Judas Obama? Rev. Wright is Right

The following is a response to an e-mail forward that included highly agitating, negative comments on Rev. Jeremiah Wright. I can often ignore some junk e-mail forwards. But I read some that are so bad, I have to respond to every other person it was sent to. This is one of them.
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This is simply ignorant. If you like to get your information from reputable sources...that is, instead of e-mail forwards filled with half-truths and lies, and instead of sound-bytes played over and over again in the corporate media...

Rev. Wright was on "Bill Moyers' Journal" last night (one of the best shows on the tele) for an hour-long interview. Hmmm...why didn't everyone know about a televised interview with one of the most polarizing figures of 2008?

You can watch it here:
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/04252008/watch.html

I am curious as to how many of you that agree with this junk-mail will actually watch the interview. Or choose to not watch it, continuing to get your information from fast-food media sources and YouTube clips...and spreading such un-researched, reactionary opinions like a virus.

Also, it is tempting for me to lambast these opinions and question the general public's understanding of history and Christianity. But I think he does a well enough job doing it in this interview, and he is far more educated (and eloquent) on the topics than you and me. So you have been spared.

Feel free to forward this on to your family and friends.

Watch the video and think for yourself.
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The main reason I am blogging this is to share the Bill Moyers interview. I urge you to watch it, because Rev. Wright is back in the news and being completely smeared by the secular media...

The media, America (the "General Republic"), and Washington will never understand, or embrace, the fact that Christianity is a religion of the oppressed, of non-violence, of humbleness, meekness, and completely antithetical to the state and profit-based economics.

That is pretty much opposite of everything America stands for. So if someone says that God doesn't bless America, that is common knowledge to every Christian outside of this country...as well as a percentage of Jesus-following Americans, including myself. It is not controversial at all. Would God not damn slavery, the genocide of the American Indian, every act of war fought to expand territories and gain political control, or WWII Japanese concentration camps, the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and every other act that Rev. Wright mentioned in his sermon? Would God not damn America for those actions? Or do we just want to play nice and say "God disapproves"...because then we are just getting into sissy-semantics and you should just kill your television (God-approved violence).

Everything that Rev. Wright has said completely fits into this Christian tradition...including theology from the black perspective. If you have a problem with an afro-centric Christianity...then can you explain how the slaveholder and the slave can hold the same theology? Can the Christianity of the oppressed be the same as the Christianity of the oppressor? I can give you books, current and before Rev. Wright was born, on this topic. The abolitionists led by William Lloyd Garrison did not participate in any form of government. No elected office, no voting, because America propagated war and slavery...and voting would be taking part in that process. Radical!

And now Barack Obama is "disowning" his pastor? Is Rev. Wright becoming too abrasive to the status quo, which would cost Obama votes? Looks like Barack had to turn into an asshole on this one. Funny, I was starting to like Barack Obama...but this is selling out your pastor for the Q.U.O. Judas Iscariot, indeed.

Really though, Barack Obama did what he had to do to get elected. But right now the media is hating on BOTH of them. So it seems someone got what they wanted by pushing this garbage. Lesson learned: There is no money in hope and change, and it will never happen in Washington. That is why Martin Luther King never ran for office, he knew he had to change the hearts of the people to get things done.

Like I said, think for yourself, damn it.

(And don't bring up Romans 13 to me. I will just refer you here:
http://www.jesusforpresident.org/download/Web_Appendix_3.pdf )