case in point:
when jerry falwell (et al white dudes) said, "america deserved
katrina/9/11"
he was citing the wrath of god. he was saying that new orleanians deserved
hellfire and brimstone by the hand of GOD for tolerating homo***uality and
embracing debauchery and hedonism and "sins" of the like. and yet, he was
still a "well-respected" preacher among the right wing, and it even fed
their rhetoric. evangelicals thrive off of these bigoted "sins" and
preaching this type of hatred.
when jeremiah wright said, "america deserved 9/11/god damn america," he
was
citing the wrath of humanity. he was saying that people wouldn't stand to
be
raped and murdered and imprisoned and tortured and stolen from, that they
would fight back with awful events like 9/11.
he was condemning far greater, more relevant and UNIVERSAL sins- not just
biblical sins, but sins that evangelicals either disregard or SUP****T,
like
war, oppression, imprisoning and even executing innocent people b/c of
their
skin color (indoctrinated murder), making unfair laws that put the
impoverished at major disadvantages, AIDS (and i remind people again of
tuskegee/syphilis), and so on, and the RIGHT ****trayed him as
"anti-american
and racist," and the right of the LEFT WING agreed and/or took advantage
of
it, and used it to paint obama as "too black" to win the nomination b/c it
"won't play with middle america."
the same middle america, i might note, who make up the numbers in the
congregations of jerry falwell's and pat robertson's subordinates, who the
thought of an obama presidency wouldn't have played well with anyway.
most don't want to admit that he's right, and those deciding he's
anti-american or racist are either too lazy to investigate the context or
don't want to admit that they are personally insulted as white people.
no, i'm not surprised bigots wouldn't vote for him, but that should not
change how most of his sup****ters already felt. (speaking of white middle
class conservatives, my husband, a lifelong middle class conservative, is
still, even after pastorgate, sup****ting barack obama).
wright doesn't strike me as some smarmy preacher. he's the kind i can
respect, b/c he's talking about real sins here, deserving of condemnation.
his speech may be a tad on the inflammatory side, but at the heart of what
he's actually saying, i think i could happily bring my white middle class
kids to his church any sunday, and i'm not even christian.
- beezlebum
right-wing churches have mastered the art of hate
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