Say Anything Blog

Of all the people Obama could have chosen as a role model or hero from the 1960s Civil Rights movement, he passed over Dr. Martin Luther King and instead, chose Malcolm X.

As he tells us in Dreams From My Father, “The words of Malcolm X spoke most deeply to my soul.”

Malcolm X’s teachings were [and are] the inspirational source and intellectual basis for the Black Liberation Theology of James Cone and Dwight Hopkins [and later Jeremiah Wright] that had its beginnings in the same era.

Black Liberation Theology was [and is]seen as the true alternative to an oppressive, white-dominated, false Christianity.

Here’s some of those inspirational words that “shook the ground under my feet” as Obama tells us in his autobiography:

“The greatest miracle that Christianity has achieved in America is that the black man in white Christian hands has not grown violent. It is a miracle that 22 million black people have not risen up against their oppressors-in which they would have been justified by all moral criteria.”

As Malcolm continued and Jeremiah Wright continues to teach,, white Christians are nothing more than a part of an elaborate social control plan in which the white establishment used white religion to promise blacks

“to wait until death, for some dreamy heaven-in-the-hereafter, when we’re dead, while this white man has his milk and honey in the streets paved with golden dollars here on earth.”

Maybe “clinging to our guns” is not such a bad idea after all.

Obama, in his own words.

From Dreams of My Father: “I ceased to advertise my mother’s [white] race at the age of 12 or 13, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites.”

From Dreams of My Father: “I found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mother’s race.”

From Dreams of My Father: “There was something about him that made me wary, a little too sure of himself, maybe. And white.”

From Dreams of My Father: “It remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names.”

Fight or Flight?
When we perceive a significant threat to ourselves, then our bodies get ready either for a fight to the death or a desperate flight from an adversary.

The Dems can’t like this. Can they?

If you were Black in the times that were reflected in Obama’s book, you had a right to be angry. Many vented their anger through speeches and books. To hold that against him at this period in his life is pure hypocrisy.

To hold that against him at this period in his life is pure hypocrisy.

Would that be his “black anger” or his “Kansas values and upbringing” that would be hypocrisy to hold against him? Is “black anger” a “Kansas value”? Obama himself seems to have at least two stories as to that period of his life!

Better to have it and not need it than need it and not have it.