Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: American Spirit who wrote (89515)	3/11/2007 5:03:56 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 173976

Obama's Church seanbraisted.blogspot.com Much has been made on the right side of the aisle (Glen Dean being one of them), over Barack Obama's church, and it's "afro-centric" message. While I can see why some of the messages of the church, such as a " non-negotiable COMMITMENT TO AFRICA" could be a little alarming to Caucasian voters. But in the New Republic, they give a fairly good reason for it: On a Sunday morning two weeks before he launches his presidential campaign, Obama is at Trinity United Church of Christ on the South Side, gently swaying from side to side under a giant iron cross. From the outside, the church looks more like a fortress than a house of worship, with high whitewashed brick walls topped with security cameras. Inside, Trinity is the sort of African American community that the young Obama longed to connect with when he first came to Chicago. The church's motto is "unashamedly black and unapologetically Christian," and sunlight streams through stained glass windows depicting the life of a black Jesus. The Reverend Doctor Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., Trinity's pastor since 1972, flies a red, black, and green flag near his altar and often preaches in a dashiki. He has spent decades writing about the African roots of Christianity, partly as a way to convince young blacks tempted by Islam that Christianity is not "a white man's religion." In a world where Black men turn to the Nation of Islam, and other Islamic sects, as a way out of the poverty and despair that has crippled the Black community, it seems a small price to pay, that is focusing on race, in order to keep these folks to going to another religion. I won't say whether Islam or Christianity is a better religion, as both can have problems if taken to the extreme by it's members, but I will say that there are good arguments for keeping kids out of a Black Nationalist organization such as the Nation of Islam. There is a good bit of difference between Black Nationalism, and Black equality and African identification. It seems the church that Barack Obama goes to is trying to uplift the Black community to the standards of the rest of America...I find no fault in that. Sure, it would be great if Race weren't a topic, but blindly ignoring the differences between the racial groups is part of the reason the Nation of Islam gained so much popularity. If Obama's church were trying to teach that "the white man is the devil", I would say that there are serious concerns about his choice of congregation. But so long as the church focuses on the African American community, and how to improve upon it, I think Obama made a good decision in choosing the congregation he did.