Who Rev. Jeremiah Wright Really Speaks For
By
pparets
on March 14, 2008 at 12:25 pm
When Rev. Jeremiah Wright, the Chicago pastor and spiritual guide for Barack Obama for more than 20 years, says, “God damn America, America is the great oppressor, We nuked Hiroshima and Nagasaki, We oppress Palistinians and Africans, The CIA invented AIDS, America whined when the chickens came home to roost on 9/11, White America oppresses the poor, Hillary Clinton has never been called a n----r and Rich white men oppress blacks”, he touches a chord which resonates in the hearts and minds of many liberals.
While a number of them, including Barack Obama, will distance themselves from any or all of Rev. Wright’s specific statements, liberals will have a hard time denying that they share one thing in common with him… they resent or even hate what America stands for. They see our nation as an evil power in the world and one in which the haves oppress the have-nots at home. In that context, words like hope and change take on a very distinct and frightening meaning.
Many of them see liberty as a buzz-word for greed, freedom as a means of oppression and aggression, and individuality as a cover for gun-ownership, lower taxes and conservative values. Many of them hope all of that will be changed and Rev. Wright touches them in a deep, bitter core they will deny exists.
Had John McCain’s pastor made the obverse of these comments over a twenty year period, McCain would be condemned on the front page of every newspaper, magazine and blog in the country. But then, those who publish for the media are themselves liberals and find it very difficult - even painful - to expose Wright’s anti-American rants or Barack Obama’s twenty year connection to them and him.
While a number of them, including Barack Obama, will distance themselves from any or all of Rev. Wright’s specific statements, liberals will have a hard time denying that they share one thing in common with him… they resent or even hate what America stands for. They see our nation as an evil power in the world and one in which the haves oppress the have-nots at home. In that context, words like hope and change take on a very distinct and frightening meaning.
Many of them see liberty as a buzz-word for greed, freedom as a means of oppression and aggression, and individuality as a cover for gun-ownership, lower taxes and conservative values. Many of them hope all of that will be changed and Rev. Wright touches them in a deep, bitter core they will deny exists.
Had John McCain’s pastor made the obverse of these comments over a twenty year period, McCain would be condemned on the front page of every newspaper, magazine and blog in the country. But then, those who publish for the media are themselves liberals and find it very difficult - even painful - to expose Wright’s anti-American rants or Barack Obama’s twenty year connection to them and him.
