1. Reverend Wright claims 9/11 was a case of the chickens coming home to roost. Actually he quoted somebody else as saying that, but let’s just pretend were lazy like the media and that Reverend Wright made that comment himself.
Well the 9/11 report, as stated by Republican Presidential candidate Ron Paul, states that 9/11 was indeed partly a response to some of our actions.
http://bbsnews.net/article.php/20070518033503883
2. The government pushed drugs into the black community. Correct!
Released on April 13, 1989, the Kerry Committee report concluded that members of the U.S. State Department “who provided support for the Contras were involved in drug trafficking…and elements of the Contras themselves knowingly received financial and material assistance from drug traffickers.”
In 1996 Gary Webb wrote a series of articles published in the San Jose Mercury News, which investigated Nicaraguans linked to the CIA-backed Contras who had allegedly smuggled cocaine into the U.S. which was then distributed as crack cocaine into Los Angeles and funneled profits to the Contras. According to Webb, the CIA was aware of the cocaine transactions and the large shipments of drugs into the U.S. by the Contra personnel and directly aided drug dealers to raise money for the Contras.
In 1996 CIA Director John Deutsch went to Los Angeles to refute the allegations raised by the Gary Webb, and was famously confronted by former LAPD officer Michael Rupert, who said he had witnessed it occurring. [6]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_drug_trafficking
3. With regards to the Aids virus, there is absolutely no proof to substantiate that claim, but there is the Tuskegee experiment. Which was an awful breach of trust, when the U.S. government screwed over 400 black men, and did more to ruin it’s reputation in the black community.
For forty years between 1932 and 1972, the U.S. Public Health Service (PHS) conducted an experiment on 399 black men in the late stages of syphilis. These men, for the most part illiterate sharecroppers from one of the poorest counties in Alabama, were never told what disease they were suffering from or of its seriousness. Informed that they were being treated for “bad blood,”1 their doctors had no intention of curing them of syphilis at all. The data for the experiment was to be collected from autopsies of the men, and they were thus deliberately left to degenerate under the ravages of tertiary syphilis—which can include tumors, heart disease, paralysis, blindness, insanity, and death. “As I see it,” one of the doctors involved explained, “we have no further interest in these patients until they die.”
A couple of points. African Americans as a community and individually don’t have to forgive America for anything, just like America doesn’t have to forgive Bin Laden for 9/11. Sorry, if America didn’t want to be linked to racism it shouldn’t have been so deeply rooted in it. It should not have participated in the slave trade. This is the equivalent of Charles Manson saying his murders are a thing of the past, it’s time for his victims their families and others to move on.
Second when has America ever denounced it’s bigotry. The father of this country is still George Washington a slave owner. Is that moving forward? How many slave owners do we still honor with statues and holidays? America does not have to denounce a man who committed horrid and egregious acts of human rights violations and disenfranchisement, but Barack Obama must denounce his preacher for words. In fact America celebrates this man and many others like him as part of the proud history of this nation, the same one it keeps telling blacks to get past!
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