Posted by Jim on: 03.19.2008 /
I don’t agree with how he said it but I have to agree with Barack’s pastor
If we don’t get out of Iraq- we deserve the condemnations he uttered
We don’t like hearing people damn us.
We think we’re above that
We never go too far
It’s places like Iraq , Iran and North Korea that deserve to be damned – not us
I write this from India
I’m here to protest the caste system- to support those who are working to end it
Many people think it is impossible to turn around a 3000 year old system of repression
Many think we should just be thankful for the advances in the Indian economy and wait for the trickle down to kick in for the lower castes
Many people also told the slaves that they were better off on the plantation
Another 100 years in Iraq and we will be damned, doomed and destroyed
It’s time to get out now
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(Editor’s note: Today we are participating in a blogswarm against the Iraq War. See other participants here)
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Comment by: Helen
1 03/19/08 7:10 PM | Comment Link |I was bothered when they said on the news that 4,000 lives have been lost since the war began - as if only American lives count.
Comment by: Benjamin
2 03/20/08 7:57 PM | Comment Link |Helen,
It’s interesting that that bothered you, actually. Hasn’t that been the predominant take in the mainstream media right along?
Comment by: Helen
3 03/22/08 5:47 PM | Comment Link |Benjamin yes, I expect it has been. But I don’t usually watch the TV news. And it was so blatant the other morning when I did happen to see it.
Comment by: Benjamin
4 03/22/08 8:28 PM | Comment Link |Good on ya for not watching TV News. =)
I mean it’s rooted in human psychology, though, isn’t it? We form ingroups in order to feel ok about ourselves, and *part* of the way we form those ingroups is by defining “the other” as “less than”–by defining the outgroup.
Comment by: Helen
5 03/23/08 6:17 AM | Comment Link |Benjamin, yes - it’s typical human behavior - but we can choose differently (I believe).
Comment by: Rachel
6 03/23/08 10:00 AM | Comment Link |That makes me angry too, Helen!
Comment by: Rachel
7 03/23/08 10:03 AM | Comment Link |I agree, Benjamin. And as E.J. Dionne pointed out his recent column, Rev. Wright is not the only black minister who has harshly condemned America from the pulpit.
“God didn’t call America to engage in a senseless, unjust war…And we are criminals in that war. We’ve committed more war crimes almost than any nation in the world, and I’m going to continue to say it. And we won’t stop it because of our pride and our arrogance as a nation. But God has a way of even putting nations in their place.”
- Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, Ebenezer Baptist Church, 1968
Comment by: benjamin
8 03/23/08 12:00 PM | Comment Link |I’d love to take credit, but they’re actually Jim’s words =)
But thank you for the MLK quote!