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I know the coninued Media and Conservative attack on Trinity UCC, Rev Wright, and Obama needs some response from me. I AM SADDNED AND DISAPPOINTED that Obama felt the need to "reject and denounce" his former pastor, I do not believe that Rev. Wright siad anything that was not true in regards to US foreign policy, nor in regards to the USA's treatment of her darker-hued citizens in the past and today. I cannot help but feel that it just proves that for all the so-called respect society claims to have for the heroes of the civil rights movement, that even now Dr. King and his positions would have been denounced by the so-called liberal media just as stongly as Conservatives.
Trinity United Church of Christ is an African Centered Christian Church which welcomes into its gates ALL of God's children regardless of race, color, creed, or orientation. Trinity also stands in the line of the prophetic Black Church which is at liberty to critique social conditions when they threaten the people of God. Probably the most prophetic voice this country has ever known was Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Popular Culture has confined the legacy and ministry of Dr. King to the last 3 minutes of a 19 minute speech wherein he spoke of his dream. However, below you will find other quotes of Dr. King's which further indicate the prophetic lineage in which Dr. King stood, and Trinity United Church of Christ now stands.Washington, DC August 28, 1963, "I Have A Dream"
When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men would be guaranteed the inalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check which has come back marked "insufficient funds." New York, NY April 4, 1967
So we have been repeatedly faced with the cruel irony of watching Negro and white boys on TV screens as they kill and die together for a nation that has been unable to seat them together in the same schools. So we watch them in brutal solidarity burning the huts of a poor village, but we realize that they would hardly live on the same block in Chicago. I could not be silent in the face of such cruel manipulation of the poor�.As I have walked among the desperate, rejected, and angry young men, I have told them that Molotov cocktails and rifles would not solve their problems. I have tried to offer them my deepest compassion while maintaining my conviction that social change comes most meaningfully through nonviolent action. But they asked, and rightly so, "What about Vietnam?" They asked if our own nation wasn’t using massive doses of violence to solve its problems, to bring about the changes it wanted. Their questions hit home, and I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today: my own government. For the sake of those boys, for the sake of this government, for the sake of the hundreds of thousands trembling under our violence, I cannot be silent.
Atlanta, Ga August 16, 1967
The tendency to ignore the Negro's contribution to American life and strip him of his personhood is as old as the earliest history books and as contemporary as the morning's newspaper. To offset this cultural homicide, the Negro must rise up with an affirmation of his own Olympian manhood�The Negro will only be free when he reaches down to the inner depths of his own being and signs with the pen and ink of assertive manhood his own emancipation proclamation. And with a spirit straining toward true self-esteem, the Negro must boldly throw off the manacles of self-abnegation and say to himself and to the world, "I am somebody". Yes we must stand up and say, "I'm black and beautiful." This self-affirmation is the black man's need, made compelling by the white man's crimes against him.
There are forty million poor people here, and one day we must ask the question, "Why are there forty million poor people in America?" And when you begin to ask that question, you are raising a question about the economic system, about a broader distribution of wealth. When you ask that question, you begin to question the capitalistic economy. And I'm simply saying that more and more, we've got to begin to ask questions about the whole society�And you see, my friends, when you deal with this you begin to ask the question, "Who owns the oil?" You begin to ask the question, "Who owns the iron ore?" You begin to ask the question, "Why is it that people have to pay water bills in a world that's two-thirds water?" These are words that must be said. What I'm saying today is that we must go from this convention and say, "America, you must be born again!" And so, I conclude by saying today that we have a task, and let us go out with a divine dissatisfaction. Let us be dissatisfied until America will no longer have a high blood pressure of creeds and an anemia of deeds. An African Proverb declares that }There are none so blind as those who will not see" We invite you to do diligent research, and see for yourself.
I invite you to send, if not this blog entry, the quotes above to media outlets, inclusive of but not limited to the following, asking them whether ir not they would also demand that Obama "reject and denounce" Dr, King as well. You might also want to ask them why McCain has not been asked to renounce to "reject and denounce" the Conservatice Christian leaders who have made virulent anti-Catholic, or anti-Muslim statements, and/or who have said that the victims of natural disaters have gotten what they deserved. :
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