Obama readies speech on race

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-031708-obama-race-speech_18mar18,1,3729943.story

Obama readies speech on race

By Mike Dorning

Tribune correspondent

8:28 PM CDT, March 17, 2008

MONACA, Pa.

Sen. Barack Obama, confronting ongoing questions about inflammatory sermons delivered by his former pastor, announced Monday he will deliver a "major address" on race and politics in Philadelphia on Tuesday in an attempt to move beyond the controversy.<snip>

After performing well with white voters in early contests and winning over white voters in high-profile primaries in Wisconsin and Virginia, Obama has recently faltered with white voters, particularly the white working-class voters who are a core constituency of the Democratic Party.<snip>

In an interview with PBS's "NewsHour" on Monday, Obama suggested that Wright's tone in speaking of white America was partly a generational difference borne out of the bitter experiences of discrimination in an earlier era.

"When you look at somebody like a Rev. Wright who grew up in the '50s or '60s, his experience of race in this country is very different than mine," Obama said in the PBS interview.

"We benefit from the difficult battles that were place," Obama continued. "But I'm not sure that we benefit from continuing to perpetuate the anger and the bitterness that I think, at this point, serves to divide rather than bring us together."<snip>

that BO's memory failed him and now all of a sudden he is remembering what JW said and now he's understanding why he said it and is going to make excuses for it? If race relations in this country are ever going to move forward, this type of language must stop on both sides. Divisiveness must end. I'll never forget how prophetic Rodney King was in the LA riots! "Can't we all just get along?"

What will get peoples' attention?

for starters. Repudiation too! What ever it takes.

and you don't agree that racism has been rampant in the US for years?

:shrug:

for the entertainment.

Pathetic.

Especially since NO ONE else is doing that particular job and by "particular job" I am refering to being within the media context that so is so profoundly denied to most who do try.

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there it is!

So who died and left you in charge of dishing out the stereotypes, again?
Or do you simply adhere to a different standard than the one you set?

He picked this church and was not born into it.

Buck.

:shrug:

Absolutely and I make it perfectly clear that I have never given them any reason to believe that I would agree with them. It's my obligation. :)

:shrug:

no. I'm sure you find that surprising.

in their foreign policies and the Iraq war and the way that AA's and other minorities have been treated over the years?

politicians are like diapers! It's time for a change.

That isn't what the quote says. Re-read it.

That would be idiot siblings. Does that satisfy your insatiable appetite? Would you like for me to crucify them as well? Believe me they got the message. Enough said.

:wow:

So, you CAN accept them for being dumbasses and yet keep your relationship?

That's commendable. I'll bet other people do that all the time too.

I don't think this is any of your business, but since you have an insatiable need to know, I haven't spoken to that sibling in years. Does that somehow make you feel less angry. I see your smiley face has turned blue and your eyes are all bugged out. LOL

Maybe you should do more book reading.

It really does help one gain the meaning, understanding and flow of conversation.

Well at least your face isn't blue any longer. I thought I was going to have to call 9 1 1 for you. :)

I'd let you do anything for me.

with Wright.

:shrug:

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priest wanted to excommunicate him.

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Do a google search.

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Change his religion. From you are saying, Kerry was kicked out of his church, nor was Kerry called upon to denounce the Catholic church's many views regarding Jews and/or abortion. It is a double standard that I would like Obama to point out, but I am sure that he won't.

Change his religion. From you are saying, Kerry was kicked out of his church, nor was Kerry called upon to denounce the Catholic church's many views regarding Jews and/or abortion. It is a double standard that I would like Obama to point out, but I am sure that he won't.

the Pope wasn't angry and suggesting that those in the church sing "GD America" either. I also don't think that a church that has a majority of it's parishoners in third world countries espouses racist remarks. Racism is racism no matter what race it is direct towards. You can't just say that racist remarks are only directed at AA.

America has caused many problems in other nations over the years. And America hasn't been
to kind to her own either. Apparently America neglected you in some ways too that you don't
understand what that minister was saying and where some AA"s are coming from on this issue..

this is a no win situation. You win. Feel better?

To stay ignorant and continue being uninformed?

If that's what you want, then you should hop the train to Freeperville.

That's where the ignorant hang out. Perhaps you'll find your "friends" there.

angry? It's really not healthy for you. Do you check your blood pressure regularly? Might be a good idea.

:hi:

it takes one to know one. I was beginning to think you were trying to make me crazy. Short trip for me. LOL

Was started in the Catholic church.

Interesting, no? Liberation Theology, which became Black Liberation Theology, is from Catholic, not Protestant, beginnings.

Hannity would have known this, had he anything more than a High-school education in Theology.

You mean UCC? TUCC?

One thing I like about TUCC is their goal of bringing the UCC message to folks who got tired of, well, how do I put this..... "waiting for God to help them", or "waiting for the nice <whatever> folks to help them".

A god who doesn't love and forgive a cruel slave-master equally as the enslaved, well,... that's what seems to be freaking out the entitled white folks, when they have to hear that their racism and classicism and social injustice is, well, a sin. :)

:hi:

the church and the state. This is why the church and the state teamed up to kill him.

Yeshua was ALL about Freedom. He is the ultimate Revolutionary.

To be bullying and bribing or even just trying to influence others' spirituality trespasses upon their God given Freedom to decide for themselves, just as our Lord and Teacher Jesus Christ showed us, to decide for ourselves (independent of church and state) what is right and what is wrong, yes even up to and including your right to go to hell if that's what you choose.

heart and soul, since he was a child, because he disagrees with one of its leaders?

By this standard, I should leave my family which has many military people in it - and - all of us should shop for our churches like we do for comfortable shoes and pleasing food. Maybe THIS is the problem with U.S. Maybe THIS is how we came to kill and to be an accessory in killing nearly a million Iraqis.

Maybe, as MO alluded to in her thesis, all of us need a "hair shirt" like pastor Wright to remind of us of things that are oh so much more comfortable to forget.

but I don't believe he attended that church when he was a child. He's 47 and he's been attending since he was 27. 47 - 20 = 27

was a child, his spiritual attachment to it was secondary and, therefore, not worth maintaining . . . pardon me a moment . . . :puke:

I am personally repulsed by what amounts to blasphemy = claiming the ability to describe another individual's true essence, mind and heart, someone I have never met and have no personal experience of, let alone experiences of the variety, length and duration that MIGHT qualify me to say some sort of small minor truth about the person, let alone the major psychological absolutes that people are throwing around about both Obama and HC.

the only person of color on DU. I'll say it again, there's a big difference between and endorsement and a Pastor. As far as JFK is concerned, I don't think as a Catholic he ever had a priest who espouse any racist or anti-American remarks from the Church. We will have to wait and see what BO says tomorrow in his speech. It should be interesting to say the least. Hope he gets some sleep tonight.

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have said and done. That's standard in a fight for
the highest office and it's been going on for years.

Obama is no different.

Read this. It's part of Obama's speech tomorrow.

http://thepage.time.com/transcript-of-obamas-interview-on-newshour/

He'll do it in such a slick way that everyone will think Hillary is behind it without his saying her name. I'm going to watch it just to see how he does it again.

You don't even need to watch the speech.