- Posted by Christopher Estep on March 21, 2008
Apparently, Huckabee is upset about being even less relevant than he was during the campaign because he had to chime in on the whole anti-semitic, America-hating church to which Obama belongs and contributes:
As easy as it is for those of us who are white to look back and say ‘That’s a terrible statement’ — I grew up in a very segregated South.
That's all well and good, Hucky, but they didn't. For all of Obama's anger at white America, he grew up in Indonesia and Hawaii. I don't know if you've ever been there, Huck, but brown people are pretty common. As for Jerry Wright, he grew up in Philly, another city well known for it's large minority population. It's no Detroit, but it's no Arkansas, either. So quit talking out of your "aw shucks" butt about things you really don't know.
Many times those were statements lifted out of the context of a larger sermon.
Shut up. They weren't. Give an example. Any example! Even Obama didn't cite "context". He may have accused people of cherry-picking certain sermons, but he never said that they weren't in context. Further, many critics have played as much as 10 minutes uncut of some of his choice sermons. 10 minutes is more than enough to understand the context. Further, under what context (aside from quoting someone else) is it ok to say "god **** America"? Is there any way that saying it in a different context would make it sound better?
Sermons, after all, are rarely written word-for-word by pastors like Reverend Wright, who are delivering them extemporaneously and caught up in the emotion of the moment. There are things that sometimes get said that if you put them on paper and looked at them in print, you’d say, ‘Well, I probably didn’t mean to say it quite like that……’
What do you mean, "by pastors like Reverend Wright"? Do you mean, anti-semites? Do you mean Black Liberation theologians? Do you mean anti-American conspiracy theorists? Or are you just referring to racists in general? In any case, how would you know? Do you have a lot of experience preaching these sorts of things or are close friends with those who do? I sincerely doubt it. No, you're just once again trying to present yourself as relevant and an expert because you hate white people too if they're Mormons used to be a Baptist preacher. *yawn* Give it a rest. You're a has-been already.
But let me address the substance of what you said. Have you even watched him deliver those sermons? There is plenty of video of it, but obviously you have not. Because if you had watched him preach, you'd see him looking down every few seconds to read his notes. Every few seconds. That indicates detailed notes. You see, Reverend, when you have detailed notes that you are reading from and referring to constantly, you are not speaking extemporaneously.
Further, show me a single case where Jerry ever said, "I didn't mean to say it quite like that." If he didn't say that why are you saying it? It is precisely what he meant because he's a Black Liberation theology pastor.
And I think that you have to cut some slack — and I’m going to be probably the only conservative in America who’s going to say something like this,
Except that you aren't a conservative. No amount of repeating it is going to make it true. Being more conservative than a Democrat doesn't make you a conservative. Conservatives don't raise taxes like you did, kowtow to illegal immigrants like you did, and they certainly don't get murderers and rapists released from prison so they can rape again and then try to justify it! I'm not trying to digress, I'm just reminding you that you aren't a conservative any more than Barack Obama is a black man. He's both.
...we’ve got to cut some slack to people who grew up being called names, being told you have to sit in the balcony when you go to the movie, you have to go to the back door to go into the restaurant, you can’t sit out there with everyone else. There’s a separate waiting room in the doctor’s office. Here’s where you sit on the bus.
No we don't! I never made a single person sit in the back of the bus. I actually preferred to sit in the balcony when I was a kid. I ate in the same restaurants, saw the same doctors, went to the same hospitals, ate the same food, sat in the same part of the classroom and was taught by the same teachers, many of whom were black. The town in which I grew up has a very high black population, relative to the rest of Michigan. I, as a white male, suffered emotional abuse, intolerance, and discrimination as the only white boy in a class of 30 with 3 white girls and taught by a black teacher. I was constantly told that I was going to fail and that I was stupid, even though my test scores showed me as reading at what they then called a "Grade 15 reading level". If you can't count, that's a 3rd year college reading level as a 4th grader. But she told me I was dumb. She accused me of swinging my crutch at a (black) kid when I didn't. This woman made me sit in class for 6 hours with a foot swelling so badly that they had to cut my shoe off in order to put on the cast!! I was regularly required to stay after school for no reason other than she needed something done. I was even disciplined because I wouldn't accept the grade I got when I said Rice Krispies weren't made of corn and was marked down. I often heard the phrase, "you white kids..." prior to one of her tirades. I became the first student in that school system to ever be moved out of a class that wasn't due to the school's needs or student misconduct.
Should I get some slack, Governor??? Should I demand special treatment because I was regularly beaten up by black kids in my school because I was small and white? Should I get preferences because of the abused of that black teacher at a very formative stage of my life? I had a second grade teacher (who was also black) throw something at me. Should I ask for consideration for that, too? Do I now have license to call for the lynching of blacks like this teacher or Wright or Obama? Don't I also have permission to be hateful toward any black I meet because they are black and I was abused by blacks in my childhood? No, I don't. And neither should they. Don't assume that just because someone isn't black that they haven't suffered discrimination, too. Don't assume that abuse entitles me to hate anyone who shares traits with my abusers.
And you know what? Sometimes people do have a chip on their shoulder and resentment, and you have to just say, ‘I probably would, too.’
So?!?! What does that have to do with anything?! Should anyone who's ever been a victim (or descended from a victim) be held to a lower standard? Do you believe that blacks are so devoid of self-control that they shouldn't be held to the same standards as other minorities?
This is one of the biggest problems in society today! People are willing to allow certain groups to abdicate their responsibility for their actions simply because they are victims, or more likely as in this case, are perceived to be victims. We are a compassionate society. We allow for extenuating circumstances in determining the punishment for crimes. That's where the "self-defense" plea comes from. It's even where the insanity defense comes from. But lets be clear.
The color of your skin is neither an extenuating circumstance nor is it a license to do wrong.
Source: AJC
