Obama’s Minister Honored Farrakhan
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Barack Obama’s longtime minister, mentor, and sounding board has been a key supporter of Louis Farrakhan and last month honored the Nation of Islam leader for lifetime achievement.
Farrakhan has repeatedly made hate-filled statements targeting Jews, whites, America, and homosexuals. He has called whites “blue-eyed devils” and the “anti-Christ.” He has described Jews as “bloodsuckers” who control the government, the media, and some black organizations.
“Do you know some of these satanic Jews have taken over BET [the Black Entertainment Network]?” Farrakhan said in a speech on Nov. 11, 2007. “Everything that we built, they have. The mind of Satan now is running the record industry, movie industry, and television. And they make us look like we’re the murderers; we look like we’re the gangsters, but we’re punk stuff.”
The month after that speech, Obama’s minister and friend, the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. and his Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, honored Farrakhan at a gala, bestowing on him its Rev. Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. Lifetime Achievement Trumpeteer award.
Obama has said he found religion through Wright in the 1980s and consulted him before deciding to run for president. He prayed privately with Wright before announcing his candidacy last year.
In the November/December issue of his church’s magazine, Trumpet, Wright heaped praise on Farrakhan, whom he helped in organizing the Million Man March in Washington in 1995. Wright lauded Farrakhan as one of the giants of the African-American religious experience in the 20th and 21st centuries.
“When Minister Farrakhan speaks, black America listens,” Wright said. “His depth on analysis [sic] when it comes to the racial ills of this nation is astounding and eye-opening. He brings a perspective that is helpful and honest.”
Hailing Farrakhan’s “integrity and honesty,” Wright said, “His love for Africa and African-American people has made him an unforgettable force, a catalyst for change, and a religious leader who is sincere about his faith and his purpose.”
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Obama says he found religion and Jesus Christ through Wright, whom he met in the mid-1980s. Obama has been attending Wright’s church regularly since 1988. Wright warned Obama that getting involved with Trinity, with its radical reputation, might turn off other black clergy. But in 1991, Obama joined the church and walked down the aisle in a formal commitment of faith. Wright later married Obama and Michelle Robinson and baptized their two daughters.
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For a Jan. 21, 2007 story in the Chicago Tribune, Obama said that Wright keeps his priorities straight and his moral compass calibrated.
“What I value most about Pastor Wright is not his day-to-day political advice,” Obama told the paper. “He’s much more of a sounding board for me to make sure that I am speaking truthfully about what I believe is possible and that I’m not losing myself in some of the hype and hoopla and stress that’s involved in national politics.”
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As noted in a Jan. 7 Newsmax article, “Barack Obama’s Racist Church,” in sermons and interviews, Wright has equated Zionism with racism and has compared Israel with South Africa under its previous policy of apartheid. On the Sunday following 9/11, Wright characterized the terrorist attacks as a consequence of violent American policies. Four years later, Wright suggested that the attacks were retribution for America’s racism.
“In the 21st century, white America got a wake-up call after 9/11/01,” Wright wrote in Trumpet. “White America and the Western world came to realize that people of color had not gone away, faded into the woodwork or just ‘disappeared’ as the Great White West kept on its merry way of ignoring black concerns.”
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Just before Obama’s nationally televised campaign kickoff rally last Feb. 10, the candidate disinvited Wright from giving the public invocation. Wright explained: “When [Obama’s] enemies find out that in 1984 I went to Tripoli” to visit Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi with Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, “a lot of his Jewish support will dry up quicker than a snowball in hell.”
According to Wright, Obama then told him, “‘You can get kind of rough in the sermons, so what we’ve decided is that it’s best for you not to be out there in public.’” Wright is retiring as senior pastor of the church in May. He asked his successor, Otis Moss III, to speak instead, but he declined. However, Obama and his family prayed privately with Wright just before the presidential announcement.
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Moreover, the church has a “non-negotiable commitment to Africa,” according to its Web site, and the church and its pastor subscribe to what is called the Black Value System.
While the Black Value System encourages commitment to God, education, and self-discipline, it refers to “our racist competitive society” and includes the disavowal of the pursuit of “middle-classness” and a pledge of allegiance to “all black leadership who espouse and embrace the Black Value System.” It defines “middle-classness” as a way for American society to “snare” blacks rather than “killing them off directly” or “placing them in concentration camps,” just as the country structures “an economic environment that induces captive youth to fill the jails and prisons.”
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On a few points, Obama has sought to distance himself from Wright’s teachings or to explain them away. While Wright is his pastor and friend, Obama has said, they do not see eye to eye on everything. Without addressing Wright’s denunciations of Israel and Zionism as racist, Obama has said he “strongly disagrees with any portrayal of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that advocates divestment from Israel or expresses anything less than strong support for Israel’s security.”
As for Wright’s repeated comments blaming America for the 9/11 attacks, Obama has said it sounds as if the minister was trying to be “provocative.”
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“Barack Obama has been very careful not to position himself as Rev. Jesse Jackson or Rev. Al Sharpton as a promoter of ‘The Black Cause,’” Farrakhan said in the interview with FinalCall.com. “He has been groomed, wisely so, to be seen more as a unifier, rather than one who speaks only for the hurt of black people.”
At the least, Obama’s membership in Wright’s church and close ties to Wright himself suggest a lack of judgment and an insensitivity to views that are repugnant to the vast majority of white Americans who are not bigots or anti-Semites.
That same lack of judgment has shown up in Obama’s gaffes—threatening to invade Pakistan and offering prompt negotiations with anti-American despots. More frightening, Obama voted last August to give Osama bin Laden and other terrorists the same rights as Americans when it comes to intercepting their overseas calls in order to pick up clues needed to stop another attack.
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Obama may be a gifted orator, but his choice of a friend and advisor suggests he is masquerading as a moderate. While the liberal media have already decided Obama will be our next president, Americans may have a different view when they consider what his ties to Wright tell us about the presidential candidate’s true opinions and character.
(Posted on January 15, 2008)
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“Do you know some of these satanic Jews have taken over BET [the Black Entertainment Network]?” Farrakhan said in a speech on Nov. 11, 2007.
And Obama’s UCC preacher supports this. Maybe this is why BET founder Robert Johnson came out against Obama this past weekend.
We hear a lot of buzz about Ron Paul’s “questionable” donors and endorsers (disclaimer: I’m for Duncan Hunter), but not a peep from MSM about this.
Posted by St. Louis CofCC Blogmeister at 5:49 PM on January 15
For everything mentioned about the so-called “Black Value System”, substitute the word White. Then, see how some of it reads.
Examples?
1) “…a pledge of allegiance to ‘all White leadership….’”
2) “…a way for American society to ‘snare’ Whites rather than “killing them off directly….”
3) “…the country structures ‘an economic environment that induces captive White youth to fill the jails and prisons.’”
If any poster on AmRen attended a church or even belonged to a private club that spoke this way, he and his cohorts’ rear-ends would be journalistic grass.
Where is the mainstream media when it comes to exposing this black racist drivel? I’ve repeatedly mentioned it here and to friends and all I usually get is the ‘deer in the headlights’ look and then a sheepish retort of “really”?
Yes, really. The man belongs to a highly racist church and as a practicing member must also be considered biased, bigoted, and harmful to any White person.
Posted by Annoyed In Illinois at 6:16 PM on January 15
While the Black Value System encourages commitment to God, education, and self-discipline, it refers to “our racist competitive society” and includes the disavowal of the pursuit of “middle-classness” and a pledge of allegiance to “all black leadership who espouse and embrace the Black Value System.” It defines “middle-classness” as a way for American society to “snare” blacks rather than “killing them off directly” or “placing them in concentration camps,” just as the country structures “an economic environment that induces captive youth to fill the jails and prisons.”
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Hmmmmm. So, the two main components of their beliefs are a “value system” which all other racial groups succeed at better than blacks, and a conspiracy theory explaining away black failure by blaming everyone else but blacks.
Yeah, that’s an airtight belief system all right.
Posted by Greg at 6:17 PM on January 15
The mainstream press lets things like this pass by unanalyzed for a reason. They don’t intend to present all the information they have on the candidates as once, because they have many long months of coverage ahead of them. If they presented everything they knew about the candidates at this stage, there wouldn’t be enough to fill the airwaves or pages during the rest of the year.
So, Obama gets a free ride . . . until there is a lull in the news. Then, all this stuff can be pulled out and given headline treatment. Yes, you’ll be seeing all of this again.
Posted by Reader-1 at 6:50 PM on January 15
Oh joy.
Whether Obama is a Muslim or not, he’s completely unqualified to run this country. Worse, the people he would bring into the White House would be the likes of this minister.
Posted by John R. Kennedy at 7:08 PM on January 15
This is from the “church’s” (cult) website BEFORE they CHANGED it.
Especially look at number 8. and 11.
Can you imagine if a WHITE candidate running for President belonged to a church who espoused the same doctrine, with the exception of using WHITE, in the places where black, is now being used?
Trinity United Church of Christ
About Us
We are a congregation which is Unashamedly Black and Unapologetically Christian… Our roots in the Black religious experience and tradition are deep, lasting and permanent. We are an African people, and remain “true to our native land,” the mother continent, the cradle of civilization. God has superintended our pilgrimage through the days of slavery, the days of segregation, and the long night of racism. It is God who gives us the strength and courage to continuously address injustice as a people, and as a congregation. We constantly affirm our trust in God through cultural expression of a Black worship service and ministries which address the Black Community.
Trinity United Church of Christ adopted the Black Value System written by the Manford Byrd Recognition Committee chaired by Vallmer Jordan in 1981. We believe in the following 12 precepts and covenantal statements. These Black Ethics must be taught and exemplified in homes, churches, nurseries and schools, wherever Blacks are gathered. They must reflect on the following concepts:
1. Commitment to God
2. Commitment to the Black Community
3. Commitment to the Black Family
4. Dedication to the Pursuit of Education
5. Dedication to the Pursuit of Excellence
6. Adherence to the Black Work Ethic
7. Commitment to Self-Discipline and Self-Respect
8. Disavowal of the Pursuit of “Middleclassness”
9. Pledge to make the fruits of all developing and acquired skills available to the Black Community
10. Pledge to Allocate Regularly, a Portion of Personal Resources for Strengthening and Supporting Black Institutions
11. Pledge allegiance to all Black leadership who espouse and embrace the Black Value System
12. Personal commitment to embracement of the Black Value System.
Posted by sammy at 7:14 PM on January 15
I’ve searched around their web site briefly looking for a description of Jesus, and I haven’t found anything yet.
I wouldn’t be surprised if they’re pushing the belief that he’s black, and also claiming the Egyptians were too, and they’ll also probably have an entire concocted list of blacks who supposedly invented various things.
This is just another example of the failure of multiracialism/multiculturalism. These people, like every other group of non-whites, aren’t about to embrace the history, traditions, culture, and heros of this nation, and only the most naive would believe otherwise.
Their loyalties obviously are with their own race and Africa, exclusively. It’s a pity they don’t pull up stakes and relocate to the old continent instead of constantly whining and bellyaching about black oppression and the black position here in this nation.
Of course, they wouldn’t like it at all once they were there, but we would, because we would be rid of them.
Posted by Robert Kelly at 7:31 PM on January 15
I wasn’t voting for Obama, a black guy, anyway.
Posted by Thank God I'm White at 8:06 PM on January 15
If the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. cannot be Secretary of State for the Obama Administration, he would certainly feel right at home as US Ambassador to the United Nations.
Posted by Memphomaniac at 8:19 PM on January 15
Score one on our side of the column for the all-out-war by the NWO establishment press on Ron Paul. At least on the internet, there is tit-for-tat. Take that “New Republic.”
Thank you, Mr. Kessler, for your scathing research.
Posted by Voir Dire at 8:41 PM on January 15
This makes the petty debate about MLK and the Civil Rights Law betw. Hillary and Obama small potatoes. The good Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. is off the chart! AND, he is a major and key advisor to Obama. This really throws a monkey wrench into Obama portrayal as a person who has little or no interest in extreme race issues. The fact that Obama has great respect for Rev. Wright and seeks him out as an advisor despite Wright’s VERY extreme views is down right scary. Mr.Obama is apparently attempting to fly under the radar. It the facts in this article are vetted and found to be true, the alarm bells should sound loudly.
Posted by Jake at 9:15 PM on January 15
The nation of islam is as big a threat to the United States as terrorism, and it is dangerous, obama, to play with them - but have fun while you can.
Posted by Eddie at 9:35 PM on January 15
One can only hope and pray that Obama will become the next president.
White society needs a shock and wake up call.
Posted by at 9:38 PM on January 15
Hopefully people will wake up to Obama and discover that he has no intention of helping Americans. His sentiments lie elsewhere…he’s a MUSLIM, folks. Do not, for one minute, forget this.
Should he win - this Nation is doomed. He’s a double whammy!!
Posted by lydia at 10:21 PM on January 15
Hmmmmm….and they call whites racists for not wanting a non-white to run their country, given the natural and obvious jealous and hatred that blacks and latinos (as a race) have for whites. Pass this on to as many naive whites as you can who are thinking of voting for Obama. I will NOT vote for Obama
Posted by at 10:25 PM on January 15
Obama was abandoned as a baby by his black father and raised by his white mother and white grandparents. So his identifying himself as only “black”, thus embracing the racial heritage of the black father who abandoned him while spitting in the faces of the white side of his family that actually sacrificed and raised him from childhood, is galling enough: But then he doesn’t simply identify as only “black”, but goes much further by embracing black racism and supremacy and racial hatred of whites by integrating himself so intimately with this black Nazi church and its black Nazi minister!
On another note: This black racist church declares its “non-negotiable commitment to [black] Africa” and its culture (but not enough to actually move there). However this is the same black Africa and black African culture where black Africans (perhaps some of Obama’s own African ancestors) captured, forced march to the coast (at great loss of life), and sold into slavery the ancestors of most black Americans!
Posted by at 10:31 PM on January 15
I find it surprising that so many white nationalists freak out at the mention of Louis Farrakhan. He believes in separation of the races like we do. He can call white people all the names under the sun and I couldn’t care less as long as he keeps pushing for separation.
Posted by nick naime at 4:36 AM on January 16
Here is Farrakhan talking about the MOTHER PLANE which is a space ships with a black god and hundreds of advanced little space ships driven by black pilots and is ready to come down to earth to destroy the white man when Farrakhan gives the word to do so. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTBiWxN4BlM
he also calls the white man a cracker in this video
Posted by moe at 8:41 AM on January 16
It appears (via web archive) that the church deleted the ‘concepts’ part of the website on or about 3-15-2007….Here are the two links showing a vastly different ‘about us’…..B
before: http://web.archive.org/web/20031005190023/http://www.tucc.org/about.htm
after:
http://www.tucc.org/about.htm
Posted by ben at 11:11 AM on January 16
This article demonstrates the flaws of the MSM belief that only Whites can be racists. The MSM never asks a black politician if they think Louis F. is a racist because they fear a white backlash. Mike Royko, from the south side of Chicago, said it best when he called racists like David Duke and Louis F. “Haters”. The only way we can adress the bigotry in the black community is to hold them to the same standards as everyone else (Whites, Blacks, Asians, Hispanics, etc.)
This article and Obama’s presidential run may help to change some of the racist culture blacks have adopted because they can’t condemn racist whites and embrace the values of racist blacks. It will be a slow change but it will happen. The only thing left to do is confront the MSM about why they don’t hold everyone to the same standards of decency.
Posted by Thompson at 11:28 AM on January 16
“One can only hope and pray that Obama will become the next president. White society needs a shock and wake up call.”
Exactly! It’s time for wealthy whites to experience what poor and working class whites (and other non-blacks) face on a daily basis.
The whites who make the laws and create the news need a dose of black racism to wake them up to reality.
Posted by LouLou at 12:55 PM on January 16
With thanks to Sammy 7:14 for his information.
I hadnt realized until I read that headline how blissfully happy I had been. After reading it, I noticed that the name Farrakhan had slipped from my consciousness and it was almost as though he wasnt there.
Piqued, I did a little quick research on both Farrakhan and NOI. as well as Black Panthers and a few related maladies. Then I did a little YouTube research.
What struck me about those principles from the church is how closely they mirror items on both Nation of Islams menu AND
The Black Panthers. Some of the items seem to be simple transcriptions from one list to another. If you have a minute, you may want to go over to those sites and have a look.
Wikipedia, though flawed, acts as a good search hub for things like this, as they usually post the home websites from primary sources, so if you type in Farrakhan, you can easily find NOI, then their webpage, etc. This can save alot of time.
Posted by Andersen at 1:28 PM on January 16
3. Commitment to the Black Family
4. Dedication to the Pursuit of Education
5. Dedication to the Pursuit of Excellence
6. Adherence to the Black Work Ethic
They have GOT to be joking!
3. Commit to multiple illegitimate kids.
4. Commit to turning public schools into fearsome Hell Holes
5. Dedicate to become excellent in drive bys, gang rape and convenience store robberies and murders.
6. Adhere to the practice of consistent tardiness or not showing up at all.
Posted by at 3:27 PM on January 16
In reply to Reader-1 who said the MSM are ignoring the unsavory aspects of Obama’s background so they’ll have something juicy to spring on us later in the campaign: I certainly respect your opinion, but I think that on this matter you’re mistaken. In my view, the real reason the MSM is ignoring these things is that they are totally infatuated with Obama — as a group, anyway — and are not about to report anything that might impede what they see as his stately march to a coronation as our sable potentate.
Does America need a black president to “wake Whites up” as some posters have suggested? I’m afraid that if Obama is elected (shudder!), then by the time we “wake up,” it will be too late to save this country.
Posted by Wayne Engle at 4:10 PM on January 16
did the “good people” in Iowa not see this on cnn, abc news, and all the other worthless, goodfornothing, wasteoftime news stations?
Posted by does this kilt make me look fat at 4:33 PM on January 16
Obama will do for America like Jacob Zuma will do for South Africa.
It’s up to every white voter to prevent this calamity from occurring.
Posted by at 4:34 PM on January 16
“One can only hope and pray that Obama will become the next president. White society needs a shock and wake up call.”
My suspicion is that the Republican party, or someone who supports it, has a boatload of damaging material like this on Obama. I’ll bet part of the reason they don’t push it into the public right now is that they’d rather face Obama in the general election than Clinton, on the assumption that Obama isn’t electable. Not that I’d be happy to see any of the Republican front runners win the presidency, but the prospect of a President Barack Obama is just … well … God forbid.
On the other hand, Clinton has been so loathe to fight Obama agressively that she sounds most of the time like she’s going to vote for him. It’s a pretty confusing situation.
Posted by Tesseract at 5:12 PM on January 16
Let me get this right, obama’s mama cannot attend his church because she is white. Is there some subconcious hatred of his mother and grandparents? That would be reason enough not to vote for him, as I could come up with a thousand reasons just as good as this one.
Posted by Lars at 8:52 PM on January 16
“I wasn’t voting for Obama, a black guy, anyway.”
Posted by Thank God I’m White at 8:06 PM on January 15
But many dumb are.
And we don’t need a wake up call. The South Africans and Rhodesians had one but they are in the pit now with no way out. Then again, blacks outnumber whites over there. Not here.
Posted by Ben D. at 8:52 PM on January 16
Let’s NEVER forget the NOI part in the Zebra random racial killings of up to 270 whites (men, women, and children, including such horrific acts as the decapitation of a white woman as she pleaded for her life).
Posted by at 10:41 PM on January 16
“I’m afraid that if Obama is elected (shudder!), then by the time we “wake up,” it will be too late to save this country.”
Posted by Wayne Engle at 4:10 PM on January 16
I agree, Wayne, after Johnson, Carter, Clinton, Bush I and II, with the liklihood that a rabid liberal will be in the White House next year, either Obama or Clinton, I think we just might never recover from this last one.
Posted by Robert Kelly at 9:23 PM on January 17
Obama and his wife would not have been long term loyal members of that hard core extreme black racist church and such close associates with its stridently racist black minister, had they had a problem with that black racism. That would be like some loyal member of the KKK and personal confidant of the Grand Wizard of the KKK trying to say he doesn’t agree with the KKK’s racism. That is just not credible. If they had a serious problem with it they would have disassociated themselves once they heard the first hate-sermon.
The whole thing SCREAMS of Obama simply trying to play that down so as not to hurt is campaign. Not something he feels in his heart.
Obama was abandoned as a baby by his black father and raised by his white mother and white grandparents. So his identifying himself as only “black”, thus embracing the racial heritage of the black father who abandoned him while spitting in the faces of the white side of his family that actually sacrificed and raised him from childhood, is galling enough: But then he doesn’t simply identify as only “black”, but goes much further by embracing black racism and supremacy and racial hatred of whites by integrating himself so intimately with this black Nazi church and its black Nazi minister!
Posted by at 11:59 PM on January 17