Please view Reverend Wright's Speech in Which He was paraphrasing someone else . . .
gene young
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 10:01:40 -0500
All,
Watch the 9/11 speech in a larger clip. He calls the event an 'unthinkable act' and was actually paraphrasing Ambassador Peck on Fox News on Sept 10th regarding the 'Chickens Come Home to Roost' comment.
Fox News is neither fair nor accurate.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=QOdlnzkeoyQ
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Subject: The World Is Watching
"I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today -my own government. I cannot be silent." - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Riverside Church, New York City, April 4, 1967
April 4, 1968, the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate was killed by an assassin's bullet while standing on the balcony of the Hotel Lorraine (now the National Civil Rights Museum) in Memphis. Many believed that U.S.. foreign policy in general and an unjust war in southeast Asia in particular was beyond the purview of a preacher from Atlanta and one year after speaking out, his voice was silenced forever. Today, there are still many, too many, who believe that the presidency of the United States is reserved for whites only. Ironically, today, the face of U.S. foreign policy is a black woman, who knew some of the young girls who killed in bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham in 1963, and many do not recall that same day, a 13 year old, Virgil Ware was shot and killed while riding his bicycle by white terrorists in that Alabama city. Dr. Condoleeza Rice is simply carrying out a policy that was crafted long ago by white men who have had little or no respect for and understanding of people of color on this planet. The philosopher Victor Hugo once wrote, "There is nothing more powerful that an idea whose time has come." I have supported Senator Obama since meeting him in Jackson in 2004, but on March 18, 2008, he demonstrated clearly that his time has come. Many will use this distraction as an excuse for distancing and not supporting him and the brilliant young senator, seized this opportunity to show more of his vision for the future. One writer has already said that when the subject becomes serious, the communications from others are smaller. I do hope that people listened to what he said about each of us and not be afraid to change.
I can no more disown him than I can disown the black community. I can no more disown him than I can my white grandmother – a woman who helped raise me, a woman who sacrificed again and again for me, a woman who loves me as much as she loves anything in this world, but a woman who once confessed her fear of black men who passed by her on the street, and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe.
Only Barack Obama, because of his unique history, credentials and skills could have said what needed to be said on March 18th. Senator Obama represents the best hope for America, not just a change from Republican to Democrat or from a male to a female. His platform is to transform politics and to do away with business as usual. Even if he walked across Lake Michigan, the critics and naysayers would say, "He couldn't swim." The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye, the more light you try to put in it, the more it closes. I pray that there will be a sincere and much-needed dialogue on the race issue, but more importantly, I hope that we all can focus on the issues that attracted us to Obama in the beginning. Education. The Economy. U.S. foreign policy and a war that should have never been authorized. "The fierce urgency of Now !!!"
"It is an unhappy truth that racism is a way of life for the vast majority of white American, spoken and unspoken, acknowledged and denied, subtle and sometimes not so subtle - the disease of racism permeates and poisons a whole body politic. And I can see nothing more urgent than for America to work passionately and unrelentingly - to get rid of the disease of racism." - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Sunday, March 31, 1968, National Cathedral, Washington, D.C.
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