The full story behind Wright’s “God Damn America” sermon

[RamboLiberal]

From Roland Martin. Audio link bottom of page.

http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2008/03/21/the-full-story-behind-wright%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%9cgod-damn-america%e2%80%9d-sermon/

[msongs]

1. xtians frequently say america is damned by god for XYZ reason -nuttin new here nt

[Jane Austin]

2. Remember last fall when the Religious Right had some kind of

convention in Tennessee and had a straw poll and all the Republicans were there trying to win the straw poll?

The big choir there sang, to the familiar tune, WHY SHOULD God Bless America?

[Jane Austin]

3. Found the YouTube of it

It was the Values Voter Straw Poll, and here is the song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X77R_prkCkg

[RamboLiberal]

4. BTW E.J. Dionne makes a good point about MLK

Listen to what King said about the Vietnam War at his own Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta on Feb. 4, 1968: "God didn't call America to engage in a senseless, unjust war. . . . And we are criminals in that war. We've committed more war crimes almost than any nation in the world, and I'm going to continue to say it. And we won't stop it because of our pride and our arrogance as a nation. But God has a way of even putting nations in their place." King then predicted this response from the Almighty: "And if you don't stop your reckless course, I'll rise up and break the backbone of your power."

If today's technology had existed then, I would imagine the media playing quotations of that sort over and over. Right-wing commentators would use the material to argue that King was anti-American and to discredit his call for racial and class justice. King certainly angered a lot of people at the time.

I cite King not to justify Wright's damnation of America or his lunatic and pernicious theories but to suggest that Obama's pastor and his church are not as far outside the African American mainstream as many would suggest. I would also ask my conservative friends who praise King so lavishly to search their consciences and wonder if they would have stood up for him in 1968.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/20/AR2008032003021.html?hpid=opinionsbox1

I was a teen during that era in PA, blue collar family, and I remember well that many in the white community hated with a passion MLK. Imagine the 24/7 media today debating King's hateful words!

[Karenina]

5. Roland Martin is great!

Anyone remember him tripping up the *dauphin?

[truedelphi]

6. I am noting with great interest that he lays some of the

WOrld's problem at the feet of the G-8.

This is tantatmont to criticizing the Federal Reserve.

How dare a black man critique the banking interests that enslave not just blacks, but all of us!