Posted by Dave on 02/26/07 at 03:08:57 pm
Categories: Race Ravings, Right Wing Ravings, Barack Obama, Campaign 2008

Well, this is fun: Obamination: Barack Obama’s Black Supremacist Connection. The post looks at Trinity United Church, Barack Obama's church here in Chicago, and attempts to attack it as racist and "black supremacist."

My favorite is how, as a commented pointed out, they equate "a persecuted group’s reflex to turn inward for support with the methods of oppression used to exclude them."

This is one of the comments that I left over there:

Look...African Americans have been persecuted in this country for hundreds of years. I have absolutely no problem with African Americans banding together to make the African American community stronger. You can equate this to white supremacists all you want, but the parallels break down almost immediately. Whites are the oppressors, and blacks where (and still are in a lot of ways) the oppressed. White supremacist groups were not only about the power of the white man, but also about the inferiority of others, specifically racial and religious minorities. Obama's church does nothing to give you the impression that other races are inferior to blacks. They simply stress the importance of empowering their own communities in positive ways.

Black power is not about racism. It is about giving blacks power that they do not have. I am not sure why it scares you so much that blacks may actually try to obtain some power in this society where they are often powerless.

I would love to see you give me specific examples where Trinity United Church talks about the "supremacy" of blacks over whites, which would be the definition of "black supremacy."

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