He should of kept his comments at his family table and out of the pulpit. Obviously hes a little loopy and seems to just rant and rave. i dont understand why people are taking him seriously. Hes just craving the spotlight since he retired. i had a uncle like him we just payed him no attention and he eventually moved on to a more sane like type of conversations.

Senator Barack Obama attend Rev. Wrights church for twenty years. Now, i am a member of a church and we have politicians who are members and with all honesty their schedule is so busy that they are not frequent attendies. Possibly, Obama was a little too busy helping common people in illinois and keeping his family stable to keep tabs on his hot head preacher.

Heres a reality check: because someone is your reverend does not mean they use mind control and alter your own beliefs. Reverend led him to Jesus and Obama took care of the rest.

The media has had a field day depicting the Black Value System that was enacted at Rev. Wright’s Trinity United Church as a racist agenda. The Black Value System urges members to follow a list of 12 concepts such as a commitment to the black community, commitment to family, and dedication to the pursuit of education and excellence.

Most white and affluent young black Americans do not understand the mindset of black people who live in a poverty-stricken community. For these forgotten Americans, they need special attention. Many are ashamed of the color of their skin. They see pimps and drug dealers as role models. It is within this community that Trinity United Church came up with the Black Value System. The desire of this program is to build pride in being black not superiority. This program wants to encourage black children to get a good education and not become teen parents, drug dealers, pimps, and prostitutes. The Black Value System is not to promote superiority of black people but to help eliminate the self hatred that many feel coming from this community. I believe Barack Obama stayed at Trinity United Church for 20 years because he has witnessed the many changed lives of black people who are now full participating members in the American economy thanks to Rev. Wright.

REV. WRIGHT QUOTES

“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.”

“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 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.”

“The government lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color”, referring to AIDS origins theories, and “The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law and then wants us to sing ‘God Bless America.’ No, no, no, God damn America, that’s in the Bible for killing innocent people…God damn America for treating our citizens as less than human. God damn America for as long as she acts like she is God and she is supreme”

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US Government Performs Human Experiment On 400 Black Men

“For 40 years, the U.S. Public Health Service has conducted a study in which human guinea pigs, not given proper treatment, have died of syphilis and its side effects,” Associated Press reporter Jean Heller wrote on July 25, 1972. “The study was conducted to determine from autopsies what the disease does to the human body.”

The Public Health Service, working with the Tuskegee Institute, began the study in 1932. Nearly 400 poor black men with syphilis from Macon County , Ala. , were enrolled in the study. They were never told they had syphilis, nor were they ever treated for it. According to the Centers for Disease Control, the men were told they were being treated for “bad blood,” a local term used to describe several illnesses, including syphilis, anemia and fatigue.

At the start of the study, there was no proven treatment for syphilis. But even after penicillin became a standard cure for the disease in 1947, the medicine was withheld from the men. The Tuskegee scientists wanted to continue to study how the disease spreads and kills. The experiment lasted four decades, until public health workers leaked the story to the media.

By then, dozens of the men had died, and many wives and children had been infected. In 1973, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) filed a class-action lawsuit. A $9 million settlement was divided among the study’s participants. Free health care was given to the men who were still living, and to infected wives, widows and children.

We know Obama’s beliefs from his actions: working to help folks in the community, helping unemployed steel workers, getting involved in government, teaching, voting appropriately for laws that help all communities, advocating for unity and better government. We know from Senator Obama’s actions what his beliefs are, and they are admirable.

Does befriending a radical talker make one a radical? No. A person’s beliefs are their own, chosen by free will from among the beliefs of the many people who have been a part of that person’s life, including the people who raised that person, the people who taught that person in schools and universities, the people who have been that person’s friends, colleagues, and fellow worshippers at church, and even that person’s minister.

Many Democrats, independents, and some Republicans know of and approve the policies that Mr. Obama has furthered through enactment of law, and they approve of the policies that he has proposed. That’s why people have been voting for him, and will continue to. Mr. Obama is well respected by his fellow senators. Mr. Obama’s policy positions are not at issue. What is at issue is Obama’s qualification for presidency. Specifically: “what are Obama’s beliefs, do we know them, and does he harbor secret beliefs?” Unless someone has some proof that Obama has some secret and unacceptable beliefs, then we must accept him at face value. The public is familiar enough with Mr. Obama and his actions to know what his beliefs are and what they aren’t; he has no “hidden beliefs”. Senator Obama is a mainstream U.S. politician.

Senator Obama has laudably spent much time in the African American community, and no doubt he has associated with many interesting persons. We’re sure to hear more about them, but they, like Reverend Wright, will be side shows. All of the candidates have these diversionary side shows. Contrary to the hopes of the Right, most people will pay little attention to them when voting in this critical election.

But neoconservative reporter Jim Davis wrote an article last July placing Obama at the scene one such sermon by Wright:
http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2007/8/8/194812.shtml

The Relevant Excerpt:
“…he continues to attend a controversial Chicago church whose pastor routinely refers to “white arrogance” and “the United States of White America.”

In fact, Obama was in attendance at the church when these statements were made on July 22.”

Wright laced into America’s establishment, blaming the “white arrogance” of America’s Caucasian majority for the woes of the world, especially the oppression suffered by blacks. To underscore the point he refers to the country as the “United States of White America.” Many in the congregation, including Obama, nodded in apparent agreement as these statements were made.”

Has Obama been caught lying? Will the press investigate?