The Los Angeles Times interviews some local black ministers and finds few
fans
of Jeremiah Wright:
"This didn't have anything to do with the black church--it
was basically an attack on the individual message he proclaimed,
which hurt some individuals," said the Rev. K.W. Tulloss of
Weller Street Missionary Baptist Church in Boyle Heights. "My
own members were offended by Rev. Wright's words. His views have
cast a wedge between people, and that's the exact opposite of
the unity Jesus represented." . . .
Bishop John Bryant of the African Methodist Episcopal Church,
who has known Wright for 30 years, said he would have used less
provocative language.
"How one speaks is as im****tant as the right to do so," Bryant
said. "If it is done in an inflammatory way, the substance of the
message gets lost in the rhetorical style."
Kerman Maddox, a member of First AME church in Los Angeles,
said that he had listened to hundreds of sermons in black
churches nationwide as part of his political and community
work, and that Wright's messages did "not represent mainstream
black thought on Sunday morning."
He said he had never heard pastors curse America or proclaim,
as Wright had, that the U.S. government caused AIDS among
blacks. He said the common pulpit themes had long been unity,
personal responsibility, loving your neighbor and improving
your neighborhoods.
If this is an accurate piecture, then Karl of ProteinWisdom.com has a
point
when he criticizes "the establishment media," saying they "not only
avoided
soliciting the opinion of other black religious leaders, but also promoted
the
notion that Wright was expressing views commonly expressed within black
churches."
Karl attributes this media failure to pro-Obama partisan****p, but it
occurs to
us that another factor may be at work. There is an ideological symbiosis
between whites of the far left and black extremists like Wright: The
former
find moral justification for their anti-American views in the
marginalization
of blacks that the latter promote.
Anyone with an ideological hostility to America has an interest in
promoting
the notion that America is inveterately racist, and this may come into
play in
some newsroom decisions.
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It is simply breathtaking to watch the glee and abandon with which
the liberal media and the Angry Left have been attempting to turn
our military victory in Iraq into a second Vietnam quagmire. Too bad
for them, it's failing.
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