1995 Barack Obama: Mean, Cruel Times, Christian Right - Narrow Minded My Take On Barak and Wright
I hate to be writing so much on Obama here lately, but hey, you go with what’s in the news, and now that the spotlight is finally being shone upon him, the stories just sort of write themselves. Newsbusters has uncovered an, er, less than hopeful Barak Obama. One who has a message a bit closer to that of his wife and pastor. The two closest people an adult male’s life.
“This doesn’t suggest that the need to look inward emphasized by the march isn’t important, and that these African-American tribal affinities aren’t legitimate. These are mean, cruel times, exemplified by a ‘lock ‘em up, take no prisoners’ mentality that dominates the Republican-led Congress. Historically, African-Americans have turned inward and towards black nationalism whenever they have a sense, as we do now, that the mainstream has rebuffed us, and that white Americans couldn’t care less about the profound problems African-Americans are facing.“
“The right wing, the Christian right, has done a good job of building these organizations of accountability, much better than the left or progressive forces have. But it’s always easier to organize around intolerance, narrow-mindedness, and false nostalgia. And they also have hijacked the higher moral ground with this language of family values and moral responsibility.
It sounds like Barack may indeed be a believer in the Black Liberation Theology that Trinity United Church of Christ teaches. BT is a direct offshoot of Liberation Theology, which started in the 1950s, in Latin America. Marxist influences began working with the local priests to recreate Christianity in a socialist, class struggle image. The idea is to take a small part of the New Testament, one part of Christ’s teachings, and subvert it for the purpose of teaching class warfare politics instead of the whole message that Christ brought to Earth.