How is it that people can simply "get past" the Rev Wright issue?

Question

Barrack Obama spent 20 years...TWENTY YEARS in a church that spewed racist, bigoted hatred and it is suddenly ok? Then he tries to blow it off by saying that many pastors and preachers say things that people in their church don't agree with. Huh? If my pastor started saying things against blacks, saying we should support whites, if he even made race an issue, I'd walk out. There are dozens of issues unrelated to race that if my pastor went on a rant about, I'd walk out too. I just don't get it. To say that you can't get up and leave, and have to sit there like some dolt is ridiculous and a cop out.

People act like it just doesn't matter. Week after week after week of hate and no one cares. Disregard that he's politics as usual, as is McCain (no one will change 100 years of political elitism, and besides, the president is a very tiny part of any possible change), I just can't see how people can just blow off a virtual indoctrination of race-based hatred.

How can people ignore it?

Answer 1

Since many whites attend that church, I expect your limited understanding of waht was routinely said in that church is different than their detailed understanding of what was said.

Answer 2

You have to understand that most democrats don't think its possible for black people to be racist. While most republicans are afraid to say anything because it will get them slapped with the racist label.

Answer 3

I guess most people such as myself are still challenging people like yourself to quote to me what Rev Wright said that was racist. He said God d**n America, that's not racists. He said America was one of the most racist countries in the world by lynching blacks, placing its japanese citizens into concentration camps and murdering nativ Americans, these are facts, again where's the racism?

So when you deliver your part of the question, I'll rebuttle.

I'm still waiting... crickets chirping.

Answer 4

You are talking of the man that Mr Obama said he could never disown and has now disowned

Answer 5

I really don't know, all I can think is that its only one part of a very complex personality.  I remember that Nixon could be a very charming man in public, but as his tapes proved years later he was a very prejudiced and anti-semitic man.  I don't think we ever truly know who we vote for and that may have something to do with it.

The other idea that came to me was that its possible to not agree with even your brother, let alone your friend and mentor, and still respect him.

Maybe thats whats happened here.

Answer 6

I ask myslef the same question.  Let me know what the answer is.

Answer 7

I totally share your concerns.  I have a few thoughts, for what they are worth.

First, I suspect it speaks to the reluctance of the general black community to believe anything negative of a black leader, even when it is blatantly true.  They are so desperate to find a hero - they will take the worst examples to build up.

I also think the Liberal ideology (black and white) has become so illogical lopsided - where racism isn't always racism - - the hate and rhetoric of racism doesn't matter as much as the politics of who is saying it.  It's as if they don't seem to grasp anymore what racial bias/hate actually is.  

Finally we have an entire generation now that has been taught skewed versions of history of the U.S. and racial history.  Revisionist history is a dangerous thing because it convenient blinds a populace to the truth of the past.  

Answer 8

Could you read me off a sermon that Rev. Wright preached?  Since apparently everyone on Y!A has been in that church and knows exactly what goes on in there.  

That's how you can get past it...there is no issue.

Answer 9

Here's the problem with your assumptions:

20 years of sermons on every Sunday, and they find, what, 2 minutes worth of controversial speech from all the videos out there?

From that you extrapolate 20 years of solid, racist bile?  How can you make that assumption?

The reason why it gets blown off is because people aren't so eager to jump to unfounded assumptions as you are.  People aren't blowing off 20 years of racist screed, they're blowing off 2 minutes of bluster as not being representative of 20 years of speeches and work.

The Catholic bishop in Madison recently tried to link sexual abuse by priests to people not rejecting the birth control pill.  

Why aren't you as outraged at all the people who remain Catholics?  You seem rather selective in your outrage, where you look for things to be outraged by, and how you interpret the tidbits you find.

Do you need to know the race of the bishop before passing judgement?  Let me know and I'll include that, as well.

Answer 10

People only see what they want to see or hear.

Answer 11

In all honesty, you have no idea of what was said in that church for 20 years.  Reverend Wright's comments, that were replayed over and over on television, were really no different than what Jesus himself preached and what Moses put into action.

John McCain SOUGHT OUT the approval of John Hagee....a guy that, you will see in the link below, thought that Hitler was fulfilling God's Will!  How upest are you by that?

The SICK thing about all of this is that, while we have made history with a woman and a black man running for president, they were both Christians.  Obama and McCain are Christians.  In a country where ANYONE can be president, people can worship as they please, and there is a seperation between church and state......EVERY PRESIDENT HAS BEEN A CHRISTIAN.

I dont believe in talking snakes and virgin birth.....so it is hard for me to get riled up about someone's "crazy preacher", when EVERY president has one.

Answer 12

i can't the excuse i only said this a few times is like i only robbed a few banks or i only raped a few women.. give me a break