Originally Posted by
Rylan1
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Are you sure Wright reffered to Italians that way... I think that may have been said by some one else years ago. My opinion of Wright is he is "Ego-Trippin" - which is the title of Snoop's latest CD. My view of Wright was that some of the things he said were true, but also that some may be a little far off in conspiracy theory... I think he at times uses the pulpit unappropriatly with his political views in church.. I think that there needs to be some separation b/w the two. But I agree with how Obama has handled... I think that he has to separate himself from Wright based on past statements, but more importantly the recent things Wright has done in the news... This is a political side show that distracts away from the very real issues we have... I think its now time to get back to what Obama's message is about and put this Wright thing passed him... Wright is not the one we need to be concerned about .. he is not the one who is going to fix the problems we face w/ the economy and war in Iraq. I would hope that people won't be mislead based on a person that has nothing to do with what is going to happen over the next 4-8 years.. And concentrate on who is best equipped to bring us out of this rut we are in.
You seriously didn't hear about this? Obama didn't distance himself from Wright after hearing about this either. If fact Obama showed himself to be a phoney in the way he responded to the latest round of comments by Wright. THE MAN SAID NOTHING HE HADN.T ALREADY SAID. Yet Obama tried to act like this was something new. It had already been well reported about Wright's statements on AIDS, 911 etc. when Obama said "I can no more disown Wright than I can my white grandmother"
Here is one of many stories about the Italian comment
CNSNews.com Senior Staff Writer
March 26, 2008
(CNSNews.com) - Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., pastor emeritus of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago where Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) has been a member for two decades, slurred Italians in a piece published in the most recent issue of Trumpet Newsmagazine.
"(Jesus') enemies had their opinion about Him," Wright wrote in a eulogy of the late scholar Asa Hilliard in the November/December 2007 issue. "The Italians for the most part looked down their garlic noses at the Galileans."
Wright continued, "From the circumstances surrounding Jesus' birth (in a barn in a township that was under the Apartheid Roman government that said his daddy had to be in), up to and including the circumstances surrounding Jesus' death on a cross, a Roman cross, public lynching Italian style. ...
"He refused to be defined by others and Dr. Asa Hilliard also refused to be defined by others. The government runs everything from the White House to the schoolhouse, from the Capitol to the Klan, white supremacy is clearly in charge, but Asa, like Jesus, refused to be defined by an oppressive government because Asa got his identity from an Omnipotent God."
