Obama’s appearance at Al Sharpton’s anti-Semitic and racist National Action Network is entirely consistent with the racist content of Dreams from My Father and his membership in a racist church.
by Bill Levinson
Previous American Presidents have expressed racist viewpoints, generally in eras in which such viewpoints were socially acceptable. Woodrow Wilson, for example, said that Negroes should not apply to Princeton College (of which he was once President) and his A History of the American People (1901) justified the creation of the Ku Klux Klan as a “reaction” to Reconstruction. Wilson never, however, actually appeared at a Ku Klux Klan meeting. Barack Obama may well be the first occupant of the White House to actually lend the prestige of the Presidency to a proven racist and anti-Semitic hate organization. This is consistent with the racist content of Dreams from my Father and his long membership in an openly racist church.
There is very strong evidence in Barack Obama’s Dreams From My Father that he held racist views during his college years. Note here that his only problem with Black Nationalism is a question as to its effectiveness.
Desperate times called for desperate measures, and for many blacks, times were chronically desperate. If nationalism could create a strong and effective insularity, deliver on its promise of self-respect, then the hurt it might cause well-meaning whites, or the inner turmoil it caused people like me, would be of little consequence.
If nationalism could deliver. As it turned out, questions of effectiveness, and not sentiment, caused most of my quarrels with Rafiq.
–Dreams From My Father, pp. 199-200
…I ceased to advertise my mother’s race at the age of twelve or thirteen, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites… (page xv)
Michelle Obama’s thesis also expressed racist viewpoints:
Earlier in my college career, there was no doubt in my mind that as a member of the Black community I was somehow obligated to this community and would use all of my present and future resources to benefit this community first and foremost. My experiences at Princeton have made me more aware of my “Blackness” than ever before.
These experiences have made it apparent to me that the path I have chosen to follow by attending Princeton will likely lead to my further integration and/or assimilation into a White cultural and social structure that will only allow me to remain on the periphery of society. [page 2]
Michelle LaVaughn Robinson [Obama], “Princeton Educated Blacks and the Black Community,” page 2
Many people hold viewpoints in college that they later repudiate or change. Barack Obama’s appearance at Al Sharpton’s National Action Network on April 6 shows that he has not changed his racist perspectives and therefore cannot be President for all Americans.
In addition, Barack and Michelle Obama were long-time members of a racist church:
* Its official bulletin published a blood libel that accused Israel of developing an “ethnic bomb” to kill Negroes and Arabs.
* Its pastor blood libeled the United States by accusing it of developing the AIDS virus
* Its official bulletin published a guest opinion piece from a Hamas terrorist named Marzook
* Its pastor published a “War in Iraq IQ Test” that equated the United States to Iraq under Saddam Hussein
* Its pastor wrote “state” of Israel in the church’s official bulletin, as in “so-called state of Israel.”
* Its pastor said that the United States got a wake up call after 9/11, with the context suggesting that the United States deserved 9/11
* Its pastor arranged a Trumpet Award to Louis Farrakhan
* The church invited Father Michael Pfleger to give a guest speech in which he openly praised and defended Louis Farrakhan
* Its pastor called for divestment from Israel
Obama’s inexcusable appearance at Al Sharpton’s National Action Network on April 6 2011 is proof that he is still sympathetic to racist viewpoints toward white people in general and perhaps toward Jews in particular. This is not “guilt by association.” Guilt by association is when Joe McCarthy shows a photograph at somebody in the same room with a known Communist (at an event or meeting that has nothing to do with Communism) and says, “This proves he is a Communist.” As another example, we attended a pro-Second Amendment rally in Bethlehem in October 2000. We remember to our distaste a man and woman in “white power” T-shirts. The fact that we were at the same rally with them (in favor of a totally unrelated agenda) does not make us a supporter of white supremacists nor did it make the African-Americans at the rally supporters of white supremacists.
“Birds of a feather” is when somebody shows up at a meeting of the White Aryan Resistance, Ku Klux Klan, National Action Network, or Stormfront White Nationalist Community. In that case, the agenda is clearly racist and quite possibly anti-Semitic and there is no doubt whatsoever that the attendee is sympathetic to that agenda. Barack Obama, in his capacity as President of the United States, knowingly and willfully attended the meeting of a proven hate group whose leader has played a central role in not one but several racist and/or anti-Semitic incidents.
First, let’s address the contention that the National Action Network is a proven hate group. The National Action Network, while acting under Mr. Sharpton’s leadership and supervision, paraded around a Jewish owned store in Harlem while yelling racial and anti-Semitic epithets. A deranged individual who later acted on this hate speech set the store on fire and killed seven employees along with himself. From Fred Siegel’s outstanding “Democrats Embrace ‘Impresario of Hatred’”
It would have taken no great effort for the reporters covering the Apollo debate to have walked across 125th Street from the theater to visit Freddy’s Fashion Mart, where in 1995 eight people died in a murderous rampage inspired by Mr. Sharpton. Mr. Sharpton is best-known for the Tawana Brawley hoax, in which he insisted that a 15-year-old black girl had been abducted and raped by a band of white men practicing Irish Republican Army rituals. In fact she had made up the story to protect herself from her violent stepfather. But at Freddy’s, Mr. Sharpton was even more malevolent. He turned a landlord-tenant dispute between the Jewish owner of Freddy’s and a black subtenant into a theater of hatred. Picketers from Mr. Sharpton’s National Action Network, sometimes joined by “the Rev.” himself, marched daily outside the store, screaming about “bloodsucking Jews” and “Jew bastards” and threatening to burn the building down. After weeks of increasingly violent rhetoric, one of the protesters, Roland Smith, took Mr. Sharpton’s words about ousting the “white interloper” to heart. He ran into the store shouting, “It’s on!” He shot and wounded three whites and a Pakistani, whom he apparently mistook for a Jew. Then he set the fire, which killed five Hispanics, one Guyanese and one African-American–a security guard whom protesters had taunted as a “cracker lover.” Smith then fatally shot himself.
http://www.nationalreview.com/20Mar00/nordlinger032000.html adds, …But the torching, so to speak, continued. In 1995-four years into the putative New Sharpton-there was another, fatal case in which Sharpton had a guilty hand: Freddy’s Fashion Mart. In Harlem, a white store owner — no, worse: a Jewish one — was accused of driving a black store owner out of business. At one of the many rallies meant to scare the Jewish owner away, Sharpton charged that “there is a systemic and methodical strategy to eliminate our people from doing business off 125th Street. I want to make it clear . . . that we will not stand by and allow them to move this brother so that some white interloper can expand his business.” Sharpton’s colleague, Morris Powell, said of the Jewish owner — Sharpton’s “white interloper” — “We’re going to see that this cracker suffers. Reverend Sharpton is on it.”
There are also the matters of the Crown Heights riots and the Tawana Brawley scandal. Unlike former Palestinian terrorists who now side with Israel and speak against violence, Al Sharpton and the National Action Network have made no identifiable efforts to make things right with the innocent people they harmed directly (Attorney Steve Pagones and others in Wappingers Falls) or indirectly (Jews in Crown Heights and the families of the murdered employees of Freddy’s Fashion Mart). Sharpton must therefore be regarded as an unrepentant racist and anti-Semite and his National Action Network as a racist and anti-Semitic hate organization, and Barack Obama is therefore a willful promoter and enabler of racism and anti-Semitism.
Such an individual would have been unfit to hold any office of public trust even a hundred years ago, when the N word and equally clever words for Jews, Italians, Poles, Irish, and so on were socially acceptable. In the year 2011, such an individual is totally unworthy of trust or respect, and he is not capable of acting in any leadership capacity in the United States.
NOTE HERE THAT OBAMA ACCEPTED TESTIMONIALS FROM JEREMIAH WRIGHT AND MICHAEL “THERE WERE A WHOLE LOT OF WHITE PEOPLE CRYING” PFLEGER.
Jeremiah Wright testomonial at Obama campaign site
Obama accepts endorsement from Michael Pfleger
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