Dolt of the Day
The evidence?
Well, errrr, ummmm, there is none.
So congratulations to Fran Eaton for producing the most vacuous column I’ve read in some time.
Recently I questioned whether a man with such close ties to a church and spiritual advisor that teaches Afrocentricity — Sen. Obama — would feel compelled to politically advocate hot button issues such racial quotas and affirmative action if he were to be elected president.
A Trinity member responded, “I am offended by your insinuation that people cannot be proud and embrace their ethnic heritage without being blinded to the needs and concerns of others.
“For you to suggest that only members of non-denominational/multicultural congregations are open-minded enough to be president is highly misguided and inflammatory,” she wrote.
This lady was understandably offended when I visited her church out of curiosity and came away with questions about the church’s teachings. Those questions became the subject of a column in a city known for its racial strife.
Racial division bothers me. As a firm believer in a creator and His wisdom and creativity, I believe we are all here because the creator allowed us to be. I revere Him and His design of each human. Skin color means no more to me than hair color does. God alone determines who our parents are and when we are allowed to be on this earth.
Elevation of any race over another, especially when preached from a pulpit, should disturb us all. We should question the wisdom and sensitivity of anyone — including Barack Obama — who can sit under angry teaching year after year and still look to the divisive messenger as a spiritual adviser.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. cautioned against teachings of racial supremacy. Two months before the historic march on Washington and his famous “I Have a Dream” speech, King told thousands at a Detroit rally, “I can understand from a psychological point of view why some caught up in the clutches of the injustices surrounding them almost respond with bitterness and come to the conclusion that the problem can’t be solved within, and they talk about getting away from it in terms of racial separation. But even though I can understand it psychologically, I must say to you this afternoon that this isn’t the way.
“Black supremacy is as dangerous as white supremacy.”
Missing, however, is any evidence that Wright or Obama are racial supremacists. As the quote Eaton uses demonstrates, Africentrism (as Wright actually refers to the idea) is that African-Americans are protagonists in history, not just subjects acted upon by those in the west. In other words, African history matters too and not only when it interacts with Western history. This isn’t a terribly difficult concept to understand.
And before Eaton whines again, she should specify a teaching by Wright that actually suggests African-Americans are superior racially.
January 16th, 2007 at
I see the first band clouds of the wingnut anti-Barack Hussein Obama shitstorm are crossing the lakefront. The question is rhetorical, I know–but why do these people get away with making stuff up?
Andy
January 16th, 2007 at
Slightly off subject, but Fran Eaton said:
“God alone determines who our parents are and when we are allowed to be on this earth.”
So is she saying abortion is God’s will? She’s finally starting to make some sense…
October 10th, 2007 at
[...] It’s clear Ms. Eaton can’t stand Sen. Obama, and that in her revulsion she has stooped so low as to attack his church on several occasions. Could it be that [gasp] partisans like Ms. Eaton are only acting Christian to the extent that they have no use for actual Christians who espouse differing political viewpoints? Gee, ya think. Blogroll [...]
October 16th, 2007 at
[...] The kicker? Fran “Claims Barack Obama’s Christian Church is Racist, But Offers No Evidence” Eaton calls Dan an “anti-Christian bigot”… This from the queen of throwing stones at Christians with whom she disagrees; perhaps it takes one to know one. [...]
October 17th, 2007 at
[...] Unfortunately, the only “unmitigated disaster” here is that such questioning of political opponents’ faith is simply Par. For. The. Sad. Sad. Course. (no, Really.) from conservative partisans who would rather protect the Republican Party than accept that Christians may hold values other than those reflected in today’s Republican leadership. Values such as compassion, responsibility, equality, forethought, and the like which all too often are clearly missing from what’s left of the modern Repub Party thanks to mishandling by its elected leaders. [...]
January 15th, 2008 at
[...] Since it’s not cool to say straight up “He’s bad because he’s black” perhaps the conservative Obama attackers think attacking his church is the next best thing as the racism, in their mind, is perhaps somehow softer and more subtle. [...]
January 17th, 2008 at
[...] In the recent past, Ms. Eaton has whined that she’s simply expressing her opinion that Sen. Obama is “hypocritical” when it comes to his church. That’s a far cry from her first few acid-tongued posts declaring that Sen. Obama’s Christian church was “racist” and “black supremacists” and “black separatists” simply because they devote much of their Christian charity and compassion to those in the black community who may be in need. [...]
March 25th, 2008 at
[...] tenets didn’t “spark criticism”. Deliberate partisan attempts to misrepresent a theology with which many Americans were unfamiliar manufactured an info-pimped “controversy” [...]