Wow.

So, it’s “Hillary ain’t never been called a nigger”The theology is as whacky as John Hagee….Here I see is a response to Rev. Wright - from a black lesbian “visual artist” in
Philadelphia: here

The problem with Rev Wright’s theology is not how he expresses the rage all enslaved people feel, nor is it his prophetic condemnations of an immorally motivated nation (His name is Jeremiah, after all) it is his perpetuation of a racist theology, one which, like the “white devils” of the Nation of Islam, marks out “whites” as the source of all the world’s ills.

A spiritual leader moves us forward by ensuring a time out for empathy in all our lives.

Each human grows spiritually, not by nursing the grievances peculiar to their state (and blacks are far from the only people who have been abused, enslaved, degraded, or exterminated.) but by recognizing the universality of pain and suffering as a tangible and urgent experience.

The Rev. is a demagogue and some of his comments really are beyond the pale, his “Hillary ain’t never been called a nigger” may be factual, but is gratuitous and cheap.

After all, that same comment might just as easily be said of Obama’s mother. “Obama’s mama ain’t never been called a nigger”, might also be factually true, but I think Obama supporters will more easily see how vicious it’s intent is when directed at someone other than Hillary Clinton. (In fact, I think they will go insane and I will be burned in effigy at Daily Kos, but that alone will, of course, prove my point.)

I am not sure how a man who grew up with a white family, a family he claims to have loved and whom he counts as a force for good in his life, could have tolerated the Rev Wright’s cartoonish theology

Rev Wright, in many respects, has served as a surrogate father to Sen. Obama. Did that mean he had to throw his mother and her family out the window?

Of course, a psychoanalyst could have a field day with the implications here (Obama’s own unresolved anger at his father leaving and blaming his mother and grand parents for that), there is, of course, another possibility: that he joined this church with the specific intent of buffing up on his “blackness” and building his credibility within the district he would go on to represent in the state senate.

So, no, I’m not actually suggesting that Obama is driven by some subterranean anger at his white mother (ie Hillary) but I am suggesting that he didn’t “hear” the substance of Rev Wright’s sermons because, like many social interlopers, he was simply trying to build his own cachet by being in the parish. Just like most politicians. And, Senator Obama is nothing if not a politican.

What I resent here, aside from the Obamabots dangerous insistance that politics should be transcendent, is the intimidation that also dangerously insists that any and all criticism or doubt about Sen. Obama, his judgement, his experience, his policies or his ability to win a general election be dismissed as racism in the most over wrought and self-aggrandizing manner possible.

I resent that David Axelrod would create a success story built almost entirely on building repulsion at Hillary Clinton’s hitherto unobserved racism.

Perhaps the Rev Wright can give Axelrod a short talk about the meaning of the Biblical phrase, “He who sows the wind, reaps the whirlwind”

For myself, I grow to wonder if Obama-ism has evolved to the point where it fits Karl Kraus’s famous dictum: “Obama-ism is the disease which it claims to cure.”