Thursday, March 13, 2008
Where is the media on Obama?
by Michael G. Mickey
(3-13-08)
I'm seriously starting to wonder where the media is on the topic of Senator Barack Obama's church, its leadership and his participation in it. Having said that, I commend Fox News for pointing out what Obama's pastor had to say in a Christmas sermon that I want all my site's readers to fully grasp.
During that sermon, Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. likened Barack Obama’s upbringing to Jesus at the hands of the Romans. Both as a Christian and as a caucasian American, that comment doesn't sit well with me. It's totally inappropriate.
If we placed the shoe on the other foot and said that John McCain, just as Jesus Christ had to endure the persecution of His enemies, had to overcome being raised in a mostly-black neighborhood to go on to be where he is today, the press would've been screaming foul and I would've been nodding my head in agreement.
Jeremiah Wright's words spoken in December were racist, in my humble opinion. Not only that, he had more to say - and it was worse.
“Barack knows what it means living in a country and a culture that is controlled by rich white people,” Wright said. “Hillary would never know that.While I can't, as a caucasian male, identify with what it is like to be a minority, there's one thing I am 100% certain of and it's this: Americans from all racial and social backgrounds voted for Barack Obama to become a United States Senator. People from all racial and social backgrounds are supporting Barack Obama now. If that wasn't the case, he wouldn't be beating Hillary Clinton in all the primaries he is! Isn't that a logical conclusion for us to reach? It seems to be from my perspective and yet this pastor, from whom Barack Obama plucked the title of his book "The Audacity of Hope", is making race an issue in the elections. This raises questions in my mind concerning who the real Barack Obama is.
“Hillary ain’t never been called a nigger. Hillary has never had a people defined as a non-person.”
If any caucasian pastor was the spiritual mentor of a potential caucasian president of the United States and the church's mission statement read as follows, how much stir do you believe the mainstream media would be causing, particularly if this caucasian presidential candidate's primary opponent was African-American?
We are a congregation which is Unashamedly White and Unapologetically Christian... Our roots in the White religious experience and tradition are deep, lasting and permanent. We are a European people, and remain "true to our native land," the mother nation of England. 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 White worship service and ministries which address the White Community.Everywhere you see the words white or England above, replace them with the word Black and Africa/African and you have the mission statement of Barack Obama's Christian Church.
The Pastor, as well as the membership of Trinity Church of Jesus Christ, is committed to a 10-point Vision:
A congregation committed to ADORATION.
A congregation preaching SALVATION.
A congregation actively seeking RECONCILIATION.
A congregation with a non-negotiable COMMITMENT TO ENGLAND.
A congregation committed to BIBLICAL EDUCATION.
A congregation committed to CULTURAL EDUCATION.
A congregation committed to the HISTORICAL EDUCATION OF WHITE PEOPLE EVERYWHERE.
A congregation committed to LIBERATION.
A congregation committed to RESTORATION.
A congregation working towards ECONOMIC PARITY.
No matter how you slice it, Barack Obama's church is racist by its own words. His membership in it, as you can read for yourself, indicates he holds a non-negotiable commitment to Africa.
I don't know about any of you but I'd like to have someone sitting in the Oval Office who has a non-negotiable commitment to the United States of America and Israel as those are the two nations that Christians should be primarily focused on protecting, although I thoroughly understand the obvious connectivity of African-Americans to Africa and their heritage.
To be clear, I think it's disgraceful to Christ that we have Black churches, White churches or Oriental churches. There is only one Church and skin color has nothing to do with membership in it.
If we find in the mission statement of any church language insinuating that the Gospel that church is preaching is pointed in only one direction racially, we should be upset as the Gospel is 100% color blind!
And isn't it about time, if we are going to heal as a nation from the terrible blemish on our history that is slavery, that spiritual leaders like Jeremiah Wright, Jr. stop tossing the 'n word' around in their sermons, guiding their churches to be the sanctuary of one group of people and more supportive of a nation far away than of our own? I certainly think so.
If Jesus Christ were to step foot inside Jeremiah Wright Jr.'s church, I feel highly confident there would be some tables overturned, one of which would see the hideous mission statement of that church torn to shreds!
Recently I read, as I'm sure many others did, that Barack Obama's wife indicated she'd only recently found pride in America. A lot of people judged her harshly for her words but, from her perspective, I could see how her words may have been misinterpreted somewhat. Her husband is, after all, the first African-American we've ever seen make what has to be considered a serious bid for the White House. Personally, I have taken some pride in seeing that happen, even though I don't support Barack Obama to gain the White House. What his candidacy represents to me is a change in mindset in this nation concerning its willingness to be led by someone who isn't a white male. That, in my opinion, is long overdue in our nation's storied history.
The downside of Barack Obama's candidacy, from my perspective, is that the media is deliberately turning its head away from the racist rants of his recently-retired pastor, his association with a church that doesn't have a problem with identifying itself, for all practical purposes, as a Black-only church, and Barack's identification with and embracing of his pastor's ideologies.
When former Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan endorsed Barack Obama for president, the ears of a nation should've perked up far more than they did. Not only that, its ears should've perked up even more when Barack Obama distanced himself from Louis Farrakhan's anti-Semitic rhetoric without mentioning Farrakhhttp://rapturealert.blogspot.com/2008/03/where-is-media-on-obama.htmlhttp://rapturealert.blogspot.com/2008/03/where-is-media-on-obama.htmlan's racial hatred of caucasians.
The following video is practically impossible to watch and listen to at the same time as it is video being recorded of a radio broadcast of Barack Obama's spiritual advisor, Jeremiah Wright, Jr., from a car radio. My suggestion is for you to start the video and then close your eyes to hear Wright's words more clearly and limit the distraction of the car moving.\posted on http://www.rapturealert.com by Michael Mickey