Why is Jeremiah Wright Still in the Dog House?

Beneath the Spin * Eric L. Wattree

Why is Jeremiah Wright Still in the Dog House?

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In an article written for ThyBlackMan.com, Rev. R. Joaquin Willis asked why is Rev. Jeremiah Wright still in the dog house. He asked:
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"Why is Rev. Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. still in the media dog house? When is the media going to stop referring to him as "President Obama’s former pastor?" Is there no fairness in the media? Paul tells us in Ephesians 4:32: "Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as Christ God forgave you."
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In response to Rev. Willis' question, I can't speak for anyone else, but I refuse to forgive Rev. Jeremiah Wright because he gave his ego priority over America as a whole, and the Black community in particular. So, from my point of view, during the 2008 election Rev. Wright betrayed a severe flaw in his character. He had absolutely no hesitation in jeopardizing the best interest of the Black community for ten minutes of national fame, and you just can't trust a man who shows those tendencies. The same is true of Tavis Smiley, Cornel West, and Boyce Watkins.
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While anyone can make an error in judgment, the good reverend refused to acknowledge his error and continued to run his mouth, thereby, jeopardizing the election of Barack Obama, and even worse, promoting the chances of John McCain and Sarah Palin taking over the reins of this government. That was grossly self-serving and irresponsible.
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But many of Wright’s supporters counter with, "But he spoke the truth." Maybe he did, but even the very Bible that he built a career on thumping says something to the effect that there’s a time for all things - and during the midst of a heated campaign where we were trying to elect the nation’s first Black president, was neither the appropriate time, nor the place, to start trying to lecture White folks on how horrible America is. In a word, it was stupid, and if Jeremiah Wright was anything close to as brilliant as some people claim he is, he would have recognized that fact.
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Even today Wright doesn’t seem to have gotten the point. In spite of the Biblical pronouncement cited above regarding the virtues of forgiveness, he’s still obviously smarting over forcing Obama to kick him, and his mouth, to the curb. What was Obama suppose to do, forego his quest to become President of the United States in order to remain loyal to a fool who's running around screaming "God Damn, America!"?  Where was his loyalty to Obama's efforts?
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No, we've seen this before. They turned on the cameras, and this was Wright's chance to show the world what it REALLY meant to be Black, fearless, and "down for the cause."  But what he actually showed was what it meant to be old, Black, and stupid. So Obama was right to kick him to the curb.
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At a recent Chicago Teacher’s Union event to commemorate Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday, Rev. Jeremiah Wright said that while the civil rights leader proclaimed "I have a dream," Obama says..."I have a drone." That was a very witty quip coming from the good reverend, but once again, in spite of his love for the Lord and his alleged "forgiving heart," it was extremely mean-spirited and stupid - and once again, it served to lend comfort to the enemies of the Black community.
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President Obama is charged with the responsibility of preventing Al Qaeda, or any other terrorist group, from getting their hands on Pakistan's nuclear weapons - which, by the way, are essentially right around the corner from where they located Osama Bin Laden, living quite openly, and comfortably, with his family. So what would the good reverend have the president do, back-off and pray that the Lord protect us from a nuclear attack?
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In addition, drones actually SAVE many lives during a war, because with drones we have the option of waiting until the target's family is away from the targeted area, as oppose to blindly lobbing missiles into a heavily populated location. If you lived next door to a terrorist, would you rather someone randomly start firing missiles in your direction, or would you prefer that they send drones in, where they could target his house specifically, and not yours?
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So people like Jeremiah Wright, Tavis Smiley, and Cornel West don’t know what they’re talking about. Just like backwards-thinking people of old, they're simply blindly condemning a new technology that they don't understand. In addition, they're blindly condemning President Obama's decisions without knowing the facts.  They’re not getting CIA Condition Reports on their desks every morning like Obama, so they can't possibly know what information Obama is basing his decisions upon. All they’re doing is ranting about the way things LOOK to them, and that kind of mindless behavior clearly demonstrates that not one of them have Obama’s intelligence, and not one of them are qualified to be President of the United States.
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Just try to imagine what it would be like to have Cornel West as President of the United States. We would be the laughingstock of the world, and not one country in the world would take us seriously. Personally, I wouldn’t be able to sleep at night, because the brother just doesn’t have the intellectual heft and sobriety to handle a job that requires that level of seriousness. When I try to imagine West in that position it makes it clear to me just how much of an entertainer and a clown he really is. As I pointed out in one of the many articles I’ve done on him, he’s the Liberace of faux intellectualism.
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Rev. Willis, you also said, "Mr. Obama had hardly any grasp of the meaning of being a black person in the United States. By example and exhortation, Reverend Wright cured that deficiency, sending to Washington a President qualified to give America a chance to actually become a democracy!"
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That’s also nonsense. Barack Obama probably knows more about what it means to be Black in America than most of us do. Although those of us who were raised in the Black community have undoubtedly experience racism, we had the comfort of living in Black cocoons within the inner cities with one another to lean on for support. But living with a White family from lily-White Kansas, and spending much of his life being the only African American living among others of other races and ethnicities in other parts of the world, chances are, Barack Obama knows more about racism and being an outsider than we’ll ever know.
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So Jeremiah Wright couldn’t teach Barack a thing about being Black in America - in fact, neither Jeremiah, Tavis Smiley, nor Cornel West could teach Barack Obama much about anything, because he’s clearly demonstrated that he has, at the very least, 15 IQ points on every one of them.
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So we need to get real here. History is going to remember Barack Obama as one of the most brilliant men that this country has EVER produced, and one of our GREATEST Presidents, while Jeremiah, Tavis, and West are garden-variety fat-mouths. Brothers like them come a-dime-dozen, and can be found running their mouths in the parking lots of liquor stores all over the hood.
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The problem with people like Jeremiah, Tavis, and West is they’re so ego driven that in order to pursue their own agendas they're willing to lend comfort and support to those who would destroy the Black community. So by their very actions, they’ve clearly demonstrated that they don’t love the Black community nearly as much as they love themselves.
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So Rev. Willis, that’s why Jeremiah Wright is in my dog house, and he always will be. You have to be careful what you ask for in this world, and Jeremiah Wright wanted national notoriety and fame. Well, he's got it.

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Eric L. Wattree
Http://wattree.blogspot.com
Ewattree@Gmail.comCitizens Against Reckless Middle-Class Abuse (CARMA)
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Religious bigotry: It's not that I hate everyone who doesn't look, think, and act like me - it's just that God does.

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The Obama Haters: Jeremiah Wright Strikes Again

Beneath the Spin * Eric L. Wattree

The Obama Haters: Rev. Jeremiah Wright Strikes Again
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AND THE IRONY IS, THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT
HE MEANS - TO HELL WITH AMERICA.
THIS IS ABOUT ME AND MY WOUNDED EGO.

At a Chicago Teacher’s Union event to commemorate Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday, Rev. Jeremiah Wright said that while the civil rights leader proclaimed “I have a dream,” Obama says...“I have a drone.” A very witty quip coming from the good reverend, but I’m curious, why don’t these haters ever seem to have anything negative to say about the GOP? It’s very curious, very curious indeed.

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President Obama is charged with the responsibility of preventing Al Qaeda and other terrorist from getting their hands on Pakistan's nuclear weapons - which, by the way, are essentially right around the corner from where they located Osama Bin Laden. So what would the good reverend have the president do, back-off and pray that the Lord protect us from a nuclear attack?
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In addition, drones actually SAVE many lives during a war, because with drones we have the option of waiting until the target's family is away from the targeted area, as oppose to simply lobbing missiles into a location blindly. So people like Wright, Tavis Smiley, and Cornel West don't know what they're talking about - and actually, they really don't care. They don't care how many people are being killed in Afghanistan, or anywhere else in the world, and that includes our inner cities right here in America. If they did, instead of running around the country selling books, doing $30,000 an hour speeches, and chasing photo-ops, they'd be in the trenches of the inner cities with their sleeves rolled up, and trying to educate our young people.

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All these people want is an issue - ANY issue - that they can use to criticize President Obama. But it is incumbent upon the Black community to explore exactly WHY these people are so hostile toward our first Black president, because it's a serious dysfunction in the Black community that plays a major role in our failure to move forward as a people.
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As I've said many times before, I think it's a simple matter of 'bligotry' - (Black-on-Black bigotry). Black people are a product of the very same racist society as White people, so many weaker-minded, and egomaniacal Black people are just as bigoted toward other Blacks as any racist Hillbilly. They tend to suffer from one of two modes of thinking. Conservative Bligot: "Things wouldn't be so hard on me if it weren't for the rest of these ignorant niggas." Liberal Bligot: "Just because that nigga lied his way into the White House, he thinks he's better than me."
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By and large, Black people are reluctant to accept simple bigotry as an explanation for the behavior of virulent Black Obama haters, because we are reluctant to except the fact that even the most stupid Black individual has more sense than to be bigoted toward his or her own people, but the evidence clearly demonstrates that the dysfunction is pervasive throughout our community. What do you think is responsible for the carnage and loss needless loss of life in our inner cities?  The reason for that is clear - our young people don't value Black life, and they got that attitude from us. When was the last time you either saw, or heard, of someone perpetrating a drive-by while wearing a sheet?  You won't, because there's no longer any need for a Klan, because we're much more efficient than they could ever be in carrying out their work for them.

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We're the only ones who don't recognize this phenomenon. The corporations and business community uses bligotry against us all of the time. I was a union rep and an EEOC specialist for twelve years. That's how I began to recognize what was going on. I'd be willing to bet that over 95% of Black workers have been either the victims of bligotry, or have seen it in action on their jobs.
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Businesses and corporations across this country will routinely elevate a carefully selected group of Black people into middle management for no other reason than to abuse and discriminate against their other Black employees - the United States Postal Service is notorious for the tactic. The reason for the tactic is because it insulates the corporation from lawsuits. It is next to impossible to file a successful discrimination suit against a corporation for the behavior of one of their managers against a worker of the same race.
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So again, bligotry is pervasive throughout the Black community, and it's being used to great effect to undermine Black progress. And Black-on-Black hatred is exactly what's at work in the vitriol being hurled at President Obama, and the Black community needs to put these bligots on notice, because they're causing division, and that undermines everything that the president is trying to do for the Black community.   

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That's what makes it so disgusting. The behavior of these haters is not just an ignorant, petty, and self-serving mode of thinking, but the people who indulge in it are more than prepared to undermine the entire community to nurture it. That's why all you hear such people talking about is how incompetent or disloyal Obama is.  And that's in spite of the total irony that they tend to give the Republican Party a complete pass - a group that's on a determined and single-minded mission to drag not only the Black community, but ALL poor and middle class Americans, PASSED the Jim Crow era, to the kind of existence that predates the Great Depression. How can you claim to love your people and do that? The fact is, you can't. The haters' mere claim that they love their people is irreconcilable with their behavior.

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We've already discussed inner city violence, but now consider the ridiculous criticism by the haters' that President Obama's not doing enough to prevent the death and carnage in our inner cities. The fact is, there is absolutely nothing that President Obama can do to keep one young person from killing another. The only thing that's going to stop that is education - and not an institutional education that they can get from a book, but a cultural education in common sense, a love for self, and a love for community. President Obama can't give them that. WE have to give them that. There are some things that even a President can't do, and legislating common sense is at the very top of that list. Only we can educate our children.

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So now that it's clear that many of these Obama critics are nothing more than walking criticisms looking for an issue (many of them didn't even latch on to drone issue until their poverty bus broke down), let's return to foreign policy. People like the good Rev. Wright and others have absolutely no idea what kind of information President Obama is getting across his desk in his condition reports every morning. So the mere fact that they continue to blindly shoot off their mouths regarding the president's actions, without having any idea of what he's is responding to, is clear evidence that all three of the men mentioned above, along with their supporters, are prone to shoot from the hip without knowing what they are talking about.
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Thus, the bottom line is, while these Obama haters would have us believe that Obama is in Afghanistan just killing women and children for the hell of it, or for the benefit of the oil companies, that’s a myth. He’s trying to make sure that YOUR family is not blown up by angry religious fanatics who think that God will bless them if they blow up the United States.

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We must constantly keep in mind that while war, and the killing attendant to war, is an ugly business, it is very much a reality in the world we live in. So again, if we have to lob missiles into an area filled with innocent people - since hiding behind human shields seems to be the terrorist's preferred mode of defense - the drone is a far better alternative than just blindly firing missiles into a location filled with women and children.

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So that said, and documented, what’s going on with all of these Black haters? The Black community is going to have to start addressing this like it's a Black psychological dysfunction similar to Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome, because there’s clear evidence that this is Black-on-Black bigotry (“bligotry”). What evidence do I have of that? Cornel West said the following:

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"When you’re trying to talk about issues that affect the people, name calling get’s in the way. Name calling is nothing but another weapon of mass distraction." - Cornel West.

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So it's clear. Cornel West knows that he's being a nonproductive distraction. In addition, these Black haters never have anything positive to say about Obama, no matter what he does, and they never have anything at all to say about the people who are ACTUALLY trying to cut our throats - the GOP. Think about it.

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