‘A Modern Frederick Douglass’: Why Did MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry Pen a Defense of Jeremiah Wright?
- Posted on June 21, 2012 at 3:40pm by
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MSNBC is scarcely the be-all and end-all of journalism — in fact, it’s quite the opposite. The network has deceptively edited video and audio, misled viewers about multiple sclerosis treatments, and made more than a few questionable hiring decisions. However, for all its flaws, MSNBC has not yet sunk to the level of Current TV, and does still welcome at least a few people to provide token opposition to its overwhelmingly liberal bent, including The Blaze’s own S.E. Cupp. We thus give them some credit.
Nevertheless, MSNBC has to be held to its own standards. And given the outsized, vicious criticism of the religious convictions of Mitt Romney (as well as those of several other Republicans) that MSNBC has gone through, we presume that one of those standards is refusing to affiliate with people who defend, or are connected to, extreme religious figures/movements. And perhaps no figure in American religion and public life is more extreme than the Reverend Jeremiah Wright.
Jeremiah Wright
So it stands to reason that, if one of MSNBC’s most prominent rising stars were to defend Wright as being a heroic figure on the same level as the great anti-slavery orator Frederick Douglass, for instance, those standards would be violated. Unfortunately for MSNBC, that’s exactly what has happened, in the case of their weekend anchor and self-proclaimed race expert Melissa Harris-Perry.
By now, it is fairly safe to assume that readers of The Blaze are aware of the existence of Ms. Perry. The Blaze’s Benny Johnson has already reported on a few of Perry’s greatest hits, summed up in an article posted on Tuesday:
According to MSNBC Host Melissa Harris-Perry
- 9/11 vaulted America into a “nationalist fervor” that was similar to “having post-traumatic stress disorder”
- Makes racial joke about African-American men wearing NYPD hats
- 9/11 provided an opportunity for a new “racial enemy” in America
- America “identifies who we are…through our notions of whiteness and of the racial enemies that are the non-whites”
- 9/11 gave America a chance to shift its racial hate from “Reagan‘s ’welfare Queen’“ to ”imagine” our enemy as ”somehow Muslim, or Arab, or Sikh, or something else.”
- Americans an ability to “stomach a kind of horrific racial violence in the name of national security”
- Those that are “activating terrorism against us” are “imagined racial enemies
Melissa Harris Perry
Now, even to sympathetic readers, these sentiments should sound pointlessly extreme in the absence of ironclad proof (which is nonexistent). However, they could still be mistaken for merely the usual racially sensitive assertions of a liberal anchor, unlike support for Wright, which would mark Perry as a genuine radical. As such, some context is required before we show you the “smoking gun.”
Let’s start by pointing out the biggest commonality between Perry and Jeremiah Wright — namely, that the two are both connected to a school of religious thought known as black liberation theology.
And what is black liberation theology? Nothing less than a religious doctrine that racism as the equivalent of original sin — irrefutable and inescapable. It is, in essence, a Christian mirror of the black Islam taught by Louis Farrakhan. In 2008, National Review’s Stanley Kurtz explained:
From the standpoint of the black-liberation theology that informs Trinity’s worship, there is a yawning gulf between authentic, liberating Christianity and conventional American Christianity. According to the black-liberation theology’s founder, James Cone, Christianity as commonly practiced in the United States is actually the false Christianity of the racist Antichrist. Any Christianity not imbued with “liberating” leftist revolutionary zeal is dismissed by Cone as the work of “white devil oppressors.” While that sort of radicalism may seem an outdated relic of the late Sixties, a reading of Trumpet 2007 shows that, for Wright and his followers, little has changed since then. [...] [Emphasis added]
In fact, over and above the famous “Empowerment Award” Wright bestowed on Farrakhan, Trumpet regularly features positive mentions of Farrakhan and his Nation of Islam. There is a kind of informal nexus between Wright, Farrakhan, and Pfleger, each of whom are bound by an allegiance to black-liberation theology, or to the black Muslim nationalism that inspired James Cone to create black-liberation theology to begin with.
Wright’s connection to this school of thought is obvious — according to Kurtz, the founding thinker of black liberation theology, James L. Cone, considers Wright’s Trinity United Church of Christ to be the model church for his form of “Christianity.”
But how do we know Harris-Perry is connected? Her MSNBC biography offers a clue.
No, really. You see, before she became a talking head, Perry was actually an accomplished academic in the realm of African American studies. Not that you’d know it from MSNBC, which devotes only this paragraph — at the very end of her staff biography — to Perry’s educational attainments:
Professor Harris-Perry received her B.A. in English from Wake Forest University, her Ph.D. in political science from Duke University and an honorary doctorate from Meadville Lombard Theological School. And she studied theology at Union Theological Seminary in New York. She lives in New Orleans with her husband, James Perry, and is the mother of a terrific daughter, Parker.
Why bury this paragraph at the end of her biography? Probably because it mentions one of Perry’s potential connections to black liberation theology — namely, her affiliation with Union Theological Seminary.
Union Theological Seminary
Union Theological Seminary is, as it turns out, essentially the fons et origo of black liberation theology in the United States. In fact, one of its professors is no less an eminence than James Cone himself, who has taught at Union since the late 60′s, when black liberation theology first began to be created. And as it turns out, Perry’s bio seriously undersells her relationship to the seminary. An article in Diverse Education about Perry’s move away from Princeton University, dated February 28, 2011, includes the following information about Perry’s affiliation with Union:
Several years ago, she enrolled as a Master of Divinity student at Union Theological Seminary in New York City, but is unsure if she will finish the program because of the relocation. “If anything I am a better student than anything else,” she says, adding that she enrolled at Union because she wanted to better understand the role of the Black church in political movements.
A Master of Divinity degree. Granted, the degree may have been unfinished, but still, this is a fairly close association with the school. And why attend a school renowned for its affiliation with black liberation theology while studying the role of the black church unless there was a predisposition to believe in liberation theology? Suspicions abound.
So now we know why Perry would feel compelled to defend Jeremiah Wright. But what’s the evidence that she did? And how do we know that just because she attended Union Theological Seminary, she also holds the views of its dominant religious school? Well, let’s stare down the barrel of the smoking gun (so to speak) with regards both to her black liberation theology-influenced worldview and to her sympathies with one of America’s genuine religious extremists.
We must start with the fact that Melissa Harris-Perry didn’t always call herself Melissa Harris-Perry. In fact, until recently, she went by the name Melissa Harris-Lacewell, and was known publicly by that name. Here is the Huffington Post’s biography for Melissa Harris-Lacewell:
Melissa Harris-Lacewell is Associate Professor of Politics and African American Studies at Princeton University. She received her B.A. in English from Wake Forest University, her Ph.D. in political science from Duke University and an honorary doctorate from Meadville Lombard Theological School. She is also a student at Union Theological Seminary in New York.
She is author Barbershops, Bibles, and BET: Everyday Talk and Black Political Thought, (Princeton 2004). This text demonstrates how African Americans develop political ideas through ordinary conversations in places like barbershops, churches, and popular culture. The work was awarded the 2005 W.E.B. DuBois book award from the National Conference of Black Political Scientists. It is also the winner of the 2005 Best Book Award from the Race and Ethnic Politics Section of the American Political Science Association. Her academic research has been published in scholarly journals and edited volumes and her interests include the study of African American political thought, black religious ideas and practice, and social and clinical psychology. She is at work on a new book: For Colored Girls Who‘ve Considered Politics When Being Strong Wasn’t Enough. It is an examination of the connections between shame, sadness, and strength in African American women’s politics.
Professor Harris-Lacewell’s writings have been published in the Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Crain’s Chicago Business and New York Newsday. She has provided expert commentary on U.S. elections, racial issues, religious questions and gender issues for the New York Times, Boston Globe, CNN, NBC, Fox, Public Television, Showtime, Black Enterprise, National Public Radio and many other radio and print sources around the country.
This is essentially Perry’s biography, albeit an out-of-date version, since she hasn’t written on the Huffington Post under this name since 2010. And indeed, Google searching “Melissa Harris Lacewell” immediately brings up Perry’s own website.
Why go to all this trouble to establish they’re the same person? Because Melissa Harris-Perry (formerly Lacewell) was quoted on Union Theological Seminary’s website defending Jeremiah Wright almost immediately after the controversial tapes of him screaming “God damn America” were released, alongside such liberation theology giants as James Cone himself. And this was not a purely secular defense – all the articles were published under the heading, “Black Liberation Theology in Media Spotlight.” Here was Cone’s defense:
And here‘s Perry’s/Lacewell’s, as excerpted on the site:
For those wondering if the above passage might have been out of context, never fear, we took the trouble to dig up (and screengrab) Perry’s entire defense of Jeremiah Wright, courtesy of TheRoot. It’s worth noting that the byline for this article now reads “Melissa Harris-Perry“ rather than ”Melissa Harris-Lacewell.” In any case, here are the excerpts that Union left out, and the ones that prove her radical sympathies beyond a doubt (emphasis added):
Jeremiah Wright is a modern [Frederick] Douglass. Both men are like the Old Testament prophets who condemn the injustice and corruption of the rulers of their government.
Let’s be clear. American democracy has always coexisted with vicious, state-sponsored racism. The nation’s first presidents worked to establish an innovative, flexible, radical democratic republic while simultaneously codifying enslaved blacks as a fraction human and relegating them to intergenerational chattel bondage.
After emancipation, as blacks helped make America the greatest industrial and military power on earth, the country stripped blacks of the right to vote, segregated public accommodations, provided inferior education to black children, and allowed and promoted the terrorist rule of lynch-mob violence.[...]
I attended Trinity United Church of Christ during the seven years I lived in Chicago. Although I do not know him personally, I heard Rev. Wright preach on dozens of Sundays. His sermons soothed my broken heart while I divorced, they eased my mental anguish when my sister was ill, and they helped give me strength as I watched the destructive power of racism, sexism and homophobia within my Chicago community. In short, his words did what a pastor’s words are supposed to do. I am grateful for Jeremiah Wright and for his prophetic witness.
These quotes show Perry is not only influenced by black liberation theology, but she also seems to be an apologist for it and perhaps its most vile spokesman, Jeremiah Wright.
Knowing this, we can now give greater context to Perry’s claims that the response to 9/11 was motivated by racism against Arabs or her unfailing attacks on conservative ideas as being racist. Clearly, like her hero Wright, she is she is not making these attacks on the basis of the sort of bloodless factual analysis so fetishized by liberals, and so unfailingly claimed by liberal media sources. Rather, based on her academic interests and long history of theological study, her analysis seems to be motivated by religion, and a religion far more extreme and racially problematic than the others her fellow MSNBC anchors Lawrence O’Donnell and Martin Bashir routinely condemn.
Perry is free to believe what she wishes, but her network is not free to condemn supposedly extreme religious faith when it is connected to conservatives and ignore the genuinely extreme religious affiliations of its anchors. Barack Obama has already said he “strongly condemns” Wright. MSNBC should take the hint with respect to their Wright-worshipping anchor.
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Comments (107)
The Third Archon
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 5:15pm“And perhaps no figure in American religion and public life is more extreme than the Reverend Jeremiah Wright.”
Report Post »Yeah, no one is more extreme–no one except Fred Phelps, the Falwells, Harold Camping, and all the idiots lately talking about genocide of homosexuals. Yup, other than them, no one is more extreme.
AvengerK
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 5:26pmSo for the record THIRDY….Wright is among these other extremists. Yes? Careful now…by saying that’s so you then imply that Obama spent 20 years with this extremist and even called him “my sounding board for my conscience”.
Report Post »Still want to go down this path THIRDY?
The Third Archon
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 5:57pmHe’s Radical, that’s for sure, but the individuals I listed are far more extreme, and in a negative way to boot. However, in a country as far to the Right as ours is, anyone not ignorant of the political reality MUST be a Radical to be sane–both Democrats and Republicans are utter disappointments, and looking to them for desperately needed political change is utter foolishness and naivete.
Report Post »disenlightened
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 5:58pmGenocide? ARCHON, you get more ill every day. By the way, genius, Jerry Falwell died five years ago.
Report Post »The Third Archon
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 6:12pmIs said “the FALWELLS” as in PLURAL. Also, just because he‘s dead now doesn’t mean he was an extremist while he was alive. And yes, wishing for the elimination of an entire group based upon an essential group characteristic is wishing for genocide.
Report Post »ArtfulLodger
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 7:30pmWhat is your point? IS MSNBC or FOX or anyone else in media writing books defending those people? If you read the article, that‘s what we’re discussing here not if crazier people exist. Your remarks are totally irrelevant. Why bother to talk unless you just want to throw confusion into the debate.
Report Post »oneshiner
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 9:50pmWell of course. Only desperate fools would work for MSNBC where all the lame brain liberals work. And believe me, I have never been obsessed with that TV station because I despise those airheads, all of ‘em. I can’t stand their ranting, raving, lying, yelling or making up stories. If there were one decent person on that channel, I’d watch, but never with the current lineup. Stay away from people like those who actually believe what they conger up. vile
Report Post »RebelPatriot
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 11:38pmI find it amusing that these African-Americans can only fault the white people for their enslavement. I also find it amusing that slavery is still prevolent in Africa today.
No white person living today is responsible for establishing slavery or guilty of owning slaves.
White Christians have fought for the freedom of African-Americans for over 200 years, yet we continue to be blamed for all the ills that have left African-Americans thriving and succeeding in become wealthy and educated.
I’m not sure who needs closure on this issue more, the white people who still have guilt, or the African-Americans who can’t forgive the white people and their own for allowing them to be captured and sold as slaves.
I refuse to feel guilty for a sin I did not committ and I refuse to give hand outs to those who are capable of thinking and working for themselves.
It is not the white people’s fault that African-Americans choose to follow those who call themselves Christians in hate instead of forgivenness.
This is why Martin Luther King Jr. was killed, by the left. He wasn’t teaching hate he was teaching forgiveness. For you can not move forward with hate. You must forgive in order to be able to move past the pain and grow together as a united people.
We know this would not be acceptable for the socialist, for they could not divide and conquer the Republic if we stood united against their tyranny. The socialist use lies and deceit in order to play the race card a
Report Post »Cascadia
Posted on June 22, 2012 at 6:04amMartin Luther King was a Proud Black American….
(did not refer to himself as African-American)
His words should ring true……..regardless of color
A man should be considered not by the color of his skin, but by the content of his character.
Why doubt his wisdom?
He said – Why can we ALL not get along
Report Post »Independent4233
Posted on June 22, 2012 at 8:30amRebelPatriot
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 11:38pm
“I find it amusing that these African-Americans can only fault the white people for their enslavement. I also find it amusing that slavery is still prevolent in Africa today.”
Your post is a good one, Rebel, and you make some good points.
The only thing I might add is that slavery two hundred years ago has absolutely nothing to do with lack of black achievement. The impediment to success for blacks is not being able to learn at the same level as the rest of the world. They blame whites for their failures, because they don‘t want to admit that they can’t compete in a first world society due to their low group I.Q. average of 85.
If slavery were the cause for black failure, then they would be excelling in the rest of the world where there was no slavery….ever. But they don’t. They do just as badly in other countries as they do here…..including Africa where the group average is 70.
And they also comprise a larger percentage of criminals than any other group in every country.
The left likes to pretend these things aren’t true, but facts are facts, and for them to llie about the situation just makes it worse.
I‘m sick and tired of listening to them blame white people for their failures because they can’t compete. Dirt poor immigrants come to this country and all of them out perform blacks as a group.
Report Post »Independent4233
Posted on June 22, 2012 at 8:47amThe Third Archon
“Yeah, no one is more extreme–no one except Fred Phelps, the Falwells, Harold Camping, and all the idiots lately talking about genocide of homosexuals. ”
You despise Christians and Christianity because they refuse to accept homosexuality. Your allegations against them involve the same tired, dreary condemnation wherein everybody is a hater and a racist.
But who in his right mind would want to embrace a group of people who are rife with diseases much greater per their percentage of the population than other groups and spread these diseases to the rest of society?
http://tinyurl.com/yedp5px
A 2010 CDC data analysis underscores the disproportionate impact of HIV and syphilis among gay and bisexual men in the United States. The data, presented at CDC’s 2010 National STD Prevention Conference, found that the rate of new HIV diagnoses among men who have sex with men (MSM) is more than 44 times that of other men and more than 40 times that of women. The rate of primary and secondary syphilis among MSM is more than 46 times that of other men and more than 71 times that of women
Sexual transmission of some of these diseases is so rare in the exclusively heterosexual population as to be virtually unknown. Others, while found among heterosexual and homosexual practitioners, are clearly predominated by those involved in homosexual activity.
Anal Cancer
Report Post »Chlamydia trachomatis
Cryptosporidium
Giardia lamblia
Parasitic infections
Hepatitis
JackDamaris
Posted on June 23, 2012 at 2:14pmYou spread falsehoods with your statement. Showing homosexuality as a perversion and an natural state does not mean you promote genocide of people. Black liberation Theology is not Christianity in any way shape or form. It is a false doctrine and belief system, a socialist ideology in a religious form. True Christianity will never condone wrong behavior or lifestyles, but will still want to see all people “saved from their sin”.
Report Post »Blackman Standing Tall71
Posted on June 27, 2012 at 10:22amLet’s not forget that loon Pat Roberson, that loon in texas John Hagee,Rod Parsley etc.What’s the difference in the rhetoric they spewed.They also had their hands in politics and with politicians.These are facts.Could the pigment of their skin be the reason that American won’t condemn their and actions and words?
Report Post »Iamnotanumber
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 5:04pmOh goody!!!! Another proponent of Critical Race Theory, this should be fun….NOT!! The comparison isn’t that far from true, but then again I wasn‘t fond of Frederick Douglass’ opinions of his/our country either.
Report Post »The Third Archon
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 5:24pm“but then again I wasn‘t fond of Frederick Douglass’ opinions of his/our country either.”
Report Post »Why is that not surprising in the least.
soybomb315
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 4:53pm“Find out just what people will submit to and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them. … The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.” Frederick Douglass
Report Post »scrudge
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 4:49pmAh Yes… corn rolls…. I’LL passssss
Report Post »jhaydeng
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 9:49pmCorn rows not rolls! Just being pc!
Report Post »Bluebonnet
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 10:43pmWell shoot! You said corn rolls and my mind wandered off thinking what’s the difference with corn rolls and corn bread? Homemade cornbread with organic cornmeal, flour and just a little teaspoon of suger, salt, baking powder, milk, an egg, put into an oily(olive) smoking hot cast iron skillet and in 25 minutes @ 450, you’re in heaven. Yummmm, gotta go make cornbread and have some pinto beans with big slice onion & cornbread with real butter. mmmmmm forgive me, my mind wandered for a sec.
Report Post »Dandylyon
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 4:48pmIts funny how these flaming liberal socialist and blatant racist are exactly what they try and perceive the people who don’t agree with them are.
Report Post »They define insanity in so many ways every time they open there mouth, no wonder socialism /communism never works , these people have to be infighting constantly, it would seem by the very nature of socialism/communism is so full of hate and anger that it would not stop once all the people that disagree are gone.
These people depict “mean and evil” at most every turn of there argument when they think others are looking at them like the wingnuts they are, theres no debate here………..just hate and anger.
dannyo
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 4:43pmin the meantime blacks vote lockstep democrat and they remain firmly planted in an inner city near you as the rich white and black leaders of the democrat party retire to their gated communities each night…next…
Report Post »Popp40
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 5:40pmThey don’t realize that the Democrat leaders/government are the new Slave Masters and the new plantation is the inner city.
Report Post »HoneyBager7x7
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 11:44pmThe same drones that follow this broken record are the same black people that complain about slavery, but are too stupid to understand that there right back in it and have been re-domesticated to serve the Democrats who were the primary slave holders during the SLAVE days in America. When are people going to get it, lol, we are in this situation today, all thanks to your Racist Marxist Progressive Elitist and BLACK PEOPLES constant dick riding on the Liberal Welfare agenda.
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I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.
-Frederick Douglass
I could, as a free man, look across the bay toward the Eastern Shore where I was born a slave.
-Frederick Douglass
I didn‘t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
-Frederick Douglass
I recognize the Republican party as the sheet anchor of the colored man’s political hopes and the ark of his safety.
-Frederick Douglass
Jeremiah Wright/Melissa Perry are on constant BS, although, I have to say, Melissa is lookin kinda sexy.
Report Post »DIR
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 4:41pm‘A Modern Frederick Douglass’: Why Did MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry Pen a Defense of Jeremiah Wright?
There are two answers: The first she’s nuts, the second she’s full of crap!
Report Post »jungle J
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 4:39pmhate is an achor to many people of color..if they didn’t have the anchor they would drift into reality and become productive and vibrant Americans.
Report Post »lexington_green
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 8:50pmi notice that the light skinned types like her and wright work the hardest to show how “black” they are and how much they hate whitey. ironically, it is not the result of hatred aimed at them from whites, but rather the ridicule and animosity they get from other blacks growing up. it all comes down to a pathetic play for acceptance.
Report Post »Bill Rowland
Posted on June 22, 2012 at 7:17amPeople like her give the poor black reasons to stay poor and uneducated. They blame the white race for all their problems. It can’t possibly be their fault. The blacks who have broken away from this philosophy and pulled themselves up give the lie to her opinions.
When Lyndon Johnson signed the welfare/food stamp bill into law he stated “I’ll have these ni**ers voting democrat for the next 200 years”. The churches and community leaders that preach black liberation theology are keeping the blacks supressed. Instead of teaching self sufficiency they teach blame and a negative attitude. These teachers help the democratic party to continue with a modified form of slavery. They are slaves to the welfare system.
OMG Nov 6, 2012
Report Post »cookcountypatriot
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 4:35pmgreat another racist at msnbc,,,,another pile of crap that inspires to divide…another hater that hates from the bone…and an ugly one at that
Report Post »dealer@678
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 4:42pmThats a man with Woopie Goldberg hair
Report Post »dsind
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 7:55pmyour mirror says that would be obama……….
Report Post »bmb776
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 4:29pmJeremiah Wright grew up in a country that enslaved his grand parents. Denied civil rights to him & his family as a child. The passage of the civil rights bill didn’t end racial injustice in America. Why should he have an infallible view of America when it‘s institutions and bureaucracies haven’t served them as justly as it has whites over the 200+ years of American history? Instead of attacking people like Wright and marginalizing people of color, try seeing things from their perspective and ask what can be done to help raise blacks & minorities out of the well of welfare dependence and the vicious cycle of poverty. Assigning blame and demagoguery are not the solution.
Report Post »SREGN
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 4:50pmForcing the white man to work hard to support the black man through onerous taxation is just as racist and evil as slavery was. I never owned a slave. My daddy never owned a slave. My grandpa never owned a slave. Harris Perry and Wright never were slaves, neither were their daddies. I doubt very highly whether either of their grandpas were, the timeline doesn’t fit. To blame lack of ambition on slavery today is just a subterfuge.
Report Post »Chromo200
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 5:13pmWhat BS .. People were enslaved from day one and they got over it and moved forward, some by war and some using the system. In this country .. the chinese were enslaved and mistreated, the japanese were put in prison camps, the scandinavians were jailed for speaking their native language, etc etc. The difference is that they did not try to destroy this country, they learned the way it works, got into positions that they could change the discrimination and make every ones life better. They did not get handouts at the rate the present minorities and poor get. The Rev Wright and Ms. Perry don’t see this a way to achieve a better life for the masses. And so what do we get, fatherless families, poor schools in the inner cities, high unemployment, abortions galore, never ending wars, etc etc .
I also wonder how Ms. Perry got her job. I bet it was affirmative action. I doubt if she would have gotten her job based on ability.
Report Post »bmb776
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 5:17pm@SREGN I guess I should have replaced grandparents with ancestors. Did I say tax whitey to support blacks? No. I am talking about improving public education, reforming drug laws that inadvertently target blacks and minorities & remove parents from homes, etc. Just dismissing a race or group of people as lazy and ambition less doesn’t solve the problem, it just compounds it and makes them more dependent on welfare and government assistance.
Report Post »thegreatcarnac
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 7:06pmBMB…..I feel lno gult. I have no guilt and all the whites living have no guilt. I don’t care about Wrights life or past. He and you can burn.
Report Post »ArtfulLodger
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 7:40pmJeremiah Wright must be ancient if his grandparents were “enslaved” as that ended almost 150 years ago but it’s possible. However billions of people from many nations had relatives or were personally mistreated. For instance Vietnamese and Sudanese and Jews especially (only 70 years ago!). They haven‘t made it their life’s work to continue a campaign of hatred and victim hood nor is it noble or useful unless you want to start a race war-which I suspect he may.
Report Post »LifesNotARehersal
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 8:39pmWhy do you people insist on talking about slavery? Let’s just focus on Jim Crow laws and systematic racism in the first half of the 20th century. Rev. Wright fought for this country at a time when he did not have the same rights as white people. Why would a country send him to die for it, but would not treat him as an equal?
Report Post »Stone Cold Truth
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 4:25pmThis lady should be a New Black Panther Party leader possibly, but not sitting in a news anchor chair. You could sum up her entire world view and philosophy with two words, “kill whitey.”
Report Post »bumfuzeled
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 6:19pm“God loves a working man and don’t trust Whitey” I found my special purpose!!!
Report Post »garbagecanlogic
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 4:19pmThat “moppy” hair do has cut off the circulation to her itty bitty brain.
Praise Be To Obama. Psalm 109:8
The U.S. Out Of The U.N.
Report Post »The U.N. Out Of The U.S.
Nevermind
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 4:15pmGreat, another spooky black person to demonize on the blaze and another faith that you all dont agree with to make fun of. Want to know a faith that dont make much sense but you won thear anything bad about it here, Mormanism. But since your drug addict leader converted to mormanism to get laid you wont hear much. Instead another spooky black person and making fun of her faith.
TO think my family and i have been in 3 wars to protect this country only to have idiots liek most on this site spouting the most hateful crap makes me regret my service a bit. I love this country but not you racist mouth breathers
Report Post »SREGN
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 4:22pmI wasn’t aware that racism was a faith.
Report Post »Stone Cold Truth
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 4:28pmGotten to. ^^
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 4:36pm@nevermind
Report Post »By drug addicted leader I’m assuming you mean Choom Gang Leader Obama…and there’s nothing more racist than. 5 generation welfare recipients trapped by leftists in failing schools…..but VICTIMHOOD is a wonderful industry for the democrats…..they make tons of money by keeping people in poverty, hopelessness and despair , with no clue what a work ethic even is……sickening…”
Calimann83
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 4:12pmFrederick Douglass is spinning in his grave right now.
Report Post »txmike
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 4:12pm‘A Modern Frederick Douglass’
i never knew that frederick douglass was a racist hate mongering anti-semite.
Report Post »RLTW
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 4:22pmI’m sure she meant moderately fresh dung by Fred the bull equals Rev Wright.
Report Post »SREGN
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 4:11pmBecause insane racists flock together?
Report Post »SocialistSlayer
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 4:16pmThere is a Racist War emerging from the likes of the Obama administration and those that support him. The American people have made a grave mistake by electing this communist.
Report Post »freedomisasfreedomdoes
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 4:08pmFredrick Douglass is representative of every American. What we should all embody. He was an amazing American. We should all value the Constitution as he did. Nothing like the anti-American sentiments of Wright. Perhaps they should delve into One of the greatest Americans history has to tell about a bit more closely. Perhaps knowledge, wisdom, and truth can help in healing their hate.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 4:26pmIf we understand that Indentured Servatue… was Labor in exchange for Payment of Debt or Fine… in England, thereby the Colonies… and that Slavery only came to exist in1652 in Virgina… when Anthony Johnson, a Black Man, sued to make extend his the Service of his Indentured Servant for Life… then, we must realize that the White Man was not responsible for Slavery in Law… and we should also realize that African Tribal Wars produced the Slaves that were Sold… so, Blacks should blame themselves First for the Misfortunes of their Ancestors!
Report Post »LifesNotARehersal
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 8:43pm@ Luke, so the slave codes and black codes were written by black people? Did black people also create Jim Crow laws and institutionalized racism? I guess the Chinese were also responsible for the racism that they endured in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Report Post »MrSunshine
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 4:07pmThis woman is a modern day D U M B A S S !
Report Post »TRONINTHEMORNING
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 4:06pmI swear, her hair is the same ‘do’ as the monster from the PREDATOR movies. And…..I don’t care what she says.
Report Post »commonsenseguy
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 4:05pmharris perry is just another in a long line of commie loving, anti american who will do whatever they are told and will do whatever they can to help keep their commie loving god ““ obama ”’ in charge.but what they can’t see is the more crap they spew the worse he looks so i say keep on talking because they are just showing the true colors of who they are and what they are about.every time one of them spews such crazy bullsh*t they are just making one more stoke on the canvas on to which they are painting obamas face and they are just helping America see the true colors.
Report Post »Diablo4965
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 3:59pmJust another Racist!
Report Post »South Philly Boy
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 3:56pmJust a DemonCrat
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 3:54pmPerry is the waste product of public schools so it makes sense she likes the views of the America hating racist **** *** Wright. I attended Trinity United Church of Christ during the seven years I lived in Chicago. Well you obviously got the message the racist Wright was and continues to spew.
Your God Barry Sotero attended the same ‘church’ for twenty years yet claims to have never heard one racist rant from the **** *** Wright so your attention span is better than your gods.
Report Post »Tri-ox
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 3:53pmUh, because Miss Perry works for obama propaganda-outlet MSNBC and is paid to push pro-obama propaganda?
Report Post »TROLLMONGER
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 3:48pmThe Blaze is OBSESSED with MSNBC. And so are its Beckbots. I think they hate them so much they are actually starting to like them..LOL!
Report Post »cessna152
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 3:55pmSo you’re supporting doctoring 911 tapes of Zimmerman? Editing what people say to fit an agenda? Lies? Not reporting the news? That’s what you support? And we are to take you seriously?
Report Post »commonsenseguy
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 4:07pm@cessna152, the only thing that comes from a cows ass is sh*t so don’t stand behind it,in this case, don’t comment back to it.
Report Post »Dustoff
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 4:24pmYawn, yeah sure loser.
Report Post »bravjim
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 5:27pmI guess trollmonger is a pretty accurate name for ya buddy.
Report Post »Meyvn
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 9:18pm@TROLLMONGER: You’re almost as funny as Bill Maher… and I wonder… why is it that usually you are the only one laughing at your own jokes? I find it humorous that you find yourself to be so hilarious & gather you spend much time alone.
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