MSM pushing latest Rev. Wright "controversy" - "garlic noses" of Italians

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Fri Mar-28-08 11:14 AM
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MSM pushing latest Rev. Wright "controversy" - "garlic noses" of Italians

Edited on Fri Mar-28-08 11:16 AM by sabra

It's being reported as an article written by Wright and published by his daughter.

http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/local&id=6047006

More controversial comments from Senator Barack Obama's former pastor, Reverend Jeremiah Wright have come to light.

The comments are in an article published in the Trumpet magazine. Wright is listed as the magazine's chief executive officer, and his daughter is listed as publisher.

In the December 2007 issue, Wright describes the crucifixion of Jesus as a public lynching Italian style. He also writes about the "garlic noses" of Italians.

The Italian American Human Relations Foundation of Chicago condemned the comments.

"We're really, really sad that at this day and age that that kind of thought would be in someone's mind and would be spewed in public," said Louis Rago, president, American Human Relations Foundation.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/03/27/controversial-rev-wright-bulletins-surface/

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Obama’s former minister, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, also came under fire this week when reports surfaced that he had written an article for Trumpet Magazine, run by his daughters, in which he said that “white supremacy is clearly in charge in America.” The article also quotes him referring to Italians’ “garlic noses,” and characterizing Jesus’ crucifixion as “a public lynching, Italian-style.”

The problem is this isn't an "article" it's a reprint of a eulogy given by Wright for the late Asa Hilliard. And he his reference to Italians is actually of Romans in the time of Jesus. Additionally I ask you to please read the whole eulogy...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x5282479

Asa Hilliard A Child Of God

From:
Chicago Defender
Date:
November 9, 2007
Author:
Wright, Jeremiah A Jr

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Jesus refused to be defined by others. He knew what other people said about Him. He knew how other people defined Him. Jesus lived His whole life under Roman oppression. The Italians ran everything in Jesus' day from the local government to the Roman Empire.

From Pontius Pilate to Caesar (pronounced "Kaiser") Augustus... from the circumstances surrounding his birth, a decree from the Roman government caused Joseph to have to leave Nazareth to go to his Bantustan in Bethlehem to get a passbook to legitimize his ethnicity... from the circumstances surrounding Jesus' birth (in a barn in a township that was under the Apartheid Roman government that said His daddy had to be in), up to and including the circumstances surrounding Jesus' death on a cross, a Roman cross, a public lynching Italian-style...

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His enemies had their opinions about Him. The Italians for the most part looked down their garlic noses at the Galileans. His enemies had their opinions about Him. Pon-ti-us Pi-la-te. Y'all call him "Pontius Pilate." In Italiano, Pontius Pilate looked at the Palestinians as peasants. His enemies had their opinions about Him. His Jewish enemies! Yup, Jesus had enemies among His own people.

Why do people under oppression always seem to turn on each other rather than turning to each other? Could a part of it be the way they are taught to hate themselves and hate each other? What Reuben Fuerstein the Jew and Asa Hilliard the African call "socially mediated learning"