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Tuesday, April 01, 2008

James Meeks: Obama’s Other Bigoted Spiritual Leader (With A Special Appearance By Tony Rezko)

Just when the Obama apologists thought the Jeremiah “God Damn America” Wright controversy was winding down, along comes Reverend James Meeks:

Described in a 2004 Chicago Sun Times article as someone Barack Obama regularly seeks out for “spiritual counsel”, James Meeks, who will serve as an Obama delegate at the 2008 Democratic convention in Denver, is a long-time political ally to the democratic frontrunner.

When Obama ran for the U.S. Senate in 2003, he frequently campaigned at Salem Baptist Church while Rev. Meeks appeared in television ads supporting the Illinois senator’s campaign…

Since that time, not only has Meeks himself served on Obama’s exploratory committee for the presidency and been listed on the Obama’s campaign website as one of the senator’s ‘influential black supporters’, but his church choir was called on to raise their voices in praise at a rally the night Obama announced his run for the White House back in 2007.

Interestingly, the Chicago Sun Times has also reported that both Meeks and Obama share a history of substantial campaign contributions from indicted real estate magnate Tony Rezko.

A taste of Rev. Meeks’ style of spiritual leadership.  The kind Obama sought out.

“We don’t have slave masters. We got mayors. But they still the same white people who are presiding over systems where black people are not able, or to be educated.”

“You got some preachers that are house niggers. You got some elected officials that are house niggers. And rather than them trying to break this up, they gonna fight you to protect this white man.”

This man appeared in Obama campaign commercials.  He served on Obama campaign committees.  Obama campaigned at his church.  Obama sought him out for “spiritual counsel” and political support.

Is Obama going to tell us, again, that he had all this interaction with Meeks but didn’t know the man was a bigoted, race-baiting homophobe?  Is the media going to give Obama another pass for associating, closely and repeatedly, with a cretin like this?

How many hateful “crazy uncles” have to come out of Obama’s closet before we can say that there’s a reason why Obama sought these people out?  And that reason is he agrees with them?

Comments

Avatar for P Graber

Just remember.

A vote for Hillary Clinton means never having to say you’re sorry.

P Graber on April 1, 2008 at 09:02 am
Avatar for A. Smith

Someone needs to purchase all the videos from these two racist churches and watch them frame by frame to see if BHO is sitting in the pews. Then they will evidence that he was there listening and praising hallelujah everytime a racist comment was made by these so-called upstanding reverend’s. Then they can finally nail him on this big lie he try to cover up. He wasn’t present when these words were spoken, hard to believe.

A. Smith on April 1, 2008 at 10:07 am
Avatar for renaldo

Could someone verify with the good Rev Meeks that if I drive through the low income, predominanetly African American community shouting “house ni**er” if those who regard this as a “term of endearment” will come to my assistance when those who understand it instead as a racial insult proceed to beat the s**t out of me?
<>_<>

renaldo on April 1, 2008 at 10:46 am
Avatar for JPGR

The kids he is talking about aren’t made to go to school anyway, so no matter how great and/or race free they make it, they wouldn’t benefit.  Too bad he doesn’t use all of that “energy” to promote stable two parent households that put a value on education.  When I was a kid, in public schools I might add, I went daily and got decent grades or my parents would kick my a**...THAT is where the real responsibility lies.

JPGR on April 1, 2008 at 01:25 pm
Avatar for Phllip Spellman

I would like to know when the msm is going to address of OBAMA’s involvement and support of RAILA ODINGA -the co-President of Kenya?
ODINGA was set up in the oil business by Muammar Quaddafi (no, I’m not kidding), was educated in Communist East Germany, named his first child “Fidel” (yeah, really) and when he and his followers disputed the election they torched a church with 100 christian woman & children inside--burning them alive. Odinga’s followers continued to engage in “clear ethnic cleansing” according to US Envoy Jendayi Frazer. Perhaps most troubling is Odinga’s links to Islamic extremists. On 8/29/07 Odinga signed a secret agreement (exposed 11/27) with Sheikh Abdullah Abdi in which he agreed to institute Islamic law in exchange for Abdi’s support--thereby potentially enslaving millions of Kenyan women.
OBAMA campaigned for ODINGA ("your agent for change"-sound familiar) in August 2006--to such a degree that the Opposition called him Odinga’s “stooge”
Read for yourself:
http://eakenya.org/newsevents/article.htm?id=8
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7176683.stm
http://www.thestar.com/News/World/article/290390
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=57363
http://africanpress.wordpress.com/2007/04/26/how-rich-is-raila-the-odm-kenya-presidential-aspirant/

WONDER WHAT THE REPUBLICANS WILL MAKE OUT OF THAT?
SURELY THAT"s BETTER THAN NOT WEARING A LAPEL PIN?
YA THINK?

Phllip Spellman on April 2, 2008 at 12:39 am
Avatar for W Thomas Payne

Unbelievable.  This guy is just another racist.  Where’s his robe and hood?  I mean, seriously, this kind of speech is solely to inflame the anger of people, not to lesson tensions, but to rile them up.  I wonder what HIS church’s mission statement reads like.

W Thomas Payne on April 10, 2008 at 09:43 am
Avatar for nathan manstro

you guys are all right, there is no such thing as oppression, it doesn’t exist.  The placement of liquor in supermarkets of black communities is just exaggeration, you’re so right what we need to do is triple the planned parent hood locations and abort all the black ghetto babies, because hell half of them are going to drop out, the other 10% will be perpetually poor, need I say more.

Believe it or not there is real oppression, that obviously cannot be seen by white people who often unknowingly experience white privilege.  Or also uncle tom black men and women who have experienced financial success, at the expense of kissing the white mans butt, and have no plans on helping others.

white people are so ignorant in general most of you will never get it.  You probably believe everybody if they work hard enough can have health insurance, if everybody works hard enough they can go to a sunday football game, you ignorant scuzzies probably believe all of the world has leftovers or doghouses and garages.  You probably think everyone is fortunate enough to have spare change for a newspapers, the ignorance of white people is depressing.

what is more ignorant is that you people don’t believe that you control the resources to help change lives.

nathan manstro on April 22, 2008 at 08:33 pm

nathan manstro is playing an assuming game of “hey guys, look over here instead”.

white people are so ignorant in general most of you will never get it.

Sounds like a typical Barack Obama supporter.

Racist to the core.

likwidshoe on April 22, 2008 at 08:45 pm
Avatar for nathan manstro

Tell me how I (a black man) can be racist to white people.  It’s like a flea calling me fat, it poses no harm at all.  No matter what any black leader speaks it likely won’t affect your white life in any way.

You’ll still be able to rule the world even though you’re the minority. Honestly I hope dr. kings dream comes true, I hope I can hold your white hand, but first be honest about your white slave owning great grand father, your white nigger lynching great great grandfather, hell 60 years ago your white mamma actually felt niggers should ride in the back of the bus, and drink from seperate water fountain so they won’t get niggeritis.  You guys crack me up

PS - WHITE PEOPLE R AS Racist and effective as they’ve ever been.

nathan manstro on April 23, 2008 at 08:23 am

but first be honest about your white slave owning great grand father, your white nigger lynching great great grandfather, hell 60 years ago your white mamma actually felt niggers should ride in the back of the bus, and drink from seperate water fountain so they won’t get niggeritis.

Jeremiah Wright, is that you?!

You guys crack me up

You’re cracking yourself up there chief.

likwidshoe on April 23, 2008 at 08:41 am
Avatar for Kelly

First off, I am generally liberal. However, I would vote against Meeks if I still lived in his district. Why? Many reasons. First off, he’s a hypocrite. Secxond, he’s a racist and so is his church. Interestingly a “special friend” of his is head of the Human Resources department at Metra. She makes sure people from his church get special jobs. They’ve even created jobs just for them. Need I mention most of these so called managers don’t even have high school diplomas? Her and her cronies have made sure people know they don’t take too highly to “honkeys”.

Kelly on May 1, 2008 at 11:25 pm
Avatar for The meaming of life

the way candidate use religion for their own political ambition is disturbing. they will tell us how much they love god and will even go to churches to show that they are god loving, but once they go back to their office, they will start a war and plot against humanity

The meaming of life on June 3, 2008 at 11:06 am
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