Should Barack Obama denounce his Pastor?

“YE SHALL speak the truth and the truth shall make you free.” For those who demand that U.S. Democratic Presidential Candidate Barack Hussein Obama denounce his pastor Reverend Jeremiah Wright is wide of the mark.

Isa Avery of New York says Obama’s March 18, 2008 speech “A More Perfect Union” is Amazing!!!  The greatest speech of my lifetime! (http://my.barackobama.com/hisownword)

Obama’s remarks: ‘The document they produced was eventually signed but ultimately unfinished. It was stained by this nation's original sin of slavery, a question that divided the colonies and brought the convention to a stalemate until the founders chose to allow the slave trade to continue for at least twenty more years, and to leave any final resolution to future generations.’

‘Of course, the answer to the slavery question was already embedded within our Constitution - a Constitution that had at is very core the ideal of equal citizenship under the law; a Constitution that promised its people liberty, and justice, and a union that could be and should be perfected over time.’

‘And yet words on a parchment would not be enough to deliver slaves from bondage, or provide men and women of every color and creed their full rights and obligations as citizens of the United States. What would be needed were Americans in successive generations who were willing to do their part - through protests and struggle, on the streets and in the courts, through a civil war and civil disobedience and always at great risk - to narrow that gap between the promise of our ideals and the reality of their time…”

President-to-be U.S. Senator Barack Obama has mastered the principles of speech. In the ancestral spirit of Akhenaton, the constitutionality of James Madison (US Founding Father), and the universal consciousness of his Mother, Barack Obama has become presidential.

Professor Obama talked loudly enough to be heard; spoke to the point; did not ramble; nor tried to show off. He accepted criticism with dignity.

The elements of his speech a collage, assemblage, montage in articulacy. Prof. Obama defined the racial judgment, reality, and solution to ending the remnants of white supremacy. His speech prepared the way for reparations to both (poor) whites and blacks.

Professor Obama is the only candidate who can reconnect Africa to America and America to Africa. Presently, America’s foreign and business policies are under the assumption it can arrogantly exploit African resources without just financial compensation. Congressional America shivers when the political drums of enslaved Africans resound for justice.

American foreign policies allow China—with just good manners and basic fairness—reap untold rewards of economic stability in Africa. For example, long suffering Liberia had to play the “China card” in order to get long overdue debt relief from the United States.

Professor Obama is America's last blessing if America wants to avoid an economic and political collapse.  

Obama’s “A More Perfect Union” remarks: ‘Given my background, my politics, and my professed values and ideals, there will no doubt be those for whom my statements of condemnation are not enough. Why associate myself with Reverend Wright in the first place, they may ask? Why not join another church? And I confess that if all that I knew of Reverend Wright were the snippets of those sermons that have run in an endless loop on the television and You Tube, or if Trinity United Church of Christ conformed to the caricatures being peddled by some commentators, there is no doubt that I would react in much the same way.’”

Should Barack Obama denounce and reject his pastor for questionable pronouncements? Should Black Folk in America denounce and reject the Founding Fathers of America who were slave traders, man-stealers, and plantation wardens.

Should Black Folks damn, denounce, and reject America for promising the enslaved Africans freedom for fighting and dying in the US Revolutionary War of Independence (1775-1780)—which they did by the thousands—only to be double crossed and returned back to bondage and slavery?

Should Black Folks damn, denounce, and reject the United States of America, the Founding Fathers, and the U.S. Constitution for recruiting the enslaved African to fight in the U.S. Civil War (1860-1865)—which they did by the thousands—only to be double crossed again and sentenced to “Jim Crow” apartheid segregation and neo-slavery that lasted from 1865-1965?

Should Black Folks denounce and reject Rev. Jeremiah Wright for calling America a “Liar” when the U.S. News & World Report’ 02/23/87 front-page proclaimed “LYING IN AMERICA” – ‘Public Concern Over Honesty and Standards of Behavior Has Reached the Highest Level Since Watergate.’ ‘Government officials dissemble. Scientists falsify research. Workers alter career credentials to get jobs. What’s going on here? The answer, is an alarming decline in basic honesty.  A NATION OF LIARS?’

‘The public sees a clever dodge as no different than someone telling you a fat, bald lie. The politician sees it as a rule of the game.’ Christopher Matthews, former [White] House staffer.’”

Obama remarks: “In fact, a similar anger exists within segments of the white community. Most working- and middle-class white Americans don't feel that they have been particularly privileged by their race. Their experience is the immigrant experience - as far as they're concerned, no one's handed them anything, they've built it from scratch. They've worked hard all their lives, many times only to see their jobs shipped overseas or their pension dumped after a lifetime of labor. They are anxious about their futures, and feel their dreams slipping away; in an era of stagnant wages and global competition, opportunity comes to be seen as a zero sum game, in which your dreams come at my expense. So when they are told to bus their children to a school across town; when they hear that an African American is getting an advantage in landing a good job or a spot in a good college because of an injustice that they themselves never committed; when they're told that their fears about crime in urban neighborhoods are somehow prejudiced, resentment builds over time.”

Should Obama denounce and reject Rev. Jeremiah Wright for saying “The stuff we have done overseas is brought right back into our homes” when referencing September 11, 2001?

The Washington Times National Weekly Edition front-page article, November 12-18, 2001, reads “Clinton weighs in: Terror a U.S. debt to past” by Staff Writer Joseph Curl.  ‘Bill Clinton, the former president, said on Nov. 7 that terror has existed in America for hundreds of years and the nation is “paying a price today” for its past of slavery and for looking “the other way when a significant number of native Americans were dispossessed and killed.’

‘Here in the United States we were founded as a nation that practiced slavery, and slaves quite frequently were killed even though they were innocent,’ said Mr. Clinton in a speech to nearly 1000 students at Georgetown University’s ornate Gaston Hall.’”

Now, if former President Bill Clinton was a soul brother and gave a sermon rather than a speech with his above quoted statements; we have Reverend Jeremiah Wright all over again.

Bill Clinton also tells the students “We’ve got to defeat people who think they can find their redemption in our destruction. And then we have to be smart enough to get rid of our arrogant self-righteousness so that we don’t claim for ourselves things we deny for others.’

Joseph Curl goes on to say: Mr. Clinton said the international terrorism that has only just reached the United States dates back thousands of years. ‘In the first Crusade, when the Christian soldiers took Jerusalem, they first burned a synagogue with 300 Jews in it and proceeded to kill every woman and child who was a Muslim on the Temple Mount…I can tell you that story is still being told today in the Middle East and we are still paying for it.’”

Should we reject and denounce Reverend Jeremiah Wright for saying "The government lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color", referring to AIDS origins theories, and "The government gives them the drugs [referring to the Iran-Contra Affair], 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...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."(Wikipedia)

U.S. News & World Report front-page January 24, 1994 reads: “Cold War Guinea Pigs – The government’s secret experiments using radiation, mind control, chemicals and drugs on its citizens.” On page 32 is a U.S. News Investigative Report “The Cold War Experiments – Radiation tests were only one small part of a vast research program that used thousands of Americans as guinea pigs.”

New York Post, Saturday, August 4, 2001 page 17: “CIA hired ‘double agent’: report” ‘Miami – The CIA reportedly paid an organization run by former Peruvian spy chief Vladimiro Montesinos $1 million a year to fight drug trafficking—despite evidence Montesinos was working with Columbian traffickers.’”

“God Gave U.S. ‘What We Deserve,’ Falwell” writes Washington Post Staff Writer John F. Harris September 14, 2001. ‘God continues to lift the curtain and allow the enemies of America to give us probably what we deserve,” said [Jerry] Falwell, appearing yesterday on the Christian Broadcasting Networks “700 Club,” hosted by [Pat] Robinson.’

‘Then Falwell broadened his blast to include the [US] federal courts and others who he said were “throwing God out of the public square.” He added: “The abortionist have got to bear some burden for this because God will not be mocked. And when we destroy 40 million little innocent babies, we make God mad. I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People for the American Way—all of them who have tried to secularize America—I point the finger in their face and say, “You helped this happen.’”

According to Wikipedia: `Reverend Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr. (born September 22, 1941) is a former pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ (TUCC), a largely African-American megachurch in Chicago with 10,000 members. He retired on February 10, 2008, after 36 years as the senior pastor of that congregation.

Wright was born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His father, Jeremiah Wright, Sr, was a Baptist minister, who pastored Grace Baptist Church of Germantown, from 1938 to 1980.

In 1959, Wright entered Virginia Union University, a historically black university, but became disenchanted and left in 1961. He then joined the United States Marine Corps and later transferred to the United States Navy where he worked as a cardiopulmonary technician.

Wright then enrolled at Howard University, where he received a bachelor's degree in 1968 and a Master’s degree in English in 1969. In 1975, he earned an additional Master’s degree from the University of Chicago Divinity School, and a Doctor of Ministry degree from United Theological Seminary in 1990 where he studied under Samuel DeWitt Proctor. He also has eight honorary doctorate degrees and has taught courses at many seminaries and universities in the nation.

So the answer is very simple as to whether Barack Hussein Obama should denounce his Pastor. No thank you.