AlicornsPrayer wrote:EvilPopTarts wrote:I don't agree with anything Rev. Wright says and especially the part about "***damn America". Does anybody here really think our government created aids to infect the black man? If thats the case then it went really bad. LMAO!
You do realize that what Wright said, that the 'clips' the media showed of Wright's 'speech' was actually him quoting an American ambassador? To be exact, he was quoting Edward Peck, US ambassador to Iraq who was the one who said 'the chickens have come too roost'?
But that whole portion of his speech, was edited out by the media in order to make the words appear to be soley Wright's?
See, that's the problem with people that take what the media says at face value, rather then looking at the WHOLE picture. They go about perpetuating the myths of 'what the media says they said' rather then finding out what was actually said.
And HERE's what was actually said in regards to the 'God damn America' portion of his speech...In it's entirety, you can clearly see that he wasn't saying what the media presented it as...“When it came to putting the citizens of African descent fairly, America failed. She put them in chains. The government put them on slave quarters. Put them on auction blocks. Put them in cotton fields. Put them in inferior schools. Put them in substandard housing. Put them scientific experiments. Put them in the lower paying jobs. Put them outside the equal protection of the law. Kept them out of their racist bastions of higher education, and locked them into positions of hopelessness and helplessness.”
“The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three strike law and then wants us to sing God Bless America. Naw, naw, naw. Not God Bless America. God Damn America! That’s in the Bible. For killing innocent people. God Damn America for treating us citizens as less than human. God Damn America as long as she tries to act like she is God and she is Supreme.”
“The United States government has failed the vast majority of her citizens of African descent. Think about this. Think about this. For every one Oprah, a billionaire, you’ve got 5 million blacks that are out of work. For every one Colin Powell, a millionaire, you’ve got 10 million blacks who cannot read. For every one Condi-Skeezer Rice, you’ve got 1 million in prison. For every one Tiger Woods, who needs to get beat at the Masters, with his Cablanasian hips, playing on a course that discriminates against women, God has this way of brining you up short when you get to big for your Cablanasian britches. For every one Tiger Woods, we’ve got 10,000 black kids who will never see a golf course. The United States government has failed the vast majority of her citizens of African descent.”
“Tell your neighbor he’s (going to) help us one last time. Turn back and say forgive him for the God Damn, that’s in the Bible though. Blessings and curses is in the Bible. It’s in the Bible.
“Where government fail, God never fails. When God says it, it’s done. God never fails. When God wills it, you better get out the way, cause God never fails. When God fixes it, oh believe me it’s fixed. God never fails. Somebody right now, you think you can’t make it, but I want you to know that you are more than a conqueror through Christ. You can do all things through Christ who strengthens you.”
And this was investigated by Roland Martin...CNN contributor for the Anderson Cooper 360 Show.
The two links I'm providing is from his investigation and provides the whole speeches that the media only showed blips of.
http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2008/03/21/the-full-story-behind-wright%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%9cgod-damn-america%e2%80%9d-sermon/
http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2008/03/21/the-full-story-behind-rev-jeremiah-wrights-911-sermon/
I get it now the cops are driving around handing people crack to sell and its the governments fault that women have 10 babies to get big welfare checks. I suppose Wright is poor too? Whatever happened to personal responsibility? It's always going to be someone else's fault. "I was born poor so I decided to just sit around, drink alcohol, and smoke crack". No matter how much of it they aired he still said the same thing out of his mouth. Or is that exaggerating too?




