Israel Matzav: Jeremiah Wright on Derrick Bell's racial theories

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Jeremiah Wright on Derrick Bell's racial theories

I've stayed out of the Derrick Bell controversy until now, mostly because someone I know was taught by Bell at Harvard and claimed that what's being reported in the media is blown up. But too much of Barack Hussein Obama's anti-Semitic past was ignored four years ago. It cannot be ignored again.

At Big Hollywood, Joel Pollak (if he had been elected to Congress in 2010, who would be doing this now?) posts a sermon from Obama's pastor, Jeremiah Wright, which discusses Bell's 'critical race theory.' That theory says that America was founded on racism and remains irredeemably racist. Let's see at where Jeremiah Wright took that theory while the future President of the United States sat in his church (and did not get up and walk out until 13 years later when he was a candidate for President) in 1995 (Hat Tip: Memeorandum).

Jesus is a perfect model for the best type of faith. Jesus had a faith that did not avoid the realities of race. Modern reasoning tries to avoid the issue of race and pretend that race doesn't really matter.

That is a lie. Race does matter. Race is a reality that one cannot ignore. America was founded on racism. America lives and breathers racism. In this country, racism is as natural as motherhood, apple pie and the fourth of July....

What this country is is about racism from day one. The moment you take your first breath as a black person in this country, you have four strikes against you. You cannot ignore race.

Consider the case of Derrick Bell. Some people would rather fire an "uppity" Black lawyer like him than hire one woman of color. If you don't believe me, send for the transcript from Phil Donahue. Race matters in this country. There is no reason to pretend it doesn't. It doesn't make sense to bury one's head in the sand. Some of us want a Holy Ghost that is blind and dumb, one that will give us tongues but will not give us truth.

Some of us want to run past this issue of race and pretend that race does not really matter. However, Jesus had a faith that did not avoid the reality of race. He kept bringing up the Samaritan issue, because race does matter. Every time Jesus said the word "Samaritan," while talking to Jewish lawyers, it was just like saying the word "nigger" to some Klansmen in America.

Wright compares the Jews of the Second Temple period (when Jesus lived) to Klansmen. How can any Jew - even the secular Jews who don't make Israel a priority - vote for someone who continued to attend this man's church for 13 years after a speech like this? How can any Jew - even the secular Jews who don't make Israel a priority - donate money to the campaign of someone who continued to attend this man's church for 13 years after a speech like this and then claimed that he 'had never heard Wright use anti-American or racist rhetoric from the pulpit'?

Read it all.

Labels: anti-Semitic stereotypes, Barack Hussein Obama, Jeremiah Wright, racism