Wait, He Said What?

I’ll be the first person to admit that I am the farthest thing from being interested in keeping up with day-to-day politics. Some Americans feel that it is necessary to be informed of what is going on in every aspect of the political world constantly; which is fine, but it just isn’t something that I am able to think about without feeling like my head will explode. I’m sure that I will care much more about what is going on in the political world when I am older and certain aspects of numerous elections will have an actual effect on my career and things of that nature. My point in explaining my personal feelings about politics is to help you, the reader, to understand my astonishment when I read the first few pages of chapter 9 in our book, The Color of Christ.

In 2008 I was in the 10^th grade and then, just as I still do, had not a care in the world to hear about anything to do with the grimy details of the presidential election. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not an ignorant person, I do care about our country and what is going on in it. I just do not care for the trash talk and offensively opinionated comments and theories that go along with most political events. Anyway, I have just learned for the first time, that in 2008 during the presidential election, president Obama came close to losing his nomination due to one single phrase, three small words, spoken by his own minister Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Those three words which became so influential to the Obama campaign were “God damn America”. Each of these words, when combined in the same sentence at any time by any person, give me a cold feeling inside so I’m hoping that you can imagine how appalled I was to read about this. As I continued to read I felt that I was gradually falling deeper and deeper into in a state of disbelief at the ignorance of one single person much less all of the people who supported this man. I am a devout Christian and I always have been and to learn of a minister, who actually drove his congregation to believe these absurd things that he has somehow perceived from the Holy Bible, is sickening. A minister is someone who is supposed to be an exceptional example of God’s word to all people that he crosses paths with and most importantly, he is responsible for sharing the word of the Lord within his own church home.

To learn his justification behind speaking these words was by far the worst part of it all. This man truly believes that, in his so-called interpretation of the word of God, Christ was a poor black man being ruled by all rich white men and for that, “God damn America” right? The whole freaking country itself has all just gone to crap in his eyes due to the fact that Jesus was controlled by whites and supposedly whites will always treat blacks and Native Americans like they are above them. I’m sorry but lastly I feel the need to add, has this man ever heard of the Ten Commandments? Because he surely doesn’t act like it by speaking the Lord’s name in vain the way that he does so comfortably. Well my friends, this is ignorance at its finest and I believe that it is time for my rant to come to an end.