Was Rev. Wright wrong?

[pachyderm1854]

Do you know whites got help from blacks in Africa to to help capture slaves. Keep blaming everything that happens in the world on whites. Even if no white person had stepped foot in Africa its plight would still be the same today. Stop making excuses for these people.

[justicenoapart]

Yes, he spoke the true. Why so much fuss,I read before from Chomsky, Fisk and others the same criticisms to the US empire. The Real News is great to clearly presente the issue.

[pachyderm1854]

How many white people are in leadership over in those africa countries? It is blacks robbing from their own. Look at a country like Zimbabwe that country has been run down to nothing by the leader a black man.

[nytehawx]

How many white people had rape Africa which causes its strife?

[mweldu]

He is simply speaking truth and fact: you cant deny history.

[pachyderm1854]

That so called pastor since that church adheres to africa I say pick an african country and move there. They would come back to America so fast.

[mweldu]

If you gave this Church all of the 400 years of labor reparrations and resources that were taken and used to build America i dont believe they would be hesitant to live in Afria. Africa is a big continent so be specific but all of Africa is beautiful if it wasnt for colonization and ripping of resources today as well by corporation headed by white people then it would be up on its feet and not in this dire situation.

[EKSartist]

OBAMA on REV. WRIGHT: Rev. Wright served this nation with honor as a United States Marine. He is a respected biblical scholar, and he taught or lectured at seminaries across the country. He also led a diverse congregation that was and still is a pillar of the South Side and the entire city of Chicago. It's a congregation that does not merely preach social justice but acts it out each day, through ministries ranging from housing the homeless to reaching out to those with HIV/AIDS.

[kryz24v]

Ralf Nader or Ron Paul  Think for yourself don't let mainstream media pick the next President!!!

[urlocalSAVAGE]

yeah and Mccain's voters say they're voting for him because he's a funny old man. I bet Mccain sits in a chair when he bathes like a fuckin geriatric.

[urlocalSAVAGE]

OH shut up. Do you speak so ardently when private companies are profiting from the war in Iraq that has claimed the lives of thousands of innocent people. Do you spend this much time speaking out against an illegal occupation?Rev. Wright can say whatever he wants no matter how much we disagree with him. His speech must be protected because that's what free speech is about.Or would you like all of us to be bashful little sheep like yourself?

[playboydojo]

One of the few sober discussions of the Wright nonsense. As cynical as I am, I have never been as disappointed in the partisan zealotry (on both sides) as this week. If Wright's statements were made in acadamia, they would have had to stand on their factual merit. Unfortunately, image and caricature are far more interesting in this struggling ratings slumps.

[hrihiratu]

Obama support the war. That's what he was saying. He was not defending African Americans nor any Americans. Dwight is defending Obama. You people in JJ's church should be angry at Obama for blasting your Pastor.

[PersonalJesus348]

Question: Who are our allies Mr. Obama?

The Rich oil mongers?

[exacerbatedtaboo]

No that the Bush's and Cheney's

[PersonalJesus348]

are you completely sure of that?

"All options are on the table regarding Iran"

-Obama

"'All options are on the table' is code for nukes'" - Fmr. Sen. Mike Gravel

[hypnofan35]

The nature of human thought is that it is, almost by necessity, convoluted. You might define this as sin with the most sinful people having the most convoluted and rule bound belief and rule sets. In this way thoughts are no longer thoughts, but beliefs. We like to believe that beliefs are not the same as sins, but they seem to be. Hierarchical conditioning, sidedness, adversity; all amount to a lot of anti thought or anti logic or convolution of processes for the sake of playing to importance

[hypnofan35]

News has become show biz. Wright is not a KKKer or any thing such; he is just not on board the express train to duplicitous ville. We have a monlithic belief system with mass and rigidity and based on duplicity. The reason we have freedom of speech is so people like rev wright can speak freely. Wright is right.

[DonkeyofHeaven]

Nothing Rev. Wright has said is any different then what Micah has said in the Old Testament. The Christian hypocrits who now denounce Rev. Wright are the same as the religious hypocrits who refused to listen to Micah or Jesus when they were alive. A prophet who speaks the truth about the injustice of the society they live in always becomes the target of the conservatives in power at the time who maintain their power by that very injustice being criticized.

[ivanleonari]

Is this an interview or a PR exercise???

You completely whitewashed the racist comments that were made by saying they were "mostly" political. For example, why didn't you ask him about Rev Wright's assertion that black people were injected with syphillis by the government?

[knightmascara]

ivanleonari, Why do you want to open old wounds. What you are talking about is well known. That was wrong and was talked about many years ago. Do you revisit your sins every day or do you make adjustments and move forward? Everybody has had something done wrong to them in life. Everybody has felt unfairness. Do they dwell on that or do they find the combination to release them from the old chains? I do.

[agitcam]

It isn't an assertion it is fact that black people were not cured of syphillis in order to track the development of the disease. About 200 if memory serves me. I don't think this question is germaine to the topic of this video.

[knightmascara]

Bla bla bla. This is a slant from Real News. Over eight minutes is not needed for this subject.

Wright did not do America justice by his speech.

America is not one moment in history. It is books, beauty, strife, competition and thousands of other subjects.

America is beautiful. And always will be. America is dynamic, not static.

Let Obama move forward! There is much more ground to be discovered and debated.

[bluesky37043]

America has not did justice for herself

[knightmascara]

bluesky37043, Learn how to construct a sentence before you take on the world.

[GFY1954]

America is, and always has been about greed.

[NAes12]

Leave your american bubble and try to empathize with the rest of the planet for once in your fucking life. From a non-american perspective america is not necessarily beautiful. Rev Wright's statements were all FACTUAL. Because you disagree with the facts it means this news station is slanting?

Yeah, let obama move foreward without addressing global stability issues such as israel's rampage and the US government supporting racist regimes. How fucking typical.

[DonkeyofHeaven]

Wright was doing justice to PEOPLE and the Gospel because America is doing injustice to PEOPLE.

Americans don't look to Jesus as a real life role model, instead they want Jesus as a super model that no one can follow. Jesus used strong language and acts of violence against the money lenders in the temple. Wright was doing just the same where hypocrits claim to care for people while they commit injustices against them.

[zagross16]

Obama is a pussy...Wright spoke the TRUTH...Obama is too scared to say anything bad about Israel cause AIPAC funds his campaign and therefor he is owned by AIPAC...its the same with hillary and dont even get me started with Mcain who thinks Putin is the president of Germany, Iran trains Alqaeda, and by his own admition knows nothing about the economy...That man could be the next president, only in America!

[knightmascara]

zagross16, grow up. Your first words smack of immaturity.

[zagross16]

Am i wrong? tell me i am wrong...

[MopacMurtaza]

Brotha, you speak truth, FUCK these Zionists!!

[quixoto]

Don't forget that it's not just AIPAC that forces compliance with the Nation of Israel but in many ways the public at large is set to reject anyone who criticizes the concept of Zionism as anti-semetic.

Just deal with it, man. You're about as likely to get a anti-Zionist, anti-Globalist or anti-Capitalist as you are to get a proud and admitted Atheist elected president.

The public knows what the public wants.

Whether the public is right is immaterial.

[overmind25]

Only partly.

[toyracers]

i love this site!.. absolutely unbiased news reporting.. i wish you had enough money to compete with network news

great coverage on winter soldier

[Darganot]

Then support them yourself...THAT'S THE POINT

no one will do it for you