Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
By Nina May www.ERRVideo.com
Democrats
want everyone to think that blacks are
monolithic. Take, for example, that little statistic of the voting habits of
black Americans. It ranges anywhere from 90% to 96% of the vote going to the
Democratic candidate, depending upon the race, the region of the country and
the contest. One small detail is missing though . . . less than 30% of blacks
even vote. So if you take 90% of 29%, you will get about 26% or about one
quarter of the black population that actually votes for the Democratic
candidate.
What about those other 74%? Why
don’t they vote?
We
discovered while filming our documentary, Emancipation Revelation Revolution,
that the reason most blacks feel disenfranchised from the voting machinery is
that they don’t feel comfortable with the Democratic platform and have been
intimidated into believing that the Republican Party is the spawn of Satan.
They reject, as a matter of conscience, most of the social positions the
Democrats espouse. They have seen the figures and realize that 40% of all
abortions are performed on black women and can see the finger of genocide
pointing in their direction. At the same time, there is an erroneous belief
that the Republican Party has been wrong on civil rights and lacks compassion. (Our
movie sets the record straight on that fallacy . . . www.ERRVideo.com)
They have seen the devastation of
the black family at the hand of the party that replaced personal responsibility
with government handouts laced with immoral, impossible conditions. Conditions
like forbidding the father of a woman’s child to live in the family if they are
to receive welfare, or the restriction on returning to school if they are in
the government system. They have seen the black family smeared in the Petri
dish of social experimentation for several generations and realize the same
monolithic mentality exists that identifies blacks as victims of society,
dependent upon “the man” for their very existence. Sound familiar?
What is happening to those who are
breaking out of this mindset, in the year of the “black candidate,” declaring
that the color of Barack’s skin color is irrelevant because the content of his
character is a bigger issue? But that is not what the mainstream media wants to
focus on, because if they did, they would be admitting that blacks are not
monolithic, do not en masse support one party over another, and don’t all
attend churches as divisive as Rev. Wrights.
The debate should be about whether
someone who lacks judgment and attends a divisive church that pits one group of
people against another is qualified to lead an entire nation, not whether Obama
should have thrown Rev. Wright under the bus for political expediency.
What
we are witnessing though, in this entire debate, is another example of the
smugness of the liberal press and the ignorance of those who oppose the liberal
media, because they always let them set the agenda in any debate. The
assumption has been for years, that there really is only one black America with
only two main spokesmen . . .
Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. When Barack Obama broke through that glass
ceiling erected by those who have a vested interest in maintaining the
misperception that blacks can only achieve with government handouts and welfare
policies, the powers-that-be had to restack the deck in order to maintain their
position of power and influence over self-proclaimed leaders who have forfeited
real authority for personal gratification and aggrandizement.
Obama
was allowed to slip through the velvet ropes of low expectations because
Hillary Clinton had already torn the doors off the presidential clubhouse and
demanded her time at the helm. With the common denominator being lowered to the
point that a woman with zero administrative experience, other than being
married to a man that had some, could declare that she was suitable to serve as
president, it now was easier for everyone to cross that threshold. Barack was
whispered to be the only tool powerful enough to derail the queen from
ascending to the thrown and was seen as a uniter of the party with a flawless
resume that offended no one . . . except the liberal power base that expected
all newcomers to make their bones before making such brash declarations.
But
now that his campaign is unraveling with Rev. Wright permanently tattooed on
his forehead, there has to be an easy explanation that will dismiss the reality
of his extreme rhetoric, and the naiveté of Barack to continue learning at his
knee all these years. The liberal . . . white media has to now spin the
discussion away from extremism, and back toward the nuance of wisdom in order
to keep their age old stereotype alive, that all blacks are the same, are a
monolithic group of like-minded people who are so similar that almost 95% vote
the same way.
The
discussion that is not being aired is the divisions within not only the black
communities on key issues, but within the churches as well. There are thousands
of black churches across the nation who are appalled by the rantings of Rev.
Wright and are very upset that the mainstream media has shrugged and suggested
that this is the typical black church, and they have earned the right to hold
such racist views because of past injustices. It is an easy way to keep the
plantation of bitterness and victimization open for business. It is not in the
best interest of liberals to set the captives free from anger and racist
ideology, because once they are free, they speak and think for themselves, they
realize the government has not made their lives easier, but placed impossible
restrictions on their livelihood, their lifestyles, their hopes and dreams for
a brighter tomorrow. The government welfare systems have robbed people of their
dignity while refusing to give helpful alternatives to personal growth. And
those who keep that machine running, keep it fed and churning out new welfare
recipients are liberals who must have that vote to stay alive. They would
literally shrivel up like a salt-pelted slug if that plantation ceased to
exist.
So it is imperative that they
convince white Americans that all blacks are helpless, angry, disenfranchised,
bitter, victims of racism and they will never be able to accomplish anything
without assistance. They even think they are helping Barack by suggesting that
all black churches are like Rev. Wrights and this is what happens in black
churches every Sunday, and it is fine that Barack has attended that church for
20 years. Who are we to say how and where someone should worship? Who are we,
as oppressive, racist whites to condemn Rev. Wright and his church?
But
what if the condemnation was coming from other black pastors . . . would that
be different? It might be different, but you won’t hear it because the liberal
media doesn’t want that voice to be heard. You won’t hear from Bishop Waymond
Burton in North Carolina who is very upset with the McCain campaign for coming
into his state and castigating an ad that tells the truth about Rev. Wright.
You won’t hear from Rev. Bill Owen, Bishop Harry Jackson, Rev. Jesse Peterson,
Rev. O’Neill Dozier, Bishop David Perrin, Mason Weaver, etc. etc., who all have
churches or ministries that truly do teach the love of Christ, forgiveness,
mercy and a need to unite and not divide. We don’t see or hear from brilliant
black scholars like Shelby Steele, Walter Williams, Thomas Sowell, and
thousands of others who are quietly achieving and destroying stereotypes that
have been erected by a class of elitists who must keep blacks forever in this
victim class to maintain their political power and control.
I
once had the opportunity to host the president of an African country in the
U.S. and took him, with several others, to two black churches in DC. Many
people asked why we were going to two since all black churches were the same.
It was an odd statement that was repudiated at the end of the second service.
The first church we attended was a
Rev. Wright type church, complete with racial vitriol, anger, intimidation and
oppressive messages that served only to keep that slobbering spirit of racism
fat and happy. It was a frightening experience, and other than the two secret
service men assigned to the visiting president, there were only three of us who
were white. We honestly did not think we would make it out of the church alive.
The pastor, who ironically is a friend and had been at our home the night
before for a reception, was going on and on about whites being the cause of all
of their problems, that there didn’t need to be accountability for any actions
because they could not be blamed for anything . . . only white men could
because of blah blah blah. There was no love, there was no joy, mercy,
forgiveness, impartation of empowerment or sense of purpose . . . there was no
Jesus in this “Christian” church that sang the same hymns I grew up with in a
Baptist church. The façade of Christianity was embarrassing and an affront to
what the true teachings of Christ are all about.
We
did not relish the thought of dragging ourselves to the second black church,
certain we were going to, once again, be berated and condemned for lacking
sufficient pigment in our skin. I was not sure my eardrums could handle another
two hours of screaming and rhetorical abuse. But thankfully we went to the
second black church only to be greeted with warm hugs, smiles of delight and
colored-blind eyes that accepted us as members of the Body of Christ. You could
feel the peace and love of the congregation that emanated from the gentleness
and strength of their pastor. The presence of the Holy Spirit was palpable and
by the end of the service, there was not a dry eye in the room, and even one of
the secret service men had tears rolling down his face. What was intended to
happen in the first church, but was met with anger and resentment, was accepted
with gladness and humility in the second church. The visiting president had
wanted to ask forgiveness from the first congregation for his country and his
countrymen, selling the ancestors of these black Americans, into slavery. His
attempt was heartfelt but was totally rebuked.
At
the second church, he was reluctant to say the same thing, but felt compelled
to get down on both knees and beg for forgiveness on behalf of his country for
the way they had treated the ancestors of this group. Even though not one
person in that room had ever sold a slave or been a slave, the spirit of
racism, oppression and bondage is very real in people’s lives as though a
reality occurred in the flesh. His offer of forgiveness was met with tears and
the most amazing outpouring of love and mercy I have ever seen. We were all
hugging each other, crying, laughing, loving . . . just experiencing the pure
love of Christ in our midst. He told us it was worth his trip to America, just
for that one moment.
But
that is not the black church we see or hear about in the news. We keep seeing
the angry clips looped over and over to give the very erroneous impression that
all black churches are like Rev. Wrights and all black parishioners are like
Barack Obama being fed this angry bile every single week, for years and years.
This stereotype continues to divide the nation, feed the racism monster, and
keep a political party in power.
That
is why the focus is no longer whether or not Wright’s church is a typical black
church or not. That discussion is irrelevant and wholly unacceptable. Besides,
based on the liberal manipulation of the masses it would be almost impossible
to believe otherwise. How different is Rev. Wright from Jesse Jackson, Al
Sharpton, Micheal Eric Dyson, Louis Farrakhan who all say the same things but
just with their own personal twist to it. Where are the faces of Bishop Harry
Jackson, or Bishop Burton who, as black men, will denounce this anti-Christian
“Christianity” and the charlatans who are creating negative stereotypes of an
entire class of people? Why aren’t these other voices of reason and wisdom
allowed air time to show the American people that blacks don’t hate whites, or
that to go to college and do well in school should not be considered “acting
white.” Or to succeed as a
conservative black in a “white man’s world” does not in anyway justify names
like Uncle Sam, Aunt Jamima, Oreo cookie or other hateful pejoratives.
I
don’t blame Rev. Wright for fanning the flames of racism, or Barack Obama for
warming his political career on their embers. They are the real victims in this
whole charade because they have bought the lies and distortions of the people
who have historically oppressed them and their ancestors in one form or another
. . . whether in physical chains, philosophical and cultural chains, or now the
chains of victimization and validation of a lifestyle that does nothing but rob
them of the true life of love and joy that God has destined them to have. If
the scales fell off and they realized the man they should hate is the one who
has robbed their dignity by categorizing all blacks as congregating in the same
huddled, victimized masses, then they would stand up and say, no more. They
would say, “We will not allow this blind prejudice to suck our souls from us”
while the forces who have everything to gain, walk away laughing at these fools
who fell for the biggest con in the world.
Blacks
are no more monolithic than whites . . . or women, and to suggest it, to treat
them as such is insulting, demeaning and . . . oh my gosh . . . really racist.
