Barack Obama: We’ve All Been In His Shoes
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Barack Obama is in a position to accept or deny his
relationship with his pastor of 20 years. If I can use this
analogy, it is like having to explain some silly-willy, stupid,
immature, very weird thing that you did in high school like
streaking across the football field during Homecoming or
mooning a crowd of ‘ladies and gentleman’ during a parade.
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Or is it?!
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Barack Obama CAN NOT deny this relationship.
He was in ‘the front pew’ of this church for 20 years. That is a
fact. However, perhaps we need to look at, “WHY IS THIS AN
ISSUE?” What the world wants to suggest is that it is Pastor
Wright running for President of the United States. The last
that I heard, Barack Obama is still running for President of
the United States and Pastor Wright is still pastor
at ‘his church’.
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Do you really blame Pastor Wright for saying or for thinking
these things? Although the wording is a bit harsh, quite
harsh, the message rings true. America has treated the
Afro-American population badly. And, they haven’t always
treated Native North Americans so kindly either.
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I think that what Pastor Wright is saying is what we all know.
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America still has a ways to go to get to “I have a dream….”
America has a long ways to go to “I am proud of how I treat
Afro-Americans”. America has a long way to go to ” I
feel good about being Afro-American” in America. Pastor
Wright is only saying what is true: America is a racist society.
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Although the example is probably not the best, the
vision of ‘100,000 Afro-Americans in the Houston Astrodome
after Hurricane Katrina’ has broadened my understanding
of the way that America responds to Afro-American
Cultural and Economic Issues.
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Forgotten. Neglected. Disrespected. Embarrassing.
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You’ve got to do a better job, America!
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It’s not Barack Obama listening to Pastor Wright’s sermon
that should garner your attention, it is ‘How did I treat my
fellow Afro-American today?’ How did you do today,
America? I am listening. I am observing. I am wondering.
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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,339210,00.html
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