>> don't think that's fair to Wright. Wright's been coming across in his TV appearances as a really intelligent guy.
>Then I guess Obama has no reason to condemn anything Wright said:
I was talking about what Wright said this weekend...
>By the way, I like how Rev. Wright claims he's more patriotic than Cheney because he served as a Marine. I guess that excuses him from saying "God Damn America!"
Some would say that, no? And most of them would be on your side of the fence.
>Yep, the words of a "really intelligent guy" ...
Absolutely.
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REVEREND JEREMIAH WRIGHT: Where governments lie, God does not lie.
Where governments change, God does not change. And I'm through now.
But let me leave you with one more thing. Governments fail. The
government in this text comprised of Caesar, Cornelius, Pontius Pilate
- the Roman government failed. The British government used to rule
from East to West. The British government had a Union Jack. She
colonized Kenya, Ghana, Nigeria, Jamaica, Barbados, Trinidad and Hong
Kong. Her navies ruled the seven seas all the way down to the tip of
Argentina in the Falklands, but the British government failed. The
Russian government failed. The Japanese government failed. The German
government failed. And the United States of America government, when
it came to treating her citizens of Indian descent fairly, she failed.
She put them on reservations. When it came to treating her citizens of
Japanese descent fairly, she failed. She put them in internment prison
camps. When it came to treating citizens of African descent fairly,
America failed. She put them in chains. The government put them on
slave quarters, put them on auction blocks, put them in cotton fields,
put them in inferior schools, put them in substandard housing, put
them in scientific experiments, put them in the lowest paying jobs,
put them outside the equal protection of the law, kept them out of
their racist bastions of higher education and locked them into
position of hopelessness and helplessness. 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. Not God bless America;
God damn America! That's in the Bible, for killing innocent people.
God damn America for treating her citizen as less than human. God damn
America as long as she keeps trying to act like she is God and she is
supreme!
BILL MOYERS: What did you mean when you said that?
REVEREND WRIGHT: When you start confusing God and government, your
allegiances to government -a particular government and not to God,
that you're in serious trouble because governments fail people. And
governments change. And governments lie. And those three points of the
sermon. And that is the context in which I was illustrating how the
governments biblically and the governments since biblical times, up to
our time, changed, how they failed, and how they lie. And when we
start talking about my government right or wrong, I don't think that
goes. That is consistent with what the will of God says or the word of
God says that governments don't say right or wrong. That governments
that wanna kill innocents are not consistent with the will of God. And
that you are made in the image of God, you're not made in the image of
any particular government. We have the freedom here in this country to
talk about that publicly, whereas some other places, you're dead if
say the wrong thing about your government.
-Z |
