I find it sad that you need to subscribe to some specific brand of mysticism to be taken seriously in American politics.
Obama, who grew up fatherless and without a connection to his racial identity had to overcompensate in a sense, by joining this seemingly crazy-ass Chicago church and linking up with Reverand-Black Brains are different from White Brains-Wright, so that the black zombies in Chicago would vote for him.
It clearly worked for him until it didn't and the god of tribalism came back to collect its dues by associating Obama with every person who walked past his church..
While this bias in association has some racial background, it's really more about the failings of the black church to provide anything useful for their flock.
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"I find it sad that you need to subscribe to some specific brand of mysticism to be taken seriously in American politics."
ReplyDeleteThat was ill right there.
"While this bias in association has some racial background, it's really more about the failings of the black church to provide anything useful for their flock."
As an atheist, I have to disagree with you. The black church has done a great deal of things for black people throughout our time in America. In fact, no institution has done more, thats just the relaity of our history. Trinity does a great deal of good work in Chicago, that helps real people, and that goes beyond 'saving souls' they are really helping people in physical, material ways.
You can't condemn the entire black church based on Obama's run for the presidency. You can however, largely condemn them for their lack of providing real solutions to our very real problems. Trinity is a paradox in that sense, because while they are hurting Barrack, they are actually making an impact in the community otherwise.
Religion is good for something?
ReplyDeleteHistorically, the black church has served an obvious purpose, but most recently there are instances of the black church rallying around crooked black politicians that screw over blacks worse than anyone else.
ReplyDeleteThey support the homophobia of the black community, the likes of Kwame Fitzpatrick, Sharpe James, were early supporters of Hillary and tend to support useless institutions and espouse the sort of pie in the sky nonsense that really does nothing for the black condition.
Having been forced to attend a number of black church sermons in the last few months the uselessness of this institution has never been more clear.
In his letter to from the Birmingham Jail, Martin Luther King talked about if the church is not careful, it would become a "irrelevant social club". That has come to pass.
ReplyDeleteI will now start blaming the Catholic Church...the last dude was catholic, that's where I'm going with it...so by association...this is the Popes fault.
ReplyDeleteThe Black church is an imperfect institution, but has done and continues to do too much for the Black community for it to be dismissed this way by you. You would be hard-pressed to find anything truly beneficial to the Black American people that is untouched by the Black church.
ReplyDeleteAlso, there is nothing "crazy-ass" about Trinity. The doctrine espoused by its ministers is fairly typical among Black people and Black churches. In my experience, this is universally obvious to American Blacks.
I just have a very difficult time believing that you truly believe what you wrote in this post. It is like you took an arbitrary stance and held onto it despite all evidence to the contrary. While your opening line is memorable, the remainder your analysis of the events and condition you describe is unfortunate.