This time, it’s not America.
CNS: Obama’s Pastor Slurs Italians in Latest Magazine by Susan Jones
CNS: Obama’s Pastor Slurs Italians in Latest Magazine by Penny Starr
Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., pastor emeritus of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago where Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) has been a member for two decades, slurred Italians in a piece published in the most recent issue of Trumpet Newsmagazine.
“(Jesus’) enemies had their opinion about Him,” Wright wrote in a eulogy of the late scholar Asa Hilliard in the November/December 2007 issue. “The Italians for the most part looked down their garlic noses at the Galileans.
“From the circumstances surrounding Jesus’ birth (in a barn in a township that was under the Apartheid Roman government that said his daddy had to be in), up to and including the circumstances surrounding Jesus’ death on a cross, a Roman cross, public lynching Italian style. …” Wright wrote.
“Garlic noses”
Try to imagine an Italian pastor commenting on the size of any black man’s nose. Do you think Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and the other race pimps would stay silent on that? (Let’s ask Don Imus how much ink was spilled over his [moronic] comments about the Rutgers women’s basketball team.)
Wright lashes out at Jesus’s “public lynching Italian style,” but the nation of Italy did not exist until 1861. It is true that modern Italy has its roots in the Roman Empire, but to label the Roman Empire, which stretched over most of modern Europe, northern Africa, and the Middle East, as “Italian” is plainly inaccurate.
Being a pastor, Wright should know that Pontius Pilate demanded explanation and justification from the Jews for executing Jesus. Pilate asked the crowds “what evil has [Jesus] done?” Fearing a riot would break out, did not Pilate, who was guilt-ridden, publicly try to remove himself from the whole situation by saying, “I am innocent of this Man’s blood”? Does Wright credit that “garlic nose” for his public reluctance when presented with Jesus? Of course not. Historical accuracy is irrelevant; public grievances and the opening of wounds are much more profitable.
Perhaps the worst of all is the poisonous, Marxist notion of group identity. Karl Marx wrote about the proletariat vs. the bourgeois, but today this has been substituted with the liberal Holy Trinity of race, class, and gender. The common thread among these is similar to what Marx described: one class oppressing the other. The litany goes like this: white Europeans oppress blacks, men oppress women, the rich oppress the poor. Here, Wright is merely inserting the thinking commonly exercised among professional grievance mongers in regard to race. Rather than whites and blacks, it’s Italians harming Jews (or Jew).
Any historical realities or facts that might contradict this Marxist narrative will either be ignored or worse.
As for Jeremiah Wright, he has proven to be an embarrassment to his community and to his congregation. While Wright could be helping Obama into the White House, this loud mouthed pastor has only been an albatross not only to Obama but the entire Democrat Party.
Filed under: Barack Obama / The Messiah, Crazy liberals , Barack Obama, Chicago, Crazy liberals, Italians, Jeremiah Wright, Jesus, pastors, Pilate, Romans, Trinity United Church of Christ, Trumpet Newsmagazine
[...] Garlic noses “(Jesus’) enemies had their opinion about Him,” Wright wrote in a eulogy of the late scholar Asa Hilliard in the November/December 2007 issue. “The Italians for the most part looked down their garlic noses at the Galileans. [...]