Showing posts with label Pastor Wright. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pastor Wright. Show all posts

Friday, May 30, 2008

Guest Reverend Michael Pfleger's Hillary Clinton Racist Bashing a Smashing Standing Ovation Success.


After listening to Michael Pfleger ridicule Hillary Clinton to the delight of Barack Obama's church members, I am beginning to wonder if I have lived my life at a disadvantage by not belonging to a racist group. Mr. Pfleger's performance, to the riotous joy of members of the church Barack Obama calls his own, has demonstrated to me that most people find comfort belonging to a tribe, no matter how racist that tribe may be.

I belong to the tribe of creativity. I've always tried to be supportive of creative people trying to make their legitmate projects a reality. But that is creative work, and church is church... Mr. Pfleger has shown me that the best a tribe can do is tolerate those who are deemed different while ridiculing those same outsiders when they are not present.

In my opinion Mr. Pfleger's performance was far far worse than anything Pastor Wright has been accused of doing. I have lost quite a bit of the respect that I previously had for the democratic party. Tolerate whitey when in their presence if possible, then laugh out loud about "anything whitey" when in church, that is the message that Mr. Pfleger delivered loudly and clearly to a standing church ovation, and that is the message the democratic party is in bed with at the moment.
Barack Obama might be the best thing about the area he grew up in, but when I factor in the white bashing environment he experienced in church and his cheating in the caucus states, I have lost interest in belonging to Barack Obama's tribe.

Barack Obama refuses to admit he made a mistake by taking his name off the ballot in Michigan, refuses to admit not wanting to count the votes in Florida is a mistake, and is the same man who eliminated his competition when running for the senate through every and all legal technicalities he could find. Barack Obama also cheated in the Caucus States as well. When I roll it all up I see a man who needs a few more years of ethics seasoning before he is ready for the presidency.

Maybe Hillary Clinton will let him be Vice President in the meantime.

Friday, May 23, 2008

Exploring Barack Obama's Religious Convictions with His Own Behavior in this Year's Democratic Race.

Coming Soon, An analysis of Barack Obama's religious convictions and beliefs and how they may not match with his own behavior in this years democratic election process.

Sunday, April 27, 2008

Pastor Wright is no Rodney King.

Pastor Wright is no Rodney King.
The first time I experienced Pastor Wright's televised NCAA speech he came off larger than life in an obnoxious caricature of himself. I'm on my third time watching now and I find it very good in many ways. The real irony is Pastor Wright would probably make a better presidential candidate than Barrack Obama, so why would I want Barrack?

The audience reaction to what Pastor Wright was saying was deafening at times, however the audio mix of the speech was slanted to only hear Pastor Wright. This is huge because the audience reaction inadvertently betrayed the Pastor's message at times.

Wright's basic theme was how blacks have been ostracized and judged poorly for being different. Wright brought up several examples of speech and song to make his points that different is not wrong, it is just, different. Wright appeared to mimic John F. Kennedy's and Eisenhower's dialect as an example of how whites have different accents than blacks, but are accepted.

But then the audience made a huge faux pas that few who watched the event on televsion seemed to notice, perhaps because the audience soundtrack was muted. Pastor White brought up examples of music and how Europeans looked down on African music. The problem with Pastor Whites theme was that as he was mimicking white methodologies, his audience was busting a gut, and then some. The audience was listening, laughing, and proving that blacks and whites both behave in nearly identical ways when exposed to those who are different from themselves.

Pastor White also did not take into account that WHITES ALSO MAKE FUN OF OTHER WHITE DIALECTS as well. It may be more accurate to say that whites are an equal opportunity annoyer, but why is it so wrong to say the same thing about blacks?

I guess what I'm asking is, can't we all just annoy the heck out of each other, from time to time, and still get along?