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Americans ARE ready for Obama. He WILL be the next president. His policies will be no great breakthrough. But…his presence in the whitehouse will be.

If you want to fear this guy…fear his politics…NOT his race… OR his church.

And why would an African church in the U.S. not recognise America’s racism?  Excluding historical American racial history for a moment, are you forgetting that Africans were not allowed by law to even learn about Christianity until long after reconstruction?  Africans were not allowed to read, including the Bible.  Even after reconstruction, Africans were barred from attenting White churches until well into the 1970’s.  I remember, I was there and have had the experience of being told I was not welcome at an all-White church in NYC.  I had to find a "Black" church were I was accepted. 

To ignore this history is revisionist and dismissive of the history of traditional Europocentric racism.  There is nothing anti-American or anti-White in what this church teaches.  The U.S. has a long and sorry history of violent anti-Indigenous and anti-African bias, so it would be foolish to think that the theology of a people subject to such repression would not reflect this history and experience.  If White American racism and genocide did not exist in the first place, such ideologies let alone churches would never have developed because their would have been no need.  And to suggest that such attitudes and practises have ceased is to callously deny the obvious.

Americans are ready for a black president, but not this one,. He himself is all about skin color. He sat in church for 20 years  that was all about race. 

Americans are ready for a black president, but not this one,. He himself is all about skin color. He sat in church for 20 years  that was all about race. 

http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/jon/080523

 

Americans are ready for a black president, but not this one,. He himself is all about skin color. He sat in church for 20 years  that was all about race. 

http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/jon/080523

 

It’s shocking to me. I guess I live in a non-racist bubble of some kind. I never thought it was like this. I KNEW there were racists. But, I assumed it was a small group of idiots that had no power or pull.

I’m very wrong about that. I’ve been mistaken. I’ll even admit to missing signs of it.

I wanted to believe we’d grown out of it.We. obviously, haven’t. And it makes me sick. ....and angry.

Need any more proof of American racism?  I can care less about Obama as a politician, but to cut him down like this and by extension an entire race of people while claiming the high moral ground of conservative ethics is about as transparently anti-African as it can get.  Yet we who suffer from this are told that it is all in our own minds.  Is anyone at this point foolish enough to argue the American Exceptionalism line that racism ended after the Emancipation Proclamation.