Finally after portraying Rev. Wright as a caricature the media – the white media mostly – got their wish.
After facing immense pressure from the mainstream media, Senator Barack "Judas" Obama asserted doubts about the future of his relationship - a relationship of twenty years - with his former pastor, Reverend Jeremiah Wright.
For weeks, starting with pundits on Fox News, many news pundits have been calling for King Obama to renounce completely Reverend Jeremiah Wright after controversial remarks made at Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago were looped over and over by the media and were deemed "anti-American" and "anti-white".
Even blacks, who want a blackish president at all costs, have denounced Rev. Wright, although I believe any other time they would've agreed with him.
Personally, I am happy – extremely happy - that Reverend Wright stuck to his guns and did not "repent" for his comments. Sadly, mainstream media (read=white) have overwhelmingly portrayed Reverend Wright as an extreme nut case.
Keith Olbermann referred to Wright as a "cartoon". Richard Wolffe, a sissy who works at Newsweek, today called Wright a "freak show' on MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann show. CNN’s Anderson Cooper called Obama’s denunciation of Wright a “political smackdown”.
The white media has shown its power.
As I see it, if a strong, controversial black man in America is not kissing the asses of cynics and aggressively-patriotic white America or submissively acquiescing himself as "Toby" like Kunta Kinte in Roots [video above], he is ostracized and electronically lynched.
It is unfortunate that when sad truths are revealed about America - despite all of the good she has done in the world – people cannot see the truth because they are ridiculously and blindly patriotic.
They are in deep denial. In my opinion, Reverend Wright has been vilified and “caricatured" because he has spoken the truth about America not being utopia. It’s time for Americans to take the blinders off.
Obama stated Wright “caricatured” himself at the National Press Club press conference. What he, and most of Black America, has failed to see is the real caricature is Barack Hussein Obama, who has addressed race matters in America with kid gloves since running for the presidency.
He had not had the courage to speak openly about race relations in America until his back was against the wall. Obama then gently threw Wright along with his grandmother under the proverbial Obama bus.
Yet, Obama acts as if he is the martyr. In February 2007, Obama disinvited Reverend Wright from attending Obama's presidential announcement. Then last month, Obama said that if Reverend Wright had not retired, he would have left the church.
Ironically, Obama says he was "disrespected" by Wright yesterday. How laughable.
Wright was quiet for a long time. A man can only take so many punches until he starts fighting back.
I’ve heard people call Reverend Wright “a crab in a barrel” implying that Wright is pulling down Obama so that he can have the spotlight. I submit if Reverend Wright is a crab in a barrel, then Senator Obama is the king crab.
Ultimately, I am glad that Reverend Wright told the truth about Senator Barack Obama. Although both men exhibit signs of self-aggrandizing, Wright didn’t play spurious media games with Obama.
He threw Obama under the bus – hard. It sent a strong message to Obama. Obama should have known that Reverend Wright was not going to stand by and watch Obama nicely trash him in the media.
Sorry, but I don’t feel sorry for Senator Barack Obama. I don’t care if he doesn’t become America’s first president with unambiguous African ancestry.
Although it is good political theatre, I find it sad that Reverend Senator Obama finally succumbed to the pressures of the white media.
The white liberal media's darling has finally become "Toby", and rest assured, some white people are going to like him more now.
As with Sharpton, while I may never agree with everything he espouses, I admire a smart, educated, fearless black man who stands his ground and doesn't waver from his positions or beliefs just because the pressure becomes seemingly insurmountable.
Like Al Sharpton, Jeremiah Wright has become a hero to me. Contrary to what some people may think, Reverend Wright seems to want the best for America – just like Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. did.
Both spoke about America’s good and bad deeds here and abroad. Confronting America about her past evils helps to make America better.
Challenging America to do unto others as it would have them do unto us helps to make America better. Anyone who believes that America is utopia needs to wake up.
True healing cannot take place until truth is told. If America or King Obama wants to bring healing to race relationships, the truth, both good and bad (without gloss), must be told.
In the 1960s, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) was quite explicit that its aim was to prevent the rising of a so-called “Black Messiah” unless it, the FBI (and / or the U.S. Empire at-large), created him.
It appears that in the 21st century this might finally have come to fruition in the person of Barack Obama. Who is Barack Obama and where did he really come from?
While basking in misguided adoration as the leader of the so-called “Joshua generation;” this pro (apartheid) Zionist, corporate / Wall Street-backed, double talking Barack Obama is in fact more in line with the infamous Biblical betrayer, Judas Iscariot, than the scriptural Joshua.
Indeed, contrary to myth, the real Biblical Jesus Christ was a revolutionary who despised the corporate blood sucking “money changers / brokers” of his day, and “drove them out” of their ill-used place of business with “a scourge of small cords / whips.” [Reference the Bible book of John 2: 15 & 16].
This revolutionary Jesus was of course betrayed, tried, and convicted of the blatantly political offense of sedition, and with the complicity of many of those professing to be the leaders of the people, was tortured and executed by the Roman Empire; and his legacy was distorted. [Reference the selected works of historian Flavius Josephus].
We Black, Red, Brown, Yellow, and White peoples must make it our business to understand that the actual objective of Barack Obama - this colored, smooth-tongued, conjurer of 21st century U.S. imperialism - is to neutralize and destroy all significant vestiges of past and ongoing Black liberation movement in “America”.
His role is to strengthen the strangulating death grip of the U.S. corporate-military-prison apparatus on all people around the world.
Little could be more dangerous than the corporate- and media-backed Barack Obama masquerading as Joshua, when he is actually Judas.
We the people must understand this: Barack Obama and his Democratic party cohorts in both the Senate and the House claim / pretend to be against the war of aggression and occupation in Iraq, yet they simultaneously vote to fund financial appropriations for said war, notwithstanding their mealy-mouthed / fake opposition to it. They are frauds - plain and simple.
Barack Obama and his Democratic Party are unequivocal and cynical frauds. I recently read a message from his colleague U.S. Congressman Keith Ellison’s Spring, 2008, Fifth District Community Newsletter which stated in relevant part that “we must end the war in Iraq by redeploying our troops out of the region.”
How utterly and despicably misleading, nebulous, and cynical to the “American” people and the entire world!!!
The American Heritage Dictionary specifically defines the word “redeploy” as meaning, “To move (military forces) from one combat zone to another.” This is NOT bringing U.S. troops back home to the United States.
This is spreading the war internationally, and is the zenith of hypocrisy and deceit; and it is being perpetrated by Barack Obama and his so-called Democratic party.
Many of the American people already know that the Republicans represent more of the same, but what they are not told is that so does Barack Obama and much of his adoring Democratic party.
The Democratic and Republican parties [i.e. the Republicrats] will never bring about systemic change for it is not in their interests to do so, no matter what game they play with the people in the United States and the world. It is not in their interests to do so!
At this point it is worth pointing out how incredibly hypocritical it is at this point in time for certain U.S. citizens to be exclaiming such concern for the rights of the people in Tibet.
Yet virtually ignoring the genocide and ongoing thievery of the lands and mockery of the human rights of the indigenous so-called “Indian” peoples right here in the United States of America. One wonders if they have never heard the poignant expression: “Charity begins at home.”
These Black, Brown, and Red people are my people, along with all people of good will, and I will not abandon them no matter how the system tries to play us off against each other.
You are MY people and I am proud of you ALL - Black, Red, Brown, Yellow, and yes, White. You are MY PEOPLE.
Many of us do not know that we ARE ONE, precisely because this filthy, hypocritical, cynically racist, capitalist system, keeps putting political, mental and / or physical obstacles in our path all in the very name of some fake “one America” nonsense. We are many distinct peoples, and proud of it as well we should be!
Once again, I respectfully urge that we make a history that we can be proud of, by organizing outside the box of the Democratic and Republican parties. Let us carry on and begin now, leaving a true legacy of keeping it real. To ALL of my people, it is time to think critically and act accordingly.