Ok...let's put this one on the table.
The new controversy this week is Obama's minister (now retired from TUCC) known for his fiery rhetorical views of America.
Is this such a new thing? No...believe or not MLK was similar to Wright.
Before any of you look at me and say SEID WHAT ARE YOU SMOKING
Read carefully:
I am
not saying that Wright and King are the same types of people.
There is NO WAY that Wright can hold a candle to the accomplishments to King so before any of you get started on that tangent, let's make sure that we ARE CLEAR on that portion.
However....
I am saying this is not the first time a preacher has brought controversy to the politcal process. (Adam Clayton Powell, Sharpton, Jackson, Graham, Falwell, Hagee, and so forth!)
Did not the preachings of MLK piss off so many of those that disiliked his way of thinking, that he died before he hit 40 because of it?
Hmmm...let's sit back and wonder if MLK had been the good quiet minister, and 'stayed in his place' where the world would be today.
Let's wonder, if King had let Jim Crow laws and southern segregationalists have their way and not speak out against it where the world would be today.
Let's wonder if King had not stirred controversy (KEY WORD is CONTROVERSY) through sit ins, boycotts, marches and speeches, where the world would be today.
Alive, perhaps?
Forgotten in some backwater church? More than likely.
Better question to ask is this...had King survived his assassination attempt, what perhaps his train of thought would have been or be on today's world?
Nobody really knows, but what we DO know is that for the issues that King talked about, racial inequality and America policing the world is every bit as messed up because it doesn't take care of its own had enough legs that someone hated it enough to kill him for it.
You may want to read this link .
http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~rjensen/freelance/mlkday.htm
Again that is the ONLY correlation that I make with King and Wright.
Let me break it down further for those that are still reading.
Wright and King both have said things that has made MANY in America uncomfortable and uneasy.
Wright spoke out about 9/11 and the failure of the gov't to act.
King spoke out about America's involvemnt in Vietnam and it's failures there while simultaneously failing to move at that time to adequately address civil issues happening right here in the US.
HOWEVER, Wright is nowhere near the status of accomplishments of what King has done.
Now....let's move on...since the media is so busy being all up in Obama's church, let's ask about our other two candidates...
John McCain is of the belief that the USA is a "Christian" nation and is uncomfortable with a Muslim in the White House which pissed off both Muslims and Jews alike.
See this link BTW for a refresher:
http://www.beliefnet.com/story/220/story_22001_1.html
Hillary Clinton's beliefs and convictions haven't come to the forefront as yet, but I can't wait to hear what she has to say considering that she is possibly anti atheist and part of a religion that may actually (in it's own twisted way) wants to carry out (LOL) John McCain 's vision of having a "Christian" nation.
http://atheism.about.com/od/hillaryc...onReligion.htm
So, let's go around the room...everyone raise their hands and say what religion you are affiliated with and tell us in 100 words or less why we, the public, should believe you.
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