God bless Jeremiah Wright and God damn USA!

Jeremiah Wright is the only pastor who speaks his mind. What goes around ,comes around...We were many who thought that the issue of race would not be a big deal in the USA election at this stage but those hopes have been dashed. The pastor is definately right when he describes USA as the land ruled by the Ku Klux Klan.The chicken has indeed come home to roost in a country which has turned blind eyes and deaf ears to the sufferings of AfricanAmericans for over 500 years.

Senator Barack Obama is doing his utmost to distance himself from the pastor without disowning him entirely and frustrating AfricanAmericans which is a very delicate balance. The audacity of hope Obama spoke about is loosing momentum and white America seems not to be ready to listen to its history of racial dicrimination and murder past. Obama can not be held guilty by association because of his friendship with the pastor who has just spoken the truth.

AfricanAmericans are still the most oppressed and impoverished group. 44 % of all prisinors(2.3 million) in USA are black even if they only account for 12 % the US total population of 300 million.

Wright had officiated at Obama's marriage, baptized his children, and Obama was a member of the congregation of the Trinity United Church of Christ for over 20 years.

Critics have accused Wright of using Black liberation theology to promote black separatism.^[14] Wright has rejected this notion by saying that "The African-centered point of view does not assume superiority, nor does it assume separatism. It assumes Africans speaking for themselves as subjects in history, not objects in history." ^[15]In one sermon Wright is quoted as saying "All of God's children white, black, red, yellow, male, female, all together".^[16][17]

Wright once stated that Zionism has an element of "white racism", but the Anti-Defamation League says it has no evidence of any anti-Semitism by Wright.^[14]

In March 2008, ABC News caused a public uproar by broadcasting spliced sound bites from a sermon that Wright gave shortly after September 11, 2001,^[18][19] in which Wright paraphrased Edward Peck,^[20] former U.S. Chief of Mission in Iraq, former deputy director of the White House Task Force on Terrorism under the Reagan Administration and former U.S. Ambassador to a number of countries, who was appearing on Fox News, as allegedly having said:

"We bombed Hiroshima, we bombed Nagasaki, and we nuked far more than the thousands in New York and the Pentagon, and we never batted an eye...and now we are indignant, because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought back into our own front yards. America's chickens are coming home to roost."

Wright went on to state: "Violence begets violence. Hatred begets hatred. And terrorism begets terrorism. A white ambassador said that y’all, not a black militant. Not a reverend who preaches about racism. An ambassador whose eyes are wide open and who is trying to get us to wake up and move away from this dangerous precipice upon which we are now poised. The ambassador said the people that we have wounded don’t have the military capability we have. But they do have individuals who are willing to die and take thousands with them. And we need to come to grips with that."^[21]

In another sermon from which sound bites were taken out of context and widely aired in March 2008^[19], Wright first makes the distinction between God and the government, and points out that many governments in the past have failed:

"Where governments lie, God does not lie. Where governments change, God does not change."^[22] Wright then states: "And the United States of America government, when it came to treating her citizens of Indian descent fairly, she failed. She put them on reservations. When it came to treating her citizens of Japanese descent fairly, she failed. She put them in internment prison camps.

When it came to treating her citizens of African descent fairly, America failed. She put them in chains, the government put them on slave quarters, put them on auction blocks, put them in cotton field, put them in inferior schools, put them in substandard housing, put them in scientific experiments, put them in the lowest paying jobs, put them outside the equal protection of the law, kept them out of their racist bastions of higher education and locked them into positions of hopelessness and helplessness."^[22]

Wright concludes by stating:" The government gives them drugs, built bigger prisons, passes a three strike law, and then wants us to sing God bless America. No, no, no, not God bless America, God damn America, that's in the Bible, for killing innocent people. God damn America, for treating her citizens as less than human. God damn America, as long as she pretends to act like she is God, and she is supreme. The United States government has failed the vast majority of her citizens of African descent."^[22]

^{I appreciate jeremiah Wright and hope that Obama will still manage to become the president of US.}