In defense of Barack Obama's pastor, Dr. Wright:- THE TRUTH IS ALWAYS BITTER!

DISCLAIMER: When we posted this defense, we acted in what we believed was a need to defend someone who was unnecessarily being targeted just to get at Barack Obama. Since then, it appeared that Rev. Jeremiah Wright instead of quietly disappearing from the scene now acts like someone with a hidden agenda, just like some other supposedly "real" African-Americans, to derail Barack Obama's presidential aspiration due primarily to petty envy and jealousy. Initially they regarded Barack Obama as an outsider and not being black enough for their parochial vision of an "African-American" presidential candidate. But despite all their effort, Barack Obama is soaring like an eagle in his presidential bid. Icheoku has endorsed Barack Obama for president and as a result has assumed the unofficial status of a surrogate for the Obama 08 campaign; henceforth we shall speak in tandem with the campaign's ethos. Presidential candidate Barack Obama today, April 29th, 2008 DENOUNCED Jeremiah Wright and Icheoku concurs. Be that as it may, our earlier defense of Wright is as at the initial attacks on him but does not include his antics at the last National Press Club appearance and henceforth. All visitors are by this disclaimer so informed; and as you read the old article please know that Rev. Wright is now on his own!

Also worth mentioning is that whereas Hilary Clinton said that if she was Barack Obama that she would have left Rev. Wright's church when she did not leave Bill Clinton after Monica Lewinsky scandal; unbeknowst to the world the Clintons had a subsisting relationship with the said Reverend Jeremiah Wright (pictured with Bill above left) but what would you expect of a lying couple after the Bosnia sniper fire story and the I did not have sex with that woman Ms. Lewinsky mother of all lies?

Now our previous existing article "In defense of Barack Obama's pastor ........"

Democratic Party Presidential Nominee in the waiting Barack Obama’s pastor said something and Barack Obama’s head is being called for because Obama attends the church and Obama’s progress with the presidential race must be stopped at all cost. Should all catholic be held liable for the utterances of the pope or bishop or priests or be made responsible for the foibles of some catholic priests who molest their alter boys? Should every American be held responsible for the actions of President Bush including the wrongful war in Iraq, after-all he is our president and we listen to him regularly? Also we elected him twice and by extension tacitly approved of all his actions, utterances and stewardship. How far can this tent be extended to inculpate associates? What genre of liability is this guilty by association? Should the movie industry be held liable for all the violence and profanities in our country today since they pipe that information through their films to our minds on daily basis? This is a case of guilty by association which is over extended and stretched for political gains. The law talks about vicarious liability where a master is responsible for the implied authorized acts of his servant; but the same law never prescribed a form of responsibility for a servant for the acts of his master. The logic is clear and discernible because whereas the master can control his servant the reverse is the case with the servant. Obama is very junior in hierarchy to Pastor Wright and figuratively speaking is a “servant” of Pastor Dr. Wright and in no way should be held responsible for his utterances; and this is the law of vicarious liability.

But conversely Barack Obama is now being held to a standard unbeknownst to the law - that he should exert control over his overlord master, Pastor Wright who has been preaching the gospel as a pastor long before Obama ever arrived at the scene at United Trinity Church of Christ; and had contact with him more so becoming a member thereto. Who is Barack Obama to tell a pastor of a church, which has been in existence long before Obama’s advent unto the scene what he should say or not say? This is conspiracy of the highest order concocted to stop and derail his preeminent campaign; should they succeed, we shall survive but it adds to the well time-honored perception that America has not really moved on from her sordid past of treating one form of humanity as less human. Who knows whom the pastor of Hilary Clinton is? Who knows what church John McCain attends? It is horrifying that this God given opportunity for America to move beyond its bigoted past is nearing evaporation as a result of scared white folks who cannot stand the possibility of losing the last vestige of their authority – political power and by extension economic stranglehold.

However analytically speaking, what did Pastor Wright say that was out of the ordinary or was it just that we would rather sweep them under the carpet and pretend they do not exist or never existed for political expediency? Even as recently as 2004, a flood of biblical proportion swept through New Orleans and the haphazard response of the government was highly suggestive of the discriminatory attitude the blacks face in this country.
Dr. Wright also made reference to Nelson Mandela and apartheid South Africa which apartheid government was propped up by America but this comment fades in importance according to pundits compared to the tirade he made concerning America being a racist nation. None of the talking heads is saying that Nelson Mandela’s experience was a fantasy but would rather it is swept under the carpet rather than have a voice be put on it. According to the template, it should not be brought up not by Pastor Wright not by anybody, ever; so that it will not be known, if it is not known there wouldn’t be any restiveness and we can continue to enjoy our honeymoon. What was the bone here? Was it that the pastor was wrong about the statements or that he should not have brought it up in the first place? Let’s judge a man by the content of his character and the veracity of what he says and not eject him out of the arena of public discourse on really truthful issues we can make improvements upon; but only if it is discussed and understood. The five letter word “SORRY” is all that was needed to assuage old wounds of apartheid instead of the barrage of pontifications that are geared to derail a hurricane of a campaign which is sweeping so many people off the way, including the clawing Hilary Clinton. It is much ado about nothing and the American populace knows better than to associate an impeccable Barack Obama to the truth or lack thereof spoken by his pastor. If you have never walked in the shoes you would not know how it fits, so the "gotcha ya" crowd should just chill out, take a deep breathe and discuss issues that are important to the American people instead of all this diversionary antics to hoodwink people into not doing right this time around!

Secondly, the pastor made allusion to September11 and people called him unpatriotic but that was the reasons adduced by the terrorists as well as the Saudi Prince whose $10million USD donation, Rudy Giuliani rejected. All over the world America’s double standards are sort of gospel and no amount of killing or shouting down can ever take that perception away. What is needed is a round table conference on how we can do better but the profiteers of such topsy-turvy fluidly world would rather maintain the status-quo than tell Americans the real truth because if the problem is solved, their cash-cow would have been slaughtered forever and for good. It is the same with the Jesse Jackson and Rev Al Sharpton civil rights crusade wherein they perpetually harp on the racism in America without advising the African Americans on how to move out of their state of poverty and backbenchers status. Why would they solve the problem if it would cause them some hardship? What was the situation in apartheid South Africa with Nelson Mandela? What was the situation in Israel with the Palestine people? What is the situation with Egypt and Mubarak being in power since 1981 and we are preaching democracy? What is the situation with Shah of Iran and the Iranians when we overthrew their elected government and installed our puppet? What is the situation of Saddam Hussein with the weapons of mass destruction when we supplied same to him while he was fighting Iran? What is the logic of allowing Cuban refugees who touch land to remain in the US while repatriating such Haitians back to their home country? Why would you be willing to supply AIDS drugs to South Africa and ignoring all the pleas for food and one wonders, can a hungry man ever be cured of any illness? What is the situation of Afghanistan and the Russians when we fought and defeated the Russians by proxy of the mullahs? Should the Russians in return join the mullahs in Iraq or Afghanistan to fight us? Is it is Cambodia, Vietnam, the bay of pigs of Cuba, Panama, Nicaragua, even during Nigeria/Biafra civil war. In defense of these actions, the pundits call it protecting Americans interests but the question remains, is this America just the white majority or are the minorities inclusive after all they also die wearing American uniforms. America’s Foreign policy sometimes come in conflict with fairness and I remember vividly the $180million USD bribe that was offered by Halliburton to Nigeria government officials for some LNG contract? What about the incessant oil spillages by American Chevron/Exxon-Mobil oil companies doing business in Africa particularly Nigeria? We are talking about double standards but a popular aphorism has it that what is good for the goose is also good for the gander so America should manifest to the world that we really mean what we say and say what we mean. Being a Pharisees turns a lot of deaf ears among the listening world and this fuels the disdain with which some humanity holds America and this was exactly what Pastor Wright was talking about.

Thirdly, suspicion abound amongst African Americans that the HIV/AIDS virus was invented as an experimental warfare virus and Africans were the chosen guinea pigs to test its efficacy. In as much as this has not been verified, but inferences derivative from past experiences and occurrences adds credence to such fearsome allegation. The Tuskegee airmen story is not a fable – Bill Clinton while a president had to apologize on behalf of the American government for intentionally experimenting and infecting these black airmen with syphilis. With such a backdrop, any other allegation such as inventing HIV/AIDS virus becomes "plausible" especially when it just magically appeared on the scene in the 80’s and the story surrounding Ebola virus equally comes to mind. In South Africa apartheid era, black men were allegedly injected with impotency causing vaccines to gradually decimate the black population and some of them were even fed the lions and this is while the apartheid government was still receiving the backing and support of American government.

Fourth the mega-drama playing out between the Israelis and the Palestine could have long been resolved were there to be any real intention and commitment on the part of America who have come to regard Israel as the 51st State in the union. It is fairness and common sense that will resolve the conflict and not force. A meaningful solution is what is called for – we have several twin cities in America such as Kansas City Missouri and Kansas City Kansas so Jerusalem could at least be shared as the respective political/religious capitals of both Israel and Palestine just for a start. Historically, these two people are from one person (Abraham) and through Ishmael and Isaac gave rise to two of them so who will give way to the other, especially when one of the bone of contention, Jerusalem is what both can empirically lay a valid claim to title to? The important thing is for America to start seeing the Palestine as humans just like the Israelis and deserving of some modicum of decent existence; but to continuously treat them as expendables would only lead to resentment which once in a while manifests itself as violence.

Finally, slavery was not a mere historically fable – no, it did happen and no one has so far apologized for the atrocities of slavery. Few months ago the newly elected Prime Minister of Australia Rudd, apologized for the abominations committed by early Australian settlers and government on the aborigines; yet any talk of reparations or formal apology for slavery has continuously been rebuffed by the American government and no one is expected to be angry about what happened? It is comparable to beating someone up and asking him not to cry – you cannot probate and reprobate at the same time. The American government’s arguments is that slavery was a thing of the past and that we all should move on but wait a minute, were the present crop of white Americans not descendants and beneficiaries of the white slave masters and one begins to ask, what is wrong in a child apologizing for the sins of his father? This issue of slavery and the refusal of the whites to apologize for and pay reparations thereto is one of the root-cause of the "angryness" and resentment among African Americans. Help solve the problem do the right thing, follow the example of Rudd of Australia and at least reduce the tension in the land. Admitted progress has been recorded but there is always room for improvements.

In conclusion therefore, truth will only save us – all the lack of trust and fear in America is a result of people not doing right by and for one another. Admitted America is a great country but it could be greater. America is a good country but it could be better. There is always room for improvements and it starts at a place and could earnestly start with a Barack Obama’s presidency. Let the good old white boys that run and control this country as correctly pointed out by Pastor Wright, please “permit” Barack Obama to achieve what he has worked so hard for – the presidency of United States of America. This and only this will forever put to rest the bigotry in America and finally prove that America has since moved on from its past. To find Barack Obama guilty by association of Rev, Jeremiah Wright is an effort in futility to stick something to the young impeccable man who has come to be known as Teflon OBAMA, period! It is not right; it is not just and we all must prepare ourselves both mentally and emotionally for the seismic shift of power. God’s speed Barack Obama as you trail-braze a milestone as the first black president of America. Let’s keep hope alive.