Desmond Tutu has a blog about religion (they call it ‘faith’) on the Washington Post’s website. Recently he set the record straight on Barack Obama’s former paster Reverend Jeremiah Wright (he retired):
Jeremiah Wright has said really no more than [what] falls squarely in the ambit of black theology, black religion to answer the anguished questions of black people suffering under the brutality of white racism. It ultimately seeks reconciliation, but you cannot be reconciled with one who has his boot on your neck to keep you in the gutter. To be reconciled you must stand up right to look the other in the eye.
The rest and context here. BTW, The mainstream media distorted Reverend Wright’s politics to such an extent as to make it into a caricature (the Reverend’s worse sin, by the way, is probably his lack of political astuteness, which is why Obama, wanting to become President, finally threw him under the bus. Because that is what mainstream American consensus wanted). To get a better sense of Reverend Wright’s politics, revisit his interview with the broadcaster Bill Moyers and read two good assessments from the Columbia Journalism Review’s website. The first of the CJR pieces, here was written right after Obama’s “race” speech in Philadelphia (a decent, but ultimately very conservative, mainstream speech, by the way, as the political scientist and labor organizer Adolph Reed points out here and here) and the second analysis right after the media circus had moved onto something else, here]. And while elites go into fits about Reverend Wright, ordinary Americans point to the bigger elephant in the room.
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Heidi // May 14, 2008 at 1:06 pm
DESMOND TUTU - TONIGHT ON BLOOMBERG TV
Tonight on the BLOOMBERG TELEVISION® program “Night Talk” anchor Mike Schneider talks to Nobel Peace Prize winner Archbishop Desmond Tutu who is calling for a boycott of the opening ceremonies of the Olympic Games, “I have been saying that leaders of the free world ought not to attend the opening of the Olympic Games until it is clear that these new negotiations are real negotiations”
He also talks about the humanitarian crisis happening at South Africa’s back door in Zimbabwe, “its been an extraordinary spiraling downwards of a country that was a show piece and President Mugabe was someone we held in very high regard, we pointed to him as the kind of leader we would hope you had in man other places, I don’t know what’s happened, but the fact of the matter is people are suffering and my own country had adopted policies that frankly I wouldn’t have wanted to support.”
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wildebees // May 14, 2008 at 3:13 pm
I have visited his church website and listened to interviews with him, and he seems allot like SA’s Karel Boshof. A decent chap that believes ’self determination’ is the way for ‘his people’ to realise their potential.
PS: The text on your new theme is very small and difficult to read. On Firefox anyway.
Chief Priest // May 14, 2008 at 6:58 pm
The good rev’s words on “Premature Autopsies” (in Marsalis’ Magesty of the Blues). Though on Elligntonians, much applicable here.
Sean // May 14, 2008 at 7:24 pm
Hi wildebees. Just experimenting and went back to the old design btw as you can see.
BTW, there is a vast difference between Wright and Boshof. Come on/ Boshof is more David Duke.
Wessel van Rensburg (aka Mhambi, aka Wildebees) // May 18, 2008 at 4:35 pm
Carel Boshoff like David Duke? Come on? Have you read anything Boshoff has said or more importantly paid attention to what he has done?
Boshoff has never ever made any hateful statements than that of David Duke’s vile rhetoric!
And he has started projects with Eersterus just outside Pretoria. Read this if you understand Afrikaans.
Or an English version
Look at this as well.
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