Originally Posted by The12thMan

I was channel surfing and what caught my eye was a very angry man shouting from the podium. I was curious about what he was so angry about.

Originally Posted by Garth

I watched the whole speech and rather liked it. He was funny, and I was interested. From a religious standpoint, I thought he lined up with mainstream "white" Christian views under the surface but had a very different audience and a very different delivery method. It struck me as interesting that his overall message was that we are all equal. He kept repeating "different does not mean deficient." I liked it. I can see why Obama sat through the couple times when he went too far. I can also understand how Wright can go over the line sometimes.

Overall though, I though that this speech will give us all a better view into the themes of most of Wright's messages. I think that this could be a way for us to realize how the media has taken Wright out of context because right after I finished watching it on CNN I flipped over to Fox and was amazed at all of the horrible things that they were saying. They picked out bits that, out of context, sounded radical, but I had just heard them in context and recognized what they were doing.

Unfortunately I think the media will exaggerate some of the things he said, that were designed as jokes or examples and we will not hear the over-arching themes of his message.

I think this could help Obama, but it will hurt him because of personal biases or whatever.

Originally Posted by namvet

black trash

Originally Posted by junjobx2199

How about; your white trash! Unintelligent, Non understanding of literary eloquence. Did you even understand what was being said, or do you default to your comment and change the channel. If it’s the latter then you have no right to make that statement!

Originally Posted by Matticus77

Was a biased speech. Compliments to blacks and insults to europeans (whites).

Originally Posted by Matticus77

If he were a true christian he would compliment both and make a call for both to come together instead of claiming how change is coming and the black man shall rise.

Originally Posted by Matticus77

Maybe I don't see it the way he intended to portray it because I am white? I don't know but according to him blacks and whites see and hear things differently and must be taught differently. That, first of all, is a call for segregation.

Originally Posted by Matticus77

According to Write's logic it is possible that he only appeared to be yelling because you are not black. Maybe black people see it as righteous energy instead of anger.

Originally Posted by namvet

I’m white.

I’m American.

I’m Christian.

I’m not a racist.

And I’m offended by Jeremiah Wright. The Trinity United Church’s former pastor put on nearly an hour of smug mugging for the cameras at the National Press Club in Washington. Among other things, he repeated with a kind of glee that the attacks on 9/11 were retribution for America’s sins. He tried to distinguish African-influenced Christian churches in the United States from those that are not. He said, in part, that his recent plunge into the limelight “just might mean that the reality of the African-American church will no longer be invisible.”
Memo to Rev. Wright: Do Souls Have Colors?

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