Usually I don’t like to talk politics because I don’t feel I have anything new or insightful to say, but this has been bugging me for a while. People are all up in arms because of Obama’s “ex” pastor, Jeremiah Wright. Personally from what little I know, I don’t think he is any more or less kooky than anyone else, but what really bothers me is that I don’t think Rev. Wright’s positions on certain topics-or on any topic- would be an issue to anyone if he and Obama were both white. I don’t think this anti-Wright backlash has anything to do with his religious leanings. Think about the crazy foolishness Bush has come up with about Jesus. Now Bush is one dude whose religious talk scares the eff out of me. A white dude is a hardcore Christian that says foolish stuff about Christianity, and he is just an evangelical or born again and no one bats an eyelash. Take the same or similar points of view and have them come out of the mouth of a non-white and all of a sudden people are wigging out like the Black Panthers are going to come and steal babies in the middle of the night.
I don’t get it.
Tags : just saying
1 mai 2008 à 11:00
I hear you. I have said many times, am I the only one who is a little disturbed by the fact that we have a president who thinks dinosaur bones were put on earth to confuse us???
2 mai 2008 à 12:13
Personally, I think they are all crazy and don’t even want to vote this election.
2 mai 2008 à 3:27
you forgot to mention that they’re going to come steal WHITE babies in the middle of the night.
race makes all the difference.
2 mai 2008 à 5:38
Racism, pure and simple.
2 mai 2008 à 8:07
Is it fair to say: Thank God somebody is saying it? I totally agree. I’m over in state-side and let me tell you that the lack of intelligent dialog is pathetic!
On the other hand, all this negative PR between Clinton and Obama seems to keep the spotlight on them, which I personally think is kinda nice!
Anyway, I found your blog while looking for Swiss connections - I’m moving to Zurich in about 6 weeks, following my neuroscientist sig. other… THANKS!
James
2 mai 2008 à 5:13
I’m not so sure that it’s a racist issue so much. Take Fred Phelps of Westboro Baptist Church and his stance that God Hates America, is he not the very white man you speak of (if a little extreme)? There aren’t many Americans outside of his extended family who would support him. I think that Rev White’s constant damning of America in his sermons just doesn’t fly in this modern age of patriotism (and dare I say it, Jingoism) in the wake of 9/11. No matter what colour you are.
But then again, I’m a British Pseudo Aussie living in Switzerland. What would I know?
3 mai 2008 à 1:31
dude bra man send me your telephone number
4 mai 2008 à 1:25
Poor Wright. They think he’s a problem for Obama. I think Obama is a problem for him. Otherwise he might not even be noticed.
5 mai 2008 à 3:52
Chile, shooot. You know that ain’t nothin’ but somebody trying to take out a viable candidate by threatening the voters with the fears in the back of their heads. Take this back 40 years and it’s the Kennedy campaign all over again with the spectre of catholicism. Ack, the scary black boogyman.
If anything they’re scared ‘cuz trying to paint Obama as a Muslim didn’t work, so they had to paint him as a crazy Christian. Politics here kills me.
peace
TwennyTwo
5 mai 2008 à 4:09
Hope you enjoyed the long weekend!
5 mai 2008 à 6:44
Right. Like Bill O’Reilly isn’t the scariest man on the planet and gets away with the most racist comments…and I bet Bush quotes him daily. Heck, I think O’Reilly really lives in the White House with the First Family.
This whole race thing in this election is ludicrous.
6 mai 2008 à 12:32
Not just racism, but there’s probably an element in there. Don’t forget that many, if not most, Americans still live under the delusion that they are a singularly perfect people, living in the most free and perfect country in the whole universe, and have a government that is singularly righteous in a world filled evil commie/overly-capitalist governments that want to sneak in at night and steal their babies/jobs. Uttering an unkind word about anything the U.S. government has ever done, especially in the area of foreign policy as Jeremiah Wright has done, is the number one way (at least these days) to show Americans on both sides of the mainstream political spectrum that you’re a wacko nutjob (to a lefty) or an unpatriotic America-hatin’ commie (to a righty). Never mind that the U.S. government is the most belligerent organization on Earth and has been playing a perverse chess game with other nations and their peoples as pawns since the Spanish-American war.
10 mai 2008 à 10:16
Hi Ms Mac
You speak the truth when it comes to crazy dudes liek Fred Phelps. THe problem is that more “mainstream” preachers like Pat Robertson also give me the heebie jeebies.
Mr S also speaks the truth.
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