UPDATE: Whites, including Democrats
are turned off by Wright’s sermons but blacks are not.
Most voters, 56%, said Wright’s comments made them less likely to vote for Obama. That figure includes 44% of Democrats. Just 11% of voters say they are more likely to vote for Obama because of Wright’s comments.
However, blacks don’t respond the same way.
However, among African-Americans, 29% said Wright’s comments made them more likely to support Obama. Just 18% said the opposite while 50% said Wright’s comments would have no impact.
Hmmm…
The sermons of Obama’s minister, Reverend Wright, have upended the Democratic primary contest and exposed the ugly undercurrent of racism in the Democratic Party. I have previously linked to another column by Spengler on Obama’s mother’s philosophy. Now Spengler explains the black liberation theology that motivates Jeremiah Wright and which seems so odd to most white Christians.
James Cone, an academic black liberationist that Wright cites as an authority says:
Christ is black therefore not because of some cultural or psychological need of black people, but because and only because Christ really enters into our world where the poor were despised and the black are, disclosing that he is with them enduring humiliation and pain and transforming oppressed slaves into liberating servants.
Here is the source of some of Wright’s rhetoric about the “white Romans” killing the “black Christ.” This has nothing to do with either Christianity or history. This sort of thing:
Black theology will accept only the love of God which participates in the destruction of the white enemy. What we need is the divine love as expressed in Black Power, which is the power of black people to destroy their oppressors here and now by any means at their disposal. Unless God is participating in this holy activity, we must reject his love.
will not sound familiar to other Christians as having anything to do with religion, the Bible or Christianity.
It is also interesting in view of the level of black anti-Semitism that I first saw with my own nursemaid in the 1940s and which has continued with Jesse Jackson’s “Hymietown” remark. Maybe this all comes together in some steamy stew of self righteousness and sense of victimhood. It is now out into the Mainstream Media and Obama will have a hell of a time explaining it.