Reverend Jeremiah White's comments?

I want to know why his comments were so controversial?

His comment about "the chickens come home to roost" :

i think he was discussing the "blowback" of american foreign policy. i think it's pretty well established that radical islamist who launched the 9/11 attacks were motivated by their contempt for american policy and their desire to bring the war, as they saw it, to our soil. also, i think it's pretty widely established that al qaeda has its roots in the anti-soviet jihad in afghanistan which the regan admin funded and armed. what was once our allies turned into our enemy.

Also, his comments on America having racist beginnings...well duh, slavery was legal and if you drive down south you see white/black communities divided by rail road tracks. even in big cities you see a divide between ghetto and urban white areas.

I don't like Rev. Jeremiah White, but I thought his comments were just being honest. Discuss.

Reverend Jeremiah White's comments?

Well let's address his comments one by one. First, that the US got what it deserved on 9-11. Not only did the United States FUND Al Quaida in Afghanistan, If you measure who is worse based on a body count, it is obvious that the United States since 1980 is responsible for more deaths around the globe than Al Quaida, and by it's very own definition, the US is a terrorist state. Every day that people (including me) don't protest US foreign policy and try to change it is another day that we support our government, at least implicitly. So in the sense that people went to work every day in this country with what can only be described as intentional ignorance of the fact that the US government, defense industry and military was chock full of war criminals (see Vietnam, Iran-Contra, Israel/Lebannon war, and misc. proxy wars around the globe) can only be perceived as an invitation to be attacked by the victims. I think Chomsky is right when he saw 9-11 as a response to decades of oppression and occupation instead of a 'first strike'. Are these Islamic suicide bombers brutal murderers? Absolutely - and I don't think he was absolving them of their crimes - but in the context of the global situation, they're just trying to fight back the only way they can. When you've kicked someone around for so many years, don't you think you deserve for them to poke their finger in your eye?

Now what about 'white men' infesting blacks with AIDS? This is ridiculous on the face of it but you also have to ask yourself how much funding has really been committed by those in power (white people) to combat this illness which has affected minorities disproportionately. Not much. So did many white people sit by and let it happen? Absolutely and by their ommision they helped propagate this disease.

What about G-d damn America? Well what has America done in the past 400 years? It has been in a continuous state of war. War against other nations. War against itself. Our history is soaked with the blood of native Americans, of blacks forced to come here, of many minorities, and a few WASPs got amazingly rich. They still have most of the wealth.

So you have Sean Hannity and a few soccer moms who can't bear to think of anything other than America the beautiful, America the free, red white and blue. The problem is that racism continues to exist, and nobody who is the position of victim can truly be called a racist. Jeremiah White is not a racist, he's just calling it like he sees it. Blacks are still treated worse for the same crimes as whites. They are more likely to die in a hospital with the same conditions. They are more likely to lose their homes in foreclosure. More likely to be passed over for jobs. More likely to be subject to police brutality. That makes a lot of white people feel uncomfortable but the truth hurts. That is why 'CHANGE' is so important.

Reverend Jeremiah White's comments?

i agree with wright on most things...

they are only controversial to people who pretend the world is as shown by american media

Reverend Jeremiah White's comments?

Both Obama and Clinton have said that they would have left the Church if this continued.

That tells me that something was obviously wrong for them distance themselves from that type of rhetoric.

Reverend Jeremiah White's comments?

Saying America is the same as Al Queda.

White men infested blacks with Aids.

God Damn America.

We deserved 9-11. I sure families of victims loved that one.

Do you want more?

Reverend Jeremiah White's comments?

I agree with his comments on foreign policy, but he is a racist.

Reverend Jeremiah White's comments?

Well you conveniently omitted his worst comments thereby spinning falsehoods out of well-documented hate speech .

And no Christian pastor ever tells his congregation to say GD anything. God will damn peoples and nations, but in no way,shape, or form, are we allowed to say GD people . And every true Christian is more than fully aware of this .

Reverend Jeremiah White's comments?

When keeping it real goes wrong. Wright might have been honest...but honest racists are not new. He has the courage of his convictions regardless of how untrue, unsubstantiated, or how irresponsible his OPINIONS are.

They are just his opinions. He is not a history scholar or a scholar of any kind.

He sees color in ALL things and people.

That makes him a bigot AND a racist.

When did he go into the military to protect our way of life? When did he go and offer help to the families of Sept 11th?

When has he or Obama said that the remarks made were unfair and vast generalisations against a mainly pretty nice group of Americans--us regular-typical folks?

And really, the main reason black people were caught in Africa and enslaved then was because their BLACK brothers in the jungle took money to show the slave traders where the tribesmen could be caught.

Hoist by their own petard!

His rhetoric is controversial because he has the ear of man who is running for the most important JOB in America...and his racial charged, white pejoratives, and hater mentality shows a lot about that candidate--Obama.

Thank God we found out before Obama won the nomination--which he won't now that his true colors are shown.

Reverend Jeremiah White's comments?

I think Jeremiah White understands what he is saying. I think his hatred stems from his childhood where there were probably segregated communities. I think he is fascinated at the hatred that was spoken by Louis Farrakhan. I think he is fascinated by Islam. I think he knows who Jesus is and why he believes in Jesus, but I think his anger oversteps what Jesus has taught, and for a pastor who believes in Jesus, being a Christian, and to be Christ-like, his behavior is very unbecoming of a pastor. I think pride is a major downfall of many pastors, especially in America, because to be a pastor in America, it comes with a respect and a following, and it comes with POWER. It is very sad to me, a Christian, that people behave this way. I do think America has to answer for it's consumerism and racism, pride, murder, morality, etc, etc, etc, but coming from a Christian, it is to be done out of love. Because you Love where you come from and you love your fellow man, and you dont want them to hurt or have to be judged. His words were very hateful and he has given up a lot of his beliefs for his pride, and I think that is very sad.

Reverend Jeremiah White's comments?

The white government invented HIV "as a means of genocide against people of color."

He also seems to think Uncle Sam is in the drug business %26amp; the drugs are labels "For Black Use Only." And it was all part of a conspiracy to lock all the blacks away!

I was not offended at the "the chickens come home to roost" comment as much as the delight he seemed to have over it.

Do you think the terrorists were thinking about Hiroshima? If not, why did Wright mention something that happened 6o years ago as if it someone contributed to 9/11?

Because he thought we DESERVED IT!

Reverend Jeremiah White's comments?

His honesty lies in a memory! on most of

his statements. America today is way

ahead of what was a racially divided nation,

back in time, so many have marched and

petitioned, even killed to obtain the results

they achieved today.

What is being profiled in the south, today!

is a reflection of yesterday, by those who

just will not change with the times.

Time changes and so do men! they live in

the past just like he does, so final analysis

is: As a man thinketh! so is he! Rev. Wright

obviously still has problems with his Black

identity, and America today! but I think that

is his problem, not societys'. The allegations he made! is to remind of those

times, instead of moving on to another

agenda, strictly keeping his mission on the

church affairs, and what he needs to do to

make it a better place for all people to live.

After all is'nt that what Rev. Martin Luther

King, died doing? Each president will do

as they see fit in the moment, on foreign

policies, and it should'nt be taken

in predjudice light, by any sect of the com-

munity, nor based on any religion.