I really hate to break it to you, but while reading the headlines of recent posts about Obama, I'm wondering how anyone here who supports Hillary Clinton thinks this is better than Daily Kos other than it's the other guy who is getting bashed.
Bashing is bashing.
Case in point, calling Reverend Wright.
He joined and remained active in a church where racism and anti-American hate is routinely preached. He and his family attended, and heavily contributed for about 20 years. This has received worldwide attention, as show in the link below.?
http://www.mydd.com/section/Diary/2
This sentiment was repeated in other diaries about how anti-American Rev. Wright is. Of course, it fails to put the anger in a historical context and assumes that Obama is a liar. Obama has said that he does not agree with many of the things that others are finding objectionable. I've been to Churches where I was not very keen about some of the message but I also know that it's the whole package, the worship, the fellowship and the community that comes with belonging to a Church.
The AME Church is where the African American political movement was born. It wasn't safe for Blacks to talk protest or politics in any other place other than their houses of worship.
The African Methodist Episcopal Church has a unique history in that it is the first major religious denomination in the Western World that had its origin over sociological rather than theological beliefs and differences, and the first African-American organized and incorporated denomination in the US. The AME church is also the church that sponsored the first independent historical black college, Wilberforce University. The church was born in protest against slavery--against dehumanization of African people, brought to the American continent as free labor. This fit well with the Methodist church's philosophy since its founder John Wesley had once called the slave-trade "that execrable sum of all villanies".http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_Methodist_Episcopal_Church
United Church of Christ is another predominantly African American denomination but it is welcoming to all. I belong to a UCC Church in my area and it's much different that Obama's Church. Still, to say with a straight face that Obama's Church preaches "racism and anti-American hate" on a routine bases does not understand the context and ignores the fact that ten videos is hardly "routine" when put into the context of a twenty year time span.
For me, Obama rose above politics as usual and did not do the politically expedient thing by completely denouncing those twenty years in his Church. I know if he had, there would be cries of another kind about him. He did the right thing.
This kind of talk about either candidate does not help anyone and it seems like My DD is just as biased as Daily Kos.
|
|
|
Permalink :: 136 Comments :: Post a Comment
|
