Would you vote for a presidential candidate who attends a church that publishes the following?
Trinity United Church of Christ adopted the White 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 White Ethics must be taught and exemplified in homes, churches, nurseries and schools, wherever Whites are gathered. They must reflect on the following concepts:
- Commitment to God
- Commitment to the White Community
- Commitment to the White Family
- Dedication to the Pursuit of Education
- Dedication to the Pursuit of Excellence
- Adherence to the White Work Ethic
- Commitment to Self-Discipline and Self-Respect
- Disavowal of the Pursuit of “Middleclassness”
- Pledge to make the fruits of all developing and acquired skills available to the White Community
- Pledge to Allocate Regularly, a Portion of Personal Resources for Strengthening and Supporting White Institutions
- Pledge allegiance to all White leadership who espouse and embrace the White Value System
- Personal commitment to embracement of the White Value System.
Outrageous, isn’t it! Does it make any difference that the candidate is Barack Obama and Black should be substituted every time White is used above? (Source)
Is the church Obama attends a fair campaign issue? I believe so. Obama makes specific mention of Trinity United Church of Christ on his presidential campaign web site. (Source) Ben Wallace-Wells, in the Rolling Stone article “Destiny’s Child” writes,
Obama wasn’t born into Wright’s world. His parents were atheists, an African bureaucrat and a white grad student, Jerry Falwell’s nightmare vision of secular liberals come to life. Obama could have picked any church — the spare, spiritual places in Hyde Park, the awesome pomp and procession of the cathedrals downtown. He could have picked a mosque, for that matter, or even a synagogue. Obama chose Trinity United. He picked Jeremiah Wright. Obama writes in his autobiography that on the day he chose this church, he felt the spirit of black memory and history moving through Wright, and “felt for the first time how that spirit carried within it, nascent, incomplete, the possibility of moving beyond our narrow dreams.” (Source)
Read the entire article. Including the sentence, “What Obama stands for, if anything, is not yet clear.” (Source)
Have you bafoons looked closley at the current presidents religous guidlines? Are you kidding me, hes as extermist as they come “born again” and nuts!
Truth, the “bafoons” at this site are just me, myself, and I. That said (and ignoring your multiple spelling errors; do you really expect to be taken seriously when that’s all the effort you put into a comment?), your argument appears to be, “Bush is bad so Obama gets a pass.” Or, maybe in a more familiar phrase, “I know you are, but what am I?”
Please tell me you have a better response to the apparent racism of Trinity United Church of Christ than that.
I have no problem with those precepts. What it’s saying is that the black community has gone astray in ways that make black people unable to assimilate. Hip Hop, Black slang, absent fathers, crack addiction, etc. just aren’t going to get black people where they need to go to find a better life. Bill Cosby has been saying much the same thing and has been soundly trashed by some segments of the black community, but that doesn’t make him wrong. Too many in the black community have given up and degraded their values for professional victimhood, and it has cost the black community dearly. That is why so many professionals have subscribed to those precepts and joined the congregation.
I guess I wasn’t clear. Obama’s church published the above, except it used “black” everywhere I used “white.” If you follow the link, you’ll see they’ve since modified it.