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Title: Obama's Pastor Slurs Italians in Latest Magazine
Source: CNSNews.com
URL Source: http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewPolitics ... chive/200803/POL20080326a.html
Published: Mar 26, 2008
Author: Penny Starr
Post Date: 2008-03-26 19:15:13 by FOH
Keywords: Afrocentric, Black Marxist, Panther
Views: 188
Comments: 10

(CNSNews.com) - Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., pastor emeritus of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago where Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) has been a member for two decades, slurred Italians in a piece published in the most recent issue of Trumpet Newsmagazine.

"(Jesus') enemies had their opinion about Him," Wright wrote in a eulogy of the late scholar Asa Hilliard in the November/December 2007 issue. "The Italians for the most part looked down their garlic noses at the Galileans."

Wright continued, "From the circumstances surrounding Jesus' birth (in a barn in a township that was under the Apartheid Roman government that said his daddy had to be in), up to and including the circumstances surrounding Jesus' death on a cross, a Roman cross, public lynching Italian style. ...

"He refused to be defined by others and Dr. Asa Hilliard also refused to be defined by others. The government runs everything from the White House to the schoolhouse, from the Capitol to the Klan, white supremacy is clearly in charge, but Asa, like Jesus, refused to be defined by an oppressive government because Asa got his identity from an Omnipotent God."

Every issue of the magazine published last year included Wright's column, "The Message," in which he covered a range of subjects, including his views on other African-American churches as expressed in his April 2007 commentary "Facing the Rising Sun."

"In a world that is controlled by white supremacy, in a country that is on its way to hell in a hand basket because of lying politicians, in a culture that still thinks 'white is right' and with young people who do not have a clue as to our story, our history, our legacy or our destiny, we still have African-American Christians who are more concerned about 'bling bling' than about freeing our minds," Wright wrote.

In a nationally broadcast speech on March 18, Obama distanced himself from Wright by saying he "condemned, in unequivocal terms, the statements of Reverend Wright that have caused such controversy." But Obama also said, "I could no more disown him than I could disown the black community."

According to his federal income tax return for 2006, Obama gave the Trinity United church that year $22,500 in contributions.

The Clinton campaign has not commented on the controversy, but in an interview Tuesday with the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) said actions speak louder than words.

"He would not have been my pastor," Clinton said. "You don't choose your family, but you choose what church you want to attend.

"You know, I spoke out against Don Imus (a radio talk show host who was fired for making racially insensitive remarks about black female basketball players at Rutgers University), saying that hate speech was unacceptable in any setting, and I believe that," Clinton said.

"I just think you have to speak out against that. You certainly have to do that, if not explicitly, then implicitly by getting up and moving," she added.

Trumpet Newsmagazine started publication in the 1980s in Chicago and distribution expanded in March 2006 to several other cities, with broader circulation through subscriptions. On the magazine's masthead, Wright is named as the magazine's CEO and Wright's daughter, Jeri Wright, is the publisher.

Requests for comments from Jeri Wright, the magazine's marketing staff, and the Obama campaign were not answered by press time.

The last Trumpet to be published was the November/December edition, a double issue that featured a remembrance of "Pan-Africanist" Hilliard and a profile of Louis Farrakhan, who was the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement "Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. Trumpeter" award at the magazine's 25th anniversary gala late last year.

Farrakhan has called Judaism a "gutter religion" and said Jews are "bloodsuckers," as reported in The New York Times.

Trumpet Newsmagazine also included myriad articles and regular features geared toward the black community, ranging from health, parenting, music and the arts, to profiles of successful members of the community and tips on everything from dating to spiritual well-being.

Many political observers have said that Obama's speech last week limited the damage of the ongoing Wright controversy, but others say the issue is continuing to hamper his campaign.

"I don't think it's going to go away," Ralph Reed, a long-time conservative activist and political strategist who now runs Century Strategies based in Duluth, Ga., told Cybercast News Service.

"Because while Obama's speech was thoughtful and eloquent, it didn't address the central issue, and that's why he would have someone as such a close spiritual advisor with such extreme views," Reed added.

"Let me be clear," Reed added. "I don't think any candidate should have to answer for the theological views of their pastor, church or denomination. But (Wright's) were not theological views, but political statements."

"I think it's more likely to be a serious issue in the general election, more than in the primaries," Reed said.
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LOLOL What a bunch of losers, supported by an even BIGGER bunch of LOSERS... (1 image)
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#1. To: FOH (#0)
Scumbags

Since we have no control anyway, and I'm writing in if I have to Ron Paul, it will still give me some sense of morbid enjoyment to watch Obama being shoved over the cliff by Hillary Clinton as she rises to take the nomination.
Law Enforcement Against Prohibition

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"Corporation: An entity created for the legal protection of its human parasites, whose sole purpose is profit and self-perpetuation." © IndieTx
IndieTX posted on 2008-03-26 19:22:07 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
#2. To: All (#0)
It's not his fault.
He was 'bred' this way in his 80% Jew (and nearly ALL WHITE) high school...

What North American Union? ~~~~~ Have you seen THIS yet? Pass it around...
FOH posted on 2008-03-26 19:22:47 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
#3. To: IndieTX (#1)
I honestly am starting to take some pleasure from this latest kabuki dance by the 3 stooges...

What North American Union? ~~~~~ Have you seen THIS yet? Pass it around...
FOH posted on 2008-03-26 19:24:14 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
#4. To: FOH (#3)
I despise Hillary but everytime her machine and she pull out the daggers and aim at Obama, I go grab some popcorn and smile. The hypocite herself exposing another lying hypocrite. Excellent theater!! Madman McCain needs someone to start exposing his lunacy as well so we can really get rocking!! LMFAO!
Law Enforcement Against Prohibition

"There is no 'legitimate' Corporation by virtue of it's very legal definition and purpose."
-- IndieTx
"Corporation: An entity created for the legal protection of its human parasites, whose sole purpose is profit and self-perpetuation." © IndieTx
IndieTX posted on 2008-03-26 19:27:17 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
#5. To: IndieTX (#4)
I know, I know...heheheheh

What North American Union? ~~~~~ Have you seen THIS yet? Pass it around...
FOH posted on 2008-03-26 19:34:57 ET (1 image) Reply Trace Private Reply
#6. To: FOH (#0)

Still love it

Jethro Tull posted on 2008-03-26 19:48:56 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
#7. To: Jethro Tull (#6)
Still...

What North American Union? ~~~~~ Have you seen THIS yet? Pass it around...
FOH posted on 2008-03-26 19:50:49 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
#8. To: FOH (#0)
freeing our minds

Considering that blacks have an mean average genetic IQ of 85, their minds cannot be freed.
Scratch a leftist and you'll find a fascist or Communist or Nazi everytime.
YertleTurtle posted on 2008-03-26 20:40:24 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
#9. To: YertleTurtle (#8)
Considering that blacks have an mean average genetic IQ of 85, their minds cannot be freed.

Link?
BTW, I really appreciate your tag line...

What North American Union? ~~~~~ Have you seen THIS yet? Pass it around...
FOH posted on 2008-03-26 20:52:20 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
#10. To: FOH (#0)
Farrakhan has called Judaism a "gutter religion" and said Jews are "bloodsuckers," as reported in The New York Times.

It is indeed. But so is Islam.
God is always good!
RickyJ posted on 2008-03-26 21:53:46 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
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