Reaction to Obama’s Race Speech
James Taranto of the Wall Street Journal points out that Rev. Jeremiah Wright and his church promote “black liberation theology.”
Here is an excerpt from Obama’s church talking points on this theology:
Black theology refuses to accept a God who is not identified totally with the goals of the black community. If God is not for us and against white people, then he is a murderer, and we had better kill him. The task of black theology is to kill Gods who do not belong to the black community. . . . Black theology will accept only the love of God which participates in the destruction of the white enemy. What we need is the divine love as expressed in Black Power, which is the power of black people to destroy their oppressors here and now by any means at their disposal. Unless God is participating in this holy activity, we must reject his love.
Here is the central question about Obama’s relationship to Rev. Wright. Do Obama and his wife Michelle subscribe to black liberation theology or not? If not, then why attend a church that preaches such racist cant?
Professor Victor Davis Hanson writes at National Review,
Rather than account for his relationship with a hate-monger, Obama will enlighten you, as your teacher, why you are either confused or too ill-intended to ask him to disassociate himself from Wright.
The Obama apologia was a “conversation†about moral equivalence. So the Wright hatred must be contextualized and understood in several ways that only the unusually gifted Obama can instruct us about.
It’s good to see that not everyone is drinking the Obama kool-aid. I had to laugh when I heard Chris Matthews of MSNBC refer to the speech as one of the best in American history.