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BOOK REVEALS OBAMA HAD SECRET MEETING WITH REVEREND WRIGHT

BOOK REVEALS OBAMA HAD SECRET MEETING WITH REVEREND WRIGHT
Posted By: Siebra Muhammad on June 04, 2009

A new book from Newsweek's White House correspondent Richard Wolffe reveals that Barack Obama held a secret meeting with his former pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, towards the end of the 2008 presidential primary season.

The purpose, according to Wolffe's "Renegade," was to persuade the former minister of Chicago's Trinity United Church of Christ to end his public appearances, which were believed to be hurting Obama in the battleground states of North Carolina and Indiana.

"It was time to talk directly to Wright," Wolffe writes. Over the next week, Obama's friends at Trinity tried to talk their pastor out of his comeback tour.



But by now the church was deeply divided between Obama supporters and Wright supporters, and the conversation was going nowhere.

"So the candidate decided to go see Wright himself in secret, in Chicago. First came the dance over where to meet: one intermediary suggested a neutral location, but Obama said he was happy to go wherever Wright wanted. They ended up talking at Wright's home, and Obama tried to adopt the tone of a concerned friend giving advice.

"He did not want to tell his former pastor what to do, but he did want to nudge him in the right direction by making him aware of what was about to happen. Wright wasn't heading for vindication; he was heading for vilification."

Obama was ultimately unable to keep Wright sidelined, but he did go on to win North Carolina by 15 points. He lost Indiana by just one point.
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Siebra Muhammad
A Registration Clerk/Specialist at New Orleans Public Schools
Say whatever you will, Wright spoke the truth in his "GOD DAMN AMERICA" speech!!! When I first heard Rev.Wright on TV, I thought I was listening to one of Minister Farrakhan's sermons. We have all been abused by this system in some way. If you're Black, and from the South, you definitely experienced it, so we all said it one time.
Thursday, June 4th 2009 at 11:57AM
Craig Amos
Graphic Designer & Publisher at Amos & Grant Advertising Design
This was a very enlightening posting, sister. I can envision this scenario and President Obama made all the right moves once again. I totally agreed w/Rev. Wright's speech, too; but to reach the ultimate goal, Obama had to sever ties -- at least publicly, and, according to he article, it appears that he was dutiful enough to meet the "good reverend" on his terms . Ultimately, who showed himself to be more reverential?
Thursday, June 4th 2009 at 12:27PM
Siebra Muhammad
A Registration Clerk/Specialist at New Orleans Public Schools
Thank you Mama and I love you too!!!
Thursday, June 4th 2009 at 4:22PM
Dee Gray
Provisioner at Cannot Say
I'm probably not going to be popular for this, but I disagree with Reverend Wright's "God d--m America" or anything else, let alone from the pulpit, which is not a place to be expressing oneself that way. (And again, it's must my opinion).

That wasn't about God, which is what a sermon is supposed to be about-- how to grow in faith, how to improve as a person of faith, how to become 'fishers of men', how to apply LOVE and not hatefulness and vegeance, etc.

Romans 12:13-19 exposes the wrongness of a vengeful, angry spirit:

14 Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse. 15 Rejoice with those who rejoice, and weep with those who weep. 16 Be of the same mind toward one another. Do not set your mind on high things, but associate with the humble. Do not be wise in your own opinion.
17 Repay no one evil for evil. Have regard for good things in the sight of all men. 18 If it is possible, as much as depends on you, live peaceably with all men. 19 Beloved, do not avenge yourselves, but rather give place to wrath; for it is written, “Vengeance is Mine, I will repay,”[a] says the Lord.

"Bless" those who curse you. "Bless," not curse. "Bless." So putting God's name on anyone else's damnation is dangerous...and frankly, wrong. And that's not me saying that; the Word says that. And I say dangerous knowingly planting the wrong seeds has accountability. As a leader, he and those in similar positions, have a lot of responsibility and with that responsibility comes accountability...not to man, but ultimately to God. I prayed for Rev. Wright to seek God's wisdom, not his own, but God's because though it may not be popular to say, God didn't appear to be in that too much.

Blessings...
Friday, June 5th 2009 at 5:35PM
Dee Gray
Provisioner at Cannot Say
Irma, I can't answer many of the questions you asked because I am NOT God and do not sit in His throneroom. What I stated is what I know to be true.

And I mean this in the most possible way: I refuse to get into a philosophical debate because my spirituality (my personal relationship with God) is not something I care to defend, justify or quantify. I will say that because Rev. Wright is a Christian, we indeed study from the same Bible and serve the same God. Unless he's something other than a Christian, we absolutely serve the same God.

And for the record, people of all races and nationalities attend the church of which I am a member, and we have a wonderful time in the Lord together, on one accord. We also meet twice during the week, once for Bible study and the other for women's ministry and that is an awesome supportive, bonded fellowshipping experience. God is awesome.

Finally, religion forces one to live boxed in. A personal relationship with the Father is a deeply spiritual one, very affirming, comforting and sure. And I can't describe the sheer awesomeness of it. It's something you'd have to experience to really understand. To have to explain it suggests that you have not (and that is perhaps because we...as in you and me...might NOT serve the same god. I serve God...the big G...I won't ask who you serve because I don't understand Bhuddism and do not want to make an insensitive statement).

Blessings...
Saturday, June 6th 2009 at 4:35AM
Dee Gray
Provisioner at Cannot Say
And Irma, please, do not resort to name-calling and what amounts to making fun of other people spiritual beliefs. It's disrespectful and completely uncalled for. I do not attempt to damn you, condemn you or judge you because we don't have the same spiritual beliefs, and I would appreciate it if you would refrain from directing your angst towards me. I know what I believe and I know why I believe what I believe. You don't HAVE to like it, but the least you can do is contain yourself.

I can appreciate your venting, but when it becomes disrespectful and more of an attack than useful dialogue, I have to unplug. We CAN respectfully agree to disagree. And I think we should try that now. Thanks.

Blessings...
Saturday, June 6th 2009 at 4:41AM
Dee Gray
Provisioner at Cannot Say
Irma:

"I can respect and still love you Dee even if you continue to CHOOSE to believe that I can not be a 'christian' and still study Buddhism.I can still love and respect that you have not problems with the Bible being used to demean our Black single mothers while praising the daughter of Gov. Palin."

I said NOTHING AT ALL about you and Christianity. I recall a long conversation last year about you being Bhuddist!!!!!!!!!! So which is it?

And STOP TRYING TO MISCONSTUE WHAT I SAID because I'm not mixing words here. ***I*** made NO REFERENCE TO GOD BEING BLACK OR WHITE...nor WILL I. Why? Because I DON'T CARE IF GOD IS BLACK, WHITE, GREEN, YELLOW, PURPLE, ORANGE OR TRANSLUCENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He wakes me up every morning and gives me at least one example that He is indeed the I Am that I Am.

Your comments are all over the place and riddled with your OWN thoughts about what I must be thinking, but you seemed to have missed the fact that I SAY WHAT I'M THINKING SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO TRANSLATE, FIGURE IT OUT OR ANALYZE IT.

If you have a problem with the scriptures I posted, TALK TO GOD ABOUT IT SISTER.

Finally, I can't tell you what you can't be NOR HAVE I EVER TRIED TO. And I never knew you were Christian because as I stated, you've always talked about Buddism. You may have thrown some knowledge of biblical scripture, but you know like I know that many people know something of the Bible and what it reads that are NOT so.

And just out of curiousity...what if you get to Heaven and God looks like a technicolor coat? Will you be disappointed that he's NOT black? Just to push a point: what if you get there and He's NOT black? Will you refuse to enter into the Kingdom because of it? What IF He's white? Will you refuse?

I ask because you seem to be really caught up on God and the black factor. And seeing as how you're Christian, I'm sure we read from the same Bible. There is no Bible designated just for "BLACK Christians"...or is there? The Bible is the Bible is the Bible is the Bible. And for goodness sakes, God doesn't care what color you are. Why do you care so much about the weight of melanin in His skin (so to speak)? Would He be LESS God if He was pink?

Blessings...
Sunday, June 7th 2009 at 4:39AM
Dee Gray
Provisioner at Cannot Say
And Irma, what's funny to me is that you didn't address what I DID actually say. Why does that not surprise me?

Blessings...
Sunday, June 7th 2009 at 4:41AM
Dee Gray
Provisioner at Cannot Say
Irma, this is me unplugging now. Obviously agreeing to disagree is not something you can do. But I CAN. And now, I am.

Blessings...
Sunday, June 7th 2009 at 9:54PM
ROBINSON IRMA
UC, Davis class of 1992
Siebra, I apologize for getting so out of control on your wonderful post and for ever one on this site who unlike ME still fight for equality for my race by not forgiving nor forgetting how we still have no non White's in the Senate, the Supreme Court , proper health care and education for our children or even finding them inportant enough to put up their being missing as a major news idem ,believing as the Bush administration with their family christian family value that war is just and it has the blessings of God as long as they have dark skins and do not worship our White God; and this is ALL GOD'S WILL...then please forgive me as you continue to not be like me and totally ignoring all of tose words of the Bible that Dee just used to prove how she has not disagreements with White America as Rev. Wright and I do...you see I do not fear the White man's God and will resist and damn any and all countys that oppress any peoples as it is a blessing from G-O-D. And, I do not know how you feel about this but I am thankful to the God that you love I will not be going to heaven at all for being too proud to forgive my oppresive government or the Jews who own the media and who without their money we could have never been brought to the Americas as slaves. We would have been able to continue to pay our own fares to come to America as we were doing, before becoming nonhuman(smile)

I will continue to fight and to hate any form of opression or the things they have given us to keep us under a form of mind control that has and will continue to have Blacks against Blacks to keep them safe and happy. For this I can not blame the White man, because if it works why change it after 400 years?!?

and I have no love or respect for any opressors even those of the people in the middle east who are not Jews as Jesues was. And, I will never stop wondering why Christians worship a Jewish God but will never set foot in a Jewish place of worship....I am so grateful that the truth has set me free to be able to be in the real world at all times and not want to be a RELIGION TOTALITARIAN.restricted to being prejudice against religious freedoms...I now rest my case against of what "I' see as a shame before God!!!!!!!

Bless you all on this site...I now end my freedom of speech(smile)
Thursday, April 10th 2014 at 6:47PM
ROBINSON IRMA
UC, Davis class of 1992
..by the way what was the disagreement? was it when I said that Rev. Wright has degree(S) in the bible or that he preaches what I learned while getting my degree in African and African-American study or that I can study Buddhism with the NOI even though I left out I study Jevoha Witness with my oldest daughter or Morman with a friend of mine or that I have had a class called compartative religiion???And, I am still planing to may be study Judism not that they have a Black femles as a Rabbi.LEARINIG IS MY GOAL IN LIFE.This is why I love to dialoge, but a lot of people just believe this is an argument and has nothing to do with getting a look at how others look at a subject.Lot lke not likeing aperson because of the color of their skin or theri religio without getting to know that person. Now how can I call the skin heads being wrong if I do the same thing my self????This is the reason I DO go to Klan rallys.We dialoge. Thery are the type to pick on the weak not those who will meet them on their ground. It takes a lot but I am married to a Black Muslim and these men have no fear...Actually it is a lot of fun...and there are a lot of people who know that they will heve to die before they can get to heaven so they too have no fear....TRUTH...
Thursday, April 10th 2014 at 6:47PM
ROBINSON IRMA
UC, Davis class of 1992
Sience says anything that can not be tested then retested is lets say a fake?Logic says that if one can not step into another person's shoes and see the other side then one has only their own ignorance to fall back on...This is why some minds are defined as CLOSED and some are defined as OPEN.

I seel knowledge not just gossip...hear say...and denial or any excuses in any form...because they are only lies. I am always open to dialoge with anyone. This is what our president is trying to do but we a a civilized society then to not know or accept this, but, we will argue and drop bombs in the name of God...WAKE UP...lief is about give and take not take and run away...but again I do chant(pray) that this is still better than watching CNN tell us who we are now isnt it....(smile)some of us can talk it over can't we by way of this new thing called dialoge not war...it is up to us, I do believe...love you all and thank you for this post Siebra,and maybe there will be a little less fear of the NOI an even Rev. Wright...this is alwyas my goal to try and tell how one can speak the truth and not fear going to hell....EACH ON TEACH ONE...by any means necessary...there is no right way or a wrong way as life changes with each moment...bless all of you in thei site family(smile)

Raise your hands if you love how far we have come by not just laying down and accepting not appreciating being told we should not be for rev. J. Wright...I raise my hands and jump for joy like I use to do in church(smile)
Thursday, April 10th 2014 at 6:47PM
ROBINSON IRMA
UC, Davis class of 1992
1. I do not 'worry' about the color of my skin..but there is a reason that you call youself a Black woman and not a White woman...AM I CORRECT? Does this mean you are stuck on the word Black or skin color?I identify Black for the same reason I identify as African-American that I use to identify as Negro. It is because society norms changes (like the Bible?)...so where does the need to worry or any thing else about the color of my skin? I do not. But, I would raise holy hell if I woke up one morning and saw that my skin was White, what a take down that would be for me! (smile)
2.I chose the Black God, because a Black god would never use his holy words to hang me because of the Black color of my skin or use his Bible to train me not to be upset for being looked on as LESS THAN therefore I do not need to have a 10 year longer sentence in prison for the same crime as a White person for the same crime even thought the White person has been in prison 5 times and this is my first arrest!!!And, almost forgot I should not be angry that the KKk burned down my home town, because the Bible tells me that emotions are not natural, but must be controled because of something I read...Hell what next not cry when my child died, because it is God's will?Well isn't laughing and crying both emotions?????I think so this is why if I want to hate, I will, If I want to like a Muslim, Catholic or a Morman, I will, because it is the person not the Bible he/she quotes, but refuse to put into action...for example, Dee would you be willing to attend a KKK rally with me????!!!?I am dead serious on this... Ilike those who can back up what they say...Oh, have you ever even seen pure racist or pure Black hating people ready to kill you if you come near them up close and personal or is this also something you heard or read???This is what pisses me off with people who go around trying to teach some one like Rev. Wright what the Bible says when this man has how many degrees and levels of learning what the Bible says...but, then Dee you have never ever even heard this man's sermon(S)have you, you only heard and saw what someone used to make up YOUR mind,about this man... am I correct in this also!!!!!!!!

And, as usual you over looked wy talking about what rev. Wright said was what I learned in class while getting my degree,. Beautiful...if the truth don't fit then deny it even exist says the right -wing logic.....END OF THIS EPOSODE

TRUTH......REALITY....and things like My body functions in a natural way to sleep/ wake up just as it sends signal that you are hungry, wnat water...but then people born in SIN have no natural functions that work by their body on automatic like breathing in and breating out, bleadin when cutThursday, April 10th 2014 at 6:47PM
ROBINSON IRMA
UC, Davis class of 1992
Dee, it seem like this post is turning to you and me...but if you like just say the word and I can go back to every time you said why do I talk about Christianity because I do not believe in God...If God is Black, White or Green or male or female I will continue to believe that I am so much a part of my own life that if I am not dead, when I set my clock for 6am and I wake up at 6am then because I sat my clock((cause)and the alarm woke me up(effect)this was of my doing, not God's. my being in full control of my life(actons/nonactions)PERIOD!!!!As for heaven, I will not enter unless my PEOPLE pre slavery have gotten into heaven before me!!!!!get where I am coming from. If heaven is not good enough for all of my race then it is not good enough for me.

Dee, my comment was directed directly at you because you are the only one who believed that rev. Wright need prayers or better the R-I-G-H-T prayers by the R-I-G-H-T person and the R-I-G-H-T verses in the bible as the guide...... am I lying about your intent, Dee????!!!???

My next comments to you were about your saying you are not God therefore why this mentioned at all. As, for me if I were presenting my self as spreading the words of God then I would at least say that I come in his/her name...I am an agent,etc.I would never say I can use the words of God ,but I can not back them up because I am not GOD. Who said you were god for you to bring up this reminder????


Sister Dee, I am called by the name my mother gave me when she named me after my grandmother.I am a person who is in total control of my life; so much that I am the only expert on Irma...I was born and raised Catholic, When I no longer could fit this in my life,I left the teachings of that White God. You see this was easy to do because I was too proud to be a member of the Black race, community, family, I chose to no longer continue with this form of insult to a race of people who came from a land of the free...I becan to study N.D.B. because it teaches how to be happy in life and not be happy with someone"TELLING" me how to prepare for a good death!It teaches to never stop learning because no one knows every thing.Christianity gives the ready answers this way people believe they are born is sin and just leave it there.WHAT SIN WHICH HAS NO ANSWER BECAUSE SIN IT SALF ALSO CHANGES AS THE BIBLE IS CHANGED. I have already talked about what makes the needs. And, why I am at it when will you answer me about jesus being a Jew questin. I will bet my life you have no way to answer tis because once again you only have the answers. Am, I correct?!?

I chose to become a member of Trinity because it teaches Black Liberation.I have asked to be notified when rev. Wright will be doing his Damn America sermon and I will be on the first plane out of Ca. to hear him in person.I will do this for the same reason I spent years at the university listening to Black In America to get my degree in this. My WILL not God's!!!!!!!!See I have not fear of speaking the truth at all!!! I have both of these practices in my life because I want to learn how to be happy and how to be proud to be a decendant of the Mother Land.I also study with the NOI and for the same reason.

I chose to life my life without fear of God, man woman or child...I seek rational thinkingers because I believe this leads to wisdom and common sense,knowledge and will not allow something like putting my self second, not worthy be they god,man, woman or child...I take full responsibility for me and my environment...

And, I seek the truth therefore to you Dee, can you say that you have so much self-esteem and self worth that you can say that you are in total control of your own actions or do you leave this is God's hands/ God' will?!?

If I have not covered all of what you believe I did not answer(on one condition that you do not use that selective memory) I will gladly answer them...

I wear many hats and the only way I can do this is not to lie to me that I can not because some body or God told me not to, I could not because they would disapprove or send me to hell if I did not put limits on my endless potentials...
Thursday, April 10th 2014 at 6:47PM
ROBINSON IRMA
UC, Davis class of 1992
Dee, I could swear that you wrote all of those Bible verses to prove Rev. Wright wrong for damning a countryat the pulpit(???!??), and yet you are saying you and he have the same belief in a "BLACK God that DAMNS AMERICA? Oh, well,we all have the rignt to free choices therefore I can not be against someone who choses to believe that wrong is right and right is wrong. but, I did start out with how the Bible is constantly changed to suit the given issue at that time....(smile)
Thursday, April 10th 2014 at 6:47PM
ROBINSON IRMA
UC, Davis class of 1992
Dee, I did not name calling, but I Chant(pray) that you can come to be able to do some name calling when it comes to me.Please call me a Christian, because I worship the same black God that Rev. Wright does and on top of this I am a member of the same church that the Obamas and Oprah was forced out of with those sound bites of the rush Limbaughs and the (that of the people who feared Obama was wrong for attending the church of his choice for 25 years therefore he did not qualify as president of the U.S.)And, I reject with all of the powers within me that christian Bible and God of those who believe that I (we as a race)should give aid and comfort tothose who believe that "I" am less than and that I can not be the best person I can be because "I" chose to be a member of Trinity and study Buddism. I believe that I have no right to be prejudice there by calling someone wrong for studying somethink I knnow zero about because someone stood at the pulpit in a chruch and "DAMNED NE TO HRLL for not remaining ignorant. Prejudice is being ignorant according to my Wibster's dictionary.

I have and always will call the religion of the Black God a religion and is the her / him God I have chosen to worsship.I take comfort in I am not important enough to have the main stream media to do 24-7 sound bites on me to run me out of the Black church of my choice.And, by the way since all of the churches where I live that call themselves Black only have Black members, they are also DAMNING Black liberation preaching at theri polpits. How do I know this, well I have this bad habit of finding out theing for my self by going directly to the source!!!!Another reaction of not fearing the truth or I will go to hell!!!! You have only known me to call Buddhism a Philosophy.You have never known me to call this a religion yet you jumped to the conclusion and even told me many times that I do not believe in God.Which is directly related to your saying you know nothing about Buddhism. Never allow any one or any thing to put limits on your own potentials.The only way to accomplish this is through not have tunnel vision. There are 142 practices of Buddhism in America.Me, my choice is Nichiren Daishonin.If you care to practice what you preach then please make an effort to learn why we who practice it chose not to call it a religion ,but a way to live a happy life(not to prepare for a good death and to bring peace not war-that Thou Shall Not Kill we put into practice not just words directed at aome one else . This is my choice because it teaches that ones potentials in life are limitless,Never ever not believe that your are the one not responsible for the causes and effects you make in this life.

I can respect and still love you Dee even if you continue to CHOOSE to believe that I can not be a 'christian' and still study Buddhism.I can still love and respect that you have not problems with the Bible being used to demean our Black single mothers while praising the daughter of Gov. Palin. I choose not to do so. You can continue to forgive and forget that the belief of the African-American that we are violent, stupid people as they are calling Judge Sotomajor of belonging to the Latino KKK, I chose not to do so.

Now Dee, if and when you can stop calling me not a Christian because I believe in a Black God thenand choose to practice N.D. Buddhism "I" believe that you are practicing some of those Bible verses you posted on the blog a few comments back.(smile)

Blessings...
Thursday, April 10th 2014 at 6:47PM
ROBINSON IRMA
UC, Davis class of 1992
...it looks like like I was saying we must KILL (a person)no it was suppose to be KISS ass.i JUST DO NOT LIKE TO USE THE WHOLD A-S-S PART. 'sorry about this as I think faster than I type(smile)

Love you all and hope that you like me follow all of the 10 commandments at all times...
Thursday, April 10th 2014 at 6:47PM
ROBINSON IRMA
UC, Davis class of 1992
Oh, I forgot, Dee that about Africans not going to heaven was taught from the pulpit of Oral Roberts then and now, but as he is White maybe his pulpit can teach this and still be correct with the Christian bible...I also know that Democrats are not welcome at his university...you know those liberal thinkers like those who got us a Black president...Ham is in your Bible is he not Dee? This is how the pulpits can stand at the pulpits and teach racism is rightous....God Bless America the land of religious freemons as long as you do not go to a church that teaches just the opposit of Black in America as the White man does!!!!!!!

Yes I am mad as h---!!!!!!!!!!WAKE UP,my people...only the truth will set us free...
Thursday, April 10th 2014 at 6:47PM
ROBINSON IRMA
UC, Davis class of 1992
How can we say that it is about GOD when we change what is in the Bible to suit us, the time, the politics of the day'

Thou shall Not Kill is changed to; except for God and country...abortion is wrong and yet we send bombs to constantly kill children in theri mother's womb in Iraq and Afganistan and Pakanstian ...Thou shall not commit adultry...we change marriage partners like we change our shoes while only the poor get kicked out of the church for doing this..Hillary Clinton after attening Black churches as an insult to us who knows we will only seee her at another election and never be invited to go to dinner at her home calls Bills serial abuse of women, "LOVE"!!!! Please give this Buddhist a break!!!

I have been to too many church services where the preacher preached hell and damnation to the adultror and the theif and where some were only there because it was easter and they had new cloths...How can a preacher damn a person and not be able to damn abuse of people ,are we not all god's children????Even nonChristians?????

Please do not even try to tell me that Black people and white people be dancing in step to the same music on a dance flooror even be clapping together in rythm!!!. Have you ever seen a hut in Africa made in a square shape as White people do. This is because we see in round not in square!!!!Our brain make up is different!!1

Are the Jews as wrong as the Muslim, the Catholic to the protestant, the White only church and the Black only church. Across the street from where I live is a Korean church are they wrong because they are a Baptist Christian church but only speak Korean. I am sure the KKK would not just say they are doing something against God but l.ow them up to prove the writting their Bible which is as Christian as your is Dee...therefore if Rev. Wright is wrong then the KKK has to be correct, huh?Or are they only seeing their version of the words of God differently????

Now Dee , please answer this for me. Do you believe that all of the poeple in Africa before being put into slavery will never get to heaven, because they only became members of the human race by way of being put into slavery?Or do you agree with Rev. Wright that they are in heaven dis pite this???
Thursday, April 10th 2014 at 6:47PM
ROBINSON IRMA
UC, Davis class of 1992
Dee did you miss the part when Rev. Wright said that we and our oppressors (then and now) were/ do praying to a DIFFERENT GOD?

Speaking only for me, I have prayed all of my life and still do at least 2 times a day each and every day.what has done more to make me the proud African-American that I am today is the day I stoped wanting to go to meet that White God. And, for any who have not read my post on why I no longer fear going to hell, then I am more reenforced about this when I see any of my people still (maybe) fearing to go there...but, I do love and respect our differences, because as Rev. Wright says, being different does not mean defecient...
Thursday, April 10th 2014 at 6:47PM
ROBINSON IRMA
UC, Davis class of 1992
...maybe this will be a better example of why Mr. Obama had to do this..rosa Parks had to go along with she 'was too tired to give up her seat...the Jena, La afair had to be put to rest as was the black student's law suit against don Imus..all of this wa done to get the media from doing those famous sound bites that so many of our own people sided with...This is because we at times have to kill a--just to live to fight another. but, even better it allows the White majority to continue their image of our race as STUPID.Weh can do this brcause we know that this is a fight to the finish therefore we can afford to leave it up to the next or to the next or to the next generation to take up where the present generation left off.

As, brother Mozell says we are a people wo are only 400 years in existance. We are just babys in this fight for our civil and legal rignts to be treated as EQUAL.

TO SISTER sIEBRA, when you see our president does he or does he not allow anyone to see him as the angry Black man ?!?Neither does Minister Farrakhan...(smile then give your self a pat on the back, you deserve it...)
Thursday, April 10th 2014 at 6:47PM
ROBINSON IRMA
UC, Davis class of 1992
..and by the way Wolff is a regular MSNBC political analyst, and I saw him on this network promoting this same section of his new book yesterday.
Thursday, April 10th 2014 at 6:47PM
ROBINSON IRMA
UC, Davis class of 1992
ONLY IN AMERICA, the country that has freedom of : ASSEMBLY,SPEECH, RELIGION...Wake Up America, because if you notice these are two Black men who were only exercising their CIVIL RIGHTS(?!?)...(smile)

But, than who is going to defend these two men when W -E have remained so sclient when this man who is now our president was denied his right to attend the church of his choice.FOR 25 years his family attended this church, in peace and with respect!!!!!!!

There is no way that I will ever believe that both Obama and OPrah were forced to become members of this man's church byhim using "terroist threats that they would send the KKK after them if they did not come to this church...for the spiritual leader ship helping these two to continue to not forget being proud of their skin there helping them to not take the same road as too many of our Rich and famous and powerful Black people have taken...

I am sure I do not have to mention names in this matter of what happens to US when we try to act like we are 100% accepted by the White manwhen they tell us this lie. So my people WAKE UP and see what has, is happening to these two Black people who were members of Trinity intil the public forced them to no longer be able to practice their Civil and Moral right to attend the church of their choice there by being able to place the blame squarely where it belongs. "I" it belongs on the Black community for falling prey yet once again to the Religious right-wing!!!!!!!!(smile)
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