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Rev. Jeremiah Wright recalls Reagans AIDS Failure!
by djermano | May 2, 2008 at 07:05 am | 605 views | 11 comments
The International Institute of Nonviolence
By: Rev. Jermano
Opinion...
Obama has been living in a cloud these past 20 years in not knowing the truth of things in America, and he chooses to distance himself from Rev. Wright? Who is Obama trying to kid? He has no idea the struggle Black Americans went through in ending the Vietnam War, and fighting for equal rights from the leadership of Rev. Martin Luther King? He supports the continued War in Iraq and made promises to invade Pakistan...and he doesn't see a conflict with those statements and Black America's Church? He doesn't remember Ronald Reagans refusal to help people who contracted the AIDS virus during his term in office? He thinks Rev. Wright doesn't remember these things, and when he says the truth Obama calls them outrageous?
The "poison blood" group-fantasy was so frightening that hospital workers refused to touch the "poisonous" blood of AIDS victims, medical technicians began us-ing gloves when touching anyone who was bleeding, equipment touched by homosexuals was thrown away, morticians refused to bury AIDS vic-tims, and blood donations dropped off dangerously due to fears of "in-fected needles."(46) In local meetings all across the country, homosexuals were denounced publicly as "rapists . . sinners and liars," people who held orgies in sex clubs," people who "because of AIDS" endangered everyone in the community.(47) "A lot of people feel that gays have gotten what they deserve," one worker told a New York Times reporter. "On a bulletin board next to him was a cartoon of a middle-aged woman airing her view on AIDS: 'Good Christian people have nothing to fear as long as we stay a million miles away from the slimy creatures who may have it.' "(49)
In fact, what "a lot of people" really felt was that gays had gotten what we deserved: an anti-sexual epidemic, a plague sent by God to punish us all for such things as the sexually explicit cable TV programs watched in millions of American homes. http://www.psychohistory.com/reagan/r123x135.htm
I say God Bless Rev. Wright for being right!
Let's be clear that Black America's Church goes way back, not just during Rev. Kings day. Rev. King gave his life for Nonviolence in establishing our American culture of Black America...and we are going to think Barack Obama and his words of violence and not supporting Rev. Kings sweat and life is the change we are seeking in America? He is without a clue to the reality of things. Just what is wrong speaking out for Nonviolence? Tell me! What is wrong in speaking about the injustices committed by Americans toward other people? Obama lives in a fantasy as if America never did wrong to America, or other people in the world. Who sticks up for the innocent families killed with American bombs, blown to bits by American tanks, gunned down by America soldiers who escape prosecution for their murderous acts? Who? I will tell you who...it is Rev. Wright.
Is Barak Obama supporting Rev. Al Sharpton and speaking out against the NYC police for gunning down a black brother Mr. Sean Bell. Bell, who was going to his wedding, was unarmed when police fired at him 50 times outside a Queens Club on November 25, 2008, when he was doing nothing, and they acquitt the cops who shot 50 times to make sure they killed him! Is Barack talking about that? Not a peep.
I find Barak Obama a guy who wants to be President by disowning the disenfranchised not only in America but in Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine, and Pakistan. He says he didn't vote for the war in Iraq, and of course he didn't because he wasn't even a Senator at the time. I could make the same claim, but it has no real bearing on events or on the Senate record. Who is Barack Obama?
He is a guy who will disown his Pastor, and we are to think he will do right for the American People? Not a pigs nose in the dirt will I allow Obama to be one of those chickens coming home to roost. I will speak out to proclaim Rev. Kings message to abolish war, I will speak toward that same Mountain that hears the cry of the poor, the afflicted, and people suffering from AIDS. I will support Rev. Wright and his steadfast committment to Black America and the Legacy of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. No, No, No, my brothers and sisters Rev. King shalt not die in vain as President Bush implies when he sends innocent kids into battle into a LIE about going to War. It is President Bush who is wrong about our direction in America, and our belief in Nonviolence will deliver us from his bondage to America and the world.
When Barak Obama does not support Impeachment of murderers who occupy the White House, who had an actual hand in committing 911 and killling fellow Americans in order to LIE about going to War, and this same Black Senator wants to continue the same policies of Bush and Cheney, and never ask his comrade John Conyers to table Impeachment ...we know there is something diabolical and wrong with this candidate. We know he is taking us away from our beloved Church teachings that embraces the good and right as Rev. King did by absorbing the blows of evil, in order that evil will die within itself.
No, No, No, Barak Obama, Rev. King shalt not be mocked, shall not be spat upon, shall not be rendered a simple memory or dream..he shalt not have died in VAIN. But he shall be our enduring light to the nation that we are a people who practice nonviolence and those who don't and claim to be the winners and defenders of freedom toward the authenticity of America are the falsehoods because God never said "let there be an army so there was a military." We cast our lights upon those who support violence, in order that the phony medals and medallions they embrace will sink them into their disgrace to be pulled down into the lava of lies from which their cowardliness evolved.
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at 11:10 on May 2nd, 2008
Facing the hard truth about itself. Something America will avoid at all costs.
at 12:00 on May 2nd, 2008
Some of the things Rev. Right and you say are true but what is his (Rev, Right) motive for telling use this now?
What is the motive for attacking Obama at this stage of the game? why didn't he speak out earlier?
find the motive and you find the truth because the motive may not be a good one. RHYME & REASON
at 21:15 on May 2nd, 2008
It is probably said now because we are seeing and witnessing the real Obama. How can we have an opinion when Obama was fresh in coming. Now that he is speaking more, we see where his frame of mind is, and certainly its a frame of mind that disowns his own religion, that disowns the many sacrifices and struggle that got us to where we are today. That disowns the real message of Rev. Martin Luther King. The truth is it takes time to learn about candidates and their agendas, and when we do learn them, be begin to speak out. Rev. Wright in my opinion is about right on time.
at 12:01 on May 2nd, 2008
djermano, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 13:05 on May 2nd, 2008
I don't like Obama or Wright.
Obama is too "fluffy"... and Wright seems to do a disservice to his church by keeping them in a mentality of being in bondage.
at 14:26 on May 2nd, 2008
"...Barack Obama and his words of violence.."
What the heck? See how far Wright gets with hate speech! Obama is correct in distancing himself from someone who flames hatred with hate.
Of course, there have been bad things done on ALL sides, but to not recognize America as one of the greatest countries on earth is an injustice unto itself. We are not talking about the perceived arrogance of some of its leaders or countrymen...we are simply talking the truth.
Remember that commercial..."Don't hate me because I'm beautiful"? That comes to mind when I think of the hateful comments about America.
at 17:00 on May 2nd, 2008
How many articles have you seen on the 770 Million dollars in aide to Hunger? I have seen an article on here about it, but very little in MSM. Its so easy to kick the Bush. I am sure the Democratic lead Congress will approve this as well. When it comes to those around the world who need help, America is there.
at 14:41 on May 2nd, 2008
I rest my case.
at 21:06 on May 2nd, 2008
"...Barack Obama and his words of violence.."
What the heck? See how far Wright gets with hate speech! Obama is correct in distancing himself from someone who flames hatred with hate.
.....who is talking hate? Obama supports Bush and Cheney in Iraq when he will not support Impeachment. His act alone says more about hate than the 20 years of Rev. Wrights sermons. Who supports the innocent slain cut down Iraqi families? Certainly not GW Bush, certainly not Barack Obama. Obama can't even support Sean Bell who was murdered by NYC cops, and you say Obama doesn't have messages of hate in him? His message is what ? Forget about those who are murdered, forget about making those who committ the crimes to admit they did wrong? And just forget? Just forget, just forget? you are saying? I think that is our problem. We forgot about Rev. King, We forgot about Nonviolence, we forgot about Vietnam, We forgot about Civil Rights, we forgot about telling the truth, but we learn that when we remember it is hate speech! Somehow I don't believe remembering is hate.
Of course, there have been bad things done on ALL sides, but to not recognize America as one of the greatest countries on earth is an injustice unto itself. We are not talking about the perceived arrogance of some of its leaders or countrymen...we are simply talking the truth.
......Great meaning what? That we have excluded the real people of this land in the Constitution? That we had slavery and its labor, support America for half of its existed life, not including the other half which has been totally racially discriminated? That we have had more War than any other nation in the world? That we have no real culture, because we killed it, in order to have the racial discrimination that still is in existence today? That somehow a 30 billion dollar pornography business exists in America, and no one sees a conflict in impeaching a President about sex, but are totally impotent when it comes to impeaching a president about lying to go to war, about being involved in doing 911 and killing fellow Americans, and systematically filling twice as many ditches with Iraq bodies than Saddam could ever imagine?
Remember that commercial..."Don't hate me because I'm beautiful"? That comes to mind when I think of the hateful comments about America.....Yeah right just like the saying "She has a million dollar body and 5 cent mind."
But hey: because we are there for relief delivering food and medicines makes up for all the bad right? Suppose you haven't noticed the sky rocketing gasoline prices, and the non-action in creating Geothermal Energy plants to sustain electric transportation. I suppose you haven't noticed the high cost of food now, and the inability to provide healthcare and medicine to fellow Americans? What gets me is 1% of the people control the vast wealth in America, and the ridiculous other people allow it to go on, by believing their lies! People who are not making $200,000 a year should not be supporting Republican lies, and the WAR machine.
Just forget I said anything here right?
at 08:13 on May 3rd, 2008
I find this guy’s view refreshing to say the least ;)
Obama’s ‘Race Neutral’ Strategy Unravels of its Own Contradictions
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
The whole thang is here…
http://www.blackagendareport.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=603&Itemid=1
Personally I tought that Jon Stewart at The Daily Show addressed the whole Wright hoopla with rare aplomb & a lot of class indeed... Check the related clips from this week’s jubilation ;)
I’ve picked up a few lines from the article that I find particularly interesting…
The world views of Rev. Jeremiah Wright and Sen. Barack Obama were incompatible from the start, just as the mythical American Manifest Destiny world view is directly at odds with the facts as perceived by Blacks in the United States. Wright finally forced Obama to choose sides in the conflict of racial/historical visions, and in doing so, performed a service on behalf of clarity.
The very premise - that race neutrality is possible in a nation built on white supremacy - demanded the systematic practice of the most profound race-factual denial, which is ultimately indistinguishable from rank dishonesty. From the moment Obama told the 2004 Democratic National Convention that "there is no white America, there is no Black America," it was inevitable that the candidate would one day declare the vast body of Black opinion illegitimate.
Under questioning from reporters in Winston Salem, North Carolina, Obama swore up and down that he had never before, in 16 years as a member of Wright's Trinity United Church of Christ congregation, observed his pastor behave in such a way. The declaration rang patently false, as even a red-state Republican white evangelical observer would have recognized Wright's Press Club performance as that of veteran pulpit-master with a vast repertoire of church-pleasing moves and grooves to draw upon, all of them honed over decades for the entertainment of his parishioners - including Obama. But the senator was intent on giving the impression that Rev. Wright was - unbeknownst to Obama - a Jekyll and Hyde character, whose statements "were not only divisive and destructive, but I believe that they end up giving comfort to those who prey on hate."
An amazingly Bush-like turn of phrase! The man who married Barack and Michelle and baptized their children is now rhetorically linked to Osama bin Laden or the Ku Klux Klan. Clearly, this is what panic looks and sounds like when Obama's flimsy tissues of "race neutrality" are stripped away.
Obama had belabored the same theme in his Philadelphia speech on race, a few weeks earlier - a widely applauded piece of oratory that was at root an exercise in moral equivalence that equated white and Black grievances in the U.S., as if history and gross power discrepancies did not exist. Obama is as quick as any smug corporate commentator to dismiss as the ravings of extremists and those who "prey on hate" the very idea that U.S. imperialism is an historical and current fact. Chickens cannot possibly come home to roost in terroristic revenge as a response to American crimes against humanity, since "good" nations by definition are incapable of such crimes.
In order for his race-neutral strategy to appear sane, Obama must constantly paint a picture of an America that does not exist. This cannot be accomplished without mangling the truth, assaulting the truth-tellers, and misrepresenting America's past and present.
"People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state of innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster." - James Baldwin
“When will the American people actually vote to give to the world more than bombs and missiles, sweatshops, dubious science, frankenfood, poverty and misery?” - Cynthia McKinney
"America is the first empire to go from barbarity to decadence without going through civilization" - Oscar Wilde
at 20:28 on May 3rd, 2008
Thanks for the article Whitenoise..
The trouble with Obama is he wishes for a better future. Better to be able to understand where we are now in order to establish how to get to that better future. His inability to recognize how we as Black America and White America got to where we are today, kills his own optimistic ideals for a better future. He is not grounded in reality.
We Americans lost a leader a great leader when Rev. King was assassinated. He was there to remind us of our American identity in pursuing the greatest defense weapon mankind has ever known, and that is Nonviolence. We shrunk and collapsed when Rev. King left our presense. We then started looking for Political leaders to fill the void, as when Jesse Jackson ran for President. But in fact it is not a Political leader we need. The Jews in the day of Jesus were looking for a political leader to lead them against the Romans, and is why they chose Barabas to join them, which sent Jesus to the cross. Barack Obama is another Barabas figuratively speaking, because he does not pickup the cross when Rev. King was cut down.
Our American destiny to this day is found through Rev. King and his message of Nonviolence. Just as Mahadmas Gandhi in India used Nonviolence to free India from British Occupation, we Americans need to use Nonviolence to melt the MIC military industrial complex back to its fire hell hole, and to free Americans from acts of hate which then spreads into racism and discontent throughout our land.
We need great men of courage like Rev. King, like Rev. Wright, like Rev. Jackson, like Rev. Sharpton to remind us of our christian belief in doing as Jesus and Rev. King would do. Should we hate Obama, no we should not, we should remind him of his error. Obama is more a victim to this than we care to believe, because our media refuses to talk about racial issues. The media only inflames rasism by fanning the flames of Imus, of fanning the flames to Geraldine Ferraro, and fanning the flames of hanging nooses hung in trees. How can Obama tell the truth when the Media would label him as a racist?
Lets put the blame where it belongs and it is on a Media who is controlled by thugs in the White House who support the exact opposite when they kill innocent families in Iraq. They use race to discount those who are against the War machines, and they succeed in dividing America...to include dividing the Democratic Party as it moves toward sweeping them from our midst. Obama needs to recognize this.
America's problem and other countries around the world is that they promote the memory lane of veterans who died in previous wars, as they are given the respect and dignity for dying for their country. Politicians place more value on War machines than on the concept of Nonviolence and Religion. This ideal is what keeps War machines modern and keeps politics in a constant defining battle between fighting vs. the concept of Nonviolence. They think people who died in fighting an enemy are more honorable than people who support Nonviolence. Yet we have seen leaders who support Nonviolence who have died and been assassinated in their cause. The question then becomes who do we dishonor? Do we dishonor the soldiers who fought in Wars, or dishonor Nonviolent activists who were killed in trying to stop and prevent War? It is clear in my mind that the Nonviolent people, whether they are leaders or innocent civilians hold more of an identity and authentic duty to a Nations Allegiance in Patriotism than Soldiers willing to fight at the command of angry leaders.
My answer to this battle of the wills to national identities toward respect of the two is that War has always been a loser, has always proved nothing except the ability to kill, and its only purpose essentially is to come out of the tunnel to wars end, which is in itself Nonviolences credential.
War is unable to achieve its goal since War equates only to more war. On the otherhand the practice of Nonviolence at the fields of War accomplishes the win for Nonviolence since the people who use Nonviolence die willingly for the cause. Who is braver or more distinquished is the soldier of Nonviolence, since he carrys no gun, or wishes harm upon perceived enemies. This is one of the main reasons Religion came into the world to educate men on how we should cope with each other in the world. The honoring of Veterans of War does not bring honor to a nation. It needs to realize that those Veterans will be honored in the light that we don't want to do what they have gone through.
It is also an idea that they were not smart enough to realize that Nonviolence is the greatest weapon to mankind. It is more powerful than all the atomic bomb arsenals in the world. And yet people who live in the United States who claim to be a Christian Nation have no concept of that, when they follow angry directions of hate exhumed from the body personification of GW Bush! They seize the present anger and follow toward War, without thinking about the real meaning to National Identity and the result of any War is continued suffering for all peoples.
It's why Jesus came to show us. God did not create the military, man did. Jesus nullifies the old testament, which is full of war....because War never brought relief to the people. It always assembled another time for a new battlefield.
Veterans will refute this, but Jesus has defined this already. It is why we give much respect to him, and leaders such as Mahadmas Gandhi, Rev. Martin Luther King, and others.
Make no mistake the divide in America is between the Military establishment and its gun violent culture which has been predominately a white race characteristic, verses Nonviolence that was represented by Rev. King, and now by other black authorities such as Rev. Wright, Rev. Jackson, and Rev. Sharpton. There are many white people who follow the concept of Nonviolence so in this respect perhaps Obama is right that there is no white or black America. But the fact that Obama identified himself with the Military ideals of America's proves how out of step he is to Black American culture and the struggle of Rev. Martin Luther King in bringing America to its awareness for the ideals of Nonviolence..