Hillary and Bills RACIST PASTOR

[obamian]

Just kidding.... he's not racist, but Dean Snyder agrees with Jeremiah Wright's general claim that we live in a country where white people benefit from racism.

"I have been thinking lately about years ago when I was asked by the General Board of Discipleship of the United Methodist Church to be a leader of workshops for clergy on the theme of combating white racism.

The idea of the workshops was that white clergy would meet to confront our own participation in the racism of our society. We worked a lot on understanding white privilege, which was a new concept at the time, and one that many clergy found difficult to comprehend. If I was color-blind, wasn’t I free of racism? No – white people in America benefit from racism just by being white."

http://www.foundryumc.org/sermons/3_20_2005.htm

[rpannier]

1. You got me...

I was gonna SO put you on ignore

It is funny though

Good lead.
It'll get the Clinton backers to read

and it gets people like me (the Edwards supporters who have yet to commit)

and some Obama people to come

BTW: Thanks for sharing the article

[papau]

2. white people benefit from racism." - economically there can be no question - that is true

[obamian]

3. Stop the Smear Campaign Against Jeremiah Wright and Barack Obama

Could someone start a new thead about this? I've made too many in the last 24 hours. But here are some additional details you can use to defend Obama against attacks.

Here is the sermon "Audacity to Hope" that inspired Obama to join Jeremiah's church:

http://mp3.christianity.com/mp3/mp3repos32/MMYSEES/317_60682_JeremiahWright__TheAudacitytoHope82A.32.mp3

Jeremiah wright on his relationship with Barack Obama:
Q: Barack Obama calls you his spiritual mentor and role model.

Photo Of Wright A: He's kind in his use and choice of language. Someone just asked me � about mentoring Barack and I said, you know, Barrack came here like he is now. I can't take credit for that. Barack has always been someone committed to grassroots organization, committed to the poor, committed to all people, committed to trying to find common ground. In fact, when I met him I called him the dreamer, and I'm laughing because the night he was elected he asked me to deliver the opening prayer. And before I led his supporters in prayer I said I just want to say to you publicly -- your dream has come true. And I said that because when I met him he came into my office with all these wonderful ideas. He was a community organizer ... He was the organizer of all the churches in Chicago and got us all working together across the denominational lines. And I listened to him and I said, "Do you know what Joseph's brothers said to him when they saw him coming across the field?' He said, "No." I said, "They said behold the dreamer. You're dreamin'. This ain't going to happen." Well, the night he was elected I said your dream has come true, because he had pulled off bringing together disparate people, ethnicities, interests, from down-state -- I've been in Chicago since '69, and it's always been Chicago versus the rest of the state. He's been down-state and gotten miners, farmers, people in Cairo, Illinois, people who wouldn't even think about Chicago much less a black person voting for them, because he'd shone an interest in them, because six years in the state legislature have show he really cares about people, that he's not waving any banners or flags about my way or the doorway, you know, black power -- no, people power. That we can -- black, white, Hispanic, Asian -- we've got kids to raise, we've got neighborhoods to keep safe, we've got women and children to be concerned . We all have common interests. Well, that kind -- he was like that, he was like that. And, you know, I'd like to take credit and say yes, I made him who he is. No, I didn't. He was like that when I met him. He's been like that 23 years now. And right after he was elected I was at the Massachusetts Conference of the United Church of Christ. And they said what word of advice would you give to Senator Barack Obama now that he's United States senator? That you please stay the same now that you're in the United States Senate as you've been across the years, because that's very important.
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/week1028/interview.html

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[NMMNG]

6. I don't think any reasonable person claims

that white people don't benefit from racism, whether that racism is theirs or not. But that doesn't justify Wright's hateful diatribes.

[anonymous171]

7. OMG THIS IS HUGH!@#!@?#

:rofl: