1. I'm sympathetic to the plight of the oppressed when they are oppressed and when they are not causing it themselves. 2. I'm not 100% in support of Israel or at least the Israeli government. I'm in support of people being attacked and hated today. What happened 50, 100, 1000 years ago is important but its history. I'm not anti-Egyptian for their slavery or attacks on Israel. I'm concerned with their current attitude and plans when it comes to the Jewish people. Same with Iran. Wright is not dealing with a legacy of slavery, he's exploiting it. If he was dealing with it he would be empowering his congregation to be better, not railing them against the white man. You know what my congregation does? We don't complain about being discriminated against. We don't complain about being targeted for being religious, pro-israel or whatever. We look to empower ourselves. We donate money to a fund to help those who need to get up on their feet. We support our community through volunteer ambulances. We make ourselves more by making ourselves more. Wright is not empowering his people. He's using them as a bludgeon. I can even say he's abusing them based on his how many million dollar home? MLK lived a LOT closer to racism than Wright did. He saw a lot worse than Wright did and he was willing to give all that he had and was to his cause - the advancement of blacks as equals to anyone else in this country. Wright doesn't seem to be looking for equality.
"advancement based on hate is false advancement doomed to fail" On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 12:51 AM, Judah McAuley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Michael, you seem like a guy who is sympathetic to the plight of the > oppressed. I've seen you go rather farther over to the defense of the > actions of Isreael than a truely dispassionate observer might. And > that is certainly understandable. You share a common heritage with > them and you've been on the ground dealing with the hate and vitriol > that inculcates the historic relationships with Jews and non-jews. > > Wright is dealing with a legacy that includes slavery, that includes > the deliberate infection of Blacks with syphilis, deals with a modern > reality of 1 in 5 young black men in prision. Do you think he > shouldn't get angry? Do you think he is wrong to ask his people to > rise up and strike down the powers that oppress them? > > Martin Luther King Jr and Rev. Wright have seen the same things. I > think King had it right in the way he dealt with things. He also got > killed for it. I do believe that Wright is not fundamentally violent. > But I do think he is caught in an older time and that he has largely > been passed by in the changes of our society. I think that Obama has > seen that too. Wright still has some relevance and points to make, but > I think his mind frame is in an older time. But his efforts have > helped create the situation today that has made him increasingly > irrelevant. > > And that is progress. > > Judah > > On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 9:39 PM, Michael Dinowitz > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So bottom line is that no one is anti-American in your eyes. They just > have > > a different outlook as to what America should be. Got it. Wright is a > > peaceful guy who is full of love and tolerance. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:276788 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
