Racial healing by definition cannot come from those who are race obsessed, and who start from the premise of ‘making things right.’ Obsession with race is part of the definition of racial strife.
As we know, certain white liberals like David Axelrod, or mostly white liberals like Valerie Jarrett, have joined Obama in this crusade. Or maybe it’s the other way around. A quick review of Jarrett and Axelrod’s careers might lead one to think that these two were looking for the perfect blank black canvass on which to paint their dreams. They both come from the slime of Chicago power politics, built on the twin pillars of corruption and incompetence. Jarrett has the distinction of being the only person fired by the Daly Machine because she was too corrupt and incompetent.
Of course, to a Chicago power broker there is a lot of power and money to be had by the folks who ride the coat tails of a black man who is getting even with other white folks. And as Dinesh D’Souza points out in his New York Times best seller and his “2016 The Movie” project, Obama understood and used to his advantage the blank slate projection dynamic. (In a totally unrelated story, more and more evidence is coming out that Jarrett is actually running the country.)
But back to Jeremiah Wright and his Trinity United Church of Christ (TUCC) and Obama, and why all of this was not only predictable, it was unavoidable. When you understand the relationship between Wright and Obama, and understand what Wright preaches, you know that racial healing was not in the cards..
This relationship was not some casual preacher/congregant relationship, the way many folks are acquainted with various preachers as they rotate through churches for the typical seven year assignments. That’s how things often happen in the big denominational churches that many millions of people are familiar with. You might have gone to a certain church because it’s the church you grew up in, or it’s the church that is geographically convenient. Often the current pastor has little to do with the decision. Thus, it is easy to believe that Obama really did not have much of a relationship with Jeremiah Wright, if you associate Wright-Obama with your pastor relationships.
But that is not the model for the big independent churches. This is true whether they are black, white or mixed.
No, the TUCC was Jeremiah Wright’s ministry the way Saddleback is Rick Warren’s ministry and Lakewood is Joel Osteen’s ministry. There are thousands of such independent churches all over the country. In such cases, there is no separating the church from the head. People seek out those churches—or seek to avoid them—specifically because of the senior pastor and his or her teachings.
Congregant Obama was no exception. He went specifically for the Black Separatist teachings. And it gets even more cynical than that. He needed ‘black street cred’ in Chicago. He had none when he arrived. Here came this prissy light skinned dude, with Hawaii and Kansas and Harvard in his background, to Chicago, wearing mom jeans. He was not nearly black enough to win votes. Yet.
So how did he get blacker? How did he get his cred? He became a regular at Black Separatist TUCC and became close pals with Preacher Wright. Yes, the man who was going to bring racial healing to the nation got his political start by systematically becoming more black through a religion of hate and racial division.
Indeed.
Jeremiah Wright preaches Black Separatism, as we mentioned. He widely quotes the founding fathers of this particular theology. And be ye not deceived—this is a blatantly racist and anti-white religion. This is not a deep dark secret, either. They proclaim it proudly on their website and in other promotional materials.
This is from straight from TUCC.org: We are a congregation which is Unashamedly Black …our roots in the Black religious experience and tradition are deep, lasting and permanent. We are an African people, and remain “true to our native land,” the mother continent, the cradle of civilization. God has superintended our pilgrimage through the days of slavery, the days of segregation, and the long night of racism. It is God who gives us the strength and courage to continuously address injustice as a people, and as a congregation. We constantly affirm our trust in God through cultural expression of a Black worship service and ministries which address the Black Community. (1)
Now tell me, where is there any racial healing in that? There is none. This is pretty much a declaration that we must “get even” with the white folks, while remaining “separate” from them. And while we’re at it, we must remain loyal to Africa and not America.
Let me repeat that in case you missed it. We must remain loyal to AFRICA and NOT AMERICA. This is in their statement of faith. First thing you know, with this as your foundation, you might say something crazy, like “God bleep America,” in a sermon.
The bigger point is this: A man who went out of his way to marinate in this race charged culture for twenty years has no chance of actually bringing about racial healing. The gospel preached at TUCC does not require any kind of in depth, precept by precept analysis. There is no need to go back to the original Greek or Hebrew to pick up nuances and context. This part of Obama’s life, and it was a major part, focused on remaining true to Africa and on addressing the inherent injustices that whites have wrought. And a young Barack Obama purposefully sought out this church and this message and its messenger, for the express purpose of becoming black enough to win black votes in Chicago. Like many liberals, the entire focus of Obama’s being is race.
No worries. To the elite and decidedly secular media culture, this clean articulate black man was going to assuage centuries of white guilt by simply existing in the Oval Office. To the logically inclined, twenty years of this philosophy, and twenty years of being influenced by a man teaching this, was no way to prepare someone to be President of the United States. Electing such a man would never bring with it any racial healing.
But the liberal mind has a great ability to ignore certain truths when they are inconvenient to their next electoral or policy goal. They ignore what Iran says it will do to Israel once it gets the chance. They ignore what Islam aims to do to America, and, in fact, to all infidels, everywhere. They ignored Nidal Hasan’s emails to a radical cleric from Fort Hood. And in this case, they ignored Jeremiah Wright’s teachings and insisted that we do the same.
Liberals are focused on race and obsessed with race and they go around congratulating themselves on it. Meanwhile, conservatives just go about their daily lives trying not to think about it. This would include conservatives like Walter Williams and Allen West and Thomas Sowell and Herman Cain and Lloyd Marcus, to name a few. Conservatives know that focusing on what’s best for all Americans is the only answer to problems of race. They also know that much progress has been made. And they instinctively knew what liberals cannot understand: Focusing on race guarantees that the issue will only get worse.
YMBAL’S #30
If you immediately sized up the racist motivations of the Cambridge cops but still are searching for the mysterious reasons behind the Fort Hood shootings…
If you ever knocked over your roommate’s bong with a dart aimed at a picture of Ronald Reagan…
If you voted for Obama in the 2008 Iowa Caucus because he was the first non-white person you had ever seen up close…
If you were outraged that the Romney campaign had the temerity to use Obama’s own words in a campaign ad against him…
If you have a white mother who raised you and a black father who abandoned you, and yet you claim to be black in a country full of white racists…49
If you’ve ever moderated a Presidential debate while a publisher was preparing to release your book based on the election of one of the participants…50
If you still believe Crystal Gail Mangum’s account of what happened at the Duke Lacrosse party…
If you EVER believed Crystal Gail Mangum’s account of what happened at the Duke Lacrosse party…
If you’ve ever left vicious anti-Muslim flyers all over George Washington University to frame a campus conservative group…
If you think Strom Thurmond was a racist but
Robert Byrd was merely a good ole boy from the hills and hollers of West Virginia…
If you are offended by “Dixie” but have every recording ever done by Common…
If you have studied the book “Marijuana Indoors: 5 Easy Gardens”…
If you are more worried about eating foods that are not organically grown than you are hooking up with an Occupy Wall Streeter who hasn’t bathed in a month…
If your dogma cannot find a stigma…
If you credit roads and fire departments for successful businesses yet blame incompetent management and ownership for business failures…
If you believed your union bosses when they told you that you would get a retirement based on 8% returns forever and ever, and now blame the taxpayers for not bailing your union out…
If you’ve ever supported no-credit-verification mortgages and then blamed the credit reporting agencies for rampant foreclosures…
...you might be a liberal. (YMBAL)
“Let me be clear: If you like your doctor or healthcare provider, you an keep them. If you like your health care plan, you can keep that too.”
—Barack Obama
“Obama’s health care plan will be written by a committee whose head, John Conyers, says he doesn’t understand it. It’ll be passed by Congress that has not read it, signed by a president who smokes, funded by a Treasury chief who didn’t pay his taxes, overseen by a Surgeon General who is obese, and financed by a country that’s nearly broke. What could possibly go wrong?”
—Rush Limbaugh
31: RICHARD TRUMKA VERSUS FREEDOM
If your idea of freedom is to take two aspirin and call the IRS in the morning…
Someone—not me, unfortunately—likened arguing with a liberal to playing chess with a pigeon. You make brilliant move after brilliant move, yet the pigeon just struts around the chess board knocking the pieces off the table and crapping all over everything, then proclaiming victory.
Trying to discuss business and the economy with some liberals, like AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, is much the same as playing chess with a pigeon. Trumka is one of those Democrats who desperately needs Patty Murray and Debbie Wasserman Schultz to stay active in the party so that his chances of having the dumbest sound bite of the day is reduced by a factor of two.
But Trumka made the mistake of writing a column about July 4th for the Huffington Post. I say this was a mistake because a man like Trumka should never want to memorialize his words in print for future perusal. It is one thing to go on one of those cable shows where you can shout down your opposite number and grin like you won, regardless of what you said. It’s quite another for your words to see the cold light of print. Consider the following logical gems from the nation’s number one union thug in a column about freedom. I’ll pretend I was debating him on cable.
TRUMKA: Let’s call this right-wing “freedom” catch phrase what it really is: A grossly political strategy to dupe the public, which holds the word “freedom” as something sacred.
WRIGHT: Uh, yes, we do hold freedom as something sacred, and we were not duped into doing so. In fact, I’m not sure how you can get ‘duped’ into freedom anyway. How does that work?
TRUMKA: Let’s start with President Franklin Roosevelt’s Four Freedoms: Freedom of speech and expression, freedom of worship, freedom from want and freedom from fear. I would add the freedom to bargain collectively.
WRIGHT: Now Richard, I hate to quibble, but Roosevelt would not have added the freedom to bargain collectively. In fact, he expressly said that government workers absolutely should NOT have the freedom to bargain collectively. And besides, your four freedoms were actually five, but for union work I guess that’s close enough.
TRUMKA: Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker received the National Rifle Association’s “Defender of Freedom” award recently. I guess they meant Gov. Walker is defending teachers’ freedom from joining with coworkers to bargain fairly about things like class size.
WRIGHT: Now Mr. Trumka, I know you think you have a pithy and effective sound bite there. But actually, that ‘freedom from’ concept is exactly what Walker is defending. And the people of Wisconsin agreed with Governor Walker that teachers should, indeed, have the freedom not to join a union, and the freedom not to have union dues taken out of their paychecks, and the freedom not to have that money used to support politicians they do not like. And again—I hate to keep bringing this up—but your hero FDR would agree with Walker on this. (Don’t you just love it when bad facts happens to bad people? )
TRUMKA: When the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care Act, Sarah Palin tweeted “Obama lies; freedom dies.” She’s referring, I guess, to the freedom to go without health care when you’re sick.
WRIGHT: Uh no, Mr. Trumka, she’s referring to the freedom to choose her own doctor and not have an IRS agent or government union bureaucrat who donates to your slush fund be involved in her health care. She’s talking about the freedom not to end up like many in Britain are ending up in their healthcare system, which is on the “death pathway.” Talk about the pathway of least resistance!
TRUMKA: When politicians on the right talk about the “freedom” to replace Social Security with vouchers, what they really mean is freedom from a secure retirement income.
WRIGHT: No, what they mean is, a Social Security system that no longer exists could not be credibly defined as a very secure source of retirement income. And on the course we’re headed now, social security will not exist much longer. But even allowing your premise for a second: Why would you say that? Are we to believe that government bureaucrats we’ve never met are so concerned with us, and concerned about managing our retirement money, that we can rest easy in their hands? Frankly, even in its present condition, I’m not sure anyone has accused Social Security of being a secure retirement income. Freedom means we can opt out of this disaster and take care of ourselves.
TRUMKA: The “freedom” of cutting local government translates into the freedom from having the help of a cop or a firefighter or EMS tech in your time of greatest need.
WRIGHT: No, we are talking about the freedom from having to work until we are ninety to support lazy DMV employees and other such mind numbed robotic government workers, so they can retire at fifty. And what is it with you liberals that the answer to every problem is simply to hire more teachers, firefighters and cops? Only in liberal cities and states, where you’ve been hiring union teachers, fire fighters and cops for years, are the cities falling apart. Are cities burning out of control? Or could it be that “teachers, fire fighters and cops” is code for more union dues for Democrats? Of course it is.
TRUMKA: Time after time we’re told corporations should have freedom from pesky job safety regulations, environmental protections and labor standards—giving working people the freedom to be crushed in collapsing mines, choke on filthy air and get paid too little to live on.
WRIGHT: Damn, Mr. Trumka. You finally caught us. You finally figured out that we want all workers to die and get sick and injured because, then, well, let’s see—we’d be where? Out of business? Is this what passes for logic for you people? What do you think this is? The industrial revolution? What century are you living in? Why is it that supposedly ‘forward thinking’ liberals are always debating issues from the last century.
Obviously for Trumka, and other liberals like him, freedom means the total dependence on the government. I guess, in a sense, it means the freedom to never grow up and take responsibility for yourself. When you break down all of his answers, the ultimate freedom, in his mind, is to have the government or some labor union—or perhaps both—achieve your freedom for you. Which of course, is more like slavery than freedom.
And this is no mistake, and it’s not out of context. This was a pre-planned column for July 4th. Trumka, his advisors, and the staff at the Huffington Post had plenty of time to edit and change and finesse this piece. And yet, the result is the same old elementary school level liberal economic philosophy. This is the bes
t they’ve got!
Trumka is like a living breathing male version of the Obama Campaign’s cartoon figure Julia. Need a job? Government. Need health care? Government. Need a condom? Government. Need an abortion? Government. (That’s what you get from government condoms, perhaps). Need your hand held for everything throughout your entire life? Government.
That is freedom to Trumka. And Julia. And Obama.
What they don’t process in their tiny little processors is that one man’s dependence on government means another man’s enslavement to support that dependence. Of course, for us to reach that conclusion, we have to be duped by corporate interests:
TRUMKA: I do believe that freedom isn’t free—but today the corporate and political right wing is trying to cheapen this truly American value. They’ve been cynically using the word “freedom” to rally the American public against its own best interests.
WRIGHT: Why don’t you let us decide that for ourselves? We can handle it from here.
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