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I watched the videos of the Rev. right that have flooded the interent and they are a pretty touigh pill yo swallow, but swallow it we must.

Even if we completely hate the message, there isn't any point in shooting the messenger.

I think the problem that most people are having with the Rev. words are not so much that they are vile, but that they are, in large part, true.

Race relations in this country are a long, long way from the ideal picture we want to paint.

Bigotry, mistrust and even hatred is still alive and well in the good old US of A and if you doubt that look at the results of the votes in Mississippi. Clinton got what 90% of the white vote, Obama 95% of the black votes and it had nothing to do with their politics and everything to do with their race.

If you 'polled' the whites in Mississippi as to why they voted for Clinton over Obama knowing how dirty she is, they'll tell you, quite honestly and even proudly that they'd rather vote for a dirty white politician than an intelligent, and virtually clean black man.

Yeah, race is an issue in this election, even though we all know it shouldn't be.

But, back to the Rev. much viewed pulpit rants. I saw very few young blacks in that congregation. His message of anger and yes, even hatred was listened to primarily by the older blacks, who like Obama said in his speech lived the horror of segregation. They were taught hatred and mistrust by not only their parents,but by white America as well.

The younger generation is struggling with racial issues too, but let's give the younger generation credit, the hatred and mistrust is no longer being taught by most.

Our only hope to unite this country and ease racial tensions is to allow Rev Wright his rants and try to understand exactly why he feels as he does.

All we whites really need to do is put ourselves in a black man's place, and try to imagine how we would feel if the shoe was on the other foot.

Try to imagine your fear if you were Rosa Parks on that bus, or how about that black man in Texas that was chained to the back of a pick-up truck and dragged to death down a dark country road.

Yes, these images incense us, but not to the degree that we are willing to do whatever it takes to insure that it never happens again. And that I find truly sad.

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FlaNative read my blog view my photos
Mar 20, 2008 | 11:08 AM

I always thought Church was a place to talk about God and religion, NOT politics!!

rexsmom read my blog view my photos
Mar 20, 2008 | 11:14 AM

Wait you forgot about the white couple in Tennessee that was tortured and raped to death by the local gang of 5 black thugs.

LLRucker read my blog view my photos
Mar 20, 2008 | 11:48 AM

Yes, rex's mom, there is cruelty and acts of unspeakable violence by every race. It's NOT however race specific, but rather species specific. Human beings are the only animals on the planet that kill for the sheer joy of killing.

LLRucker read my blog view my photos
Mar 20, 2008 | 11:48 AM

Flanative, just TRY to keep church and state separated and please let me know how that works out for you, okay?

afelton read my blog
Mar 20, 2008 | 12:03 PM

Great post, LL. You found the words to say that I couldnt.

Sorrento_Dude read my blog
Mar 20, 2008 | 12:37 PM

Why dont people understand. Different races of people will never get along 100 percent. When you have different people you have people who just dont and never will get along. Stop trying to force people to get along. The problem is that our country tries to pretend that white people are the only racist people on the planet. All races are racist to some extent. That will never change. Get used to it. It is finally time that some negro stood up in public and told everyone how he feels. I know I feel better.

Sorrento_Dude read my blog
Mar 20, 2008 | 12:40 PM

Next we will hear that whitey invented crime to lock up violent thugs.

Booggymann read my blog view my photos
Mar 20, 2008 | 1:37 PM

LL if a whiteman was caught saying those things he would charged with a hate crime. And defending what he said is just as bad. when a whiteman says racially charge statement we distance ourselves from him. When a blackman kills a man and almost decapatates is wife and when a black football player fights dogs and then murders them and Man of the cloth spews the racist puke and his hatered for America the black community all gathers around to support and make exuces for those men....

Whats wrong with that picture?

afelton read my blog
Mar 20, 2008 | 2:13 PM

when Duane Dog Chapman said his little thing, Sean Hannity went to bat for him and didnt distance himself from him but when Reverend Wright said his thing, he is calling for Obama to disown him. Now is that fair? I think that the Reverend words could of been said differently but I have heard my own mother in law tell my wife not to marry me because she didnt believe that the races should mix. Now I can NEVER understand that logic. What makes another race better than the other that they cant mix. My wife didnt agree with her but she isnt disowning her own mom.
The problem is that people(black and white)get offended to easily in our society (and I am guilty of that sometimes myself).

Booggymann read my blog view my photos
Mar 20, 2008 | 2:43 PM

Afelton sean Hanity is one guy, The majority of people disowned the dog. And he has done alot of good stuff. But anrguing the example I gave is pretty tough. I am not saying all black people back these people I mentioned but I am saying alot of them did.

Abunai read my blog view my photos
Mar 20, 2008 | 4:03 PM

I say we let it get past us now and move on!! I want to now bring attention to the Rev. Denning and his black church in Harlem now! He makes Wright look like a boy scout! He uses phrases that Imus was destroyed for, including Obama being the product of a Muslim in heat searching out white trash! Oh Yes!! Lets just continue to spread that word of God shall we?....

Lets see if Hillary now will have to answer for the black churchs that support her! After all, her husband was the "first black president" was he not?

ZiggyFla read my blog view my photos
Mar 20, 2008 | 4:54 PM

LL wrote: I think the problem that most people are having with the Rev. words are not so much that they are vile, but that they are, in large part, true.

Sounds like you need to get off these blogs and go join his so called Church. I'm not going to blog my feelings because they are not words I need to put in writing.

PegasusWing read my blog view my photos
Mar 20, 2008 | 5:13 PM

I know what Hillary and the bald Hillary will be like in the White House. I am white, but am willing to take a chance on Obama. At least there is a chance that he will be a good leader. He will need good advisors, but I suspect that he is decent, not versed in all issues, but not so know it all that he can not learn. Race has never been an issue with me. Class is an issue and the Clintons simply have none. Intregrity does count.

mscsailor read my blog
Mar 20, 2008 | 5:19 PM

LL sez- "All we whites really need to do is put ourselves in a black man's place, and try to imagine how we would feel if the shoe was on the other foot."

That white guilt trip song is getting pretty old.

Sorrento_Dude read my blog
Mar 20, 2008 | 5:29 PM

duan 'dog' chapman is not Sean's pastor or "spiritual leader". There is a difference there. Obama is a racist pig and he should step down.

ZiggyFla read my blog view my photos
Mar 20, 2008 | 6:12 PM

Your right Sorrento he needs to step down. He's running around campaigning like he's a perfect gentlemen when behind that wall is a totally different person. I hope people are discovering this and he sinks very low because we know he's not stepping down.

DaytonaFrank read my blog view my photos
Mar 20, 2008 | 6:16 PM

Well, I think the pendulum has indeed swung the other way. Blacks today have far more than equal rights.
They have superior rights! They can say and do things that whites cannot. And they do.

afelton read my blog
Mar 20, 2008 | 6:41 PM

Well DaytonaFrank you are correct when you say that the pendulum has indeed swung the other way but the Bible does mention that a man reaps what he sows so i may get some disagreement with this statement But MAYBE just Maybe that is why the pendulum has swung the other way.

DaytonaFrank read my blog view my photos
Mar 20, 2008 | 7:06 PM

Could be you are right felton. It would be nice if the damn thing just stopped in the middle.
Doesn't seem like that will ever happen though............

Abunai read my blog view my photos
Mar 20, 2008 | 7:37 PM

Lets not forget that Obama up to the point of the Church event, was getting the "other than black" vote in very big numbers. This election was his to loose. Now he has become the victim by association not because of what he has done, but because of what he has NOT done.

He is already whispering statments that maybe the country just isn't ready for a black president.. OH PLEASE!!! Not the Pity card along next to the race card!!

You had the majority of the nation on your side Obama! It is because you would not distance or denounce HATE from a clear bigot!
Nobdy cared what your skin color was! But they will not stand beside a man who stand by hate and defends it! If you had stood by Martin Luther King instead, your numbers would be still soaring through the roof!

It is YOU Obama that does not "get it."

pLOp25 read my blog
Mar 20, 2008 | 7:57 PM

With all the "extras" the black race gets in this day and age, I have many times thought how nice it would be if "the shoe was on the other foot"!! Sure there was fear in Rosa Parks but, come on, that was years and years ago. How about the fear in the white man when he was being robbed at knife point by two black men...yesterday. If the shoe was on the other foot, my a_ _!!

LLRucker read my blog view my photos
Mar 20, 2008 | 8:27 PM

Hey ziggy, you know what they say about opinions, right? You're welcome to yours and I'll keep blogging mine.
You are free to not read or participate if you find my posts offensive, but to you I'll simply say, grow up.

LLRucker read my blog view my photos
Mar 20, 2008 | 8:30 PM

Timidity is for folks who can't put their feelings into words. Not for fear of being 'heard' so much as for fear of being ridiculed. I'm not one of those people and I welcome open debates with intelligent people. But please, never try to enter a war of words and wits if you are unarmed.

pLOp25 read my blog
Mar 20, 2008 | 8:54 PM

"Never try to enter a war of words and wits if you are unarmed." Then why did you post this rediculous blog???

J_Darrowin read my blog view my photos
Mar 20, 2008 | 10:51 PM

Ok, fine. Let's put Rev. Wright behind us. Now, about that Bill Ayers and the Weather Underground thing...

If you'ed like, we can also discuss Obama's facination with Marxist/Communist writers as well. Maybe his association with Louis Farrakhan as well? You can tell alot about a man by the company he keeps. We don't have to just concentrate on Rev. Wright.

FlaNative read my blog view my photos
Mar 20, 2008 | 11:44 PM

Has nothing to do with separating church and religion LL. I've never heard my pastor in this, or any other church I've attended (24 years of moving I've been to my fair share) talk about politics from the pulpit!!! If they did, I'd get up and walk out!!

Are you saying you have been to a white church where politics is preached??? Only in a black church that I know of.

pLOp25 read my blog
Mar 20, 2008 | 11:59 PM

Don't come down on LL. She is the true defination of a clost racist.

afelton read my blog
Mar 21, 2008 | 12:57 AM

umm FlaNative. i have been to a white church where politics is being preached. As a matter of fact the name of the sermon was Why would Jesus Vote? Also John Hagee talks about politics as well. so this doesnt only involve a black church.

Mater01 read my blog view my photos
Mar 21, 2008 | 1:12 AM

I call it TREASON and DISCRIMUNATION!

LLRucker read my blog view my photos
Mar 21, 2008 | 9:42 AM

I'm not in the closet about anything. If you have a question, fell free to ask it. If you have an opinion feel free to voice it. I'm not afraid of words and never have been.
Am I a closet racist? I'm not in the closet, and I certainly never claimed to be un-racially biased. I have my problems with the blacks and their sense of entitlement; but by the same token, I can also understand, at least partially, why they feel the way they do, and if you are honest, so can you.
But, I will tell you this, only a fool or an idiot will continue to beleive that all of this will fade away, or that the blacks will just finally throw up their hands in defeat. It ain't gonna happen.
They are here, they are as American as you or I,and as such, like it or not, they are entitled to the same rights that whites have. To believe any differently is sheer ignorance.
I've already told folks about my family and my upbringing. But for those of you who missed it:
I was raised in the deep south. My mother's family were and are extreme racists. My grandfather was not even in the closet about his hatred of the blacks. He was born in AL in 1890. He participated in the 'execution' of a black man who was accused of raping a young white girl. The chosen method of 'execution' was to chain the man to a tree and shoot him to pieces with shotguns, or so the story goes.
My uncles and many of my cousins were openly hostile to blacks and I was raised in that environment of hate and mistrust, fear and ignorance. I carried those beliefs into my adult life and even taught it to my own children.
But then I gre

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LLRucker

I am a writer with two published novels and dozens of short stories and articles to my credit. Besides writing, I enjoy crafting hand made quilts and reading.

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