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     Libralind2 AALBC .com Platinum Poster Username: Libralind2 Post Number: 1029 Registered: 09-2004 Rating: |
The Double Standard Barack Obama's preacher Reverend J. Wright came out with his dire words of pain directed at the USA and it sounded so low and mean that the media picked it up like it was news, and had never happened previously. We rail against him for his words of displeasure with the racist and bigoted ways of the USA, yet his allegorical call for Americas demise is not unique; nor is it new. Barack Obama has been trying to disassociate himself from the stinging commentary of his preacher that has now retired, and the political impact has been devastating to his campaign and image. Yet why is it that the evangelic preachers and far right minister can damn America to Hell and are ignored, in fact they are rewarded here in the land of mixed dichotomies. Pat Robertson has claimed we deserved the 9\11 catastrophe for our stand on gay unions, and he was never called un- American. When Religious Right leader Francis Schaeffer -- denounced America and even called for the violent overthrow of the US government, he was invited to lunch with presidents Ford, Reagan and Bush, Sr. This was reported by his son the reformed minister Frank Schaeffer in an article for Huffington web site. Rev John Hagee said: "God caused Hurricane Katrina to wipe out New Orleans because it had a gay pride parade the week before and was filled with sexual sin." Pat Robertson proclaimed that “carping criticism” of President Bush “amounts to treason.” James Dobson of Focus on the Family opined, “Saddam Hussein must be stopped. Appeasement of tyrants is never successful." Death from terror in America is our fault, death from American troops is their fault and sanctified. Rev. Jerry Falwell wrote an article entitled simply: “God is Pro-War.” In his view, “Christians must live as Galatians 6:2 instructs: ‘Bear ye one another’s burdens.’” Republican agitators of the mid 1970s to the late 1980s were genuinely anti-American in the same spirit that later Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson were anti-American when they said God had removed his blessing from America on 9/11, because America accepted gays. "God continues to lift the curtain and allow the enemies of America to give us probably what we deserve." Jerry Falwell This is just a small portion of the America hate the far right ministers spew every Sunday in America yet they are praised and promoted as truth seekers but when an African American minister does that same thing he is tagged a traitor and damages his followers reputation. There exist a double standard in the USA and it is obvious to all that can remain objective, and it is not for the left, it is an eschewed privilege for the right only. The far right can claim America is corrupt and doomed but if a left leaning minister does that he or she is a traitor. How is it that we have come so far from our roots as yeoman democratic lovers of freedom and purveyors of truth, the double standards are in your face they are not hidden or subtle they are adamant and belligerent yet we never seem to notice this irony of great proportions. Today we witness to a merge of opposites to kill Obama's forward progress, it is between the right wing fundamentalists who hate Obama, and the "progressive" Clinton's who are playing the race card through their own smear machine. Both the far right Republicans and the stop-at-nothing Clinton's are using the "scandal"of Obama's preacher to undermine the first black American candidate with a serious shot at the presidency. Are we so blind that we cannot see this double standard in our midst? Sad it is to see the two sides ganging up on the first black candidate to have a chance, and as a democrat I feel the pain of division is killing us for the future. Let us display the truth and the two differing standards for the candidates McCain has embraced these same controversial preachers and no one claimed he was tainted by it, but our media sucks up to the double standard people and become nothing more than parrots for the right. | ||
| A_womon AALBC .com Platinum Poster Username: A_womon Post Number: 2206 Registered: 05-2004 Rating: N/A |
Preach it sistah preach it! You know you tellin' the truth! Your great granddaughter is beautiful, by the way. | ||
| Nels AALBC .com Platinum Poster Username: Nels Post Number: 1095 Registered: 07-2005 Rating: |
The Clintons knew exactly what they were doing when they played the race card, and now we all might have to settle for a McCain presidency. I guess that ol' (ugly in every sense of the word and mind) Maggie Williams should be feeling rather good about herself right now. But then again, should he not win the nomination, she should might be looking over her shoulder for a long time. | ||
| Cynique "Cyniquian" Level Poster Username: Cynique Post Number: 11917 Registered: 01-2004 Rating: N/A |
Unfortunately, black folks don't make the rules in this country. Life ain't fair. As long as Obama has to depend on undecided white people to win, he cannot afford the luxury of standing by an outspoken minister whose truth-spewing might turn off potential white voters. Especially since those Asians and Hispanics who are eligible to vote, loooove America. Somebody once said: "I'd rather be right, than president." It's hard to be both. | ||
| Libralind2 AALBC .com Platinum Poster Username: Libralind2 Post Number: 1030 Registered: 09-2004 Rating: N/A |
Thank you A Woman ! LiLi | ||
| Libralind2 AALBC .com Platinum Poster Username: Libralind2 Post Number: 1031 Registered: 09-2004 Rating: N/A |
Robert W Barker wrote the peice I posted. I dont know what happened to his name. Sorry for the confusion LiLi | ||
| Ntfs_encryption "Cyniquian" Level Poster Username: Ntfs_encryption Post Number: 3066 Registered: 10-2005 Rating: N/A |
"Both the far right Republicans and the stop-at-nothing Clinton's are using the "scandal"of Obama's preacher to undermine the first black American candidate with a serious shot at the presidency." Standby.....They're just gettin' started...... |
