Jewish Zionism is a
political movement that is associated with the religion, ethnicity, and cultural identity of some Jewish people. Not every
Jewish person is sympathetic to Jewish Zionism. However, Jewish Zionism was primarily concerned with returning Caucasian Jewish people to their
believed land of origin in order for them to establish a national identity. This would relieve them of the ambivalent feelings about their place and
purpose, and of the hardship and mistreatment they had suffered at the hands and dictates of other Caucasians throughout Eurasia.
Why is Pastor Wright being declared an anti-Semite?
Is it because he questions the US support of Israel in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict?
Is it because he questions the political motives of the Jewish Zionism movement in association with the displacement of the Palestinians from
Israel/Palestine subsequent to the end of WWII?
He certainly is not a supporter of Nazi German doctrine. Nor does he espouse hate speech. Why should he be branded an anti-Semite for questioning the
political motives of governments (US, Britain, and Israel) and an associated political movement (Jewish Zionism)? Pastor Wright certainly has not
made any statements against Jewish people or Jewish religion. He has not even made opposing statements that cover the entire breadth of Jewish
politics.
There was and is considerable political, religious, and secular Jewish and non-Jewish opposition to Jewish Zionism.
Maybe Wright is anti-Zionist? At any rate, there is no evidence at all which supports the assertion that he is an anti-Semite since he has not said
anything against the whole of Jewish people. Any comments he has made questioning Jewish Zionism were correctly couched in political context.
Ideological terms anti-Semite, anti-American, anti-this and anti-that can be used to confuse and obfuscate central issues and to instill fear into a
person, organization, or government of being branded political and religious heretics. In short it can serve rhetoric and propaganda that is designed
and used to discredit and destroy opposition.
Anti-Semitism does exist. But when one questions the political component of Jewish Zionism it does not necessarily mean that person is an
anti-Semite.
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Wright remembers the
Tuskegee Experiments that targeted
US citizens who were male and Black. He is old enough to remember first hand accounts by Americans who were subject to
secret experiments carried out against US citizens regardless of the color of their
skin or political affiliations. So when he says that he believes that HIV was manufactured by the US government, reading between the lines as one
suggested, one could easily infer that he is referring to the military industrial complex that President Eisenhower courageously warned US citizens
about. Maybe Wright is wrong about the true origin of HIV, but he can be forgiven for basing his beliefs on verified and true historical facts of the
US government and military testing dangerous, deadly biological and chemical agents on its own citizens and other people throughout the world.
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Some folks have taken offense that Pastor Wright has referred to Jesus Christ as being Black. There are at least a few possible reasons why Wright
has done so.
First, Jesus is symbolic of struggling and oppressed people. He was not afraid to stand up for who he was, his followers, or his beliefs. Wright
could have been referring in a metaphorical sense to Jesus being Black.
Second,
Black Madonna. Jesus Christ is not limited to being depicted as Caucasian. Within the
US, throughout Europe, and Africa Jesus is also depicted as being Black. Most American Christians are familiar with the Caucasian depictions of Jesus
and that probably explains why some deem Pastor Wright a liar for saying otherwise that Jesus was Black. However, many Christians think of Christ as
being White only from the images that they are most familiar with.
Third, there is
great debate over the true race of Jesus Christ. (Why does it even matter?) And,
so, Pastor Wright believes that Jesus was in fact Black or at least part African.
(What difference does it make if Jesus was Black or White or neither? None as far as the Bible is concerned. Especially since, according to the
Bible, Jesus was sent to Earth for the salvation of all people.)
In 2004 Jesus was voted "greatest black icon of all time" by the British journal New Nation. The journal commented jokingly that he must have
been black because "he called everybody 'brother', liked Gospel, and couldn't get a fair
trial".
news.bbc.co.uk...
At any rate, there's nothing wrong with expressing the belief that Jesus was Black if others also express that Jesus was White, or some other
race.
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Nuclear armament is a form of terrorism. One nation points its nuclear missiles at other nations and dictates foreign policy as those nations
tremble. They live in fear even though they may also have nuclear capability and missiles pointing at their enemies.
When I was in elementary school we learned about the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings. We learned that the Soviet Union had nuclear missiles
pointing at our country, the United States. Periodically, we would have drills when we would practice safety and evacuation procedures. We would
crawl and crouch beneath our desks and place our hands over our heads. We would file in a single line into the the basement of the school. There
were signs placed throughout the school that designated that it could be used as a fallout shelter. Whenever there was a drill some children would
cry because they thought we were really being attacked.
Since we were shown pictures of what the atomic bombs Fat Man and Little Boy looked like, and since we were shown pictures of the aftermath of
Hiroshima and Nagasaki, we had plenty good reason to be afraid that the same thing could happen to us. At that time during the Cold War it was
speculated in the news regularly that we could be the victims of a nuclear attack at any moment. In short we were being terrorized by the Soviets and
the US. If the US attacked the USSR first the Soviets would launch a counterattack. We learned it didn't matter who launched first that millions of
people in both countries would die.
For many people, including myself, the nuclear attacks on Japan qualify as terrorist attacks. Military personnel and civilians were killed and their
places of employment and residence decimated. Hundreds of thousands of civilians were killed and suffered the effects of radiation poisoning. Some
call it war but it is considered terrorism by many.
It is easy to understand why Pastor Wright would see the nuclear attacks on Japan in the light of terrorism.
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Despite progress, Blacks have been and continue to be oppressed by a system that was developed by Whites that was built for the purpose of exclusively
supporting Whites. It should not be surprising that Pastor Wright should continue to have something to say about that. He is near retirement age,
which means that he has seen, experienced, and survived some of the worst that the US has dished towards his people and himself.
White arrogance? Would anybody consider the establishment of the US to be anything other than arrogant? There's Bush/Cheney and Wall Street to
provide ample evidence. White leaders and businessmen have sold the US off to the highest international bidders. Exported jobs, too. Did it under
the noses of most White Americans and many live in denial about it. Preferring the delusion that they are still large and in charge. Need more
evidence that Wright is right about this?