Whites are all personally responsible for racism in the Black Liberation Theology movement; God is on the side of the blacks, because they are the downtrodden; if God is on the side of the whites, God must be killed. Wright is one of the leading theologians in that movement.
I have no idea what percentage of blacks go in for this stuff; I’ve heard and read a few things that imply that a fair number do buy it. Obama himself supports this idea when he says that he doesn’t see anything particularly controversial in the positions of his church.
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Al Sharpton, on Greta van Susterin’s show, says he won’t defend Wright’s comments without viewing the whole sermon but says he agrees with Rev. Wright in principle—Wright is pointing out historical facts about women and blacks not being true citizens when the country was started.
This is one of those things that sends me up the wall. It’s true that only white males had the vote at the birth of the nation—only those who owned property, as a matter of fact. But who was it that decided slavery was wrong—and fought to bring it to an end? And who amended the Constitution to give women the vote? Uh, I think it might have been—all together now—white males.
Slavery had been practiced by humans since before the birth of civilization. Slavery was accepted as perfectly normal by most of humanity (not including the slaves, of course) for at least ten thousand years. Slavery was abolished roughly seventy years after the birth of this nation—a little earlier in England, a little later in some other countries—until today, there are only isolated pockets left (notably in Africa).
If white males are such oppressive creatures, why did they voluntarily give up their monopoly on the power?
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