[BRIGADE] PJB: Pastor to the President?
Published: Tue, 03/18/08
"For 20 years, Barack has attended Wright's church, listened to his
weekly sermons, entertained him in his home. Yet, says Barack, he
never heard any racist rants at church, nor was he aware that
Wright held so poisoned a view of his country. Sorry, that is not
credible..."
Brigade, sorry for the delay in getting you PJB columns and
updating the site this past week. The flu knocked me out - but all's
well now.
This week and next I'm building Pat another website for his upcoming
book:
Churchill, Hitler, and "The Unnecessary War": How Britain Lost Its
Empire and the West Lost the World.
I'll send you the link when the site is ready for prime time. Stand
by.
For the Cause, Linda
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Pastor to the President?
By Patrick J. Buchanan
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
When the assassination of John F. Kennedy horrified a nation, Black
Muslim Minister Malcolm X declared it payback for America's
violence in the world, a case of "chickens coming home to roost."
"Being an old farm boy myself," said Malcolm, "chickens coming home
to roost never did make me sad, they've always made me glad."
The Rev. Jeremiah Wright surely had Malcolm's words in mind when,
the Sunday after the 9-11 massacre of 3,000 Americans, he declared
this, too, was a case of "America's chickens ... coming home to
roost."
"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. We have supported state terrorism against the
Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we are indignant
because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back
to our own front yards. America's chickens are coming home to roost."
So Wright told his congregation on Sept. 16, 2001.
In a sermon delivered at the Howard University chapel on Jan. 15,
2006, reports Ron Kessler of NewsMax, Wright "blamed America for
starting the AIDS virus, training professional killers, importing
drugs and creating a racist society that would never elect a black
candidate president." Wright told the Howard students:
"Racism is how this country was founded and how this country is
still run. No black man will ever be considered for president ...
and no black woman can ever be considered for anything outside what
she can give with her body.
"America is still the No. 1 killer in the world. ... We are deeply
involved in the importing of drugs, the exporting of guns and the
training of professional killers. ... We bombed Cambodia, Iraq and
Nicaragua, killing women and children while trying to get public
opinion turned against (Fidel) Castro and (Muammar) Ghadhafi. ...
We put (Nelson) Mandela in prison and supported apartheid the whole
27 years he was there. We believe in white supremacy and black
inferiority, and believe it more than we believe in God.
"We started the AIDS virus. ... We are only able to maintain our
level of living by making sure that Third World people live in
grinding poverty." Thus did the Rev. Wright conclude.
This virulent strain of anti-Americanism and Afroracism has long
fed the rage, resentment and paranoia in precincts of black
America, which manifests itself in the horrendous (and hidden)
statistics of black-on-white crime in America. Nothing exceptional
there.
What is exceptional is that Wright is the spiritual father of
Barack Obama, the pastor, teacher and mentor who brought Barack
into the church, married him and Michelle, baptized their children
and has been a confidant to the man who would be America's president.
For 20 years, Barack has attended Wright's church, listened to his
weekly sermons, entertained him in his home. Yet, says Barack, he
never heard any racist rants at church, nor was he aware that
Wright held so poisoned a view of his country.
Sorry, that is not credible. Wright is a famous preacher in black
America, and Barack's denial he was aware of his views marks him
down either as a dissembler or a man so obtuse he ought not be a
security guard at Wal-Mart, let alone president of the United States.
It is easy now to understand why Michelle Obama, before Barack
began to win, had never once been proud of her country. Who could
be proud of the America that lives in the malignant imagination of
the Rev. Wright?
Barack has now moved to separate himself from Wright's rants and
removed him from the campaign roster. And he will likely be forced,
with anguish, to turn his back on, repudiate, and reject his
beloved friend and teacher.
But it is too late for that. For Wright has, for millions of
Americans, filled in the blanks about Barack. Wright tells us the
kind of company Barack keeps, the kind of men he holds close, the
kind of attitudes and beliefs he finds acceptable, if not congenial.
That Wright is a revered preacher in black America also tells us
that, far from coming together, we Americans are further apart than
we were in the 1950s, when Negroes could be described as Christian,
conservative and patriotic. Malcolm X and Elijah Muhammad did not
speak for black America then. Roy Wilkins, Whitney Young and Dr.
Martin Luther King did. But Jeremiah Wright makes Stokely
Carmichael and Rap Brown sound like the Mills Brothers.
Truly, the Democratic Party is now headed for a train wreck. Though
Barack seems likely to win more pledged delegates than Hillary, the
super-delegates will have to decide whether they want to offer
America a nominee whose pastor and mentor embodies the anti-white
racism and anti-Americanism that has ever brought the patriotic
blood of Middle America to a boil. Wright is not the sort of fellow
you want to bring with you into "Deer Hunter" Country.
SOURCE: http://buchanan.org/blog/?p=965
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