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Hunky Dory.
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He could have even stuck an abbreviation in his name and become Irish, like O’Bama instead of sounding like Bin, whats-his-face.
All this fuss over Obama resigning from his church Trinity, and it would appear, brought on by adding yet more fuel on the embers of the Wright controversy by none other than a Catholic priest, Father Pfleger.
sees all other religions as false and worshiping the Devil, Satan, Shaitan, Beelzebub, Lord of the flies etc, etc.
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Would you believe it! Fundamentalist US Christians are funding, for our UK Gov’t to be lo be lobbied by deeply committed Christians who are no different from Enoch Powell.
Islam and the babies they produce is the the enemy!
In this instance it’s the embryo bill
Didn’t Herod try that trick of killing all the babies, yet, it didn’t work so why won’t we learn.
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has become inextricably linked with black music. James Brown takes centre stage as “The Godfather of Soul“
Could you say, “may his soul rest in peace”.
Then there is, Robert Johnson. Who allegedly sold his SOUL to the devil at the crossroads. Many seen to have travelled looking for the exact location, in the quest to be the next best guitarist.
Mudcat has interesting views on Legba, Voodoo Robert Johnson etc
Listen to Robert Johnson “King of Delta Blues” courtesy of repipepi
You are probably wondering where this is going. The subject was SOUL but I got distracted with guitars and guitarists.
We don’t talk much about the human soul, except in the context of soul music or soul food.
But isn’t music, food for the soul?
Obama inspires as a bridge buider.
Muticultarism has almost, become a swear word for both sides of the divide.
Take KSA (Kingdom of Saudi Arabia).
Could the presence of American soldiers drive indegenous Saudis towards fundamentalist Islam?
“The current position of Canada’s cultural personality is a very argumentative topic. Is our country a melting pot or is it a tossed salad? “Canada has never been a melting pot, more like a tossed salad.” (Arnold Edinborough) Canadians are more subdued than those of other countries and choose not to show pride on their sleeve. As well, many of the older country immigrants have not adopted the Canadian way of life, and, along with numerous other Canadian immigrants prefer to keep their own identity. However, is this cause to classify us as a tossed salad and mould our country into a less integrated society? The United States have been categorized as “the great melting pot of humanity”, where individuals of all nations are invited to join the country to form “a more perfect nation”. In this “perfect nation” everyone is required to follow common community standards in an attempt to strengthen the country. However, individuals who become Canadian citizens are encouraged to maintain their cultural identities, complete with customs, languages, and traditions, causing Canada to often be referred to as a mosaic. “Canadians…linked to think of their country as a mosaic rather than melting pot.” (Kenneth McNaught) For example, in Nunuvat the primary language is Inuitituk with secondary services available to individuals in English. Enhancing, preserving, and sharing Canada’s multiple cultures is a subject that all Canadian citizens greatly value, and could be considered a reason as to why Canada is regarded as one of the most prominent countries in the world.” Source
….Multiculturalists dismiss the significance of Western civilization by claiming that Western traditions of elitism, racism, and sexism are the cause of most of our current problems. They accept a Romantic view of human nature as beneficent and benign until it was corrupted by flawed Western ideology and culture.
Multiculturalism implies that race, ethnicity, and sex (or sexual preference) have an inescapable effect on the way people think and/or the values they hold or are capable of holding. There are many closed systems of perception, thought, and feeling each affiliated with some biologically defined group.
Several voices suggest that the Rev Wright falls into the victim-propagation-strategy.
…The victim mentality is both a cause and effect of multiculturalism. Multiculturalism promotes a culture of victims who have a perpetual claim on society and the government. The result is the division of society into political interest groups with conflicting demands that cannot all be met. Source
Well, think about it. What is Rev. Wright’s, and an entire generation of “civil rights” leaders’, bread and butter? Conflict between minority Americans and majority (white) Americans. The “us vs. them” mentality. As long as minorities think they’re members of an oppressed victim class they’ll flock to people like Rev. Wright, and Wright profits
Pickled politics has a reasoned argument and as he says “head hurt” from a UK perspective. Please read the whole article to get the correct point of view, rather than my randomly selected quotes.
…This is what made Martin Luther King so compelling. He spoke of black people lifting themselves, not by denigrating white people but by speaking to both communities in a language whites and blacks could identify with. We have a modern Martin Luther King in the form of Barack Obama, but he’s being dragged down by the us versus them politics that has become so ingrained.
…Britain has its own Wright in the form of Dr Mohammad Naseem, chairman of Birmingham mosque, who infamously refused to believe 7/7 could have been the work of British Muslims and claimed the videotape by Mohammad Sidique Khan was doctored.
…It’s too easy to slice and dice quotes from Wright and Naseem and paint them as nutters without bothering to pay any attention to what they were saying. A modern media environment that thrives on sensationalism only makes this worse.
Wright should have kept his mouth shut but instead, as Michael Tomasky pointed out, he needs to re-affirm his righteous view that America is too racist to elect a black president. And there’s nothing more annoying than being a called a sellout/dhimmi/wet-liberal when you’re trying to build bridges.
I am multicultural from birth with experience and understandinmg of the dialectic
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Is it genuinely possible that both men could be equally right?
Rev Jeremiah Wright is not a politician, who needs to be “wise as serpents and harmless as doves”.
Equally, Barack Obama is not a theologian.
Some would suggest, it’s the politics of appeasing majority white vote, at the expense of the black population. Life is never simply black or white. There are unavoidable complexities.
As ex-bible college I agree with Rev Wright on the basic biblical exegesis, but draw the line on delivery and verbage. But, that’s easy for someone sitting across the pond in UK. Or am I being subjective and want the best for each of them?
Is it possible that Rev Wright adopted a linguage appropriate to his specific audience (why should he represent all Black Theology!)
This has already been mentioned in earlier posts. Wright on the Button
The offence it would appear is that ex-pastor Jeremiah Wright, committed a crime by his parody on God Bless America, into God Da** America.
Was he completely off his rocker to use offensive terminology?
I can accept from a UK perspective that a nation where patriotism has a higher expectation will undoubtedly be offended. In a way, perhaps, that is exactly what the preacher wanted to do.
To awaken the nation into taking a good look at itself and it’s history.
It would be prudent to leave this subject to the Americans and here is one doing just that and does Pastor Wright preach Black Supremacy some obviously think so.
For us as observers, the importance of this election is relevant, especially as the UK Conservative Party appears to be growing in popularity and if the people of USA elect either Clinton or McCain, then we are in for the next world war.
I am reminded of another preacher by the name of Jesus cursing an unproductive fig tree, as recorded in Matthew ch 11: versus 12-21.
Carnegie Council has an ineresting article
I would quote, for example, a South African theologian by the name of Madipoane Masenya, who I emphasize is very much a liberal activist and feminist thinker. She makes a remark: “If any African finds it difficult to be at home with the Old Testament, they really need to examine themselves to see if they might not have lost their Africanness in some way.” Could such a statement possibly be made of Europeans or Americans or Canadians? I don’t think so.
