Butterflynet:
Rather than face the brand of prejudice practiced throughout America' history and the history of Blacks in America, the posters here, who are so rabid against Minister Wright, can't and won't face and admit that they are prejudiced against Obama, in the first place. What I'm reading here, is what I was warned against as a child, growing up Black, in racially segregated New Orleans. I was also taught that not all whites were predjudiced or bad, however this country chose after the Civil War, to turn a blind's eye, to the Jim Crow laws practiced throughout the South.
Before 1964, the nations prisons were 80% white and with passage of 2 civil rights Acts, not laws, just barely 40 years ago, the draconian Rockefeller drug laws and institutionalized racism, have reversed the prison population to 80% Black and drove a new industry, the prison industrialization complex, that has imprisoned over 2 million Blacks, since 1964. The disenfranchisement of Florida's Blacks in the 2000 election, the "fixing" of the voting machines in Ohio in 2004, a conservative Supreme Court deciding a federal election, now high unemployment, poisons in children's toys, plastic in dog food, the price of oil in the US, that is not short on supply, but the fixing of the prices by Bush's Arab honchos and this last statement by Tim Wise is so telling.
"So white folks are mad at Jeremiah Wright because he challenges their views about their country. Meanwhile, those same white folks, and their ministers and priests, every week put forth a false image of the God Jeremiah Wright serves, and yet it is whites who feel we have the right to be offended. "
A white man defending what Blacks and people of color have felt for over 450 years, when we were "stolen" from our native lands and told we had no history, no culture, no language, yet no one speaks with truth, because the light of truth blinds the hell out of the lies told for centuries.
