If you know that being a slave confers no automatic virtue or vice upon you, then you are one step closer to not being fooled by Jesse Jackson.

has up the full quotes of the Reverse Racism Reverend.

I found it useful since it gives you an insight on how such a person thinks. Not just in the broad particulars but in the specifics as well. The various propaganda lines he uses to inform people of why his position is right. Often this only reinforces people’s preconceptions of belonging to an underclass. However, what people perceive and what is reality are two different things. People can perceive that they had it worse than the whites and Native Americans, but such things are vulnerable to propaganda and manipulation as well as simple ignorance.

A rich person can perceive that he needs more wealth because everyone else around is just so much richer. Thus relative perceptions create an illusionary reality that has no basis in objective reality. It has no basis in whether he really needs as much money as he wants just because he sees other people having more than he does. This applies the same to Palestinians and the black community in America, though not in Africa since they are not nearly as spoiled as those in America. Such folks see the system as being against them because they have experienced personal problems and hurdles. Their perception of how bad their situation is, however, is often a simple manufacture of lies and illusion. Created by others to gain political power by manipulating the grievances, real or fake, of a segment of the minority population of America.

Often humans are only happy because they are ignorant of anyone else having more or being happier. A barbarian that knows nothing better than starvation and rule by might, will never feel dissatisfied with his way of life because he has known nothing better. For the Amerindians, that natural inclination got a boost due to the fact that those that tried to do things the white man’s way, suffered the inevitable disadvantage of unethical traders, language barriers, job skill deficiencies, and various many other things that occur when primitive cultures meet more advanced ones.

Even though the lot of blacks in America is better than it ever has been, it doesn’t seem that way to blacks. And pastors and reverends are the folks they turn to explain this and who caused it.

When Democrats were criticizing religion as being the cause of totalitarian/theocratic policies, they should have cleaned up their own house first before hunting and burning their first witch.

One of the reasons nations or people develop inferiority complexes is because they are inferior. Some people go into productive lines of work, like the military or higher education, as a way to escape the inferior environment they had been born in for something better and superior. Others, however, sink lower on the totem pole of life, weighed down not just by the environmental chains they were born in but by the mental chains they had adopted.

Black Africans do not control the economic systems, the military or have control over the resources (the diamonds, the oil and the natural resources that were stolen by the whites who took over South Africa), and until that changes, white supremacy will still be in charge!

White supremacy controls the economic system in America, the healthcare system in America and the educational system in America. Hurricane Katrina has pulled the blinders off of all Americans and shown us what white supremacy means at its ugly core and what it has done to the fabric of these “still-yet-to-be-United States”

A couple of issues that arose in the Amerindian interaction with white settlers was the concern over just whose culture and way of life was superior. The Amerindians obviously thought their way of life was superior, because they had never known anything else and thus wouldn’t have been good at farming even if they did try it. Which they did, of course, but by then it was far too late to come to a peaceful settlement with the white man. The Amerindians had somewhat near to 3 wars to come to peace with the white man. The Civil War, War of 1812, French and Indian War, and the Revolutionary War. If not more. What were the superior Amerindian way of life doing at that time? Killing each other in tribal disputes about honor and courage.

You see, that’s why their culture was de facto inferior. It was still tribal, meaning individuals were worried far more about themselves and their immediate goals in life than about uniting under a common political banner for the common good. Tribal folks are notoriously attached to their blood and their land. Whereas advanced cultures hold more stake in economic status and acquiring skills as the definition of who you are in society. The wealth of advanced cultures were in the people, their knowledge, and skills. The wealth of tribal cultures are in the land and the people on that people, forever bound to that land. An American is not bound to his ancestral lands or whichever state he was born in. He takes his skills with him, as he moves or buys into new homes. In that sense, Americans are amazingly like Nomads with their superior farming and technological abilities, whereas the Amerindians, stuck to the nomadic life of hunting and gathering, had more of the restrictions of classic farmers. Think about it, nomads don’t need to be on a specific piece of land at a time, they just follow their source of living. Americans do this by following the source of jobs and don’t need to be particularly in a certain state, or even country now a days, to do business and work. Back in the day, it was Gold Rushes. That was a nomadic horde if ever there was one. The Amerindian, with their need for buffalo herds and what not, had to go where the buffalo went. That meant they were attached to a specific piece of land, far more than Americans depending upon irrigation, technology, and trade ever were.

The analogy is not perfect, but it does the job. It explains how come the bringing in of white settler life to the Amerindians destroyed their way of life. Without the buffalo herds, they had to adopt the white man’s ways. They saw the white man’s ways as inferior, and thus starved. It was never as simple as that, of course, but in the end it might as well have been given the historic reality.

To apply this to African or black notions of equality, a couple of steps should be taken. First, if white supremacy was false, and they do believe it is false, then the only reason for how whites could control so many industries and technology is if the whites were cheating and oppressing the blacks so that the blacks could never become equal to whites. Their sign of “equality” is in terms of the basic Marxian thought patterns of equality of property and equal distribution of everything. The opposite of liberty and prospeirty.

It never actually enters their head that whites control so much stuff cause they got the superior culture and skills required for those industries and businesses. That black culture is tribal in nature, just like Amerindian culture was and is, and when blacks promote black tribal culture, blacks regress further in terms of economic progress just like what happened to the Amerindians. The idea that your oppressors could be superior in any way or shape of form that might justify their oppression of you, is not exactly a popular thought amongst the disenfranchised or the poor. It undercuts their ability to justify stealing and mayhem in order to rectify the inequal situation, in a way.

This is one of those nasty cultural artifacts always found in human history. When an economically poor culture based upon a tribal system of government acquires a superiority complex because of their inferiority complex, what you get is the minority focusing in on promoting their ancestral “black history” as a way to correct problems in the now. You tend to notice this in Islam, with their attempt to resurrect the Caliphate and “the good old days” of their ancestors. You would also notice this if you studied the Ghost Dance of the Sioux or even the original circle dance developed by a Paiute.

In almost all instances, such actions are self-destructive. They make people think about the past and long for the past, instead of working in the present for a better future. I’m not even sure the question of “how would studying black history and Islamic conquests of Africa help blacks today” ever really came up in their minds.

The term “white supremacy,” however, is much more accurate. White supremacy undergirds the thought, the order that they might become more rounded and fully productive citizens in this culture and in this country. What we need to do, however, is go beyond training and educate our children!

White supremacy would be the better term for what these folks are talking, instead of racism. They, the black and white supports of such reverse racism advocates, are not really against racism. They do not really believe that one should be judged upon their character and individual actions instead of their skin color. They think racism, if it serves their goals, is a suitable means to their end. And a justified means at that. It is not only an ethical difference they have with us, but a metaphysical one as well. Not only do I think it is unethical to use racism to further their cause, but I don’t think it would even work if they could do what they wanted to do.

Even if they took all the land and wealth from the whites, would this necessarily make blacks any more wealthy, successful, and superior to whites and their culture? If you look at Palestine, the answer is no. If you look at Russia’s Revolution of 1917, the answer is also no. And if you look at Amerindian attempts to raid and attrit white settlers on the frontiers, the answer is also “no, it did not make an iota of difference in the power balance between the white man and the red man”. It just got a lot of men and women killed, and children sold into slavery in Amerindian markets.

See, that’s another thing. When a people are taught that they are inferior because of the oppression of some other “white supremacist” organization, they start to think of themselves as special. In that their inferiority is actually a mark of their superiority. After all, would whites go to the bother of all this work to oppress blacks if whites didn’t secretly fear the potential power of blacks unleashed? Doesn’t the economic lockdown of blacks by whites, automatically mean that blacks are superior to whites and whites know it?

That’s how superiority complexes can develop from inferiority complexes. And it is also why they are totally surprised to know that their ancestors were often owned by Red Men, not just White Men. The cognitive dissonance just blows their mind. All their life they were taught that being oppressed confered a certain nobility upon you. A certain superiority of ethics and righteousness, if not might. So they empathize with how whites treated Amerindians, saying “they had it as bad we did”. And yes, that’s a direct quote in a conversation I was part of. They empathize, yes, which is why they get surprised to know that such people owned slaves like the white man. And when the white men fought the Civil War to free slaves, the red man still kept them. That’s the difference between an advanced culture and a primitive culture. The advanced culture, for all its problems, can change things for the better while the primitive culture just stays stuck in hell forever.

So the cultural template they learned young that being oppressed confers an automatic nobility smacks up against the hard wall of reality that Amerindians, regardless of how they were oppressed, oppressed the black peeps too. Most people don’t know that whilte many Cherokees died on the Trail of Tears, innumerable slaves died as well, cause the Cherokees owned slaves. But their names, the names of those slaves, aren’t on the record, you see, because that would be politically inconvenient.

Just a farthing……about the only bad thing about his writing.

How much easier for Obama had he said at any point a few years ago: “I admire and respect my pastor. For me, his greatest strengths lie in … [a list of reasons]. Now, that doesn’t mean I believe him to be perfect. I have heard that he’s given sermons that contain language that I completely disagree with and that many people would find completely racist. I admire the man for other reasons.”

He’d still have some explaining to do, but he is behind the eight ball right now instead. He’s got five weeks to repair his situation before Pennsylvania, or perhaps five weeks to see his campaign collapse. It will be interesting to follow.

Granted, I am not a churchgoer, but if I heard a minister say what the Reverend Wright said after 9/11, I would have walked out on the spot, and thrown a tomato had I one in my pocket. That Obama stayed with the crazy uncle discredits him to me.

It is one thing to have a crazy uncle, and it is another thing to give that crazy uncle in excess of $20,000. Not to mention other involvement.

I doubt that all this will change anyone’s minds. True believers in Obama- ironically many of whom do not attend church and are dead set against “right wing” Christian churches- will pass this off. On the other side, most of the people opining here had already decided against Obama, for various reasons.

Via Instapundit, here is another take on Obama. Obama as the Man Without a Country, without a real home, the perpetual outsider, who in order to fit in, takes on the beliefs of the group he happens to be with. Its take on the church is that Barak was simply going along with his wife, who more than her husband, has shown the same angry streak that the Reverend Wright has shown. At the same time, that does not reflect any better on the good Senator’s ability to stand up for himself and make decisions.
http://www.instapunk.com/archives/InstaPunkArchiveV2.php3?a=1298

Given Obama’s past sanctimonious dismissal of the Christian right (“The so-called leaders of the Christian right, who’ve been all too eager to exploit what divides us.”), he now is in danger of not just playing the hypocrite, but the fool as well. Referring to Wright as a “respectable biblical scholar” et al, is laughable—given that almost everything Wright seems to assert, whether about the Roman Empire or the origins of AIDs, is buffoonery.

The notion that Obama never heard any such nonsense is, well, nonsense—given that he frequented the church for 20 years, laughed off some of the Wright hyperbole in his own memoirs, and has a wife whose invective about America as not worthy of her pride, mean, etc dovetails with his pastor’s sermons. Moreover, his own past interviews belie his most recent assertion that Wright was merely his pastor, rather than a political advisor. And we learn that during those tough years in which Michelle Obama was whining about having to budget money to pay back those government-guaranteed student loans to Harvard Law School, the Obamas were giving thousands of dollars each year to subsidize the Wright hatred. Messiahs are supposed to tell the whole truth, and nothing but the truth—and all the time.

This is hope and change and the new transparency?

Read the whole thing: http://pajamasmedia.com/xpress/victordavishanson/2008/03/15/obamagate.php