Obamination: Barack Obama's Black Supremacist Connection
by
Erik Rush
How
many Americans would vote for a presidential candidate who was the member of a church that
professed the following credo?
1. Commitment to God
2. Commitment
to the White Community
3. Commitment
to the White Family
4. Dedication
to the Pursuit of Education
5. Dedication
to the Pursuit of Excellence
6. Adherence to
the White Work Ethic
7. Commitment
to Self-Discipline and Self-Respect
8. Disavowal of
the Pursuit of "Middleclassness"
9.
Pledge
to make the fruits of all developing and acquired skills available to the White Community
10.
Pledge
to Allocate Regularly, a Portion of Personal Resources for Strengthening and Supporting
White Institutions
11.
Pledge
allegiance to all White leadership who espouse and embrace the White Value System
12. Personal commitment to embracement
of the White Value System.
The
question is rhetorical, of course. The answer is that such a candidate wouldnt have
a snowballs chance in hell of getting elected dog catcher (apologies to
Americas animal rescue and public safety personnel) let alone President, because
that candidate would be instantly branded a racist, among the most vile and frightening of
white supremacists.
And
those holding the branding irons would be 100% right.
Yet,
in the About section of the U.S. Senate website for Barack Obama, Democratic
senator from Illinois and contender for the Democratic nomination for President of the
United States, it states that Obama and his family live on Chicago's South Side
where they attend Trinity United Church of Christ.
So
?
Well,
to say that the Trinity United Church of Christ (http://www.tucc.org)
is
afrocentric in the extreme would be a gross understatement. Its not simply
afrocentric, its African-centric. In fact, one could argue that this organization
worships things African to a far greater degree than they do Christ, and gives the
impression of being a separatist church in the same vein as do certain
supremacist white brethren churches or even Louis Farrakhans
Nation of Islam.
Shocking?
An overstatement? An overreaction?
One
can see for oneself on the Trinity United Church website, which is replete with
confirmation of what I present here. What follows is an excerpt from their Mission
Statement:
We
are a congregation which is Unashamedly Black and Unapologetically Christian... Our roots
in the Black religious experience and tradition are deep, lasting and permanent. We are an
African people, and remain "true to our native land," the mother continent, the
cradle of civilization. God has superintended our pilgrimage through the days of slavery,
the days of segregation, and the long night of racism. It is God who gives us the strength
and courage to continuously address injustice as a people, and as a congregation. We
constantly affirm our trust in God through cultural expression of a Black worship service
and ministries which address the Black Community.
Trinity
United Church of Christ adopted the Black Value System written by the Manford Byrd
Recognition Committee chaired by Vallmer Jordan in 1981. We believe in the following 12
precepts and covenantal statements. These Black Ethics must be taught and exemplified in
homes, churches, nurseries and schools, wherever Blacks are gathered. They must reflect on
the following concepts:
1.
Commitment to God
2. Commitment to the Black Community
3. Commitment to the Black Family
4. Dedication to the Pursuit of Education
5. Dedication to the Pursuit of Excellence
6. Adherence to the Black Work Ethic
7. Commitment to Self-Discipline and Self-Respect
8.
Disavowal of the Pursuit of "Middleclassness"
9.
Pledge to make the fruits of all developing and acquired skills available to the Black Community
10.
Pledge to Allocate Regularly, a Portion of Personal Resources for Strengthening and Supporting Black Institutions
11.
Pledge allegiance to all Black leadership who espouse and embrace the Black Value System
12.
Personal commitment to embracement of the Black Value System.
Sound
familiar? Of course it is, since its identical to the 12-point list at the beginning
of this column the one from the theoretical white supremacist candidates
church; the only difference is the substitution of the word Black for
White.
Trinity
United Church of Christs congregation also claims to hold to a 10-point
Vision which is similarly afrocentric, or if you will, separatist. Again, like the
Nation of Islam, a white separatist church or the Branch Davidians, Trinity United more
resembles a cult than a church. Only this one has as one of its most prominent members a
serious contender for the White House.
And
George W. Bushs born-again Christian status scares people?
These
revelations, of course shed all the light we need on Obamas inscrutability; since
before he announced his candidacy, both the Right and Left have commented on the lack of
information vis-à-vis just who Barack Obama is and what hes about.
From The
Chicago Tribune, February 06, 2007, Column: Against Middleclassness? by Rich
Lowry. Vallmer Jordan, a church member who helped draft the precepts, said they were
designed to empower the black community and counter a value system imposed by whites.
The big question mark was racism, he said. Black disempowerment was an
integral part of that historical value system. It became increasingly apparent to me that
we black people had not developed our own value system . . . to help us overcome all we
knew we had to battle.
A
value system imposed by whites
Is Jordan speaking of the value system that
kept families together and promoted morality, industry and integrity, or the one imposed
by liberal dependency pimps since the Civil Rights Movement?
True
enough that many blacks did abandon values; again, this was due to the corruption of the
black clergy by white socialists and their black foremen. Trinity United seems to have
thrown out the baby with the bathwater. Gravitation toward an Africanized year-round
Kwanzaa-based pseudo-Christianity seems less of a solution than returning to the
moral and social conservatism Blacks held prior to the aforementioned socialists gaining
their stranglehold in the black community.
So is
Obama seeking to be our first black president, or our first stealth black nationalist
president? You see, were he a run-of-the-mill insincere Christian of convenience like Bill
Clinton, Obama might belong to a run-of-the-mill, lukewarm, large nondescript church. But
he doesnt. He belongs to a church which is (as I indicated before) blatantly
afrocentric and even suggests the supremacy of Africas descendants in America.
Granted
that the Left will have no qualms about this highly questionable affiliation, but what
about all of the American swing voters to whom Obama has built broad appeal by presenting
himself as sort of a generic, open-minded moderate Democrat (as Bill Clinton also did, by
the way)? Are they going to go for a candidate whose heart is actually closer to that of a
refined Black Panther?
Trinity
United clearly embraces things African above things American. The content of their website
makes this undeniably clear. Aside from this tack being divisive, separatist and calls
into question its adherents identification as Americans, if theyre looking for
values, they and Obama would be better served by looking to modern political
conservatives and traditional Christianity than retrograde African precepts and the
Democrat Party.
Obamas
affiliation with this church, if I must call it that, should be as alarming to the
American voter as a Republican candidate for president belonging to the Aryan Brethren
Church of Christ. Any argument against this assertion is politically-correct delusion,
reverse discrimination and a hypocrisy a very dangerous one.
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Erik Rush is a New York-born
columnist and author who writes a weekly
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