Apr 01 2008
Jeremiah Wright’s Typical White Person’s House
It might be noted, moreover, that Leftists seldom seem to live among the minorities that they ostensibly champion. They are “limousine liberals” in Spiro Agnew’s memorable phrase. What most Americans really think of at least some minorities is shown graphically by the phenomenon of “white flight” (US whites normally abandon suburbs that acquire more than a 5% Negro population) but we do not seem to see Leftists rushing to fill the houses left vacant by that. If deeds speak louder than words, this would tend to point to the Leftist’s anti-racist advocacy as being mere empty rhetoric.John J Ray…The Psychology Underlying “Liberalism”
Sphere: Related Content…there’s something you might find interesting as regards this curious land deal putting Obama’s pastor in a $1.6 Million dollar home in Tinley Park, IL. for his retirement. Checking the census data for Tinley Park, a gated community, I’m told, it seems the pastor from the “unashamedly black and and unapologetically Christian” church is moving into a community that is only 2% black and 93% white. For reference, as a whole, Illinois is 15% black.
While it is not uncommon for an accomplished clergyman to live in luxury, Wright’s retirement residence is raising some questions.
“Some people think deals like this are hypocritical. Jeremiah Wright himself criticizes people from the pulpit for middle classism, for too much materialism,” said Andrew Walsh, Associate Director of the Leonard E. Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life with Trinity College in Hartford, Conn.
“So he’s entitled to be tweaked here. So the question really is, how unusual is this? Somewhat unusual,” he said.
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LOL Turns Out Jeremiah Wright’s All White After All
a How can these guys live with themselves, stirring up people with envy and hatred then turning around and joining the very objects of the envy and hate?
b Another part of me says, what’s with all these people willing to be manipulated and fleeced of their hard earned money? I don’t have much sympathy for them, they too could choose to look around and see that America isn’t this awful place that the un-reverend Wright preaches about. It’s not that difficult. I guess it’s more comfortable to wallow in their victim hood than to be thankful for the opportunities that are there should they choose to take advantage of them.
I’m sure life is really tough for a lot of them but so it is for many Americans, in that sense I do have sympathy for them, problem is that people like Wright and Obama have the completely wrong ideas on how to improve their lot, it just perpetuates their condition with no hope of ever improving it, ’tain’t useful blaming others.
Victor Davis Hanson says it so much better than I.