PrintJune 5, 2008
Obama's church must not be forgotten
Senator Obama is now trying to erase his personal history by resigning from his radical Left church, after two decades of active membership -- that's more than 1,000 Sunday sermons over twenty years. The media will do their best to help him fuzz over that history, just as they have tried to eradicate the memory of the Twin Towers and Pentagon assaults seven years ago. Yet the evidence is overwhelming by now that Trinity United is a front for the hard Left, which is trying to turn American blacks into another angry proletariat, to be played and controlled by their new ideological masters.
If you have ever wondered why many blacks seem to have difficulty rising in American society and becoming successful as individuals, the malignant spread of Black separatism must count as one big reason. Radical Leftists have been teaching "race consciousness" to black people, just as the Old Left taught "class consciousness" to impoverished people. The stated goal of Black Liberation Theology is to create racial strife, just as the stated goal of Marxist class propaganda was to whip up class war.
This is preaching of race hatred for selfish political ends. The aim is not to help black people to rise and become strong as individuals, but to divide and conquer Americans, to slice and dice them into race, gender and sexual orientations in order to empower the Left. It is the worst kind of human exploitation.
This is preaching of race hatred for selfish political ends. The aim is not to help black people to rise and become strong as individuals, but to divide and conquer Americans, to slice and dice them into race, gender and sexual orientations in order to empower the Left. It is the worst kind of human exploitation.
If we really are to have an honest conversations on race in this country, we must identify professional race-baiters who make hay by mentally enslaving vulnerable black people, just as much as they were physically enslaved and exploited during slavery and Jim Crow.
According to Pope Benedict, Liberation Theology is a Marxist ideology. It's worth remembering that Benedict is old enough to have seen all this before -- from the Nazis when he was young, to Communism in Germany, to Liberation Theology in the Church as he was growing older. Black Liberation Theology is just a ripe fruit dropping from a very old and bloody tree.
The Rev. Wright, Rev. Moss, Rev. Meeks, the demonic Father Pfleger, Rev. Willie Brown, Louis Farrakhan and the whole Black Liberation movement -- they must not be forgotten, just because Obama and the media want us to. Not just for this election alone, but because the crypto-Marxist churches and their allies in ACORN and the radical Left have deliberately been making things worse for ghetto blacks. This follows the old Leninist maxim that people should be made to feel worse about their social conditions in order to bring about the Revolution.
That is why Rev. Wright is constantly teaching black people that they are trapped in misery for life, and why his disciple Rev. Moss tells his black congregants that they suffer from a "skin disease," because being black is like "having leprosy", and whites will never, ever accept them. If you are convinced by your leadership that you have leprosy for life, you must hate those who have infected you with that disease, just as in BLT mythology blacks were maliciously infected with AIDS. That is why that "black is leprosy" story is injected over and over again at Trinity United. Trinity teaches victimology -- not self-respect and self-empowerment.
This is the most destructive idea possible for a group of African-Americans who have in fact been constantly victimized -- in recent decades not by Jim Crow, but by black-on-black crime, drugs, and social pathology. Black Liberation Leftists tell blacks to hate a phony enemy --- the white "oppressors" who do things like spread AIDS in the black ghettos. Since the Civil Rights Acts of fifty years ago, ordinary decent whites have tried to bring healing to the racial divide -- through affirmative action, through trillions of dollars spent on the War on Poverty, mandatory school busing, through individual churches and synagogues, through charities, and through hundreds of other, private means.
But some blacks, like the Obamas and other TUCC congregants, have deliberately subjected themselves to weekly messages of racial despair and provocation. The Obamas stayed there for twenty years, some 1,000 Sundays, in part because of their political ambitions to make it big in the Chicago Democrat Machine. But another reason they stayed must have been a genuine acceptance of the radical preaching of all those Leftie Revs. Can you imagine 20 years of listening to this stuff, week after week, if you totally disagreed with it? It would be mental torture.
We have to assume that after 20 years the Obamas have soaked BLT into the very fiber of their beings. Barack, Michelle, their poor little daughters -- they have been drenched in this propaganda year after year. Repetition works. In North Korea the rulers expose the enslaved populace to public loudspeakers constantly dinning home the message from Dear Leader Kim Jong Il, over and over and over again. You can't escape it. No normal human being can withstand that kind of psychological assault; it infiltrates your brain, no matter how hard you try to resist.
The Obamas have chosen to hear those preachings for two whole decades most likely because they believed in it. Black Liberation Theology is the filter through which they see the world.
Senator Obama has accidentally torn the cover off a suppurating wound that has been scratched and scratched by the race-baiting Left until it doesn't stop bleeding anymore.
Americans would be fools if we let this running scandal be covered up, and go on to poison our body politic.
Let the sun continue to shine on Black Liberation Theology, and all the other exploitative efforts to make blacks more miserable and to aggravate racial hostilities for political payoffs. Sunshine is the best disinfectant.
James Lewis blogs at dangeroustimes.wordpress.com
