Jeremiah’s New Roost Built upon Hubris and Hypocrisy

The man who wants to rid America of “white privilege” and who condemns “middleclassness,” has proven once again that his hubris and hypocrisy know no bounds! Jeremiah Wright, the “former” pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ, is being gifted by HIS church with a 10,000-plus square foot 1.6 million dollar home (with a $10 million dollar line of credit) in an exclusive gated community where 93% of the residents are White.

But did Wright actually retire or did he just leave the pulpit? It’s a good bet that TUCC is still Wright’s church lock, stock, and bloody barrel. Yes, Trinity is Wright’s personal tax-free honey pot. Anyone who knows anything about the structure of Mega Churches knows that Mega’s are usually personality-centered. In most Mega churches, when the highly visible minister actually retires or dies, the church usually collapses or splits apart. Anyone believing that the puppet preacher who has taken Wright’s place, Rev. Otis Moss III, has any real power apart from Wright knows nothing about church structure. It’s a safe bet that Wright is still directing and pulling all of the strings.

But is Wright being hypocritical? Here’s an excerpt from Jeff Goldblatt of Fox News from March 27th.

" . . .Some people think deals like this are hypocritical. Jeremiah Wright himself criticizes people from the pulpit for middle classism, for too much materialism,” said Andrew Walsh, Associate Director of the Leonard E. Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life with Trinity College in Hartford, Conn.

“So he’s entitled to be tweaked here. So the question really is, how unusual is this? Somewhat unusual,” he said. . .

Goldblatt’s article goes into more of the details of the interesting house deal. Then he asked the UCC national office if this kind of deal is customary.

“ . . .It is customary and appropriate in many Christian denominations, including the United Church of Christ, for local churches to offer housing provisions for retiring clergy, especially in cases where pastors have served long-term pastorates. We support efforts by our 5,700 local churches to ensure that retiring pastors and spouses have continuing housing, adequate pension and health care, as an expression of our continuing appreciation for their years of service. Each local UCC congregation is free to honor a retiring pastor in ways it feels most appropriate to address the needs of that clergyperson’s circumstances,” wrote the Rev. J. Bennett Guess, spokesman for UCC’s national office.

“This is about how these kinds of churches work,” notes Walsh. “These pastors who made big successful churches are real valuable commodities. Is it morally wrong? Well, Protestants don’t have the idea that their religious leaders should live modestly or aesthetically. We’re not talking Buddhist monks or Catholic priests here. There’s no tradition that says they have to live poor.”

Hummmm? Talk about clouding the issue. This is not about living poor or even about living in reasonable comfort. This is about living a privileged life of hypocritical opulence! Wright feels free to condemn to his followers what he feels completely free to embrace.

But, why on earth would Wright want to live in a “white privilege” gated community unless, of course, he seeks the familiarity of those who share his privileged educational upbringing? You see, no matter how Obama has tried to spin the background of poor misunderstood Jeremiah Wright, it just more smoke and mirrors. When will Obama ever learn???

Ronald Kessler’s Obama's Rev. Wright Mythology has provided us with an excellent background sketch of the young middle class Jeremiah Wright. Here are some excerpts:

“In his speech on race, Barack Obama tried to explain away his longtime minister’s denunciations of America by saying that for blacks of his generation, memories of “humiliation and doubt and fear have not gone away.”

But an examination by Newsmax of the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr.’s background reveals that Obama’s characterization of his upbringing is mythology. . .

. . .For 62 years, Wright’s father, the Rev. Jeremiah Alvesta Wright, was pastor at Grace Baptist Church of Germantown.

. . . Wright’s mother, Mary Elizabeth Henderson Wright, was a schoolteacher. She was the first black to teach an academic subject at Roosevelt Junior High, the first to teach at Germantown High, and the first to teach at the Philadelphia High School for Girls. She became vice principal of Girls High in 1968.

. . .Rather than attend the more racially mixed Germantown High School at 40 East High St., Wright traveled a few miles to the elite Central High School at 1700 West Olney Ave., graduating in 1959. Opened in 1838, Central High has a distinguished past and admits only highly-qualified applicants who are privileged to attend from all over the city. It is comparable to the Bronx High School of Science and Boston Latin School, both public schools known for academic excellence.

. . .In retirement, Wright will continue a life of privilege that dates back to Central High. As a retirement gift, Wright’s Trinity United Church of Christ is building him a million-dollar home abutting Odyssey Country Club and Golf Course in the nearly all-white Chicago suburb of Tinley Park. The home sits on land the pastor purchased in 2004 for $345,000. In December 2006, Wright sold the land to his church, which took out a $1.6 million mortgage on the property. In April 2007, the church applied for a building permit for the brick and stone structure.

. . . Rather than being a victim of oppression of blacks, as Obama has claimed, Wright is a symbol of the American dream. Rather than meriting sympathy, he exemplifies what my friend Fox News contributor Juan Williams describes as black leaders who orchestrate support for themselves by manipulating blacks into seeing themselves as victims, creating a black “culture of failure.

Obama’s attempt to excuse Wright’s hate-America rhetoric by deceptively describing his personal history and his failure to condemn him as a bigot speak volumes about the candidate’s own character and fitness to lead the country.”

Now let’s take a look at Wright’s version of The Black Value System on the Trinity United Church of Christ web page. Pay special attention to #8. Here's an excerpt:

8. Disavowal of the Pursuit of “Middleclassness.” Classic methodology on control of captives teaches that captors must be able to identify the “talented tenth” of those subjugated, especially those who show promise of providing the kind of leadership that might threaten the captor’s control.Those so identified are separated from the rest of the people by:

1. Killing them off directly, and/or fostering a social system that encourages them to kill off one another.
2. Placing them in concentration camps, and/or structuring an economic environment that induces captive youth to fill the jails and prisons.
3. Seducing them into a socioeconomic class system which, while training them to earn more dollars, hypnotizes them into believing they are better than others and teaches them to think in terms of “we” and “they” instead of “us.”
4. So, while it is permissible to chase “middleclassness” with all our might, we must avoid the third separation method – the psychological entrapment of Black “middleclassness.” If we avoid this snare, we will also diminish our “voluntary” contributions to methods A and B. And more importantly, Black people no longer will be deprived of their birthright: the leadership, resourcefulness and example of their own talented persons.

Look at this insanity that came from Obama’s long-time church (aka: Jeremiah Wright)!!! Anyone who would call Wright, this hatemonger par excellence, his “friend”, his “mentor”, an “inspiration” etc., should have his head examined – Not be a candidate for President of the United States!

If we don’t call our national media to task for failing to vet Obama’s questionable associations, then we deserve exactly what we get!

Here’s an excellent summary from Telling It Like It is

" . . .Rather than being a victim of oppression of blacks, as Obama has claimed, Wright is a symbol of the American dream. Rather than meriting sympathy, he exemplifies what Fox News contributor Juan Williams describes as black leaders who orchestrate support for themselves by manipulating blacks into seeing themselves as victims, creating a black “culture of failure.” Move over Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, there’s a new kid on the block … that will further victimize the black community and keep them from being the people they say they desire to be.

Obama’s attempt to excuse Wright’s hate-America rhetoric by deceptively describing his personal history and his failure to condemn him as a bigot speak volumes about the candidate’s own character and fitness to lead the country. Deception reigns once again … and we all should know that deception is equivalent to a lie!

Obama is not, and would not, be a president of the American people any more than Wright really cares about the best for the blacks of America. Obama is for the American elite … don’t buy the lie from a wolf in sheep’s clothing!”

Related Readings and Links:

Keeping Racism Alive by Eradicating White Privilege
"Negatives" Rising for Both Clinton, Obama
Pat Buchanan Talks About Barack Obama Pastor Jeremiah Wright
Barack Obama's Pastor Jeremiah Wright Is Anti American and a Racist
The hypocrisy of Rev. Jeremiah Wright

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Keeping Racism Alive by Eradicating White Privilege

“Our goal is neither to defy or denigrate Whiteness, but to diffuse its destructive power.”

(White Privilege Conference, April 18-21, 2007)

“A yearly opportunity to examine and explore difficult issues related to white privilege, white supremacy and oppression.”

(White Privilege Conference, April 18-21, 2007)

This excerpt is from Wizbang

How would you feel if you were told that your high school aged child was being forced to attend a White Privilege Conference? Your first reaction might be to ask "what is a White Privilege Conference?" In brief, it's an indoctrination camp:

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White people, you're privileged, and guilty, guilty, guilty of oppressing disadvantaged minorities. Denial only makes things worse.

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This is the message currently emanating from the Seattle School District. Never mind that this dubious construct undercuts needed emphasis on minority student achievement. . .

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Last week was a tremendous week for the Race-card Industry – both good and bad. Don Imus spewed his last bit of racist shock-jock venom and got fired, and the Duke lacrosse players were finally declared innocent.

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What a comparison and contrast last week revealed! Interestingly enough, both issues involved university sports teams. I’ll leave speculation about that connection to the pop psychologists. On the other hand, we have two-way racism when comparing these cases. Don Imus, an aged White liberal male disparaging Black women contrasted against the rich, young, White, male, Duke lacross victims of a Black female false accuser, Crystal Gayle Mangum, and her liberal race-card industry accomplices.

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They couldn’t have dreamed this up in Hollywood! Of course, they wouldn’t have touched this in Hollywood either!

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Will the Imus story ever cool down? Not quite yet and perhaps that’s good as the MSM continues to promote a national dialog on racism. Imus, after all, was a media darling (especially to the left) and when he crossed the line by making blatant racist and sexist remarks about the Rutgers' womens basketball team, he had to be removed from his radio throne by those who usually looked the other way. I rather suspect that if he had been a conservative darling, the liberal outrage would not have been as great. It's in the liberal game plan to promote the notion that all conservatives are racists. Hypocrisy, after all, is the thin veil worn by many liberals and pandering to minorities the notion of “eternal victimization” is the race-card end-game.

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Back to the real victims – the three “White Privileged” Duke lacrosse players. Will district attorney, Mike Nifong, face displinary hearings, be disbarred, or face criminal charges? He should! He should be held to the highest standards of accountability.

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Will the MSM ever use the name of the criminal accuser, Crystal Gayle Mangum? They must stop shielding her because she appears to be mentally unbalanced. She should face criminal charges as well. But that’s doubtful because of the MSM pressure to go lightly on certain segments of the population.

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If mental instability is the new guideline for whether or not criminal charges are pressed, we can empty all of the jails today!!!

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If you happened to catch Michelle Malkin when she subbed last week for The O'Reilly Factor,that was quite a show! Here’s what Malkin said:

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. . .Malik Shabazz, leader of the "New Black Panther Party," refuses to apologize for lynching the innocent Duke lacrosse players--and then proceeds to call me a "political prostitute" and mouthpiece for whites. Like I haven't heard that a half-million times before. (The Left's whore fixation continues. See also: The vile bile we have to put up with.) . . .

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So Shabazz and his ilk are not going to let truth stand in the way of their race-baiting road to fame, power, and control. It could work for the New Black Panthers if, and only if, they can convince enough Blacks that they are the “eternal victims” of Whites. Hitler played that game quite well against the Jews.

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Is the Race-card Industry dying a slow death? Hardly! It’s just becoming far more entrenched.

Here’s an excerpt from Vincent Carroll’s article Whitewash.

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. . .Yes, it’s time again for the annual White Privilege Conference, which is hosted this year by the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, and whose sponsors include the University of Denver’s Center for Judaic Studies and the Southern Poverty Law Center, among other groups. No self-respecting progressive will want to miss it. . .

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You won’t want to miss the keynote speeches, either.

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For example, Paula Rothenberg will address the “struggle over victimhood.” More specifically, according to the conference guide, she’ll explore “What is at stake in the struggle over who can claim victim status as we carry out a conversation about white privilege.” . . .

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Most white guys past their prime don’t talk like Imus and have no desire to, and now Imus himself has been fired. His sole enduring legacy, unfortunately, is to feed the victimhood lobby, in all of its multiplying forms, with more grist for their destructive mills.

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Here are some other bloggers on the White Privilege Conference:

Riehl World View said:

White Privilege? Give Me A Break

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via Opinion Journal - talk about gag me with a spoon. This stuff is sick.
The Seattle School District is sending students to a 'white privilege' conference The diversity gathering in Colorado will highlight "the destructive power" of whiteness and empower students to tackle "oppression."

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Get in touch with your "White Privilege" [Travis Kavulla]

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The annual "White Privilege Conference #8"—yes, there've been seven already—is underway in a couple weeks' time in Colorado. And you better make reservations soon because, incredibly, the Colorado Springs Sheraton is fully booked!

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New Graduation Requirement: White Guilt 101

. . .the goal of the gathering is to make people more aware of the "negative historical implications of 'Whiteness,'" to "difuse [sic] the destructive power" of whiteness, and to encourage students to become "champions" of social justice and change.

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But, what happens to the Race-card Industry when most of America becomes a mix of many mixed races??? Is time running out for Racism???

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According to DAVID CRARY AP National Writer

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. . .the number of interracial marriages has soared; for example, black-white marriages increased from 65,000 in 1970 to 422,000 in 2005, according to Census Bureau figures. Factoring in all racial combinations, Stanford University sociologist Michael Rosenfeld calculates that more than 7 percent of America's 59 million married couples in 2005 were interracial, compared to less than 2 percent in 1970.

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No, sadly, the Race-card Industry won’t die. It will continually transform. The Race-card Industry is just another name for the Hate-card Industry. Since the beginning of time all despots and their mindless minions have always attempted to engender hate, foster national divisions, and to create willing victims.

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The last thing any hate-card player wants is to create the notion of national unity!

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There will always be a market for the creation of new victims and their supposed oppressors.

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The best guess is that religious freedom will be the next target. We are already seeing the beginnings of the creation of the American Islamic Victims Card, and along with that will come new concessions and special privileges.

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Here’s a point that needs to be made again, again, and again. We can’t choose our race or ethnic background. In most cases, we can’t choose or change our gender, at least until we are over the age of consent. In matters where humans have no control, the continued dialogue of how to eradicate racism is a noble pursuit.

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Just about everything else that defines us, however, is a behavioral choice. In America we are free to choose our religion; we are not condemned to remain forever practicing our father’s religion. Like religion, we are free to choose our political parties. Choice of religion and political affiliation is every American’s right. Along with that freedom of choice is the freedom to compare, to contrast, and to criticize the differences among religions and political parties.

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But what if a religion or a political party threatens the sovereignty and security of a nation? Are we American’s are free to condemn that religion or party?

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The fastest growing religion in the world is Islam. Islam, although heavily populated and defined by Mid-eastern cultures, is not confined to a particular race or ethnic background. Anyone can become a Muslim regardless of race, culture, or ethnicity.

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It is very important when discussing the dangers of the Islamists in their attempts to politicize and undermine the religion of Islam, that we never attack the ethnic groups and cultures that are heavily Islamic. Additionally, it is important to maintain the separation between religion and government, so that special privileges are not afforded to any religion, movement, or political organization – especially those political ideologies that are merely masquerading as a culturally-defined religion in need of special privileges.

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This is why it is absolutely imperative that America must come to terms with defining what is and is not a religion.

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Other good reads on this subject:

Racism of a different color is still wrong

Tawana Brawley and the “Exotic Dancer” at Duke

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