Hussein’s Church Founded On “The Destruction Of The White Enemy”
Illinois Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Barack Obama speaks during a services at Trinity United Church of Christ Sunday, Oct. 31, 2004, in Chicago
He always knew, he has long been a “passing for not”, racist.
The church where Sen. Barack Obama has worshipped for two decades publicly declares that its ministry is founded on a 1960s book that espouses “the destruction of the white enemy.”
Trinity United Church of Christ’s Web site says its teachings are based on the black liberation theology of James H. Cone and his 1969 book “Black Theology and Black Power.”
“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,” Mr. Cone wrote in the book.
Mr. Cone, a professor at the Union Theological Seminary in New York, added that “black theology will accept only the love of God which participates in the destruction of the white enemy.”
Mr. Obama’s campaign, which for weeks has weathered criticism about inflammatory racial language by the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. at Trinity, said the candidate “vehemently disagrees” with those tenets.
“It’s absurd to suggest that he or anyone should be held responsible for every quote in every book read by a member of their church,” said Obama spokesman Reid Cherlin.
“Barack Obama is not a theologian, and what he learned in church is to love Jesus Christ and work on behalf of his fellow man, regardless of race, class or circumstance. This is a faulty and disingenuous approach to a church, and a flawed way to judge a candidate,” he said.
Mr. Obama has been a member of Trinity, on Chicago’s South Side, since finding religion there 20 years ago under Mr. Wright’s mentorship. Mr. Wright married the Obamas and baptized their children, and a sermon of his inspired Mr. Obama to title his book “The Audacity of Hope.”
There is no evidence to date in any of Mr. Obama’s public comments or speeches that he espouses the radical features of the black liberation theology practiced at his church.
Critics say Trinity’s message verges on separatist philosophy and at the very least advocates exclusively for blacks.
“The liberation theology and the black-values system to which his membership ascribe is a clear commitment to the social and spiritual enhancement of only the black race,” the Rev. Corey J. Hodges, who is black, wrote last year in the Salt Lake Tribune. “Even more troubling is Wright’s use of the pulpit to perpetuate racial division.”
For years, Mr. Wright delivered sermons and endorsed articles in the church bulletin that called the United States and Israel racist regimes.
The bulletin’s “pastor’s page” included essays that said Israel and South Africa “worked on an ethnic bomb that kills blacks and Arabs,” compared Israel to Nazi Germany and quoted leaders of the terrorist group Hamas calling Israel a “deformed modern apartheid state.”
In a bulletin last year, Mr. Wright lashed out at the news media for scrutinizing the church, blaming “racist United States of America” and “white arrogance” for distracting the country from more important issues, such as the Iraq war and Hurricane Katrina victims.
The church declined to comment for this article, but the Rev. Otis Moss III, the church’s junior pastor, who took over for Mr. Wright, wrote in the bulletin in October that media conglomerates “operate with contempt and disdain for the black community, women, and people of the African Diaspora.”
Conrad Worrill, a leader of the Chicago-based National Black United Front, said attention directed at Trinity United demonstrates that racist attitudes persist in the United States.
“Even if [Mr. Obama] did support some of the tenets of some of the ideas embedded in that theology, I still don’t think it has anything to do with his vision and his candidacy,” said Mr. Worrill, whose organization promotes black political and cultural education and activism.
“I think most black people would agree that what Jeremiah Wright said is the truth. … What we see playing out on the public stage is how black people still see America and the world and how white people cannot see the truth. It has nothing to do with Barack Obama.”
Mr. Wright, who recently retired as the church’s pastor after 36 years, defended Trinity’s religious views in “talking points” posted on the church’s Web site (www.tucc.org).
“To have a church whose theological perspective starts from the vantage point of Black liberation theology being its center, is not to say that African or African-American people are superior to anyone else,” he said.
Mr. Cone recently told Forbes magazine that he doesn’t know how much Mr. Obama knows about black-liberation theology.
“I’ve read both of Barack Obama’s books, and I heard the speech [on race]. I don’t see anything in the books or in the speech that contradicts black liberation theology. If he had it explained to him, I think he would [understand it],” he said.
Mr. Cone calls his own teachings a fusion of teachings of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King.
In a debate last month with his rival for the Democratic presidential nomination, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York, Mr. Obama rejected the church’s decision last year to honor Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, who is known for anti-Semitic remarks.
The senator also disavowed some of Mr. Wright’s racist sermons after they were publicized in video clips on television and the Internet and on talk radio.
But in a March 18 speech on race, Mr. Obama said he could not sever ties with the pastor. He said Mr. Wright is like family and that the pastor’s outlook is scarred by civil rights struggles of the 1960s.
Mr. Obama said he was unaware until last month that his longtime spiritual mentor and friend used incendiary racist rhetoric in his sermons, such as denouncing the “U.S. of KKKA” and proclaiming, “God damn America.”
Mr. Obama said rants against whites were never part of the Sunday services he attended.
“I don’t purchase all the DVDs [of Mr. Wright’s sermons], and I didn’t read all the church bulletins,” Mr. Obama said Friday on ABC’s “The View.” “It’s not to excuse it.”
Mr. Obama said his mixed-race heritage — his mother was white and his father black — gives him a unique vantage point from which to help bridge the nation’s racial divides.
“The church itself, though, is a wonderful, welcoming church. And if you guys went there on a Sunday, you would feel right at home,” he told the panelists on TV’s “The View,” most of them white. “You would see people talking about Jesus, and mercy, and sin, and family … and forgiveness.”
“That doesn’t excuse what [Mr. Wright] said, but I do think it’s important just to put it in context.”
The Rev. Jane Fisler Hoffman, a member of Trinity who serves as a pastor in Southern California, said the Chicago church does not follow a radical doctrine, despite the angry words of Mr. Cone’s treatise.
“It may have had some influence on what unfolded, but [Trinity] is a wonderful church, not a separatist church,” said Mrs. Hoffman, who is white. “Anyone who tries to paint the church as hateful would be missing the mark.”
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Israel and South Africa “worked on an ethnic bomb that kills blacks and Arabs,”
April 1st, 2008 at 3:18 amI don’t buy it.
If this were true we’d have allot less troubles running around in Africa and the Middle East.
for the first time in my life..i’m ashamed of black America
April 1st, 2008 at 3:22 amDon’t you be tasin’ BHO, he just had a bad case of “the White Devils” blues plus he needed to increase his Angry Black Man vote. I wonder if his Gun Grabbin’ includes his brothers in the New Black Panther Party?
April 1st, 2008 at 3:30 amI see a black madrassa.
Am I a fool to believe that we are to judge someone not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character?
It is obvious that the man with an unspeakable middle name judges people by the color of their skin. Just ask his grandmother.
April 1st, 2008 at 3:54 amQuote
The bulletin’s “pastor’s page” included essays that said Israel and South Africa “worked on an ethnic bomb that kills blacks and Arabs,” compared Israel to Nazi Germany and quoted leaders of the terrorist group Hamas calling Israel a “deformed modern apartheid state.”
To teach racial hatred in the name of GOD is to separate completely from the presents of God.
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“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,” Mr. Cone wrote in the book.
This quote allows me to believe that the church is a cult. That has rejected God because of their racial hatred for others and is instead empowered, not by Jesus Christ, but by the divine love expressed in Black Power.
April 1st, 2008 at 4:58 amA few years back the FBI issued a report that al-kyda would be doing a lot of recruiting in Africa. There was also talk of them wanting to set off a nuclear bomb somewhere in the US. I put two and two together and thought the link with al-kyda and Africa would be an excellent cover for them to smuggle and set up close to the center of a large US city a nuclear bomb. The locals in the US would be told that the bomb will only kill white people and they would be given no-snitch cover to set it up. The terrorists disappear and the locals get into the crib for the night content that when they wake up all the white people would be dead.
April 1st, 2008 at 5:11 amSome (chorches) are mosks disguised as (chorches).
April 1st, 2008 at 5:17 amHow would everyone react if the organization was changed. Yes, I was a member of the Nazi party for 10 years, but I was never at a rally where Hitler talked of killing all the Jews. Would that explanation exonerate a war criminal at the trials in Nuremburg? More and more, Mr. Obama has shown that He will never accept any responsibility for anything questionable. I did not attend the church on the days that bad things were said. Someone filled out that form for me, even though my signature is on it.I did not know that the person helping to finance my campain was crooked, and standing trial on corruption charges. The list goes on. Either he is stupid or a liar, and I don’t want either as my President.
April 1st, 2008 at 5:40 amSorry Obama, can’t buy this bill of goods.
April 1st, 2008 at 6:03 amhas anyone ever been to a church where they discuss destroying all black people? i didnt think so. and we’re supposed to be the racist ones? nice try
no senator Byrd, i wasnt directing that question to you. we all know your answer
April 1st, 2008 at 6:15 amWouldn’t the true nature of Barack Obama be told in the transcript of the speech pictured above? If his speech is full of piss and vinegar then you know all the reverend stuff is valid.
April 1st, 2008 at 6:18 amConrad Worrill, a leader of the Chicago-based National Black United Front, said “attention directed at Trinity demonstrates that racist attitudes persist in the U.S. I think most black people would agree that what Jeremiah Wright said is the truth. What we see playing out on the public stage is how black people still see America and the world and how white people cannot see the truth.”
Wrong - everyone sees the truth now. Racist attitudes persist in the US in part, because of the vile racist hatred espoused on Sundays at Trinity and other black churches across America. These toxic sermons are served up family-style to children in order to perpetuate black hatred and victim mentality for future generations to come.
I vote for the separation of church and hate.
April 1st, 2008 at 7:47 am“The Church of What’s Happening Now” is as bogus a church as any Mosque is. Both are racist, seperatists, hate all, but themselves, and practice tagiyya and kitma as part of their fucking culture. Isn’t that what all racist, nazi pukes do?
Imagine if this were a white church. And instead of talking about whitey and the US of KKK, that church used the same racist crap to describe oh let’s say the US of Darkie America?
Shit, there’d be riots in the ghettos led by the Wrong Rev “Jes-thie” Jackson and Al ( I got a hair piece) NotRealSharpton.
Martin Luther King had the right idea…but it looks to me like only whitey bought into it.
Racism is alive and well in the minority world. But ol whitey could care less about it. Hmmm….what’s wrong with this picture?
Osama Bin Lying, much like his adversary She-Who-Flies-On-A-Broom, is just another carnival-barking seller of used shit.
April 1st, 2008 at 7:56 amHe Who Must Not Be Middle-Named’s campaign song:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=5MvGAi0ZBho
April 1st, 2008 at 8:27 amttb
check out this one. NOFX parody song
http://youtube.com/watch?v=s1ilX-D_fLI
April 1st, 2008 at 8:34 amI’ve never been to this site before a co-worker just showed me, and now I know why. You white people have had everything handed to you and you can’t handle the truth.
April 1st, 2008 at 10:26 amif you think that this is truth then we hope you never come back TYM. If you support racism and also believe whites have had everything “handed” to us you’re crazy. maybe you should elaborate on what you mean by that exactly. your opinion was completely lazy and will leave many wondering so maybe you could clarify a little bit.
April 1st, 2008 at 10:46 amKurt,
TYM has to be lying when he states a co-worker introduced him to this site. Anyone with a dumb-ass opinion like that obviously has never put in an honest days work with anyone - white, black, or blue. He has to be sitting on a corner holding out a tin cup.
April 1st, 2008 at 12:42 pmRichard
I was thinking the same exact thing
I was just hoping he would elaborate a little more and expose more of his own stupidity after making an outrageous claim. whites have had everything handed to us. ha!
April 1st, 2008 at 1:40 pmTYM is probably sitting in his mommie’s basement or on some college campus on his mommies dole or the state dole… sucking on the state’s teet.. while sucking racist cock.
April 1st, 2008 at 1:47 pmWhat a loser.
Here is my problem with Obama and the Trinity United Church. I think any average intelligent person, black or white, who belongs and supports a church or organization for 20 years must have some basic understanding of the philosophy of what that church/organization is based on. As the above article points out the Trinity United Church’s own web site states it’s teachings and philosophy are based on “black liberation theology”.
James Cone, the most influential leader of the “black liberation school”, teaches that Jesus is black. This is as stupid as the “Aryan Christianity” school of religion “popular in Nazi Germany, which claimed that Jesus was not a Jew at all but an Aryan Galilean.”
Here are some more Cone’s teachings which the Trinity United Church is based on:
-”Black theology refuses to accept a God who in not identified totally with the goals of the black community. If God is not for us and against white people, then he is a murderer, and we had better kill him. The task of black theology is to kill Gods who do not belong to the black community.”
-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.”
Take the word black and change it to white, and the word white and change it to black. Aryan Christianity is called racism. Black liberation theology is called ….? Racism is racism is racism no matter what color you put on it.
This brings me back to Obama and his 20 years in this church. As I said, I think any average person would know what their church philosophy was based on after 20 years. Obama is not your average person, this is a highly intelligent, Harvard educated lawyer who wants to be the President. He wants us to believe he did not see the extent of racism that black liberation theology espouses. If this is true and he did not know about the “Black liberation theology” philosophy, for some one who wants to be President his judgment and insight seems to be lacking and questionable. This is also the church where he is sending his daughters in their formative years.
The other answer is he has not been totally truthful, and to me this is even more scary to think someone with these beliefs might sit in the White House.
April 1st, 2008 at 1:50 pmTYM: “You white people…”
Yet I’m sure he’s the first to scream if someone says, “You black people…”
What the ‘Black Liberation Movement’ never seems to realize is that if the world was really how they see it, they’d all be dead or in chains.
Much like the hippie protestors who rail against a ‘Fascist Police State’ when, if this really was one, they’d be in a camp or unmarked grave.
Neither seem to have learned the lesson of the Boy Who Cried Wolf.
April 1st, 2008 at 4:09 pm@ az(oneliner)bastard you mean this is the first time?!?
April 1st, 2008 at 4:24 pm“Conrad Worrill, a leader of the Chicago-based National Black United Front, said attention directed at Trinity United demonstrates that racist attitudes persist in the United States.”
By attention he means criticism, thus he is saying that criticism of Blacks who are critical of others is racism. In otherwords, we can use scathing criticism , but when whitey does then he is a racist.
Worril like the theologian Cone are racists. they hate whitey and seek their destruction.
I love how obama appeals to his european ancestry when it suits him otherwise he is busy throwing the grandparents who cared for him under a bus.
I guess we are too stupid for Obama when we dont buy into the crap that says you can know a pastor intimately, yet never witness his racists and looney conspiratorial remarks.
April 1st, 2008 at 8:40 pmThere is an excellent article by by Michael Medvet at townhall.com.. He has about ten questions for Obama concerning Rev. Wright and the Trinity Church. It’s well worth the read. If the attached link does not work just go to townhall.com and you will find the article
April 2nd, 2008 at 12:15 amhttp://townhall.com/columnists/MichaelMedved/2008/04/02/the_wright_questions_for_obama
OLD hit the nail on the head with his comment. also, TYM would have had his ass handed to him daily by most of the blacks I served with in the Corps. The fact the media and many black racists (they call themselves activists)focus only on those in our country that are black and in dire straights is pathetic and so misleading. I grew up in a household where my father worked whenever he could. He did what he could to earn a dime, sometimes holding three or four jobs to keep the rent and utilities paid and food on the table. I wore hand me downs all through school, only getting new clothes when I was too tall and skinny to fit into anything my brother or cousins outgrew. There were too many times we went hungry. It wasn’t until I was out of high school that my father was finally able to find work year round, and thankfully my parents retirement is decently comfortable. there were times we were on foodstamps, when mom was able to swallow her pride enough to get the government cheese and other foodstuffs. We got the tar beat out of us when we misbehaved. today it would be considered abuse, but times were different then. Times were very hard for us growing up. I still scrimp and save when i can, I hope to never have my son go hungry. He wears hand me downs from his cousin, to him they are great because his favorite cousin wore them. I am in my mid-forties, and still paying off student loans from my under grad and MBA, NO ONE handed me squat!
I see daily where the people who cry about racism are the last to ever offer help to their own. Why is it the so many blacks have to drive new cars, pimp them out with hundreds or thousands of dollars worth of gadgets, and complain that the government doesn’t do enough for them while they are living on public assistance, in subsidized housing?
When will the MSM start portraying the truth in what they report about anything? (yeah, i thought that was a pipe dream as well)
April 2nd, 2008 at 4:47 amBradW-
YOU hit the nail on the head with your post. This thread has been archived, but I had to respond. The account of your formative years probably reflects the experience of most who post on Pat’s site, mine included. IMHO, the downfall of this country will be the death of the nuclear family. Just take the mother of the female student charged with assaulting her schoolbus driver. She whines that no one should discipline her child. My old man would have had the skin of my ass hanging from the woodshed if I had tried that stunt. I wouldn’t have considered voluntering the information to my parents that I got in trouble at school because the punishment was always twice as bad at home. My parents expected the best from me and wouldn’t rest unless I gave it. Thank God for parents who care!
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