My posting on NYTimes blog that condemned Sen. Barack Obama for condemning
Reverend Jeremiah Wright was filtered out and never saw the light. I was horrified by the live scene of people falling from the world trade center. I call myself an ex-New Yorker and used to visit the WTC building with guests on a personal ride tour. I had a friend who was working at Wall street. While I was watching the buildings collapse on CNN, I was also horrified by the sheer prospect that a lot of innocent people would be killed somewhere else not by the terrorists, but by the US military forces. I think I've never talked about my feelings with anybody so far. And I denounce myself for that. The followings are posted in the NYTimes blog. ------- # 444. March 16th, 2008 10:29 am Many words that seems to be so "unpatriotic" have long been heard in a lot of black churches in this country. Listen to Michelle Norris in today eet the Press hosted by Tim Russert. While I understand this is a disaster to presidential campaign, the controversy over the reverend Jeremiah Wright remarks should be more studied since the tone and words resonates among people not only in the African-American community but also in the World outside of this country. Facts. 1. US and Israel used to support South African Apartheid regime. Margaret Thatcher even called ANC(American National Congress) a terrorist organization. 2. Osama bin Laden was trained by CIA to do things that can be considered as terrorist action. 3. The number of innocent people killed during Afghanistan war has surpassed the number of 9/11 victims many years ago. We don even have to mention Iraq. You may not like the unpatriotic tone, but I believe it is imperative to understand the chasm drawn along the racial line and get involved in a constructive discourse. Posted by gureumi ----- # 451. March 16th, 2008 10:46 am One of the prominent British historian ( and a Jazz critic) Eric Hobsbawm once expressed his personal unease with giving up the notion "Negro" which now African Americans used be referred to as with historic pride by the likes of Fredrick Douglass, W.E.B Dubois, and Martin Luther King Jr. I think it is also of historic significance that the term "African-American" reflects the clear proclamation of self identity of "Negroes". It is a sad reality that the very sentiment and the way of thinking shared by many African-americans is considered very unamerican. Posted by gureumi --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
