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Let's start w/ a few of his greatest hits.
He hates America:
"God didn't call American to do what she's doing in the world now. God didn't call America to engage in a senseless, unjust war... And we are criminals in that war. We have committed more war crimes almost than any other nation in the world and we won't stop because of our pride, our arrogance as a nation." (About Iraq).
He REALLY hates America - and alleges that our military is just a means of propping up our economic system:
"A nation that will keep people in slavery for 244 years [will]... exploit them, and poor people generally, economically. And a nation that will exploit economically will have to have foreign investments and everything else, and will have to use its military might to protect [those investments]. All of these problems are tied together"
He hates America so bad he thinks it's his worst enemy:
"I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the [inner cities] without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today -- my own government."
He thinks that property rights and profit motives are somehow in conflict with human values:
"I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values. We must rapidly begin... the shift from a thing-oriented society to a person-oriented society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights, are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered."
He tries on a little equivalence bt the attacks on 9/11 and bombing Japan in WWII:
“We bombed Hiroshima, we bombed Nagasaki, and we nuked far more than the thousands in New York and the Pentagon, and we never batted an eye.”
He makes 9/11 into a black-white racial moment in which "White America" got a bit of comeuppance:
“In the 21st century, white America got a wake-up call after 9/11/01. White America and the western world came to realize that people of color had not gone away, faded into the woodwork or just ‘disappeared’ as the Great White West kept on its merry way of ignoring black concerns.”
Finally - God Damn America:
“The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law and then wants us to sing ‘God Bless America.’ No, no, no, God damn America, that’s in the Bible for killing innocent people. God damn America for treating our citizens as less than human. God damn America for as long as she acts like she is God and she is supreme.”
Robin you're FOS when you say that Wright is just like all the other black preachers. I've been to a few black congregations and I've never heard any of the bullshit we know Wright has said. Which isn't to say there aren't plenty more like him, but stop pretending that his virulent anti-Americanism and hateful anti-Semitic crap is the norm.
He hates America:
"God didn't call American to do what she's doing in the world now. God didn't call America to engage in a senseless, unjust war... And we are criminals in that war. We have committed more war crimes almost than any other nation in the world and we won't stop because of our pride, our arrogance as a nation." (About Iraq).
He REALLY hates America - and alleges that our military is just a means of propping up our economic system:
"A nation that will keep people in slavery for 244 years [will]... exploit them, and poor people generally, economically. And a nation that will exploit economically will have to have foreign investments and everything else, and will have to use its military might to protect [those investments]. All of these problems are tied together"
He hates America so bad he thinks it's his worst enemy:
"I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the [inner cities] without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today -- my own government."
He thinks that property rights and profit motives are somehow in conflict with human values:
"I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values. We must rapidly begin... the shift from a thing-oriented society to a person-oriented society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights, are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered."
He tries on a little equivalence bt the attacks on 9/11 and bombing Japan in WWII:
“We bombed Hiroshima, we bombed Nagasaki, and we nuked far more than the thousands in New York and the Pentagon, and we never batted an eye.”
He makes 9/11 into a black-white racial moment in which "White America" got a bit of comeuppance:
“In the 21st century, white America got a wake-up call after 9/11/01. White America and the western world came to realize that people of color had not gone away, faded into the woodwork or just ‘disappeared’ as the Great White West kept on its merry way of ignoring black concerns.”
Finally - God Damn America:
“The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law and then wants us to sing ‘God Bless America.’ No, no, no, God damn America, that’s in the Bible for killing innocent people. God damn America for treating our citizens as less than human. God damn America for as long as she acts like she is God and she is supreme.”
Robin you're FOS when you say that Wright is just like all the other black preachers. I've been to a few black congregations and I've never heard any of the bullshit we know Wright has said. Which isn't to say there aren't plenty more like him, but stop pretending that his virulent anti-Americanism and hateful anti-Semitic crap is the norm.
Who cares about jobs and the economy if Romney was a bully 50 years ago.
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