black people don’t like us?!
by Ian Schuldt
Published: April 1, 2008
This past week’s reaction by the media and many people in this country to Rev. Wright’s sermons seems to me like it came straight out of an episode of Family Guy. I can just picture the clueless Peter Griffin being blown away by the fact that a mid 60s African American has any reason whatsoever to dislike the federal government.
Peter: “Oh, come on Brian… give me one good reason why black people would still be angry at America other than slavery, segregation, lynching, burning crosses, Rosa Parks, having fire hoses turned on them, Martin Luther King’s assassination, not getting to vote, job discrimination, The Dukes of Hazard, slavery, the canceling of “Good Times,” slavery, Rodney King, Kenny G, Elvis, Eminem, the N-word, oh and did I mention Slavery? I mean, seriously, I’d think they’d be way more worried about coming up with new ways to make shrimp.”
(cut to the scene from Forest Gump where Bubba’s naming ways to cook shrimp, and a giant yellow chicken jumps in and starts beating up forest)
Brian: “Peter, what you need to understand is that the African American community has endured centuries of oppression that many believe is still prevalent today. You can’t expect someone who has lived though that type of treatment to all of as sudden turn around and love us for it. What’s important is to see that not all African Americans continue to have that hatred, and that people like Senator Obama are trying to move to the future not dwell on the past.”
Peter: “I’m sorry, were you saying something Brian? I was busy watching Billy Mays try and sell HIV to the black community.”
(cut to a rip-off of an oxy clean commercial where the guys trying to remove a wine stain from a “Sanford and Son” T-shirt using nothing but the HIV virus. Billy Mays: “But that’s not all, if you act now I’ll throw in these substandard condoms for the same low price!!”)
I’m sorry America, but I have some bad news for you. There are a lot of spiteful African Americans in this country that still aren’t particularly happy about the way things have gone in the past. What’s encouraging is that for the first time we have a viable, qualified candidate that wants to bridge the gap between races, rather than run as one or the other.
You can let the talk show hosts and the pundits and the Clinton political machine tear down this candidate by endlessly running the clip of his pastor, or you can do something that the Obama campaign has been trying to do since day one. You can say, “No. Not this time.” Let’s have an honest discussion about race for once. Maybe we can show people like Rev. Wright that this country is a lot better then he thinks.
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April 15th, 2008 at 3:47 pm
So Sad…It is articles like this which continue to encourage racism in this country. Everytime we ever make race an issue we create natural racist divides. And what do these spitful American’s who aren’t happy about the past expect everyone to do now? Anytime people continuely bring up the past to blame and get something now we all lose out. The people who may have once moved on and no longer harbor ill feelings of people or race, now have to again because they are trying to use the race card for gain. I don’t see jews continuely calling up Germany and saying they owe them more money for killing 8 million of them. This type of article of does not encourage people to move on in unity, it just tries to excite more hate. That is why people don’t like Rev. Wright. He doesn’t want peace or unity, he wants a voice to everyone who wants divide. That is why the Obama’s affiliation to him is so damaging. People think it shows what the Obama’s really want. Divide and revenge, none of which are American values.
April 15th, 2008 at 5:02 pm
What this article shows is that it’s almost impossible to be a black person in the united states unless you know at least one person like Rev. Wright.
Whether Rev. Wright is correct or not, doesn’t really matter. The point is people who want to say Obama is scarry because he knows Rev. Wright are over reacting and have no idea what they are talking about.
Obama is trying to move to the future. Away from people like Rev. Wright to Judge him based on what his pastor said is just stupid.