Who is a member of a church for 20 + years if you do not agree w/the message being preached? Answer:no one.
Wright married Barack and his wife Michelle. He baptizes Barack’s two daughters and has been Obama’s pastor for more than twenty years. He is even credited in Barack’s book, The Audacity of Hope, and the title actually came from one of Wright’s sermons.
All Quotes Attributed to Pastor Jeremiah Wright
“We bombed Hiroshima, we bombed Nagasaki, and we nuked far more than the thousands in New York and the Pentagon, and we never batted an eye.”
“We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we are indignant because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back to our own front yards. America’s chickens are coming home to roost.” (Sep 2001)
“The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law and then wants us to sing ‘God Bless America.’ No, no, no, God d*** America, that’s in the Bible for killing innocent people. God d*** America for treating our citizens as less than human. God d*** America for as long as she acts like she is God and she is supreme.” (2003)
“In the 21st century, white America got a wake-up call after 9/11/01. White America and the western world came to realize that people of color had not gone away, faded into the woodwork or just ‘disappeared’ as the Great White West kept on its merry way of ignoring black concerns.” (magazine article)
“Racism is how this country was founded and how this country is still run!…We [in the U.S.] believe in white supremacy and black inferiority and believe it more than we believe in God.” (sermon)
“Barack knows what it means living in a country and a culture that is controlled by rich white people. Hillary would never know that. Hillary ain’t never been called a n***r. Hillary has never had a people defined as a non-person.”
“Hillary is married to Bill, and Bill has been good to us. No he ain’t! Bill did us, just like he did Monica Lewinsky. He was riding dirty.” (sermon)
“The Israelis have illegally occupied Palestinian territories for over 40 years now. Divestment has now hit the table again as a strategy to wake the business community and wake up Americans concerning the injustice and the racism under which the Palestinians have lived because of Zionism.”
Originally posted by KazetNagorraAll of them.But,thats me.The leader of our country to have these views, "G.D. America",etc is a bit disturbing.Its not surprising though,"our first lady" is not proud to be an American
Nope. But answer FMF's question, which of those quotes do you disagree with?
Originally posted by utherpendragon"God d*** America" is just as meaningless as "God bless America".
All of them.But,thats me.The leader of our country to have these views, "G.D. America",etc is a bit disturbing.Its not surprising though,"our first lady" is not proud to be an American
And no one should ever be proud of where they were born.
Originally posted by daniel58Because you did not do anything for being born. You just happened to be born somewhere. Being proud of being American makes as much sense as being proud for having blue eyes, blonde hair, white skin, being proud of being six feet tall or whatever arbitrary characteristic that was determined at birth.
Why not?
Originally posted by utherpendragonThese are progressives we are talking to here. That means any obstacles to globilization, including patriotism, must be erradicated. So don't be suprised if they are offended by it.
flying a flag of the netherlands as you do "God bless America" would seem meaningless.But to patriotic Americans it means very much