am certain a Black American that reads Jaffa’s essay and has any knowledge of history will point out that many of the Founding Fathers that are claimed to decry the institution of slavery were slave owners until the day they died. This includes icons like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson.

 

With that bit of criticism on my part I have to say Jaffa’s essay is a good read that examines the reality of times of the existence of slave institution in America. An America in which a Black man still faces some hurdles yet with some good old fashioned American work ethic can and have become successful citizens of the United States of America. So I say get over your past and contribute to building a future in which racism becomes merely a practice of the fringe few or with God’s help eliminated (the last thought of elimination may be a bit utopian but I had to add it).

 

JRH

 
   

 


 
 
stateofwar on
Re: Jaffa Examines Wright’s Bad Attitude
How sad that you confuse racism for truth. What exactly has Rev. Wright said that is a lie?

I have yet to hear anyone explain this to me. Just because you don't like to hear the truth does not make him a racist. It makes you a hypocrite. You speak of Christianity as if Christ loved the rich, the powerful, the war makers, when actually he loved the poor, the downtrodden, and the peace makers. Have some damned shame.

theway2k on
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"How sad that you confuse racism for truth. What exactly has Rev. Wright said that is a lie?"

 

1. America Responsible for 9/11.

2. The White Man plus AIDS Virus in vaccines for other illnesses (also an Islamist claim)

3. Wright Damns the America that gives him the Liberty to say that. (Try to damn Iran in Iran for human rights violations and see what happens).

4. Lays all the blame for black slavery in America on the White Man when it was Muslims that gathered up Black people and sold the to White Slavers.

5. Government GAVE narcotics to Black People to enslave them. (Hello! Then White People are enslaved as well.)

6. The so-called Black Liberation Theology or Black Value system is more akin to Secular Humanism and Marxism which attacks Christianity rather than having faith in it.

7. Christ LOVED the rich and the poor equally. Hello: For God so loved the WORLD he gave His only begotten Son that whoever believes in Him shall have everlasting life. Whoever sounds pretty universal: rich or poor, Gentile or Jew, Black or White, Male or Female, etc., etc.

8. Christ came to bring Salvation to a dark age. Christ Himself said prior to His Second Coming there would be wars and rumors of wars indicating the end was near but not complete.

9. Wright gave a humanitarian award to Louis Farakhan a known hater of Jews and White People (i.e. a racist). Heaping such praise upon an obvious Black Supremacist racist is agreement by association; ergo Wright is a racist.

10. There is probably more but I have grown weary of looking.

stateofwar on
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1. America WAS in fact responsible for 9/11. Read some history.

2. Read http://www.npr.org/programs/morning/features/2002/jul/tuskegee/ Do you seriously think that claim is farfetched?

3. America give him rights? Who is America exactly? You mean, people who serve in the military, like he did in the Marine Corps? Like I do in the Navy? No, we don't fight for freedom and liberty, we fight for oil and control of the world. Have you ever served in the military? Because I am serving right now and I know how things work.

4. It was greed and barbarism that caused slavery, the founding fathers were slave owners. How many founding fathers were Muslim or black again?

5. What?

6. You obviously have never read Marx... you attack his work out of ignorance.

7. Did Jesus say "blessed are the poor" or "blessed are the rich"?

8. Whene have there NOT been wars? And show me one passage where Jesus condones war?

9. Racism by association would make Bush and McCain equal to Hitler.

10. Keep going... I can educate you on the facts for every single thing you have wrong.

theway2k on
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I have in fact a history degree. The History says Osama did not like his government allowing American troops on Saudi soil during the Iraq War I. Some crap about Saudi being holy; ergo the attack.

 

Anything you have read about victimology about the poor Islamic lot is a bunch of crap. It is the Islamic Culture's own ruling elites that are corrupt and/or racist that has caused any oppression in the Middle East.

 

Tuskagee thing is something the American government did finally own up to. Hello, those STD's were not AIDS - the Black Plague of the modern world. It is a bunch of paranoid Conspiracy Theory thinking based on a past mindset to think the American government would infect Blacks or Muslims with AIDS or supply drugs. In America AIDS is still by majority a homosexual disease spread to heterosexuals who either had sex with a gay person starting a line of epidemic or bad needles. Now the rest of the world AIDS is by majority a heterosexual disease due to ignorant notions of having sex with a virgin as young as possible (usually entailing rape) will cure AIDS.

 

You fight for American National Interests which means enabling the continuation of Liberty, Freedom and the Pursuit of Happiness. Hello, oil extortion is not in America's National Interest. We have the power, it would be moronic not to use it. Otherwise Arab hating racists or Communists (China) will not hesitate to utilize the oil to crush our economy and way of life: WAKE UP.

 

How many Muslims sold Black Men to White Slavers who then sold to Founding Fathers that used a slave economy? Hello: From the Halls of Montezuma to the Barbary Coast. Barbary Pirates were Muslim Slavers. Read history.

 

A Wright accusation is that Whites offered drugs to Blacks to keep them poor and dumb, that is what. And it is a lie.

 

Actually I have read Marx. You support his work out of ignorance.

 

Blessed are the poor for they shall see God. Genius this primarily the poor in spirit, those bereft of knowing God. That includes the materially poor and the materially rich. The poor in spirit seeking deliverance from the oppression of Satan's realm will see God: that includes black and white, rich and poor, Jew and Gentile, etc, etc.

 

Rev. 19: 11 - 21. Matt. 10:34

 

These are Scriptures relating Jesus and War. Jesus is the Prince of Peace. In the age of Grace peace comes to the inward man yet nations war. At the Second Coming Jesus specifically comes to make war with unbelieving nations.

 

Racism by association would make Bush and McCain equal to Hitler. Hmm... You are a moron. Bush and McCain did not give awards to Hitler or his ilk or sent under the Aryan supierior race teachings for twenty years or spout them off. On the other hand Wright not only praises Farahkan but gives the Black Supremacist Jew hating head of Nation of Islam humanitarian awards. Just because Bush is fighting a righteous war that took out a genocidal maniac does not associate him with Hitler who was a hero of Saddam.

 

You keep going idiot, I can still make you look more foolish.

stateofwar on
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"Righteous war?"

 

Dear God, and you call yourself a Christian? That is the biggest oxymoron I've ever heard.

 

Your quote scripture and talk about how Jesus' coming means war. Is that how you and all the fanatical neocons justify the killing of innocents? I also notice you left out Muslims out of the list. Your hate for them is obvious.

 

Comparing Bush and Saddam is unfair to Saddam. Bush has killed more people and no one is invading his country or executing him. But you will never understand that, your mind is made up and you will obey your masters regardless of imperical truth.

 

Join the military, see firsthand what we're doing. Then you'll know the real truth, the crimes we are committing.

theway2k on
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Yes, Righteous War moron: That is when a nation with the power and ability removes a genocidal national leader or murderous rogue regime from leadership. Let's see: Gemany twice (1st time not genocidal but France and Britain asked for help to end war), Saddam Hussein - genocide, Japan - genocide. It is a shame that America could not remove the Communist regime of the USSR due to genocide. That took a Reagan weapons build up to bury Communism and free Eastern Europe. Too bad the Lefties reminded America of Vietnam when Pol Pot was murdering 2 million of his own people. It is too bad that Truman did not listen to MacArthur concerning China because the red Chinese genocide (and is ongoing) makes Hitler's genocide look like a picnic.

 

Yes - RIGHTEOUS WAR!

 

Hussein was a major participant on the Global War on Terrorism, thank God Bush had the cajones to at least try to bring democracy to Iraq.

 

The imperical TRUTH is in the butchery of Islamists. You have made your mind up to allow it to continue for what? Because of the support of tribal clans for Islamists. Gosh read the papers, even the MSM is reporting the clans in Iraq are turning away from the al Qaeda Iraq terrorists because they are murdering their own. The Shi'ite government of Iraq and its American trained military have aided in routing the Mahdi Army even though Iran gave them weapons to carve out a Khomeini style fiefdom bordering Iran.

 

I know most of the military does not have your mindset: 1. Americans are re-signing and performing multiple tours of duty willingly. 2. My son was in the Navy and definitely has a different opinion than you and his Carrier was supporting Iraq.

 

So get over it and serve your nation with pride if you are truly in the navy.

stateofwar on
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I can't serve my nation with pride anymore. I can't serve the interests of fascism and corporatism.

 

I am "truly " in the Navy buddy. ECRC San Diego, FWD DEP IRAQ. Prevous, PSD AFLAOT WEST UIC 3500 Bravo.

 

stateofwar on
Re: Jaffa Examines Wright’s Bad Attitude
If we applied the Nuremberg standards to our own leaders, Bush and Cheney would be dead by now.

 

Wake up. Forget about your son "serving" from a carrier. How dare you bullshit me from a nice comfortable chair? Get a F*$#*ng gun and fly to Iraq like me. See the situation with your own eyes, then talk all the nonsense you want. It's easy to say stupid senseless b.s. when you don't have to be occupying another country, fearing for your life and feeling remorse for the bodies of women and children who did nothing to you or your country.

 

You are as responsible for the murder of innocents as Bush and Cheney. May God have mercy on your bloodthirsty soul.

theway2k on
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Quite the contrary! If the Global Community imposed Nuremburg standards today, many heads of State of the Islamic world and their thug henchman would be around a hangman's noose. O my Gosh! Saddam Hussein met that fate by his own people.

stateofwar on
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True. Yet the crimes of Bush make Saddam look like a saint.


 
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