Right Voices

I thought about ignoring this, for about a nano second, and then I got angry:

[W]hile Wright made no mention of terrorism, he did revisit the topic of America’s mistreatment of blacks, saying America’s founding fathers “planted slavery and white supremacy in the DNA of this republic,” and adding that Thomas Jefferson wrote, “‘God would punish America for the sin of slavery.’ I guess that makes Thomas Jefferson unpatriotic,” he said to the cheers of the congregation.
Reflecting on the late Pincham, Wright said his faith “was not the jingoistic, chauvinistic ‘you’re either with us or against us’ demonizing kind of faith.” Wright said Pincham was friends with “Jews, Muslims, rabbis, imams, fathers in the Catholic church and [Louis] Farrakhan in the Islamic faith.”
Escalating into full-preaching mode, Wright thundered, “Fox News can’t understand that. [Bill] O’Reilly will never get that. Sean Hannity’s stupid fantasy will keep him forever stuck on stupid when it comes to comprehending how you can love a brother who does not believe what you believe. [Pincham's] faith was a faith in a God who loved the whole world not just one country or one creed.”At that point, congregants nearly drowned Wright out with a booming standing ovation.
Wright also referred to Fox News as “Fix News.”
And, talking about Pincham’s integrity and honesty, Wright said, “You don’t change who you are because of where you are. You don’t stop telling the truth because it is not politically correct or it makes a racist uncomfortable. You don’t blame other folks for not fixing some of the problems in our own community that we can and need to fix ourselves.”

Let me give you some background on Judge Pincham:

Published: March 10, 1988
The complaint, filed Tuesday before the Illinois Courts Commission, cited comments by Appellate Judge R. Eugene Pincham in a speech at an Operation PUSH meeting on Jan. 31, 1987.

Judge Pincham mentioned the hanging of slaves and white collaborators during a slave rebellion in New York in 1741. Then he said, ”Any man south of Madison Street who casts a vote in the Feb. 24th election who doesn’t cast a vote for Harold Washington ought to be hung as those were hung in New York.”

The speech before the civil rights group was broadcast over three Chicago-area radio stations. Mr. Washington won the election but died Nov. 25, only a few months into his second term.

Former United States Attorney Dan Webb filed the complaint on behalf of the Illinois Judicial Inquiry Board, contending that Judge Pincham’s comments violated the Illinois Code of Judicial Conduct.

Allahpundit:

Serves Fox right for breaking this story wide open last month. Except, of course, it wasn’t Fox who broke it, it was Brian Ross at ABC. Since there’s nothing to be gained by demagoging ABC, O’Reilly and Hannity become the scapegoats, replete with dopey Olbermannesque pun on FNC’s name as a sort of dog whistle to the left to let them know now’s the time to start scapegoating their favorite hobbyhorse for daring to report that this cretin believes America’s responsible for AIDS. It’s tempting to believe Obama put him up to it, but that simply can’t be true: Antagonizing Fox into taking on Wright anew is the last thing his campaign wants to do.

Gateway Pundit points out that he blasted the Founding Fathers and called Thomas Jefferson a pedophile.
(At least he didn’t call them the “fondling fathers” this time.)

Curt:

Our founding fathers planted slavery as the DNA of this republic. Yeah:

I would argue that the seeds to end slavery (a practice that was used by countries over the world for thousands of years prior to 1776) were planted instead. It took time but less then a hundred years later we fought a civil war to end it. So while it took time I believe that rather then our founding fathers planting the seeds of slavery into this country, they instead planted seeds of dissent that would eventually grow into emancipation.

Either way, this is just one more example of Obama’s mentor using racial politics to divide this country:.and Obama follows along like a puppy.

Curt’s response must be what Obama meant when he said “That’s Just How White Folks Will Do You”

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