Wed 19 Mar 2008
Call me a mutant, but I don’t see that much wrong with Pastor Wright’s sermons. America’s chickens did come home to roost on 9-11. Right after the Towers fell, we asked first “who” never “why.”
Some of the talking heads on MSM and on local talk radio can’t figure out why Obama did not call for the beheading of Jeremiah Wright. Because if you take the 5 quotes the media have been playing over and over and look at the rest of these sermons, they are fiery oratories on the Black experience in America which many Americans won’t understand because they have never been called “nigger.”
When I went to school, we were never taught Black History. We never learned about the Black leaders, the long, agonizing history that brought most Blacks to America. Those atrocities were glossed over in favor of mindlessly boring topics like the X Y Z Affair.
This series of cartoons will review Black history as told from a Black mother to an interracial child. This series will be ugly, course, horrific and truthful. I will mostly abandon the commentary for an article on Black history.
This series is not about Obama or Hillary. I want to you to try to imagine how Black families tell their children of the atrocities their ancestors, all of them, suffered because of the color of their skin. Try to imagine how Black families counsel their children when someone calls them “nigger” for the first time. Can you imagine the bone crushing emotion that must well up? Can you imagine the agony, frustration and anger?
Can you imagine being the Black preacher who tries to paint a picture of a just God every Sunday? Especially in a country that claims where the notion of racism is a thing of the past, the job is difficult.
These strips may at times be entertaining and sometimes they may not.
I don’t want you to laugh so hard you cry, I want you to cry so hard you do something about it.
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March 19th, 2008 at 10:22 am
Storm bear, I’m sorry I haven’t been around in a while but I’m here now. This cartoon maybe isn’t funny but it’s important. Between yesterday and today I’ve heard a number of white people trying to blame the media or Obama himself for the likes of Rev. Wright and the things he’s said. They tell me PC has brought things to where they are now and that Geraldine Ferraro and the Clintons aren’t racists because the things they say are true. When some white people talk they seem to forget the history of African-Americans in the U.S. Like there hasn’t been slavery, discrimination, segregation, lynchings for the last 200 years. They seem to think that everything is just fine now and that blacks ought to be grateful and happy they live in America. Your cartoon hits the nail on the head and I’ll be around to comment and gain from your insight. Thank you!
March 19th, 2008 at 12:11 pm
Frank Schaeffer wrote an article at Huffpo Posted March 16, 2008 titled:
Obama’s Minister Committed “Treason” But When My Father Said the Same Thing He Was a Republican Hero. It’s quite an interesting article. Why aren’t we hearing any thing about it?
March 19th, 2008 at 1:40 pm
I was amazed by Obama’s speech yesterday. He is bringing things to the bright light of day that all of America has been ignoring for a long time. I too do not find much (ok, anything) wrong with what Rev Wright has said. Not a thing. I am part Native American (Cherokee) but that heritage was suppressed by my mother who is from rural Georgia. In learning the Cherokee history (not only my ancestors but the nation overall) has been a trial. I began asking “how do we learn the history without perpetuating the war.”
My best friend is black and has enlightened me on a number of issues and perspectives specific to the black community as she sees it. I feel that the same question applies there too.
Obama in his speech yesterday touched on that very question. It is wonderful when I realize that I am not alone in that question.
I look forward to this next series.
March 19th, 2008 at 4:28 pm
I wasn’t taught Black History, either. I wasn’t even aware of the concept of BH, though I did know of historical people who happened to be black. I just wasn’t aware of the politically correct phrase — or even the concept. Why, even today, I’m not sure why its sometimes found necessary to capitalize one race’s adjectival identifier, but not the other. I guess I was inadequately educated.
Obama made sense to me. He was sensitive to both sides, acknowledging grievances on both sides. I suspect more than a few people will be irritated by that. Its possible that it was an appeasement gesture, to make what he said palatable, but somehow I don’t think so. I think he meant it, and I liked what he said. All of it.
March 19th, 2008 at 4:54 pm
I was exposed to this this last weekend when helping a buddy do some farm work in SE Kentucky. His father-in-law, retired navy from Arkansas, was also there and “helped” us. He didn’t like what Bush has done but said that he would vote for Clinton or McCain over Obama. This became apparent when every time we saw a black person, it was “Obama fan this” or “he better go check with Obama”.
March 20th, 2008 at 12:42 am
I have to agree with the Reverend Wright– I’ve felt exactly the same since the Oklahoma City bombing. Never supported and never will support any kind of terrorism, just noting how people can only be kicked around and tormented so much before they explode.
March 20th, 2008 at 9:12 am
“Call me a mutant, but I don’t see that much wrong with Pastor Wright’s sermons. America’s chickens did come home to roost on 9-11.”
These are nearly the exact words (sans the mutant) that my son-in-law and I uttered after hearing this snippet. Rev. Wright was spot-on but much of white America wasn’t ready to hear it. Barack Obama then gave this country (and the world) an educational speech that it needed, whether it wanted it or not, and I just hope it gives those amazing words time to sink in before the next primaries. Obama is becoming the greatest statesmen of our time and if he isn’t given the chance to become our greatest president I’ll crawl in a hole and vote for Ralph Nader.
Thanks, Storm.
k (yer neighbor)