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Olga said: 

<< Vile anti-American hatred?  I take it you haven't been in a "black" 
inner-city church service lately or are not familiar with them in the least?

Inflammatory thetoric in those kind of churches is prevalent, part of the
show.  However, while they may exagerrate for effect sometimes, the rhetoric
isn't always wrong.

Martin Luther King preached this in a sermon (about the Vietnam war) in
1967" : "Don't let anybody make you think that God chose America as His
divine messianic force to be a sort of policeman of the whole world. God has
a way of standing before the nations with judgment and it seems that I can
hear God saying to America: 'You are too arrogant! If you don't change your
ways, I will rise up and break the backbone of your power."

Cf. to what Jeremiah Wright said (2003 sermon):

"God damn America for treating our citizens as less than human. God damn
America for as long as she acts like she is God and she is supreme."

Jeremiah Wright said (2001 sermon):

"We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South
Africans, and now we are indignant because the stuff we have done overseas
is now brought right back to our own front yards ..."  >>




I think you are doing the memory of Martin Luther King a grave disservice
comparing him to the likes of Jerimiah Wright.

Dr. King is remembered for his doctrine of hope and uniting all people
regardless of race.

And no I have never attended a black Church but I have in my past attended
churches which were attended by all races and never heard speech designed to
be inflammatory, divisive and pit the races against one another.  These are
the kind of sermons that I imagine were given at Klan rallies though.  If
you are saying that all black churches teach this brand of religion where
America, Jews, and other races are blamed for all the problems in the world
then I am even further aghast.  

While middle class America is attempting to put it's racist attitudes behind
it sounds as if ministers like Jeremiah Wright are set on creating anger,
resentment and placing blame.  By instilling that kind of resentment and
anger in children he is doing far worse than just filling his collection
plates.  

I classify Jerimiah Wright with the likes of Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and
Louis Farrakhan who profit from the exploiting the economic, and social
disparity between the races for their own profit.  

Jeremiah Wright is fond of the expression bringing chickens back home to
roost.  How ironic it would be if his rhetoric and hate speech brings his
chickens back home to roost and costs his chosen son Obama the election!

Wright has also been quoted as saying "The government gives them the drugs,
builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law and then wants us to sing
'God Bless America.' No, no, no, God damn America, that's in the Bible for
killing innocent people."

He has also told is congregation "The government lied about inventing the
HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color. The government
lied."

One wonders if he believes that the white man created sickle cell anemia
also.