Have you seen the U Tube videos of Obama's preacher, listened to his rant?
I have and it is not making this white camper happy. Not that it was meant to anyway. My take on it is as follows:
In this day and age it seems that it is perfectly acceptable that a black minister can call down the wrath of God on this nation's head without any fear of being called a racist himself. By all means...dam this country...ignore any and all inroads that have been made on behalf of the black race.
Forget about the sixties and the people who stood shoulder to shoulder with their black friends, fighting, marching, picketing and yes, dying in the South to get radical change in this country. Dam them too. Why?
Well, they and Hillary have never known the stigma of being called the N word...oh, my God...Hillary never had to overcome that! No, actually she was called a lot worse...ranging from frigid to Lesbian there are very few horrible words that have not been tossed her way.
Hey, in his mind anybody coming to this country from Europe had an "easy" time of it? Really. My poor dead Grandfather would roll over in his grave listening to this radical crap. He arrived in this country with NOTHING, $20.00 in his pocket, signed in at Ellis - they shortened his name. He was made to understand that he would have to learn ENGLISH, he would have to WORK hard and he would have to obey the law. 1916 New York City was not an easy place to survive, people tended to group together by (gasp) of all things race or nationality...sometimes just crossing a street into someone else's turf became a life or death (at best a good beating) experience. It made him tough. He had to become tough to survive, he had to let the name calling (hey, greaser, boy lover, referring to his Greek nationality, etc.) roll off his back.
Years later he never would blame someone else for his life experiences, it was just that - life has it's up and downs. Just because someone is white does not mean that they have led a privileged life...how can a sane person make a blanket statement like that?
The very fact that Obama is in the position that he is in now is proof that this country has changed dramatically in the last fifty years. Days of back of the bus and separate water fountains are long gone and so should this preacher's hate mongering be - gone.
The above statements are not being stated to offend anyone, I also have black relatives that I care about...I just firmly believe this minister is over the top.
Wow! You know what folks...here we go again. Why are we so enthralled when they catch someone with their pants literally around their ankles in a compromising position?