WaPo Op-Ed: "Another Angry Black Preacher"

http://youtube.com/watch?v=bOOL3BYaIEQ

"Don't let anybody make you think God chose America as his divine messianic force to be a sort of policeman of the whole world. God has a way of standing before the nations with justice and it seems I can hear God saying to America "you are too arrogant, and if you don't change your ways, I will rise up and break the backbone of your power, and I will place it in the hands of a nation that doesn't even know my name. Be still and know that I'm God. Men will beat their swords into plowshafts and their spears into pruning hooks, and nations shall not rise up against nations, neither shall they study war anymore." I don't know about you, I ain't going to study war anymore."

Martin Luther King Jr.
Address to the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (1967-08-16)

If MLK were alive today...he was would labeled a communist, a racist bigot, and anti-American by the
mainstream mass media...is there anyone out there who doesn't believe this is true?

Anyone who dares question the pseudo religion of right-wing partriotism is villified as a means of
discrediting them.

Wow... good comparison, Mr. Dionne.... thank you.

I was alive when MLK was marching and speaking for black rights. He never said anything that remotely echoes what Wright said.
King spoke and marched 40 years ago. Much has improved since MLK's time. When will this race non-sense end?? Afro-Americans have every right that whites have. I am really tired of this victimhood BS. Obama is not being honest here. he said in one of the debates that......"there is no white America, no black America, no hispanic America, and no Asian America, there is just the United States of America."

Then, in his damage control speech, he said this......"Race is an issue that I believe this nation cannot ignore." So which is it Obama, which is it???

Thank you Charmed for the clarification...Ambassador Peck was being quoted by Rev Wright and Fox News twisted it to demonize Obama.

From Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr's "Beyond Vietnam -- A Time to Break Silence", delivered on April 4, 1967 at Riverside Church in New York City.

"As I have walked among the desperate, rejected, and angry young men, I have told them that Molotov cocktails and rifles would not solve their problems. I have tried to offer them my deepest compassion while maintaining my conviction that social change comes most meaningfully through nonviolent action. But they ask -- and rightly so -- what about Vietnam? They ask if our own nation wasn't using massive doses of violence to solve its problems, to bring about the changes it wanted. Their questions hit home, and I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today -- my own government. For the sake of those boys, for the sake of this government, for the sake of the hundreds of thousands trembling under our violence, I cannot be silent."

Time magazine called the speech "demagogic slander that sounded like a script for Radio Hanoi." The Washington Post declared the speech and King "diminished his usefulness to his cause, his country, his people." Yet, the passage of time gives us a different view.

If you want to read Dr. King's full text, or listen to it: http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkatimetobreaksilence.htm

When you actually see the ENTIRE sermon's of JW, and not just the Fox news soundbyte the have on endless loops, you realize that the American people are being lied to and coaxed back into their fearful little boxes. FOX should be censured.

If they start providing context to this and speaking to Americans like adults, what will the MSM focus on over the weekend?

we americans are war criminals. pure and simple. king got that right. as far as god rising up that is a bunch of bull. as far as karma now that is reality.

capitalism american style has to fail. no choice. karma demands it. goes against every spiritual law that I know of. spiritual law is not religous beliefs. those are based in fear and selfishness. who is more selfish than a neo con evangel?

we see that reality of american decline now in america. it is the decline of a country in wealth and power and honor and love for one another that both sides want to blame on each other neither side understanding karma.

the evangels dont understand karma as they are the worst of the worst war mongers. who do you think is listening to russ and shawn hannity?

If Pastor Wright was WHITE, his rhetoric would not even be an issue, and McCain would be courting him for an endorsement

"I'm a liberal, and I loathe the anti-American things Wright said precisely because I believe that the genius of our country is its capacity for self-correction. Progressivism and, yes, hope itself depend on a belief that personal conversion and social change are possible, that flawed human beings are capable of transcending their pasts and their failings."

This statement contradicted the entire article.
How can you lead us to believe that MLK said things that sounded as if they condemned American, when he was truly speaking as a oppressed Black man who wanted justice for all, and then claim that you loathe what Jeremiah Wright said?

He was speaking for oppressed people! I agree, people have diluted MLK's true character. We barely hear about what he said about American regarding the war in Vietnam.

Sometimes we have to speak against America without the use of pretty words. It's not Anti-American. At all.

Swanky,

I second Melkor on this matter. Where did you see Wright advocate violence?

Racists didn't like King and they don't like Wright. Racists are who they are, and no amount of Christian teaching is going to deter them from their mindless hate. It's in human nature to need someone to be better than, and throughout the ages poor white trash have had the African Americans to be better than. They simply cannot accept any criticism of themselves coming from people they consider their inferiors. We're not going to change this minority of diehards. Let's just ignore them. No matter how they try to phrase it, most of us recognize the racist content being posted here and discard it as ignorance.

The question about Senator Obama's continued membership in his Church has been endlessly

written and discussed. Those opposed to his Church Membership are eager to demand of him

what they are unwilling to do. Name one religious denomination without the stain of slanderous

preaching or practices.

Just asking...........

New Question:

How can any Americans still be members of the Republican Party?

'm a 60 year old Reagan republican. I keep telling everybody this so they understand how far I've moved from the GOP. I voted Reagan, Reagan, Perot, Perot, Buchanan. I"m bedrock white racist Illinois born boomer.

that said.... I believe pretty much everything Obama's preacher said. Government probably DID crate Aids...

I think our government is no better than Stalinist Russia or Nazi Germany - yet they have the means to perpetuate the ruse that they are saintly in their goodness. Even as they stood down at Pearl Harbor and 9/11.

I want a real rabble rouser elected -- LETS CLEAN UP DODGE guys... A Black Panther for Attny General!! Let's elect a REAL radical.... not tweedles dum or dee.... but the REAL thing.

I'm finished with both parties and their flim flam - TWA bombings - OKC false flag - militia infiltration - secret studies - ethnic viruses - UFO disinformation - WACO - Ruby Ridge - 9/11 --ALL OF IT!!

CLEAN HOUSE OBAMA !!! -- let's start prosecuting these bastards. What irony if a black man from Chicago gave us our country back!!

Let FREEDOM RING!!

What could it possibly be that is pissing our AA brothers and sisters off? Hmmm. I wonder.

Could it be the idea that some time back they were stolen from their homeland and sold into slavery?

That as slaves they could be put to death just for learning how to read or have their children sold away from them?

Could it be the poverty, the Klan, the lynchings, the terror they endured for decades and generations at the hands of white society?

Could it be that they were denied a decent education, opportunities for houseing and jobs, denied the right to vote?

Could it be that a disproportionate number of African Americas sit in American prisons and on death rows?

Might this be a cause for anger, I wonder? Especially when white society and institutions continue to deny the grievances, to deny the injustices were real and actually occurred? Before we ask African Americans to just "move on", should we not, at the very least, acknowledge their grievances and apologize for the decades of injustices and humiliation they have had to endure?

Is it not possible that by failing to acknowlege and validate their anger, we are failing to acknowledge and validate what is essentially a very human and legitimate response?

I was Not offended by any of th eclips I've seen of Rev Wright- He was talking to AmericaNs about taking back the Reins of this country! There has been an undercurrent of deception in this country which has caused or allowed the citizens to play possum, become Comatose to the actions an dinactions of those who we have 'elected' into Public Service. We must Abide by the Priciples we were founded on, and address the issues as they stand today. Tehre is Instituionalized Racism and Sexism and fear mongering and hate mongering and finger pointing without regard to Ultimate Responsiblity. I truely feel we should be holding those individuals and entities responsible for endangering the citizens of this country through their Unethical and Immoral Business Practices- Domestically and Internationally- they have been camoflagued in our Flag far too long.
Now you want to see an extremely Offensive and Scary video watch 'Rev' Manning of ATLAH (?) in New York, of course you could stop into almost any Evangelical White Church and hear the same crap too.
Now that S.O.B is not only Offfensive but has Delusions of Grandeur. A supremist by all standards- meglomaniac at the pulpit (False Prophets and Idols anyone....Snake Oil Dealer)

Dr. King's anger was drawn from watching his friends being jailed for protesting; having the fire department turn their water hoses against his fellow peaceful demonstrators; being beaten for gathering and demanding from his government that they redress the grievances of the black community. Dr. King was a leader in the truest sense of the word. He studied the work of Ghandi. He understood that persistent non-violent resistance was the pathway to peace and freedom. Pastor Wright completely misses that. He advocates violence and hatred for the very country who's freedoms allow him to speak such vitriolic words of hate. He scares white people, and believes that he ought to scare them. There's a huge difference between Dr. King and Pastor Wright. The fact that I've even written their names in the same sentence is blasphemous. Dr. King was a leader in the truest sense of the word. Mr. Obama is not. His association with Wright, and his continuing support of him makes it clear to me that he has no interest in having a true and honest dialog about race in the U.S. because he obviously hadn't questioned the words or motives of Pastor Wright until Tuesday. I don't trust anyone who blithely accepts the words of their friends and confidants without questioning or doubting them.