Chicago Tribune columnist John Kass notes the essential dodge of Barack Obama’s church atempting to deflect attention from its leadership under the noxious Rev. Jeremiah Wright to a “sacred conversation” on the issue of race:
But if we really talked about race, we’d really talk about unfair racial preferences in college and graduate school admissions, in hiring and on tax-subsidized public contracts. We’d talk about the horrendous drop-out rate in big city high school systems run by political bosses who, year after year after year, use minority school children as cash cows to cement their power.
Unfortunately, Kass also writes that “Wright has damaged Obama by cursing America from the pulpit,” when in fact Obama damaged himself by choosing to conduct a 20-year relationship with Wright, even equating him with the black community generally. And Obama, in the speech he gave attempting the same side-step to a national discussion of race issues, suggested that any white resentment over affirmative action was really a distraction from corporations, lobbyists and economic policies that favor the few over the many.
Kass, the son of a Greek immigrant grocer, who worked as a merchant marine sailor, ditch digger and a waiter before getting into journalism, probably has the better insight into the working-class white vote Obama is trying to win. But neither the UCC nor Obama is really interested in having a conversation on race as much as they are on preaching a sermon to those they deem unrighteous. It is just hard to play a prophet in your hometown.
Take a remedial class in Journalism 101, Karl. JOHN Kass. Not Jim.
Fixed. Thanks for the polite correction. I take it you had no meaningful comment.
The mainstream media will do anything to cover for Obama. But there is plenty of Internet media and the truth is coming out more and more. See:
http://christianprophecy.blogspot.com/
“But neither the UCC nor Obama is really interested in having a conversation on race as much as they are on preaching a sermon to those they deem unrighteous.”
Another mistake. Using UCC, you encompass the entire denomination. Direct your slander and bile to its’ direct point: Trinity United Church of Christ, Chicago, IL.
Hey Mr. Peabody! Time for your heartworm pill!
Mr. Peabody,
Wrong. The UCC is spearheading it as a denomination-wide effort.
“The UCC is spearheading it as a denomination-wide effort.”
Exactly. A denomination-wide effort to discuss what you wrote they are NOT willing to discuss…
UCC calls for nationwide race discussion
By CHRISTOPHER WILLS, Associated Press Writer Fri Apr 4, 12:55 AM ET
CHICAGO – The United Church of Christ, the parent denomination of Barack Obama’s church, announced Thursday that it will begin a conversation on racial issues beginning next month in response to sermons by Obama’s pastor that were critical of the U.S.
BTW, Mr. Peabody is also the Rev. O’Dell.
Mr. Peabody O’Dell – Are white people invited to participate?
He’s writing us from Charter Communications Corporate.
Yep, including taking out a $120,000 full-page ad in the NY Times explaining among other things, why Obama was correct in not leaving Trinity.
If precedent is any predictor, white people are invited to hang their heads in SHAME, SHAME AND DISGRACE. And to take your rhetorical medicine like the VILE HATERS YOU ARE. That’s all the participation you deserve.
Cracker.
BTW, Mr. Peabody is also the Rev. O’Dell.
Jesus, I thought Spike was one of you morons being satirical, you mean he was serious?
Shocking that he appears to be part of a media organization. Shocka, as Karl would say.
The real Spike O’Dell is the #1 AM morning DJ in Chicago, broadcasting on WGN, a Tribune Broadcasting station.
Is that from the corporate office proper, or just on broadband provided by Charter?
I had the impression “Rev Spike” was just posting some random bot-produced gronkulation as a lame joke, since it just sort of a nonsense string.
They do not really want to have a national conversation on race, they want a national lecture, and they want everyone that disagrees with their politics to acknowledge that they are racists.
Peabody of course misses the point which is that it’s basically the UCC giving its damage control to their congregations. They aren’t having a discussion outside their own group. It it is “preching to the choir.” Which he would know had he bothered to read any of the underlying material. Or wasn’t buying into the Orwellian church propaganda.
The other point Peabody missed is that what UCC is NOT going to discuss is why they had a rabid hatemonger leading their largest congregation for 20 years.
Well then, I acknowledge they are racists. Are they happy now?
Somehow I doubt it.
(Sorry for snarking on the awkward pronoun usage, JD)
McGehee – English is sometimes my third language. That was a horrible sentence. Racist.
Also, Kyoto.
Think of the UCC as a giant squid squirting its ink and your understanding of this initiative will be greatly enhanced.
What happened to Mr. Peabody?
He tested positive for rabies so I had to have him put down.