The transgression of Rev. Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright, pastor of Barack Obama's church home of twenty years in Chicago were not Scriptural. Wright questioned white America's civic religion, its fraudulent self-image as benevolent conqueror and justified leader of the planet. Heretics of this kind are speedily cast from the public American public discourse, despite the fact most of the planet agrees with them. What does it say about the "change" Obama "brings with him" that his "multiracial coalition" seems to depend is eagerly endorsing pernicious lies rather than speaking truth to power. Who will Obama denounce, or be required to denounce next?
Fire and Damnation Awaits Those Who Transgress White America’s Religion
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
“The American Pantheon of gods and demigods is drawn entirely from the “heroes” in the great White/European conquest of North America.”
It was always inevitable that the Barack Obama electoral contraption – that eclectic assemblage rigged to resemble a “movement” on its way to no political destination in particular – would find itself grounded on the ragged shoals of America’s Unnamed Coast. The location of this treacherous yet Unnamed Coast was always common knowledge, and to be avoided at all cost. The problem was, and remains, that the very act of explaining to the uninitiated the nature and whereabouts of the Unnamed Coast reveals irreconcilable truths about the uncertain future of the entire American Archipelago. Very bad for tourism, investments of all kinds, and the ever-volatile national sanity quotient.
However, now that everyone has heard the awful crunching and tearing of the coastal rocks on the hulk of the Good Ship
Obama, it’s time to let the secret out: the Unnamed Coast is actually the entrance to the Land of Official and Inviolable American Religion. The entire region is off-limits to all but those designated as Learned Reconcilers – that is, double-talking Sages whose job it is to explain how the United States has no national religion when it is patently clear that the totality of the national mythology amounts to a comprehensive body of faith, packed with superpower potency and globe-consuming threat.
To conceal the existence of the uber-religion from citizens and outsiders alike, great electoral fuss is made over the minor divisions separating Catholics, Protestants, Americanized Jews, and the tolerance shown to all the other religious grouplets that, by their quaint and unassuming presence, make the United States seem the least doctrinaire of all nations.
“Double-talking Sages explain how the United States has no national religion when it is patently clear that the totality of the national mythology amounts to a comprehensive body of faith, packed with superpower potency and globe-consuming threat.”
This past weekend, the American Uber-God and his golden-haired disciples roared down from Mt. Rushmore or Disneyland or wherever they hold forth to lay down The Law of the Origins and Eternal promise of that singular of nations, the United States.
The American Pantheon of gods and demigods is drawn entirely from the “heroes” in the great White/European conquest of North America, the god-sanctioned murder of the vast majority of the original inhabitants, and the kidnapping of millions of Africans to act as “beasts of burden” for the Chosen Whites. Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Andrew Jackson - all mass murderers, organized rapists, perpetual violators of solemn treaties. To the American school girl and boy, these military butchers are the European equivalent of Saints, Holy personages.
Virtually every song that is sung in public school assemblies, no matter how purportedly “secular,” is a celebration of the Great White Victories over the red, brown, and black people of the America’s and beyond. (“God Bless America,” “This is My Country,” “Star-Spangled Banner,”) The trappings of a Warrior Religion pervade formal and informal white U.S. society.
Race or Religion?
Spearheaded by “researchers” from ABC, white folks “discovered” that retiring Dr. Jeremiah Wright, Jr. had loads of recordings of his sermons available for sale. What the neophyte racial researchers heard shocked their sensibilities to the bone. America was born in a charnal house of mass racial murder and every conceivable abomination to God and Man. This is the great genesis 0f the U.S.A. And it is incontrovertible fact, from which all our racial conflicts and disparities flow.
The real American religion is all about race: the glorification in the conquest of two darker races by the favored white race.
ABC and the rest of the press were initially confused as to how to characterize Dr. Wright’s rather ordinary dissertation on the racist origins and countless crimes of the U.S. Many other Black clerics and statesmen have bequeathed similar assessments to history – although few whites found such documents worthy of attention. Should Dr. Wright’s sermons be listed under “race” or “religion?”
It’s a ridiculous question. The real American religion is all about race: the glorification in the conquest of two darker races by the favored white race. It was God’s will, and Heaven’s sign that the growth and prosperity of the United States is God’s design for the future.
In other words, U.S. Imperialism is sanctified at the Highest Level, according to the prevailing White American Religion,
Black theology and the Black historical world view rejects the religion of the victor, who is also the continued tormentor of people of color around the planet . Yes, God Damn the U.A. for its multitudinous crimes, past, present and future.
Barak Obama thinks he can talk his way out of the confluence of American racism and an American religion that is saturated with racist doctrines and celebrations. It is an impossible task – but one that will keep the talking heads dumbly bobbing in imitation of thought.
BAR executive editor Glen Ford can be contacted at Glen.Ford@BlackAgendaReport.com.
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