Thursday, May 29, 2008

Meanwhile, back at Trinity United ...

The beat goes on.

Another one of Barack's longtime spiritual mentors and advisors, Father Michael Pfleger, gave another explosive sermon at Chicago's hotbed of racial divisiveness, Trinity United.

Pfleger began by saying that whites today, particularly white business owners (apparently) are as responsible for slavery as any of their ancestors who may have actually owned slaves.
"--honest enough to address the one who says, 'Well, don't hold me responsible for what my ancestors did.'

"But you have enjoyed the benefits of what your ancestors did and unless you are ready to give up the benefits, throw away your 401 fund, throw away your trust fund, throw away all the money you put into the company you walked into because yo' daddy and yo' granddaddy and yo' greatgranddaddy -- unless you're willing to give up the benefits, then you must be responsible for what was done in your generation 'cuz you are the beneficiary of this insurance policy!"
He then went on to lampoon Hillary, saying that she thought she'd win the presidency simply because she was 'white and entitled'.
"When Hillary was crying [gesturing tears, to uproarious laughter from audience], and people said that was put-on -- I really don't believe it was put-on.

"I really believe that she just always thought 'This is mine. I'm Bill's wife. I'm white. And this is mine. And I jus' gotta get up, and step into the plate.'

"And then out of nowhere came, 'Hey, I'm Barack Obama.'

"And she said, 'Oh, damn! Where did you come from!? I'm white! I'm entitled! There's a black man stealing my show.' [Sobs.] She wasn't the only one crying! There was a whole lotta white people cryin'!"
So, Jeremiah Wright is gone, but the racially divisive philosophies he promoted continue.

Pfleger has been a longtime supporter, friend, and mentor of Obama's. Of their relationship, ABCNews writes:
Father Michael Pfleger, a fiery liberal social activist and a white reverend at an African-American church -- St. Sabina’s Catholic Church on the South Side of Chicago -- is a longtime friend and associate of Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, having known him since the presidential hopeful was a community activist. In September, the Obama campaign brought Pfleger to Iowa to host one of several interfaith forums for the campaign.

Their relationship spans decades. Pfleger has given money to Obama's campaigns and Obama as a state legislator directed at least $225,000 towards social programs at St. Sabina's, according to the Chicago Tribune.
National Review says:
... little has been said about Sen. Obama’s relationship with Rev. Michael Pfleger, a Catholic pastor at St. Sabina, also on the South Side of Chicago. In 2004, Obama told the Chicago Sun Times that Pfleger was one of his three spiritual mentors.
The referenced Chicago Sun-Times article says:
Friends and advisers, such as the Rev. Michael Pfleger, pastor of St. Sabina Roman Catholic Church in the Auburn- Gresham community on the South Side, who has known Obama for the better part of 20 years, help him keep that compass set, he says.

"I always have felt in him this consciousness that, at the end of the day, with all of us, you've got to face God," Pfleger says of Obama. "Faith is key to his life, no question about it. It is central to who he is, and not just in his work in the political field, but as a man, as a black man, as a husband, as a father.... I don't think he could easily divorce his faith from who he is."
Obama's campaign must've known this video was about to surface, as they've recently scrubbed Pfleger's endorsement from their website.

I just wonder if anyone is still going to try to posit that Barack's church for the past 20 years isn't built on a 'hate whitey' cornerstone or that Obama's legitimately surprised by the inflammatory racial rhetoric that came out of there.

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