Hillary's Preacher Said What??
I figured that would get your attention.
In reality, like most of America, I have no idea who Hillary Clinton's preacher/pastor/minister is, nor do I know or care what he or she might have said. That, however, is the point of this post.
I've been thinking about all this Wright stuff over the past couple of days, and I keep coming back to the same thing: where did it all start and why? I mean, someone must have been perusing YouTube or simply investigating Barack Obama's church for evidence of something for this whole thing to have ever surfaced in the first place, right? I mean, stuff like this doesn't just happen by coincidence. The question that bugs me though, is why? What was/is it about Barack Obama's church that made it worth "investigating" for such policitcal purposes?
We don't have to go far to find a conservative "sprirtual leader" spouting off some bat-shit crazy theories of God and the workings of our world, but hey, that's par for their course. What is it about this particular man that made someone feel justified in exploiting his more intemperate (and yes, at times arguably kinda bat-shit crazy) moments for Hillary's political gain? The answer, in my humble opinion, is that he is black, and "black + scary = white flight."
Crazy shit spewing from the mouths of white preachers and priests is, well, ok because that's "normal," and you know, they're not all that scary. On the other hand, fiery rhetoric (even if accurately describing the human condition, which at times, Wright's was/is) from the mouth of a black preacher?!? Well Christ on a cracker that scares the crap out of me!!! Everyone in that church must feel the same way, and my once-secure-future in this country, as a white man, is in danger!
The people behind this whole episode and those who exploited it for political gain (nod, wink, nudge, nudge HRC) deserve nothing but the country's derision. They hide behind the idea that it would have been brought up by the McCain campaign in the general, and maybe that's true, maybe it's not. But what's certain is that they took this situation and put it out there, and they repeatedly fanned the flames for weeks on end, knowing full well what they were doing, and the destructive ends they were trying to achieve (make no mistake, virtually everyone who ever thought Wright was appropriate fodder did so because they knew that the racial over- and undertones would work to HRC's advantage). Having done so, like a terrorist who just detonated a bomb in the market square, the gardeners who sowed this seed of racial division now try to walk away and "rise above it," saying "move on, nothing to see here." Well, I for one will not forget.
I suggest that everyone who reads this post make a solemn commitment to ask, every time he or she hears anyone talking about Wright, "what did Hillary's preacher say?" and leave it at that. Hopefully, this single question will bring those folks back around to recognizing what's important and why.
In reality, like most of America, I have no idea who Hillary Clinton's preacher/pastor/minister is, nor do I know or care what he or she might have said. That, however, is the point of this post.
I've been thinking about all this Wright stuff over the past couple of days, and I keep coming back to the same thing: where did it all start and why? I mean, someone must have been perusing YouTube or simply investigating Barack Obama's church for evidence of something for this whole thing to have ever surfaced in the first place, right? I mean, stuff like this doesn't just happen by coincidence. The question that bugs me though, is why? What was/is it about Barack Obama's church that made it worth "investigating" for such policitcal purposes?
We don't have to go far to find a conservative "sprirtual leader" spouting off some bat-shit crazy theories of God and the workings of our world, but hey, that's par for their course. What is it about this particular man that made someone feel justified in exploiting his more intemperate (and yes, at times arguably kinda bat-shit crazy) moments for Hillary's political gain? The answer, in my humble opinion, is that he is black, and "black + scary = white flight."
Crazy shit spewing from the mouths of white preachers and priests is, well, ok because that's "normal," and you know, they're not all that scary. On the other hand, fiery rhetoric (even if accurately describing the human condition, which at times, Wright's was/is) from the mouth of a black preacher?!? Well Christ on a cracker that scares the crap out of me!!! Everyone in that church must feel the same way, and my once-secure-future in this country, as a white man, is in danger!
The people behind this whole episode and those who exploited it for political gain (nod, wink, nudge, nudge HRC) deserve nothing but the country's derision. They hide behind the idea that it would have been brought up by the McCain campaign in the general, and maybe that's true, maybe it's not. But what's certain is that they took this situation and put it out there, and they repeatedly fanned the flames for weeks on end, knowing full well what they were doing, and the destructive ends they were trying to achieve (make no mistake, virtually everyone who ever thought Wright was appropriate fodder did so because they knew that the racial over- and undertones would work to HRC's advantage). Having done so, like a terrorist who just detonated a bomb in the market square, the gardeners who sowed this seed of racial division now try to walk away and "rise above it," saying "move on, nothing to see here." Well, I for one will not forget.
I suggest that everyone who reads this post make a solemn commitment to ask, every time he or she hears anyone talking about Wright, "what did Hillary's preacher say?" and leave it at that. Hopefully, this single question will bring those folks back around to recognizing what's important and why.
