Obama’s Pastor of Disaster to preach in Norfolk

By Brian Kirwin | March 26, 2008
Filed Under Campaigns and Elections, Democrats, President |

On April 13, the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright’s will preach at Norfolk’s Bank Street Memorial Church. Barack Obama won’t be there, which doesn’t matter since Obama doesn’t remember his sermons anyway [wink]

The Daily Press nails Democratic Hypocrisy here. and so do I.

please, spare us the Democratic outrage over the Republican outrage. For years, every time a Republican drifted within a hundred miles of Bob Jones University, a Democrat would yell “racist.” Selective indignation has a way of coming around.

Amen! But, I’ll go a step further.

I’ve met more than a few left-wing activists in my time that think that equality isn’t fair. Honest! First, they divide people into groups (yes, and they usually put the word “typical” in front of the group they like to criticize).

Then, they talk about the oppression that their particular group has suffered. Race, gender, sexuality.

So far, not bad. I don’t like defining people by these things, but the left couldn’t survive without it (which is why watching the Clinton/Obama meltdown is so darn entertaining).

It’s the solution to the oppression that ruins it. Treating all people equally is not a solution to the far left. That’s not good enough. The oppressed must, they say, be showered with benefits and advantages that others can’t have. Racism is cured by equal and opposite racism. Sexism is cured by equal and opposite sexism.

Here’s where they really lose people. The left’s “reverse racism” isn’t racism. Reverse sexism isn’t sexism. Since they are the “oppressed,” nothing they say or do can be racist or sexist. Only the groups “in power” (whites, males) can be racist or sexist.

Obama said as much in his race speech:

Talk show hosts and conservative commentators built entire careers unmasking bogus claims of racism while dismissing legitimate discussions of racial injustice and inequality as mere political correctness or reverse racism.

Bogus claims? Barack, you’re a millionaire. If anyone has a bogus claim of oppression, it’s that guy in your mirror.

Most Americans see things more clearly. If it’s wrong for me to steal from you, it’s wrong for you to steal from me. That’s fair.

The left’s view of racism and sexism reminds me of Animal Farm, where some can be more equal than others, depending on who gets to be “more equal.”

Comments

7 Responses to “Obama’s Pastor of Disaster to preach in Norfolk”

Ragnar on March 26th, 2008 11:51 pm

You really should take off your partisan blinders; just read the speech without considering where it came from - and then decide if you can learn something new from it vice just tearing it down in your continuing campaign “against the other side”. It doesn’t matter if you vote for him (you won’t), just whether there is something to be learned in listening to someone with experiences different from your own (you do, we all do).

Even if you don’t admit it to anyone else, just read the entire speech - and consider the context of our nation. The context that forced black Americans to ensure slavery until 1865 and segregation/ Jim Crow - lynchings, intimidations, murders - until the 1960-1970’s.

Heck, you don’t even have to look far to see what racism wrought. The schools in Norfolk and Chesapeake still have the scars in the walls left from having two “separate yet equal” drinking fountains, and wasn’t it in the 1960s/70s that the white citizens set up private schools in Norfolk to avoid integration? The specific dates don’t matter - what does matter is that this happened, and in your lifetime. This isn’t ancient history.

The entire issue is all about context and history.
Brian Kirwin on March 27th, 2008 12:04 am

Big Surprise! Ragnar comments on my post, and criticizes ME.

“just read the speech without considering where it came from”

Oh, but if you followed your own advice!

For what it’s worth, I read it and watch him deliver it. You want to live in the past? Be my guest. I just don’t seem to recall the left using “context and history” when they were calling for the firings, resignations and apologies of people who offended them.

Partisan blinders? It’s the left’s hypocrisy that’s impossible not to see.
Ragnar on March 27th, 2008 8:08 am

What a shock, BK writes an argumentative post, and then claims some distance from it. Maybe you don’t know how this works, but YOU write something and YOU are responsible for the content.

There’s plenty of hypocrisy across the political spectrum of America on these issues, your post and comments are just one aspect of that hypocrisy.
Brian Kirwin on March 27th, 2008 9:15 am

Rag, I don’t claim distance. I love what I write, just as I love your comments that never have much to do with what I write.

But’s lets keep talking about me, your favorite topic.
ragnar on March 27th, 2008 12:31 pm

Someday I’d really like to hear you defend what you write, rather than simply attacking anyone who questions what you author. It’s what the give and take of blogging is supposed to be about.
Brian Kirwin on March 27th, 2008 12:41 pm

Ragnar’s complaining about attacking? oh, that’s ripe! Every single comment you’ve written has been about me.
Duck on March 27th, 2008 12:51 pm

I also do not see how Brian is distancing himself from his comments. He is defending his comments.

Obama is the one who said that words mean something.

Obama criticizes the right for making bogus claims. He wants a talk radio personality fired for one comment, but he wants us to understand Rev. Wright who has made several controversial statements and many outrageously bogus claims.

He makes all this clear in his speech thus supporting Brian’s statements that Obama does not believe an oppressed race can be racist.

What is wrong with Brian’s comments that we should not label people and thus separate people? Shouldn’t we be a color blind society?

When you make one group more equal than another, this is not being color or gender blind. It calls more attention to race and gender. This means some–like the radio show hosts–will point out the hypocrisy. If that builds a career, maybe that’s a good thing.