Posted by
Professor Eisenstein on Wednesday, March 19, 2008 8:00:00 AM
Barack Obama has set back forty years the relations between the races, predominantly between African-Americans and other groups. His speech focused on de-legitimizing race hatred by rejecting completely legitimizing Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Jr. In the end though he achieved neither. The Reverend's legitimacy remains after the speech and race is now the most legitimate contentious debate in the presidential race. In the end, Obama gave justification to Afro-centric Christianity that at base is a hatred for the whites of the world generally and American whites specifically.
The Rev. Jeremiah Wright is not equivalent to the African-American community in the United States. It is the racism of Chicago blacks represented by Wright's and Farakkan's ideology. It is also the ideology that has destroyed the Black community of South Chicago and Gary, Indiana. Wright's and Farakkan's ideology is different; but they do completely agree on the anti-Americanism and anti-white preaching that Wright has been accused, correctly, of stating. You could take Wright's preaching and give it to Farakkan and it would work well back and forth with either congregation. One indication of their overlap is that Farakkan's Nation of Islam is not considered to be Muslim (it is a bastardized racist version of Islam). In the same way, Wright's Christianity is a bastardization of the Hebrew bible and the New Testament. (Wright's Afro-centric ideology is a bastardized racist version of Christianity).
It therefore should not surprise anyone that Rev. Wright gave Louis Farakkan and life-time achievement award. Their two lives are the flip side of the same coin. Racism and hatred of whites is what drives them and their followers. Sadly for the nation one of those followers is the presidential candidate Barack Obama. Obama stayed in the pews for one of two reasons. One, he believed. This would be very plausible because he was brought to Christianity that was Afro-Centric. He sat there and listened and accepted his mentor and lover of Farrakahn. Second, he joined and became a Christian because he had to for the politics of Black Chicago. This is necessary to get the black vote for yourself and others to enable Obama to rise up, with Rezko's "under the table" help, the Democratic Chicago Political ladder.
Either reason for his decision to remain an active part of an extremely racist church is plausable. It actually would seem that his family's, i.e. his wife, reason was the first and Barack Obama's reason may very well been the second. Either way this is a man whose only principle and certainty is gaining power and election. Principles are vacuous as many who have examined his campaign and even his latest speech recognized. Obama can sound wonderful because he has no real substance.
The real fact of the absence of any real person is his vote, 130 times, present. "Present" is the act of being there without taking a stand. Barack Obama sells his self, his blackness, his whiteness, his hope, his loss, Obama does not present a position as much as he presents whatever you want. He is the dissenfranchised mirror. Dissenfanchised is anyone who is unhappy.
Because of Obama, whites will not trust blacks period for years to come. The fact that there is not a broad rejection of Wright by blacks is making Whites and Hispanics reject African-Americans in greater numbers because of his speech. When even a presidential candidate will not flatly reject his current mentor Rev. Wright, the message is sends is that hatred of anyone who is not Black is even more important than the greatest office in the land. Race-hatred is central to Rev. Wright and to Louis Farakkahn. It is ironic to point out that it is also central to Barack Obama's campaign. Their hatred is focused on the other, Republicans, other pastors, radio talk show hosts, everyone who disagrees with him.
Obama bringing his white grandmother into his defense shows his continued inability to integrate his white part into his character. Did he check with her? Who is there to defend her? What type of low-life are you to compare a grown man, Rev. Wright, publicly spewing hatred at his country, its government, its white citizens, its Jewish citizens to one statement his aged grandmother may have made in private? This is the type of Chicago politician that will sell anything for a vote; the type that should never be allowed close to the White House.