I am America.
I work hard, raise a family, teach my kids that we are all basically the same, and that we should treat people according their actions. Unlike Barak Obama’s church, I don’t need 10 commitments - the ten commandments are hard enough. Three words sum it all up - God, Family, Country.
I am America.
Reverend Wright’s church is “Unashamedly Black and Unapologetically Christian” - but his rhetoric is both shameful and un-Christian. His sermons are examples of the kind of bigotry which Americans of all races have worked for decades to stamp out. He reminds me a great deal of Fred Phelps - bigots wrapping themselves in the cloak of religion. Rather than steeping yourself in hate for something that was - speak out against the slavery and apartheid happening in the world today - in the Africa you are so committed to.
I am America.
Barak Obama - a member of this church - campaigns around the country on a platform of “Change”. Is it change we see in this Presidential Race or is it about electing a Racial President.
I am America.
Barak Obama - are you America? It’s a yes or no question.
UPDATE: Wright off the Obama Campaign
Obama denounced some of Wright’s sermons on Friday, telling CNN’s Anderson Cooper: “These are a series of incendiary statements that I can’t object to strongly enough.”
Earlier Friday, before the announcement of Wright’s departure from the Obama camp, the Illinois senator denounced some of the ministers’s sermons, calling them “inflammatory and appalling.”
“I categorically denounce any statement that disparages our great country or serves to divide us from our allies,” Obama wrote on the liberal Web site Huffingtonpost.com about recently surfaced sermons from Wright — his longtime pastor at the Trinity United Church of Christ.
Will the Southern Poverty Law Center denounce Dr. Wright and his rhetoric? Or does racism and hate continue to be a one-sided issue? I am sensitive to the differences in cultural histories in America. I have written about it many times in the past 7 years. Yet, what is the lesson we teach our children - that we are a nation which applies what we learned from our past, or that we are a nation which will be torn apart because we can never learn from our past?
