Thanks for your comment. Thanks also for your article about the atmosphere surrounding Rev. Wright at the National Press Club. Your linked article is very interesting.

http://www.bronzevillemetropolis.com/how_we_got_here.html

It is hard for me to imagine that any Georgetown student would not be familiar with Fr. Healy, especially considering the large Healy Building at 37th & O Streets, N.W.

Moreover, my post specifically critiques the student’s column, so no ad hominems are present in this post.

Quoting from the post above:

“The story of Fr. Healy is a fascinating one.

However, the student’s column for The Hoya, as it stands, is not a proper vehicle for exploring this topic. The student failed to perform necessary research. As a result, he produced a column that is needlessly inflammatory and argumentative.”

This is an accurate observation. Certainly no vitriol is involved. A prominent President of Georgetown, as Fr. Healy was, requires columns that are written according to the highest standards. This column did not meet the test. It could have if the research was done (look through the Hoya’s archives for examples).

I do not believe that Marxism fully explains the views of Blacks seeking fair and equal treatment. Black people just want the United States government and society to stop anti-Black discrimination (both overt and subtle).

There is a Forbes article with James Cone about this Black liberation theology.

Also there is an insightful diary on Daily Kos about issues that have been brought up in the comments.

You seem to be quite capable of doing the research yourself, I leave the rest in you capable hands to find the truth for yourself, you will uncover some very interesting information.

With regard to his “God damn America…” comments, this is my take:
1. People hear what the want to hear … you hear “… bla bla bla … God Damn America … bla bla bla”. I hear, “… context … context … God Damn America for killing the innocent people…”

Sigh, as a matter of fact, I a bit tired of pushing this point so let he who has ears hear. America seems to have lost the ability to constructively criticize themselves … self examination like the Rev. says.

lincoln introduced full blown MARXIST Socialism into this country in 1861. Lincoln recruited marxist from the failed 1848 socialist revolution into his cabinet and into his army. Starting in 1848 over 500 articles by Marx were printed in Horace Greely’s Tribune Paper in NYC and has come full circle into the present.

After the war marxist infiltrated Southern Black Churches, research MLK’s communist history (his FBI records have been sealed for 50 years); Rosa Parks was schooled by a communist organization in TN for her famous bus ride in the 1960s. Is it any wonder that Jeremiah Wright would be from this school of thought?

Why doesn’t splc (morris dees have these people on his bullseye list?

….”since our ruling class is an imperialist ruling class that battens on the blood and sweat of working people all over the world, fomenting racial, ethnic and religious prejudice (e.g. against Arabs and Muslims), blunts mass opposition at home against policies, economic, diplomatic and military, which victimize millions of people in other countries.

So when the ruling class and its henchmen perceive that racist consciousness is receding among working class and other whites in the United States, it is bound to see this as a threat to its own position – which it is. It is only natural, then, that the ruling class would use the instrumentalities over which it has control – the state, the media, the universities etc. – to try and counter the improvement of racial attitudes, by organizing new racist agitation and propaganda. The most prestigious and visible representatives of the ruling class know very well by now how to get marginal individuals and institutions to do their dirty work for them, and thus maintain their image as enlightened people.

This suggests that anti-racist struggle cannot let up as long as there is a ruling class, which is to say as long as capitalism exists, and, as the experience of socialist countries demonstrations, for a long time thereafter. So even though it is gratifying that an anti-racist majority is emerging in this country, we can’t let our guard down, or convince ourselves that the job is done.
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The term Race was not in the Bible; racism and racist was not in the dictionary until 1947 and was coined by marxist.

Valid point here:

>>>And the really stupid thing is that I’m seeing white youths who are more receptive to the ideas of equality than any generation before them while simultaneously seeing their black peers talking about race as though this day and age was still the 1800’s.

Indeed, I do notice this change of attitudes in White youths just going through life in general. Overall, I do feel that despite the struggle of integrating the schools, that now at least the lines of communication are opening. This is part of the improvements I alluded to above.

For Black youths and Black people in general, because of the past, trust (in the good will of Whites), has been replaced with suspicion. In addition, there is also a sad fear of risk taking. One has to take risks to progress in life. But if the consequence of failing at taking a risk worsens your position, sometimes the choice is made to refuse taking the risk, leading quickly to feelings of malaise, distrust, and frustration. [You mention this in your comment above]

What is shocking to me is how young the message that opportunity is limited is received by Black youths (generally speaking). There was an article in the Washington Post (I’ll have to look for the link) about a a elementary school basketball team. The thing about the team was that in the face of any pressure from the opposing team, the entire team would simply watch the other team whiz by them and allow the other team make a basket without challenge.

It literally broke my heart to read that. I don’t recall whether the article provided answers as to why the youths gave up so easily (I don’t believe any were provided however).

Senator Obama faced a lot of heat from the sermons of Rev. Wright, but I did appreciate his speech. Perhaps with all of the issues on the table, they can be resolved.

If addressed, progress will be slow (the problems of discrimination and the coping skills to deal with it developed over many centuries and were passed down the generations). But, at least things will start moving continuously forward, allowing people to lay down their burdens.