In any case- I find Wright’s comment that Farrakhan “didn’t make Wright this color” to be a bizarre bit of self-hatred.

[Editor --- Good thing since he's not running for President. According to the race-hustling, bigoted, anti-semitic "reverend", he's only angling for the Vice Presidency.]

As mentioned, this was summer of 1984, so at the time the world’s longest-suffering black political prisoner suffered his incarceration and tortures in stoic defiance. “Nigger!” taunted his jailers between tortures. “We pulled you down from the trees and cut off your tail!”
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Jackson and Wright’s Cuban pilgrimage was arranged by the Cuban Council of Churches, who sprang for the full $300,000 tab. “ I have been affiliated with the Cuba Council of Churches since the 1980s,” boasted Reverend Jeremiah Wright in a sermon just last year. “I have several close Cuban friends who work with the Cuba Council of Churches and you have heard me preach about our affiliation and the Black Theology Project’s trips to Cuba.”
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The Cuban Council of Churches, according to Cuban intelligence defector, Juan Vives, is an arm of Cuba’s ICAP (Instituto Cubano de Amistad con los Pueblos) itself an arm of Cuba’s DGI, Cuba’s secret police, founded and mentored by the KGB and East German STASI. the ICAP’s long-time chieftan was Rene Cruz Rodriguez whose meteoric rise through Cuba’s Stalinist bureaucracy was facilitated by his diligence as an early executioner, often beating out Che Guevara and Raul Castro themselves in his zeal to shatter the firing-squad victim’s skull with a coup d’ grace from his .45.

Humberto Fontova.

The left, whether it is full blown Marxist-Leninist, or American liberals, never cease to amaze me with their misguided ideas that cause so much harm.

pattycakes-you bring the substance,

Yawn – case in point.

pattycakes-you bring the substance, or contribute to that which already exists here, and folks will gladly engage. you post and post and post but we’re all still waiting. instead you talk about a dudes codpiece and choose a historically androgynous handle for yourself and then whine like a bitch about being given little jock-boy nicknames.
“authoritarians”? did someone forget to drink their anti-sensitivity formula this morning? “without cheap bluster” these threads would ignore you. with it, we get to laugh a little more than your marshmallow-squeezing comments already make us. perhaps i will grow out of this, but more likely, you’ll learn, as do most small children, to ignore undesirable verbal comments.

Some authoritarians grow out of it once they’ve had their asses kicked a few times by the bigger bullies. Pretty obvious that y’all missed that stage of your development.

what’ s wrong is attacking this guy wright and then advocating the military murder anyone who says or does anything against them. see, you missed the point there. i know how ex military can be. and they can be that. they’re just people. they have the same personality flaws as anyone else.

bush’s last presidential opponent? you mean john mccain? if i remember right, bush 2 actually attacked john mccain’s military service in order to defeat him and now john mccain has accepted his endorsement. if that’s not proof that vets are opportunistic, then i don’t know what is. probably not what you meant though. sorry about that.

i’m not waving military enlistments like get out of jail free cards. nothing in what i said is excusing wright for what he has said. he can say what he wants, that doesn’t make him right (ha).

so really, my whole comment had nothing to do with defending wright or avoiding confronting what he said, it was a comment meant to illustrate that its heard to listen to the message when the messenger doesn’t agree with himself…a lot. way to miss the whole point though.