Hi Everybody! http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/opinion/columnists/reiland/s_563187.html
or http://tinyurl.com/5gxhc5 In any case, Obama's point, still valid, was that words matter. If, in fact, Obama seriously believes in the power of words, in the influence on the community, for good or bad, one wonders why there is no evidence that he said anything, not even a peep, when Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan was honored last year with the Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. Trumpeter Award. Farrakhan received the award from the Trumpet Newsmagazine at Obama's church, Chicago's Trinity United Church of Christ, because he was said to "truly epitomize greatness." Rev. Wright applauded Farrakhan for his "depth of analysis when it comes to the racial ills of this nation," praised Farrakhan's "integrity and honesty," and described him as "an unforgettable force, a catalyst for change and a religious leader who is sincere about his faith and purpose." From Farrakhan, regarding Jews: "I don't like the way you leech on us. See, a leech is somebody that sucks your blood, takes from you and don't (sic) give you a damn thing." Is that the "integrity" part of Farrakhan or an example of his "depth of analysis"? And regarding the United States, from Farrakhan: "A decree of death has been passed on America. The judgment of God has been rendered and she must be destroyed." Words matter, asserted Obama. Here's another string of words from his church's 2007 prize winner. "Listen, Jewish people don't have no hands that are free of the blood of us." Additionally, "German Jews financed Hitler," Judaism is "a gutter religion," a "Synagogue of Satan," and Jews have "wrapped their tentacles around the U.S. government" and are "sending this nation to hell." In another innovative "depth of analysis," Farrakhan explains that "blue-eyed devil" whites were created in a lab accident 6,600 years ago by a brown-eyed scientist. Saying he was a passenger in an anti-white spaceship, Farrakhan warns that to make things right, to put the last first, there's already a city-sized mother ship hovering "over the heads of us in North America" and soon there'll be death-dealing offspring spaceships "over all the major cities of America," geared to zap only the blue-eyes. Just words? Just one wild and crazy guy? Ten years ago, an opinion survey by Paul Sniderman at Stanford and Thomas Piazza at the University of California at Berkeley found that 46 percent of blacks in Chicago believed that the federal government deliberately brought guns and drugs into the inner cities of America to eradicate blacks. To advance the genocide, 28 percent said that white physicians invented AIDS to destroy blacks. And from "post-racial" Obama? Nothing -- barely a whisper about how Louis Farrakhan and Jeremiah Wright have overdosed on "bitter" and "cling" to religion and their hostility and "antipathy to people who aren't like them." That judgment, those condescending words, were reserved for working-class white guys in Altoona who go rabbit hunting and belong to normal churches. -- Regards, Pete http://pete-theisen.com/ _______________________________________________ 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.
