Rev. Jeremiah Wright's America - Home of the Brave, Land of the Free

[FrenchieCat]

JEREMIAH WRIGHT WAS 23 YEARS OLD IN 1963

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[hedgehog]

1. A very nice reminder. There is a Biblical precedent for handling Rev. Wright

Clearly, since he is unpatriotic in his chiding of the American people, especially the most powerful among us, we need to throw him in a cistern as was done with Jeremiah!

[cliffordu]

2. Thank you. FrenchieCat....

The gasbags in the media and all the idiots howling over what Wright has said need to be slapped up side the head with the truth that Wright knows in his bones.

K and R

[FrenchieCat]

4. I can't wait for the media to get regulated and start doing what they

are supposed to do; get at the truth of the matter....instead of all of this guilt by association gotchas! It sickens me!

[K Gardner]

6. It will take a couple of days, then it will turn around as civil rights activists and

much of the black community, leaders and UCC congregations across the nation speak up and make themselves heard.

And then, there's "us"...

[tblue]

Why can't more people understand, THAT'S his life experience and he's entitled to speak his mind

My dad grew up in segregated Mississippi. I GET what the Rev. Wright said. I don't for the life of me understand why people can't allow a black man to have a slightly different perspective of the United States.. I guess that's just too, too threatening to the status quo or the powers that be or somebody's 'way of life,' I guess.

Thanks for that montage. All this innuendo about Barack is really starting to piss me off.

[babylonsister]

3. Recommend! Obama knows the history, his preacher defined it because he lived it.

It should never be forgotten, but thank you so much for these images.

Spread the light but the best is yet to come, I CAN hope!

[FrenchieCat]

11. I'll tell you! Jeremiah Wright is much deeper and has seen more than

these pundit head bozos that are sitting there judging him. :(

[K Gardner]

5. Frenchie, Frenchie. Made me cry again. This is what the younguns don't remember..

this is the horror they need to understand. This is the reason we don't need freakin sean whitecatholic hannity interrogating this man who has devoted his life to making life better for others, so they don't have to live through what he lived through.

K^R

[FrenchieCat]

9. Not so much what young ones don't remember

as much as that the older ones sometimes want to act like it never happened.

Look at the segmented age group of older American and who's voting for whom.
That will tell you all you need to know.
That's the saddest part.

[sorrybushisfromtexas]

12. totally agree, didn't realize anything about being black until

I was a thirteen year old and Mom was furious that a black man had the audacity to offer to buy her a coke at Walgreen's.
We didn't integrate until 1968. We were the last school district in the US to have courts review the racial makeup of our district, about 10 years ago. I am proud to say that my Mom, who I always loved dearly, was a different person when she died a few years back. She never taught me to hate, but she accepted the fact that hatred was around us and didn't tell me it was wrong

[K Gardner]

33. Wow, you just triggered a flashback for me ! My mom used to take me downtown

every Saturday for a movie, then we'd stop at Walgreens and have a coke float at the counter and ride the bus home. Here in the deep south, it was totally segregated. We're still fighting here today over busing. I wonder if we've come nearly as far as we think we have. My mom was a wonderful lady, too, but she never quite acclimated to our "new" society.

[JohnnyLib2]

7. Thank you for the vivid reminder, FrenchieCat.

To some degree, we are all "products of our times." And millions of us came through those years. That has a huge bearing on this crazy election.

[BearSquirrel2]

8. "Really Proud"

I think this is the appropriate context for Michelle Obama's "First Time I've REALLY been proud of America."

It seems like Obama's pastor has been on the "racial injustice" issue for quite a long time. I heard nothing racist in his language from the clips I've seen. There could be others. Saying "Hillary Clinton has never been called a nigger" is not a racial slur.

Yes America IS run by rich white guys. Yes, 9/11 was blow-back for foreign intervention and bad US foreign policy.

[ksquire]

28. blowback

why isn't that covered seriously by anyone? the msm doesn't even remotely think of even addressing the question. in some ways i wish Obama would have defended him harder... but i guess America isn't quite ready for that yet.

[shraby]

10. And these photos don't cover the church bombings

where children were killed, the 3 young men who disappeared and were much later found dead and buried during this time period. It was a very ugly time indeed, not to mention the treatment of the blacks before this period of time.

[FrenchieCat]

14. Well certainly, I just didn't want to make the thread too heavy......

But yes, there was a lot happening during the 60s. not to mention all of the young draftees going off to Vietnam starting mid decade. And a Popular President who had started working on Civil Rights legislation being gunned down in Dallas. And the Deaths of course of MLK and RFK later in the decade.

Yes, this is what Jeremiah Wright saw going on in America.

And yet, somehow he is wrong for not being Hoodwinked.

[shraby]

30. I was just reminding those who weren't old

enough that there were many more atrocities and you could depict here.

[aquart]

13. 23 and IN THE MARINES. Not marching, not protesting.

Carrying a gun.

How nice of you to rewrite his background, though.

<http://www.answers.com/topic/jeremiah-wright>

[FrenchieCat]

15. I didn't say he was protesting......and losta of young Black men joined the forces.....

as you might know.

He was in the south, in Richmond, Virginia from '59 to '61, so I'm sure he got an eye full!

But don't twist my words, as I used very few in the OP.
I simply said that this what was happening in America at the time of his younger manhood.

Do you have problem with that? :shrug:

[aquart]

18. Right. You used pictures to imply it.

A picture is worth a thousand words and every one of them was a lie regarding Wright who was WORKING FOR THE US GOVERNMENT AT THE TIME.

[FrenchieCat]

21. Most Black people worked for the Government......

as trash collector, post office, and the army. They have for a long time. It's the one place with steady income and benefits, if you didn't know that.

In addition, I didn't imply a thing; I said that this was Wrights' america that he grew up, and so it was.

Are you channeling Hannity or something?

[High Plains]

34. This is just silly.

So what if he was in the Marines.

This is what was happening at home when he was a young man.

[ksquire]

27. TY for this post. maybe some of them will get it now... nt

[OhioBlue]

16. k&r.

[ClayZ]

17. K and R

[calimary]

19. It's important that we remember.

A riveting series of images.

Thanks for posting!

[EFerrari]

20. . . .

:loveya:

[Tarc]

22. More insipid, asinine comparisons between Dr. King and the civil right movement in general

and this bigoted piece of trash Rev. Wright, who is not fit to be mentioned i nthe same breath as the rest of them.

You're been trying to spin this shit all day frenchy. No one's buying it.

[texshelters]

24. What did he say that was false?

Other than the tone, his point of a racist government is pretty correct. Thankfully we're changing and people like Reverend Wright will be forgotten some day.

Martin Luther King, Jr. was a unique human being that transcended the bounds of race, spirit and body and rose above the fray to bring change for everyone. No one should ever be compared to his full being. One can partly compare him to the Dalai Lama, Nelson Mandela and Ricardo Escivia of Justicia y Paz en Colombia.

Peace,
Tex Shelters

[texshelters]

23. Something like this would make almost any man angry

That is what also make Obama remarkable. He knows about the racism and poverty forced upon those who happen to have skin his color and he seem genuinely able to reach out to others. He's not perfects, and his company certainly isn't.

I am a white man who is not at all offended by Reverend Wrights remarks. They are mostly true despite being inflammatory and full of anger you hope your pastor has transcended. It seems to me that those that are worried about that the Reverends remarks are racist should look in the mirror. Those remarks aren't about me, they are about an established government that is also hurting middle class and poor whites, Asians, Latinos, gays, tall people and everyone who is not rich. Pointing a finger at a racist government doesn't make you racist. Are we so nationalistic that we can't take criticism?

Tex Shelters

[FrenchieCat]

25. We soon shall see, we just have to .....

watch and listen.

[burrowowl]

26. I like Wright

Right on the spot about so-called Iraq War, corporatism, etc. Of course the MSM focused on Hiliary. I thought WOW if Obama was with the fire of Wright, I would be happy to vote for him, now I will vote for either Hiliary or Obama with a clothspin on my nose.

[KG]

29. as usual, there are those that still want badly to believe in the american fairey tales

even here, where the truth is readily availiable.

Rev Wright told the ugly truth about america. goddam shame the candidates chose to reinforces the lies. it's why i care not one whit who the the dem nominiee is.

[Vinca]

31. Excellent post, FrenchieCat. People seem to have forgotten. nt

[burythehatchet]

32. Good post, and New Orleans circe 2005 would have also made the point n/t