I mean what's the difference, beside the color of their skin?
Inviting the fascist Reverend Jeremiah Wright to keynote the annual NAACP Freedom Fund Dinner could be seen by many as nothing more than a racist rally for the Reverend.
This is the cow pie the NAACP has stepped in.
Jeremiah Wright is the type of polarizing figure who white racists have had the audacity to hope for. Now, the NAACP has inexplicably given the enemies of Obama (Clinton, Inc.) all they could ever ask for...
A wedge issue.
And Obama, who has yet to distance himself from his fascist spiritual advisor, will be further tarred and feathered as a racist... because birds of a feather flock together.
Holy crabs in a bucket, Batman! Just as Obama is about to crawl out of the barrel, the Civil Rights generation is pulling him back in.
James, c'mon, this is not an apt comparison at all. And it's offensive to anyone who was a victim of the Nazis.
Is the NAACP stupid to have this guy as a speaker? Absolutely. Are they going down the path of genocide? Not at all. And that's the only true way you can get away with comparing the two.
Posted by: David Casper | April 11, 2008 at 06:20 PM
David,
Funny you should say that. It wasn't my intent to equate the NAACP to genocide, I hadn't thought it all the way though...But the NAACP is embracing a man who holds fascist views.
Fascism was the ideology that lead to the death of well over 40 Million people in the 20th century.
I have also read that there are more than a few Jews that are nervous over Obama's relationship with Wright because of their familiarity with this ideology.
Is the NAACP going down the same path of the Nazis? Let me ask you this: Did the followers of Hitler have any idea where he would eventually lead them?
Words mean things. Put me on the side of NEVER AGAIN. Whether black, white, Nazi or Black Nationalist.
The NAACP needs to understand that bad company corrupts good character.
Until they do, I have to call it as I see it.
NAACPNAZI
Posted by: James T | April 11, 2008 at 06:49 PM
James, please. The ADL, the largest and most influential jewish hate speech group has never cited Wright for anti-semitism. More importantly, like I keep saying, nothing he said in any of those popular clips were untrue. Over the top? Maybe. Yet I think that a Reverend who openly allows Gay members(a rarity in the black church) and is a member of one of the most progressive denominations in America is likely not a fascist.
Posted by: TheIdealVoice | April 11, 2008 at 07:42 PM
's OK.
Every time Bill Clinton opens his mouth, HRC takes another ratings-nosedive.
Hell, all McCain has to do is look decent and be innocuous to win this.
Posted by: dad29 | April 12, 2008 at 12:36 PM
Nice job James...in one post you've managed to show any reasonable person why you shouldn't be taken seriously. Whatever your problems are with the NAACP, comparing them with brutal fascists responsible for killing millions of innocents simply doesn't hold water.
Posted by: Zach W. | April 15, 2008 at 07:12 AM
Yeah,
You're right. I sort of feel like Barack Obama. How about this...
"If I have offended any one with my comments, I..."
Psych!
Posted by: James T | April 15, 2008 at 07:22 AM