Jeremiah Wright: Right On!

I think it was ridiculous when ABC and other major networks censored
Wright's sermon, where he says "god damn America" and the ignoramuses
treat it like an expletive, censoring the "damn" which just functions
as a verb and in a theological context meaning condemnation for
abominable things our country really has done.

[begin excerpt]

BILL MOYERS: One of the most controversial sermons that you preach is
the sermon you preach that ended up being that sound bite about
Goddamn America.

REVEREND JEREMIAH WRIGHT (SERMON TAPE): Where governments lie, God
does not lie. Where governments change, God does not change. And I'm
through now. But let me leave you with one more thing. Governments
fail. The government in this text comprised of Caesar, Cornelius,
Pontius Pilate - the Roman government failed. The British government
used to rule from East to West. The British government had a Union
Jack. She colonized Kenya, Ghana, Nigeria, Jamaica, Barbados, Trinidad
and Hong Kong. Her navies ruled the seven seas all the way down to the
tip of Argentina in the Falklands, but the British government failed.
The Russian government failed. The Japanese government failed. The
German government failed. And the United States of America government,
when it came to treating her citizens of Indian descent fairly, she
failed. She put them on reservations. When it came to treating her
citizens of Japanese descent fairly, she failed. She put them in
internment prison camps. When it came to treating citizens of African
descent fairly, America failed. She put them in chains. The government
put them on slave quarters, put them on auction blocks, put them in
cotton fields, put them in inferior schools, put them in substandard
housing, put them in scientific experiments, put them in the lowest
paying jobs, put them outside the equal protection of the law, kept
them out of their racist bastions of higher education and locked them
into position of hopelessness and helplessness. The government gives
them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law, and
then wants us to sing God bless America? No, no, no. Not God bless
America; God damn America! That's in the Bible, for killing innocent
people. God damn America for treating her citizen as less than human.
God damn America as long as she keeps trying to act like she is God
and she is supreme!

BILL MOYERS: What did you mean when you said that?

REVEREND WRIGHT: When you start confusing God and government, your
allegiances to government -a particular government and not to God,
that you're in serious trouble because governments fail people. And
governments change. And governments lie. And those three points of the
sermon. And that is the context in which I was illustrating how the
governments biblically and the governments since biblical times, up to
our time, changed, how they failed, and how they lie. And when we
start talking about my government right or wrong, I don't think that
goes. That is consistent with what the will of God says or the word of
God says that governments don't say right or wrong. That governments
that wanna kill innocents are not consistent with the will of God. And
that you are made in the image of God, you're not made in the image of
any particular government. We have the freedom here in this country to
talk about that publicly, whereas some other places, you're dead if
say the wrong thing about your government.

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/04252008/transcript1.html

[end excerpt]

I'm a nontheist but I agree with most everything Rev. Wright says in a
political context. And I'm afraid it's not Wright's views, which are
right on in my opinion, but Obama's fear of pissing off white voters
that will probably cost him the Democratic nomination.

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Yours truly,

The Lone Weasel
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