By Alexis Stodghill, BlackVoices.com
Obama is being harshly criticized for having a pastor who holds challenging views on race in America. Hillary Clinton has used this moment to express her religious views, chiming in: "[Rev. Wright] would not have been my pastor. You don't choose your family, but you choose what church you want to attend."
Interestingly enough, a story has broken about the type of "church" Hillary Clinton does choose to attend: an organization cultivated in an open quest for power with a controversial history, an un-Democratic modus operandi and ties to destructive political regimes. These facts will be explained in detail in 'The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power,' by Jeff Sharlet to be published in May.
Columnist Barbara Ehrenreich reports that Hillary seeks spiritual guidance by worshiping with The Family, "a collection of powerful right-wing politicos, who include, or have included, Sam Brownback, Ed Meese, John Ashcroft, James Inhofe and Rick Santorum." During the 1940s this religious organization "reached out to former and not-so-former Nazis, and its fascination with that exemplary leader, Adolf Hitler, has continued, along with ties to a whole bestiary of murderous thugs."
Interesting. To quote Ehrenreich further:
The Family avoids the word Christian but worships Jesus, though not the Jesus who promised the earth to the "meek." They believe that, in mass societies, it's only the elites who matter, the political leaders who can build God's 'dominion' on earth. Insofar as The Family has a consistent philosophy, it's all about power -- cultivating it, building it and networking it together into ever-stronger units, or "cells." "We work with power where we can," Doug Coe [The Family's leader] has said, and "build new power where we can't."
Obama has made every effort to explain himself and his religious beliefs, while attempting to bridge the racial divide. What will Hillary have to say of her "chosen family"?
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Obama's pastor got him in trouble
ashanticreek said: "where are the well-connected and influential members of trinity church who will stand with rev. wright and counter the slanderof the congregation as 'racist' and 'separatist'? where are the influential mover-and-shakers of the chicago black community that will attest to the good wright has done in the community and the positive impact of trinity church? why is there no outcry at the racist machinations of the press in its pilloring of rev. wright and its obvious agenda to bring obama down?" (Photo: AP) - Comments from Black Voices Boards
Sharpton Shuts Down Tucker Carlson, Defends Obama & Wright
bobgeorge66 said: "Only Al Sharpton can b*tch slap these pundits and make them like it. He brings it to them each and every time - All I have to hear is that Al Sharpton is going to be on.....(insert show here)...and I am watching it. I LOVED how he turned it around on that Tucker guy...." (Photo: Richard Alan Hannon, Getty Images) - Comments from Black Voices Boards
Spitzer Drama & Ho Hypocrisy
EbonyDiva75 said: "Between this woman who was involved with the governor and this link of a segment on the Today Show basically about high price hos, I don't see how these mostly white women who sleep for money and some notoriety (and possibly a future book deal) are any different than [Karrine Steffans, 'Video Vixen']. A HO IS A HO IS A HO--NO MATTER THE RACE AND HOW YOU SLICE AND DICE IT!!! If it was someone like Karrine Steffans doing this, it would be like oh well go figure, typical black woman (why be surprised she does that)..." (Photo: Maury Phillips, WireImage.com) - Comments from Black Voices Boards
Snoop Dog: Ugly Women Don't Sell Records
ebokisses said: "Well Snoop better keep his job becasue his wife sure won't be selling any records... LoL."" (Photo: Malcolm Ali, WireImage.com) - Comments from Black Voices Boards
FIRST INTERRACIAL DATING SHOW: WM WANTS BW
ebokisses said: "I will NOT be watching this CRAPOLA. This mess will only make black women look like fools competing with other black women over some ugly ass wigger bama. They could of at least got a somewhat attractive and successful white guy. Black men are going to have a field day clowining black women over this one." - Comments from Black Voices Boards
Conceited Black Man: A Serious Epidemic
kanyepest said: "I've been a 'polite, nice guy' and women found that boring. Whenever I've been a little arrogant and let the woman know indirectly that she should be happy to be with me, women started being more responsive to me (and opening up their legs for me more, if you know what I mean). What you read as arrogance may very well be confidence in disguise."" - Comments from Black Voices Boards
How much cleavage should be shown?
da8653 said: "Forget cleavage. Women should just go topless." (Photo: Getty Images) - Comments from Black Voices Boards
Dr. Alveda King Speaks Against Abortion
kangold05 said: "First, I wish people would use condoms and practice safe sex. Secondly, given the amount of orphaned, murdered and abusedchildren out there.....some folk should not have been given the chance to even conceive moreless give birth....I say its the woman's right to choose whether she aborts her pregnancy. In a perfect world, ever woman that gives birth is a perfect mother who gives 100% to her child(ren).....this is not a perfect world."" (Photo: Jeff Fusco, Getty Images) - Comments from Black Voices Boards
HALF OF BLACK TEEN GIRLS HAS STD!
holla1600 said: "honestly, i don't know what the real numbers are so i can't dispute what's being said and no one else can either unless someone is conducting their own studies. so my best response to this information is to shake my head and think about a solution to bring the number (whatever it is) down. cuz we all know that it's higher than what it needs to be just based on common sense alone." - Comments from Black Voices Boards
IS BLACK LOVE--DEAD?
middlepassage1 said: "Have black people given up on MARRIAGE? Is black love dead? R&B singer Monica has 2 babies out of wedlock. Erykah Badu has 2 babies outof wedlock. Laurn Hill has 3 or 4 babies out of wedlock. Puff Daddy has 3 kids out of wedlock. Rapper T.I. has 4 or 5 kids out of wedlock. Somebody on this board said that Keyshia Cole is now pregnant, and she is not married. 70% of black kids, are born to UNWED mothers--whatever happened to MARRIAGE in the black community?"
1. WTF!!?
Is this for real?
Looks like my google/wikipedia time just shot up. We'll see how true this is after a thorough research session....
I'll be back
Tai Hunter at 4:38PM on Mar 28th 2008