xfaehunterx wrote:[Do you have any idea how ignorant you sound to anyone who's the least bit informed? I'm betting you've never heard any of the "racist, hate speech preacher"'s actual sermons, just little clips taken out of context. News flash: You can take ANYTHING out of context. I could point to some Bible verses that'd make you squirm in your seat. You need to stop relying on Rush Limbaugh and Faux News for your facts and do a little bit of independent research. Either that or STFU; you're making us all a little bit stupider with each post.
I watched the entire "governments change" sermon from beginning to end. I was not impressed with the grade school history summary (very similar to Obama's lame post-Wright speech), but I do (and always have) agreed with the points he was making about our history;
however
Each time he said "governments change," this created a new context. His final chapter (and final context) sums it up. I emboldend that part of the sermon that relates to presend day America. The rest is just history and has, for the most part, been amended.
"And the United States of America government, when it came to treating her citizens of Indian descent fairly, she failed. She put them on the reservations. When it came to treating her citizens of Japanese descent fairly, she failed. She put them in internment prison camps. When it came to treating the citizens of African descent fairly, America failed. She put them in chains. The government put them on slave quarters, put them on auction blocks, put them in cotton fields, put them in inferior schools, put them in substandard housing, put them in scientific experiments, put them in the lowest paying jobs, put them outside the equal protection of the law, kept them out of the racist bastions of higher education and locked them into positions of hopelessness and helplessness.
The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law and then wants us to sing 'God Bless America'?
"No, no, no, not 'God Bless America,' 'God Damn America.' That's in the Bible, for killing innocent people. God damn America for treating its citizens as less than human, God damn America as long as she tries to act like she is God and she is supreme. The United States government has failed the vast majority of her citizens of African descent."
My interpretation of this is that because we pass laws that crack down on criminals, we should God Damn America. Even with the empathy I have for the past wrongs imposed upon Native Americans (I am a little bit Native Cherokee), Japanese Americans and African-Americans, I cannot condone criminal conduct by anyone. America is "federal" and if you can manage to get convicted in federal court 3 times, then, as Chris Rock so aptly explained: "then maybe you need your ass kicked".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uj0mtxXEGE8
...Oh, the freedom of the day that yielded to no rule or time...