Posted by
Bob Parks on Monday, March 17, 2008 10:17:40 AM
Six years ago, I was inspired to become an opinion columnist so I could attempt to give a different perspective on current events. Six years later, while watching this morning’s Good Morning America segment with Democrat operative Donna Brazille and NPR’s Juan Williams, I see there is a lot to do, especially when countering the leftist representation of Black opinion in the United States.
Sure, while 90-95% of Blacks vote Democrat, it is because of the inaccurate repetitions conducted daily by the mainstream media and those they ALLOW to speak for Black America.
Over the weekend, in response to the media firestorm created by past speeches of Barack Obama’s “former” pastor, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, his church released a statement that unfortunately fell back on the old victimology playbook.
"We have listened and watched as the wonderful work of our church has been vilified this week," he told about 3,000 congregants on Palm Sunday morning. "This week should be special for us because I guess we know a little something about crucifixion."
– Otis Moss III, the current pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ
The real “crucifixion” is being perpetrated by Pastor Moss, Brazille, Williams, and all the Media Matters-Think Progressive-Bill Maher-Air America-Daily Kos-Democracy Now!-college So to make my point (and I’m warning the liberal media at the onset), I will take a look at one of Reverend Wright’s more “fiery” sermon segments. I know he’s a learned scholar, and I may be out of my league, but it’s my column and I’ll write about any topic I wish, so here goes….
WRIGHT: Jesus was a poor black man who lived in a country and who lived in a culture, that was controlled by rich white people! The Romans were rich. The Romans were Italians, which means they were European, which means they were white -- and the Romans ran everything in Jesus' country. It just came to me within the past few weeks, y'all, why so many folk are hatin' on Barack Obama. He doesn't fit the model!
Obviously the whole bit about Jesus being a poor black man controlled by rich white people is an analogy. But by implying that’s why “so many folk are hatin’ on Barack Obama”, Wright is implying that he is some Jesus-like figure.
Obama may be a phenomenon, but to tell thousands of people he is comparable to Jesus is just plain irresponsible.
Then again, if a political objective is the goal, who in their right mind would vote against Jesus? Continued...