Re: [A-List] However, I think Rev. Wright missed an opportunity to advance unity

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But why should he "forgive"policies and prejudices that continue to make
the lives of most blacks misery? Why should he forgive the American
society for tolerating the assassination of every effective black leader
that has ever arisen? Why should he forgive the fact that 50% of all black
men in New York City are unemployed or that most of the prison population
are blacks? Why should he forgive? Shouldnt he be asking for change, for
action, to an apology to blacks. Howe can a nation move on without truth
and reconciliation for without truth there can be no reconciliation.
Alicia Keys says that gangsta rap is a strategem of the CIA to demoralise
the black youth, misdirect them and to destroy potential leaders in the
black youth. The CIA is the org that flooded the ghettos with all that
coaine to undermine the black society. Where is the apology for al those
lives destroyed.

No, Rev Wright's ,mistake is not in refusing to "forgive" it is in not
stating the fact that the black and white working class alike are treated
the same way and that just as the society has destroyed the black working
class it has also destroyed the white working class.

Chris

> On the other hand, I must say that I think Rev. Wright missed an
> historic opportunity in his speeches to the NAACP here in Detroit last
> night, and evidently at the press club today.
>
> He , as a minister of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, could ( should ?)
> have made a speech about forgiveness, reconciliation and loving thine
> enemy with respect to racism in America.   He has already thundered Old
> Testament righteous indignation and condemnation of slavery, Jim Crow
> and racism.  We know and have said he is  correct in those criticisms.
> But why not follow Barack Obama's lead ( since he is only getting all
> this attention because of his association with Obama)and preach on the
> natural theme for a Christian minister of extending your hand to those
> who have wronged "you", forgiving trespasses against "you",  seeking a
> new day of unity between Blacks and whites,  taking the first step (
> again) to get beyond racism. This would also be a revival of a theme
> that Martin Luther King, jr. was famous for from his "I Have a Dream"
> speech.  Sure King was also sharply critical of all that is wrong with
> America in his Riverside Church speech, et al.  But King also had an
> extraordinary theme of reconciliation between the races.
>
> Ultimately, unity of Blacks and Whites is necessary for the working
> class to advance the class struggle.
>
> By this approach, Wright could have helped Obama. Wright has already
> stood firmly against racism. He wouldn't be selling out. He could have
> used his status as a steadfast anti-racist to advance principled Black
> -White unity, which is in the ultimate best interest of Black people.
>
> Charles
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