Change You Can Delete

I wrote a follow-up to my original “The Audacity of Racism” post yesterday, but pulled it because I was afraid I had gone a little far into right field. Now I’m really feeling sorry that I did. The quote it was based on was this:

“Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. preached the Christian tenet, “love thy neighbor as thyself.” Before Dr. King was murdered on April 4, 1968, he preached, “The 11 o’clock hour is the most segregated hour in America.” Forty years later, the African American Church community continues to face bomb threats, death threats, and their ministers’ characters are assassinated because they teach and preach prophetic social concerns for social justice. Sunday is still the most segregated hour in America.”

And my message was basically this:

The only reason that segregation still exists in this society is because you want it to. What white person is going to feel comfortable being a member of an “Unapologetically Black” church who’s stained glass windows depict the founding of the NAACP instead of Biblical history, who’s elders constantly run around in animal prints celebrating their alleged African history, and who are, as we speak, worshiping the chair of a hate-filled racist man above the sacrifice that Christ made to redeem us? Answer: none. Before you moan about 11am Sunday being the most segregated hour, you need to pull the plank out of your eye. The “rich white people” didn’t create AIDS and crack cocaine to keep you down. We’re all equal in the eyes of God (you know that guy you’re supposed to be worshiping?) — so get over it already!

You chose to make your sermons public, so you’re being judged by the public. Have a nice warm glass of STHU.

But today, something even more wonderful greeted me. This “Unapologetically Black” church has erased most traces of the lovely bits that I previously quoted from their website. Statement of Black Values? Gone. Black Church Talking Points? Gone. Outrageous sermons? Gone. “About Us”? Cleaned up. What’s the matter? If they’re so proud of themselves, then why the website cleanup effort? Too hot in the kitchen?

I noticed that their YouTube videos are gone now too. Skeered much? They can take everything down, but it will never disappear from the internet. Google, Archive.org and thousands of bloggers like myself who saved copies and took screen shots will see to that. It will keep coming back again and again, like an unlucky penny.

Here are a few more classics that found their way into Sunday morning sermons:

“Israel is a dirty word.”

“US of KKKA”

“Hillary ain’t never been called a n–––––.”

“Bill did us just like he did Monica Lewinsky. He rides dirty.”

“Who cares about what a poor black man has to face every day in a country and a culture controlled by rich white people ….. Barak was a poor black man that lives in a country and a culture which is controlled by rich white people.”

“And, and, and… in light of these in fact God has got to be sick of this sh*t!”

(For the record, Obama is half white, grew up in private school, and is now quite well off as evidenced by his Hyde Park home.) I swear, Rev. Wright provides me more entertainment every morning — it’s like looking in the mailbox every day and finding a million dollar check.

I’ll remind you once again: This is the change that Obama wants you to vote for. Wright was his campaign’s spiritual adviser until this pile of pooh hit the fan over the weekend. 20 years of racist garbage out of this man, and it was only when the media ran with it that he gave Wright (who is being investigated by the IRS for campaigning from the pulpit — SHOCKER!) the boot. I can’t wait for tomorrow’s Obamination speech on race. This is the gift that keeps on giving!

Leopard, spots.

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