Rev.Wright on CNN Tonight did you watch ?

Question

Give your thoughts on his message!Show aired 4/27/08.

Answer 1

I LIKE Obama but neither I, or most Americans, will vote for a black man for president. We WILL vote for a man that is black, but that is not the choice placed before us today.

Rev Wright IS a patriotic American. He was a Marine in the Vietnam War, a corpsman (medic) and a distinguished medical aid to President Johnson. I consider him to be an honorable man and his words to be truly heartfelt. I would not give you two thin nickels for a man that believes something as sincerely as he does and not share it passionately with others.

Having said all this, I ALSO believe that what he said is not only HIS truth, but is it OUR truth as a nation. You DON’T have to LIKE it because it flies in the face of what you have always thought things to be, but make no mistake about it, it IS the truth.

His comment about the "chickens coming home to roost" rings clear to me. You need to understand the term totally before you go and render a judgment on it.

In 1963, Diem, Ngo Dinh, President of South Vietnam was assassinated in a palace coup. The fingerprints of the CIA were all over the place. It was said that Kennedy gave the green light for this CIA action that ushered in a friendlier and more compliant leadership in the south.

In November of that same year, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated  in Dallas, TX by Lee Harvey Oswald

This man, Elijah Muhammad, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elijah_Muha...

made the statement that "for America, the chickens had come home to roost", linking in HIS mind at least, that Kennedy's assassination was nothing more then payback for the CIA actions in Southeast Asia, earlier that year.

Whether or not there is, or WAS, any connection between the two events, other then their close proximity in time, is still debated. I do not believe there is a DIRECT connection, only an ephemeral one. But among people who call themselves believers in God, the "chickens" term is almost axiomatic when comparing the fates of one person against another.

I KNOW these things about religious people and I know these things about black religious people who carry in their minds a strong sense of hopeless persecution. To them, the events of November 22 and May of 1963 are not only the work of God, but a vengeful and righteous God to boot.

Notice though that the two terms vengeful and righteous are NOT terms for a deity, but rather, are terms describing the emotions of a human being. True and fanatical believers cannot make that disconnect, to them, their ferverent wishes and the history of death, destruction, and payback are but a confirmation of the solemn promise that God is looking out for them and their welfare.

Fast forward to 9/11. The 4 planes and 19 high-jacker’s that reeked h**l fire and brimstone on the WTC, the Pentagon, and that field in Pennsylvania, did not arrive here on these shores due to a navigational error. This was a strategically planned and very purposeful event. And, by that measure, it can also be said that the roots of this event too, were purposeful.

There is a golden rule in politics that "perception is reality".

What this means is that a voter will go to the poles and vote on what he PERCEIVES to be the truth, as opposed to what IS the truth. This voting record extends to ALL humans, be they at the level of the common voter or in the Congress. We vote our PERCEPTION of the truth.

All day, every day, we are told of the greatness of this country. It's economic power, it's world influence, it's military power. We are told to be patriotic towards our country yet most of us do not know the MEANING of the word. Like the word racist, we throw these words around with abandon not knowing their meaning or force.

The term "My country right or rong" is NOT a patriotic statement. It is one designed to foster blind obedience to a political stance. Read the following link to see what I am talking about.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info...

A TRUE patriot, one who TRUELY loves his country, can say things like "9/11 was America's chickens come home to roost". A person with blind obedience to a political position will say My country...Right or wrong.

Think about it for a moment. Would the good people of this country ACTUALLY stand by, support, actively condone, or even participate in an action that is perceived to be wrong? NO! We would not. But it is the politicians lot in life to sell us on the "My country...Right or Wrong" dogma, rather then entertain the idea that what they are doing in our good name is WRONG. Any pretense by the people at questioning this wrong action is confronted with free speach wilting of "you are not patriotic". Just as most do not know the meaning of the word "racist", we don't know the meaning of the word "patriot".  So, to prevent ourselves from being labeled a traitor, we go along with the line that the "chickens" comment is a traitors language and we slink away into the woodwork. The PERCEPTION being that telling it like it is not being a patriot.

The Rev Wright is a preacher. A charismatic man. He lives and dies on the strength of the Sunday sermon. h**l fire and brimstone still sells, even here in the 21st century. To blend in high rhetoric and buzz words like 9/11 is walking a fine and perilous line.

To those who have a perception problem with the truth, he is a traitor. To those of us old enough and wise enough to have seen this story played out before, we say "let us indeed enter into a national dialog of race" To shut if off just as it has made its way onto the national political scene is to adopt that old call to nationalism, "My Country...Right or Wrong"

I'm an OLD, southern white guy that still uses the "N" word and will vote Republican this year. But as bad as that might sound to you, I will NOT be one to pile on the Rev Wright as being a traitor. I think he is a patriot.