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Pat Buchanan is right. This time it must be a two way conversation.
GC would add that the conversation must be blacks calling out the kooks in the black community that still preach victimology, as well as the white liberals that have looked the other way and fostered a political correctness that excuses kooky blacks.
I will write part two in detail this weekend. For now, Pat says it best:
How would he pull it off? I wondered.
How would Barack explain to his press groupies why he sat silent in a pew for 20 years as the Rev. Jeremiah Wright delivered racist rants against white America for our maligning of Fidel and Gadhafi, and inventing AIDS to infect and kill black people?
How would he justify not walking out as Wright spewed his venom about “the U.S. of K.K.K. America,” and howled, “God damn America!”
My hunch was right. Barack would turn the tables.
Yes, Barack agreed, Wright’s statements were “controversial,” and “divisive,” and “racially charged,” reflecting a “distorted view of America.”
But we must understand the man in full and the black experience out of which the Rev. Wright came: 350 years of slavery and segregation.
Barack then listed black grievances and informed us what white America must do to close the racial divide and heal the country.
The “white community,” said Barack, must start “acknowledging that what ails the African-American community does not just exist in the minds of black people; that the legacy of discrimination — and current incidents of discrimination, while less overt than in the past — are real and must be addressed. Not just with words, but with deeds … .”
And what deeds must we perform to heal ourselves and our country?
The “white community” must invest more money in black schools and communities, enforce civil rights laws, ensure fairness in the criminal justice system and provide this generation of blacks with “ladders of opportunity” that were “unavailable” to Barack’s and the Rev. Wright’s generations.
What is wrong with Barack’s prognosis and Barack’s cure?
Only this. It is the same old con, the same old shakedown that black hustlers have been running since the Kerner Commission blamed the riots in Harlem, Watts, Newark, Detroit and a hundred other cities on, as Nixon put it, “everybody but the rioters themselves.”
Was “white racism” really responsible for those black men looting auto dealerships and liquor stories, and burning down their own communities, as Otto Kerner said — that liberal icon until the feds put him away for bribery.
Barack says we need to have a conversation about race in America.
Fair enough. But this time, it has to be a two-way conversation. White America needs to be heard from, not just lectured to.
This time, the Silent Majority needs to have its convictions, grievances and demands heard. And among them are these:
First, America has been the best country on earth for black folks. It was here that 600,000 black people, brought from Africa in slave ships, grew into a community of 40 million, were introduced to Christian salvation, and reached the greatest levels of freedom and prosperity blacks have ever known.
Wright ought to go down on his knees and thank God he is an American.
Second
Read all of Pat’s
I wrote a few weeks ago that the ascent of Barack Obama, given his embrace of his mentor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, would force an out in the open discussion of pathologies within the black community.
The discussion is ongoing and it is extremely painful for blacks and white liberals, and also painful for all of us. But it is what we need and have needed for years.
The discussion of the pathologies of “The South” and whites in general was also VERY painful. But we had them, and America is better for it, and The South is actually superior for it.
But one aspect of the conversation has never been had in public. It has been had in private, which explains why Obama got the majority of the white male vote in Georgia.
I touched on the discussion whites still need to have here.
But now, the whole nation is going to have it.
The bottom line boils down to this:
When a white man sees a black man saying and doing something stupid, the white man must say:
That is stupid!
Without fear that he will be ostracized as a racist regardless of the accuracy of the identification of stupidity.
It is that simple.
Fellow whites, let’s respect Blacks enough to hold them to the same standards as everyone else!
Starting, now!
Mike DeVine’s Charlotte Observer columns
http://thehinzsightreport.com
www.theminorityreportblog.com
www.race42008.com
“One man with courage makes a majority.” - Andrew Jackson
March 22nd, 2008 at 4:38 pm
Excellent post! Here’s an great article I just read this morning entitled, “Barack, The History of Racism, and Democrats” by Nina May:
http://www.newmediajournal.us/guest/n_may/2008/03222008.htm
Also, the following statements from Black Liberation Theologian, James Coon, represent the symptoms of the cancer that is in the Black Community today:
“Black theology refuses to accept a God who is not identified totally with the goals of the black community. If God is not for us and against white people, then he is a murderer, and we had better kill him. The task of black theology is to kill Gods who do not belong to the black community. . . . Black theology will accept only the love of God which participates in the destruction of the white enemy. What we need is the divine love as expressed in Black Power, which is the power of black people to destroy their oppressors here and now by any means at their disposal. Unless God is participating in this holy activity, we must reject his love.” — James Cone, whose words are cited on Rev. Wright’s church website.
These words by Cone may have been removed recently to protect Barack Obama, but Rev. Wright clearly supports and bases his theology on Cone’s teachings.
Another Cone quote:
“All white men are responsible for white oppression. It is much too easy to say, “Racism is not my fault,” or “I am not responsible for the country’s inhumanity to the black man…But insofar as white do-gooders tolerate and sponsor racism in their educational institutions, their political, economic and social structures, their churches, and in every other aspect of American life, they are directly responsible for racism…Racism is possible because whites are indifferent to suffering and patient with cruelty. Karl Jaspers’ description of metaphysical guilt is pertinent here. ‘There exists among men, because they are men, a solidarity through which each shares responsibility for every injustice and every wrong committed in the world, and especially for crimes that are committed in his presence or of which he cannot be ignorant.’ ” [Black Theology and Black Power, p. 24]
All of us need to be held to the same standard, whether we are red, yellow, black, brown or white.
March 22nd, 2008 at 4:39 pm
Racism in this country will end when blacks as a community confront their social pathologies head-on, without collective self-pity. If this were to occur, most whites would look up to blacks as the superior race, because we certainly have enough social pathologies of our own that we don’t seem to be solving. If Obama, as president, could provide the leadership that would lead to that outcome, he would be worthy of white votes….but it’s obvious that he’s as deluded about the problems of blacks as most other blacks. Thomas Sowell and Shelby Steele and others who have courageously offered real solutions are voices crying in the wilderness.
March 22nd, 2008 at 4:40 pm
Gamecock,
You are so stupid.
March 22nd, 2008 at 5:07 pm
Tano, you accuse Gamecock of being stupid, and yet you offer no reasons or proof for your accusation.
Elaborate for us, please. I would be happy to read and ponder your wisdom.
March 22nd, 2008 at 6:13 pm
#4 Don’t rush him ‘opaz. He has a heavy burden of proof (you see the word “so”) and no evidence.
patience
March 22nd, 2008 at 6:32 pm
lol
March 22nd, 2008 at 8:51 pm
Thanks Gamecock. Continue to speak the truth. Not only must we hold Black political and community leaders to the same standards as others, but Christians of all races must hold each other to a higher standard than being displayed by Wright, Jackson, and many more. The “Black Theology” as evidenced by the messages and teachings coming from many churches and pastors like Wright need to be challenged without worries about cries of racism. Jeremiah Wright’s words reflect a man filled with anger,not the love of God. His theology represents a cultural and political philosophy not the Word of God. It is time for the silent majority to be heard in the social arena. And it is time for Christians to confront the Wrights in the Black churches and all churches.
March 23rd, 2008 at 7:55 am
vendoc,
“The “Black Theology†as evidenced by the messages and teachings coming from many churches and pastors like Wright need to be challenged without worries about cries of racism. ”
Indeed. No one, no group has a right to pervert the Gospel, no matter how badly they or their ancestors were treated. When “Rev.” Wright preaches a gospel of racism, it is worse than a politics of racism, because it is not just man-made political theory he is messing with, but the Revelation of God. St. Paul wrote:
“I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you by the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel— which is really no gospel at all. Evidently some people are throwing you into confusion and are trying to pervert the gospel of Christ. But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel other than the one we preached to you, let him be eternally condemned! As we have already said, so now I say again: If anybody is preaching to you a gospel other than what you accepted, let him be eternally condemned!”
-Galatians 1:6-9
March 23rd, 2008 at 2:14 pm
Thanks NWS for a point that was very well made. I can participate in a national conversation on racism because there are problems of racism in the White and Black communities. Perhaps in the conversation we can strengthen our nation. Likewise there is a place for theological debate as none of us fully understand God and His Word. BUT Wright, Cone, and many Black Christian Leaders are presenting a perverted Gospel. They are subjecting their churches and people to a greater bondage than that which they supposedly fight against. Black, White, Brown. and all Christians need to confront in Love the perverted Gospel with the Truth. It is one thing to disagree with the politics of Wright but it is nauseating to think that is the SPIRITUAL guidance many are receiving.
July 10th, 2008 at 10:05 pm
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