Ok, I loooooove my Barak Obama and I love me some Re’m Jeremiah Wright.

 

Watching Obama today, in North Carolina, my home state, as he publicly expressed outrage and sadness  towards Rev. Wright, the man who married he and his wife and baptized his children, hurt me just as much as America saw it hurt him. You didn’t have to be in the room to feel the collywobbles and spate of emotion that jutted across the air waves. It is no easy task to stand before a room of full of strangers and proscribe a 20 year friendship because too few understand Wright’s position. In my eyes that is what it boils down to.

 

Much can be said on this issue alone, but we (the people) understand that for Obama to become President of this nation his message must not only appeal to me but everyone not like me. So, it is not incumbent upon him to embrace the theology of the of liberation from a solely Black perspective, rather, from a perspective that includes all the subjugated, tyrannized, browbeaten men and women of this “Great America.”

 

Now for my rant…because as I sit here and watch Wolf Blitzer’s Situation Room, I am more and more pissed at the fact that his guests (all white) suppose a working knowledge of what Blacks have and to some extent continue to endure than I am at the comments that started all this hullabaloo in the first place. These people commenting on something they know little about is merely an exacerbation of the problem and confirmatory to the fact that

 

Ok, now back to the topic at hand. This Black Liberation, while it may seem separatist, it can hardly be called racist because it is not denoted by the notion of racial superiority in any wise. Rather, it aims to make the Gospel Blacks were forced to adopt, applicable to the Black condition and the zeitgeist of slavery. The moderator asked about his sermon saying, “…The government lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color.” She continued, “Do you honestly believe your statement and those words?

Have you read Horowitz’s book, “Emerging Viruses: AIDS and Ebola,” whoever wrote that question?  Have you read “Medical Apartheid”?  You’ve read it? I read different things. As I said to my members, if you haven’t read things, then you can’t — based on this Tuskegee experiment and based on what has happened to Africans in this country, I believe our government is capable of doing anything. In fact, in fact, in fact, one of the — one of the responses to what Saddam Hussein had in terms of biological warfare was a non- question, because all we had to do was check the sales records.  We sold him those biological weapons that he was using against his own people. So any time a government can put together biological warfare to kill people, and then get angry when those people use what we sold them, yes, I believe we are capable.

The comment made by Rev. Wright, while tactlessly expressed, did not say America was responsible but capable. Given the troubles I personally have seen the NIH has getting Blacks to participate in HIV Vaccine Trials, I can say, that Wright’s message tends to echo the belief of a lot of Blacks who refuse to participate in any study or are in dire straights and, lets say, living with HIV or AIDS. Now, while this conspiracy does nothing to educate people about the disease Rev Wrights service to people NOT in his flock, can neither be denounce, repudiated nor denied.

“Maybe we need to declare war on AIDS. In five minutes the Congress found $40 billion to rebuild New York and the families that died in sudden death, do you think we can find the money to make medicine available for people who are dying a slow death?”

I understand Barak Obama’s need to distance himself from the haughty and narcissistic reverend,  but I pray there is part of Obama that knows what this man is saying is essential as it is representative of the Black folk who endured that era. Wright may not speak for all Blacks, but he speaks for a fair amount. Hence, Wright’s message is still important and relevant. As long as race is a factor in governmental policy and decision making it will remain so.

 

The Moderator asked Wright about his relationship with Louis Farrakhan and if agrees with and respect his views, including his most racially divisive views?

 

Wright responded, ” …when Louis Farrakhan speaks, it’s like E.F. Hutton speaks, all black America listens.  Whether they agree with him or not, they listen.”

 

I personally, do not agree entirely with Farrakhan’s politics, but when he is on television, I watch. I watch because he is an AMAZING orator with the ability to capture to capture and retain the attention of his listeners; as it was with King, Churchill, Stalin and yes even Hitler. If Hitler were not as oratorically skilled he was, no one would have listened and there would have been no Holocaust. As terrible as he was, no one understanding the definition of great can deny Hitler was just that. To this end, no one can deny Farrakhan’s greatness. Like it or not, Wright is right.

 

“You don’t tell me who my enemies are.  You don’t tell me who my friends are.”

 

Wright was then asked, “What is your motivation for characterizing Senator Obama’s response to you as, quote, ‘what a politician had to say’? What do you mean by that?”

 

Obama’s response to Wright’s comment showed how taken betrayed and hurt he felt,” …if Reverend Wright thinks that that’s political posturing, as he put it, then he doesn’t know me very well. And based on his remarks yesterday, well, I may not know him as well as I thought either.” Wow, to say that after nearly 20 years of friendship says more than just “we don’t see eye-to-eye,” it’s the sporran that holds the keys to the demise of two-decades of friendship. “…Whatever relationship I had with Reverend Wright has changed, as a consequence of this,”  Obama said.

 

My “hope” now is that this comes to an end sooner rather than later.

 

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