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POLITICAL ROUND UP: COMMON ON PASTOR WRIGHT / CARTER HINTS AT OBAMA SUPPORT / HILLARY ON TONIGHT SHOW

Friday, April 4, 2008

Common performing at Trinity’s Night Watch Service earlier this year

In a recent interview with Black Voices, Common defended his pastor, Jeremiah Wright.

The 36-year old rapper and actor, who has been a member of Trinity United Church of Christ since he was eight, said:

“I am a member of the Trinity United Church of Christ, which is the church of Pastor Reverend Wright who has now become a national figure and I’m very proud of that. As we can see, as Barack has spoken, he said he has learned a lot from Reverend Wright. I can say that I’ve learned a lot from Pastor Wright.

A couple of weeks ago I was in Chicago and it was his retirement ceremony and I wanted to go up and speak, but I didn’t. I have rapped in the church which shows how progressive this church is that they let me rap there. I wanted to go up and speak and say how well he had raised me. I grew up with my mom and my step-father, but I felt in many ways that I was raised by his sermons also.

His sermons always endorsed God and promoted God and believing in God and spirituality and being proud of who you are as a person and dealing with the black community.”

Common, who believes Wright is preaching self-love and not hatred and his sermons were attempting to empower a disenfranchised race of people, also said:

“I think it’s something important that we can acknowledge and say we’re proud to be who we are. It’s not an anti anything. It’s about love for your culture also. I think many other cultures do it. Italians love their culture and Mexicans and Jewish people love and respect their culture. I think it should be okay for black people to say, ‘We love our culture. We love everybody else too, but we love our culture too.’ That’s the message that I got from Pastor Wright,” he explained.

Read the article in its entirety. Shout out to CL Reader Nikki for the info.

In related news, the United Church of Christ, the parent denomination of Trinity United Church of Christ, announced Thursday that it will begin a conversation on racial issues in response to Wright’s sermons.

CARTER HINTS AT OBAMA SUPPORT


(Photo: John Bazemore/AP)

The Associated Press reports that on Wednesday, Former President Jimmy Carter noted that Sen. Barack Obama had won his home state of Georgia and his hometown of Plains to Nigerian newspaper This Day and added:

“My children and their spouses are pro-Obama. My grandchildren are also pro-Obama,” he said at a news conference. “As a superdelegate, I would not disclose who I am rooting for, but I leave you to make that guess.”

According to a recent CNN/Essence Magazine/Opinion Research Corp. poll, 76 percent of the respondents say the country is ready for a black president. Sixty-nine percent of blacks and 78 percent of whites feel this way, up eight and six points, respectively, from a poll released in January. Shout out to CL Reader Ashleigh for the info.

HILLARY ON TONIGHT SHOW

Sen. Hillary Clinton appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno Thursday.

As she sat down, she said “It is so great to be here. You know, I was worried I wouldn’t make it. I was pinned down by sniper fire,” referring to her Bosnia claim.

The second part of her appearance is available on YouTube.

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1.

April J

Friday, April 4, 2008 /

good for carver obama is an incredible choice
and hillary should be vice!!
democrats 08 and beyond!!!!

2.

JUJU

Friday, April 4, 2008 /

I agree with Common. And i still dont see what the big deal about the pastors comments!

3.

KRC3x

Friday, April 4, 2008 /

I didn’t know Common was Christian.

4.

I tell U What

Friday, April 4, 2008 /

I rather vote Mc Cain than Hillary……

6.

Satellite

Friday, April 4, 2008 /

she’s still a liar

7.

kris"e"tina

Friday, April 4, 2008 /

……..i sure do like the way jimmy carter said that. gotta love common =)

8.

STLCHICK

Friday, April 4, 2008 /

@ 4 I don’t know if I would go that far but I don’t like Hillary either. I’m glad to hear Common voicing his opinion and I can not wait until he comes to my school and performs! W/ his fine ass!!!!!!

9.

La'shonda (still frying fish for saturday)

Friday, April 4, 2008 /

Gotta love Good ol Jimmy. Maybe YT ain’t all that bad

10.

Excursion

Friday, April 4, 2008 /

I wish people would leave this Jeremiah Wright situation alone. He’s not an extremist Or racist or any of that. He is just another black christian man who has views and is outspoken about them. I actually know Common and Pastor Wright personally, they are very affluent men. Me and Common also had the same music mentor growing up.

11.

HR DIVA

Friday, April 4, 2008 /

LorLord….I LOVE THIS MAN!! Common laid it out plain and simple. Although I do believe that politics shoudl not be made as a platform in church, you cannot deny how intertwined it is with the very fabric of our history in this U.S. Although he was abrasive in his delivery (more or less), dagnammit the Pastor had a lot of points!

*Waiting for the brigade to attack me*

lol

12.

La'shonda (still frying fish for saturday)

Friday, April 4, 2008 /

actually I take that back…I just saw that Hilary interview.smh. ‘mis’ is her favorite prefix. ‘i mispoke some mistatement and this has all been a great big mismatch’. IS THIS WOMAN FOR REAL? So I guess ‘mis’ =’lie’ at the Clinton house. sigh

13.

SKYY

Friday, April 4, 2008 /

@4 I DONT KNOW ABOUT ALL THAT

14.

hellrandom00

Friday, April 4, 2008 /

I agree 100% w/ Rev. Wright. F*ck the media!

common is FINEEEE!!!

HIllary gets on my mf nerves. The most corrupt candidate.

OBAMA 08′!!!

I’m out. Peace.

15.

Applebottom

Friday, April 4, 2008 /

I agree with Common and AMEN Pastor Wright’s sermon concerning race in Ameirca wholeheartedly

16.

Applebottom

Friday, April 4, 2008 /

Tell yo moma - VOTE OBAMA!!!!

17.

I LOVES ME SOME CHOCOLATE! YUM

Friday, April 4, 2008 /

THE CLINTON’S ARE A SAD BUNCH! THEY WANNA RIGHT THE WRONGS FOR THE BAD IMAGE AND (HUUM)TASTE LEFT IN PEOPLES MOUTHS WHEN MR. WAS PRESIDENT. I FEEL FOR HER BECAUSE THAT HAD TO BE A HARD THING TO LIVE WITH, HAD TO BE! BUT WE SHOULD NOT HAVE TO SUFFER. THEY ARE REALLY TRYING TO BULLSHIT THE PEOPLE ONCE AGAIN ESPECIAALLY THE BLACK ONES! I DON’T AGREE 100 with OBaMA BUT BASED ON THOSE 2 CHOICES he is the better candidate.

18.

I LOVES ME SOME CHOCOLATE! YUM

Friday, April 4, 2008 /

CO SIGN 14

19.

ashleigh

Friday, April 4, 2008 /

lol @ 16… NEW SLOGAN!!! i like it LOL

20.

A concerned black woman

Friday, April 4, 2008 /

I cannot understand why Obama supporters would rather vote for McCain than Hillary. I also don’t understand why Hillary’s supporters claim they refuse to vote for Obama. Why are you voting for your candidate if you can’t support the other person should your candidate lose?

I like both Obama and Clinton, and I believe every politician has slept with the devil to advance their career. All three of these candidates have skeletons in their closet; none of them are clean! So as long as the Democrats get the Executive Office in November, I am okay. Clinton and Obama practically have the same platforms, share the same ideologies, and want to get the troops out of Iraq as soon as possible. In fact, Obama might be a little more liberal than Hillary. McCain, on the other hand, is the most conservative of the candidates and his platform is the polar opposite of Hillary or Barack’s! Plus, he wants to keep the troop levels stable. I just don’t get it.

I think people need to leave their pride and egos at the door when they go vote. Your candidate may not be on the ballot, but vote for the remaining person that is saying the things you want to hear and willing to promote the issues that matter the most.

21.

Court

Friday, April 4, 2008 /

Chuuurch. Preach. Whites are not used to sermons in black churches. His passion in what he is preaching is the same passion my pastor in Philadelphia preaches with. He is not saying anything wrong. He even takes history of the Bible and what happened in those days as an example of what’s going on now a days. I wish I was still in college in some of my government and poetry classes this is probably a hot topic. I say big up to Common for standing up for Pastor Wright and Obama while I understand why Obama cannot really at this time fully defend his pastors words but Obama is the best candidate he is a very intelligent man. Obama 08′. Hillary I find nothing funny about your lies.

22.

Shag

Friday, April 4, 2008 /

Common’s got it all wrong, like most of my people. What Pastor Wright was promoting wasn’t above loving thyself, it was about his own brand of discrimantion. There was a time (the early to mid-60s) when we needed that. We’d had our asses kicked all over the place, we needed someone to say, “No more.”
By keeping the focus on Rev. Wright, “we” are hurting Obama’s chances to run his inclusive campaign. Rev. Wright is just like Jessie, Al and a number of prominent black ministers. They deal with divisive issues, in an effort to keep their minions in line.
We are seven percent of the U.S. poplulation, yet thirty seven percent of the prison population. Black women are the fasting growing AIDS addicted group. Our high school dropout rate nationally, borders around 50%. Black teens are killing each other at an astonishing rate.
Talk to me about real issues like the Jena 6, instead of minister who put his foot in his mouth, ala Richard Williams (Venus and Serena’s dad) preaching anger and hate. It don’t work folks. Prison, high blood pressure, strokes, heart attacks, we are there!

23.

LAURA

Friday, April 4, 2008 /

HILLARY CLINTON REGULARLY ATTENDS PRAYER MEETINGS OF A RACIST!!

Here is an article which is currently on ABC NEWS online (www.abcnews.com), today regarding Hillary Clinton, and HER religious affiliation.
Justin Rood Reports:
Stories on the “stealth” ministry of Douglas Coe have been cropping up recently on blogs and online publications, linking him unfavorably to Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y.
Comparing Coe to Obama’s inflammatory pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Barbara Ehrenreich wrote HuffingtonPost.com, “When it comes to unsavory religious affiliations, she’s a lot more vulnerable than Obama.”
But the story may not be so simple. Indeed, as Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential campaign confirmed yesterday, he has also attended Coe’s prayer meetings.
Coe’s group, “the Fellowship,” reportedly shuns publicity while focusing on ministering to those in power in the United States and around the world. In Washington, D.C., Coe sponsors a weekly Senate prayer breakfast and an annual National Prayer Breakfast regularly attended by U.S. presidents.
Coe’s group has been called “shadowy,” and Coe has made some unusual comments which have raised more than a few eyebrows. In recorded presentations, he has seemed to praise Hitler and other totalitarian leaders for brutally enforcing their followers’ allegiance to doctrine over allegiance to family, and suggesting that was a model for teaching children about Jesus.
“[T]here is something deeply strange about the group,” wrote Atlantic magazine’s Joshua Green, who has reported extensively on Coe’s Fellowship and Hillary Clinton.
Ehrenreich and others have noted that Hillary has been a regular attendee at his weekly prayer meetings, and spoke warmly of Coe in her autobiography, “Living History.”
But if Clinton has a Coe problem, then it seems Obama would also: a quick call to the Obama campaign elicited a confirmation that the junior senator from Illinois had also attended “a couple” of Coe’s meetings. And, like Clinton reportedly has, Obama spoke at one of the meetings about his faith, spokesman Bill Burton confirmed.

— ROLAND, inform your listeners of this little tidbit, as both you and I know the mainstream press is NOT going to do it!!!

24.

Paradyse

Friday, April 4, 2008 /

Hmm thats wonderful….definitely a good thing for them. As far as the whole going behing superhead things…thats something to be concerned about for anyone…Karrine aint the only superhead…i’m sure there are many in the hood….being careful is what you do with any person, whether they are a celebrity or not….i’m sure both of them were smart enough to get tested before they got married.
I dont know many married couples that want to start a future and have kids that ‘wrap it up when they have sex”…but congrats if it’s true, and you can tell sumthin happning cuz michelle and kelly are together all of a sudden at the four seasons…hmmmm

25.

Lee Coles

Friday, April 4, 2008 /

Rev. Wright’s successor, longtime SCLC official Rev. Otis Moss, was Dr. King’s co-pastor at Ebenezer. Major figure in Cincinnati and Cleveland. Doesn’t sound very violent to me.

26.

I CAN BLOW...AND I DONT JUST MEAN I CAN SANG!!!

Friday, April 4, 2008 /

ok…so…I KNOW im late, but not my fault cuz I live in Grand Cayman Island, so WHAT DID REVEREND WRIGHT SAY TO PISS SO MANY WHITE FOLKS OFF??????
someone pls catch me up with a recap/rundown!

27.

JAMDOWN YUTE

Friday, April 4, 2008 /

Seriously, enuff already, why Hillary just dont give up all the polls are indicating that Obama will win and yet still she is still pressing the issue and another thing this jeremiah wright Pastor comments have been blown way out of proportion what is wrong with some one calling America the KKKS of A, At least thats the way it seems to young men like me who dont live in Amerrica. So could he just be reflecting the reality and pple are so afraid of the reality?

28.

LOLLYPOP

Friday, April 4, 2008 /

Superhead - If you don’t know what he said by now, you don’t need to know.

29.

Afiya

Afiya

Friday, April 4, 2008 /

Common was speaking some common sense truth…and as easy as it is to love and respect each other…it seems like the MOST HARDEST thing to do…because we don’t love and respect the person we’ve become… :(

I AM NOT YOU.
I RESPECT YOU.

30.

Afiya

Afiya

Friday, April 4, 2008 /

We all have skeletons…but IT’S THE AMOUNT OF SKELETONS that you have…none of us are perfect but I’m looking at the way you live right now…and from what I can see I haven ‘t seen any ample amount of skeletons in Obama’s closet.

I’m waiting to hear some…other then him buying property…and I didn’t see anything wrong in that…so the lawyer was shisty…who isn’t when your in that game?

31.

reesseyy-babiie

Friday, April 4, 2008 /

I’m tight Hillary was joking about her lie >.

32.

Ali

Friday, April 4, 2008 /

lol I didn’t know Common was Christian n I even checked but no info on wiki about that. Regardless one of my fav rappers :) his new album was tight

33.

missrook

Friday, April 4, 2008 /

Hillary I don’t get the joke! YOU straight up lied!!! On several occasions….How do you try and flip your lie to be a joke……girl bye!

34.

Lady Architect

Friday, April 4, 2008 /

I LOVE COMMON AND WAS GLAD HE SPOKE THE TRUTH ABOUT REV. WRIGHT. HILLARY IS CONTINUING TO DESTROY THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. PERSONALLY I WONDER IF SHE WAS PAID OFF BY THE REPUBLICANS TO DO SO. ANYWAYS I FIND IT CRAZY THAT SHE IS ACTUALLY TRYING TO MAKE HER LIE A JOKE? SMH

35.

Shell

Friday, April 4, 2008 /

I thought he was a muslim….not that there is anything wrong with that

36.

perez

Friday, April 4, 2008 /

Obama 08

37.

NoMoSoul

Saturday, April 5, 2008 /

Cosign with #20 Concerned Black Woman. Some people are just buffoons. They want to criticize Bill Clinton and his wife as if their entire administration was about fraudulent schemes and scams. The man only received some head! Damn. U act as if he was the first president to cheat on his wife while in office, when in fact its the presidents legacy! They all did it! Were things better back then or are you one of the delusional few who think things itll be much better under McWar (McCain) the second coming of Bush.

To say that you’d rather vote McWar over Hillary is absolutely insane when this man has plans to continue the elite controlling our nation, instead of it being for and by the people. Take the lesser of two evils PEOPLE!

Wake up! if it came down to it do you really think Obama can pull the big conservative states over McCain? Do u really think republicans are gonna take it that easily? Obama is popular, but i don’t believe in the majority of white people voting for him like they claim.

They are scared out their minds over a Clinton-Obama (vice versa) ticket b/c they know it’d be too hard to beat. That’s why they want the bickering b/w the two to continue so that they’ll destroy themselves b4 the election. If these 2 can come together on a ticket then they’d have this election in the bag hands down. Obama needs Hillary’s support just like she mos def needs his.

The main goal of this election is to defeat the Republicans. All politicians are full of shit sometimes but i will take the lesser of two evils. Take what u can get until a new intellectual humanitarian political party arises in all this crap.

38.

A DAMN SHAME

Saturday, April 5, 2008 /

all i have 2 say is i AGREEDwith everything jeramiah said all he did was voice his opinions which were very true says FREEDOM OF SPEEACH right?

39.

tiana [not the blogger]

Saturday, April 5, 2008 /

shes still saying it was misspoken?
damn woman, just admit you lied?
why cant politians tell the truth once in a while, and not only that,
be STRAIGHT UP WITH IT?

i’d still vote for her over McCain

40.

Nadia

Wednesday, April 9, 2008 /

i love hilary! She’s sneaky and corrupt and its great! People thought she was gonna be different from other politicians but she’s not. She coulda done so well if she didn’t act like all the rest

41.

Keith G. Wright

Sunday, July 6, 2008 /

Wright Launches Video Support Of Hillary Clinton

http://www.prweb.com/rele...on/obama/prweb1070604.htm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=235ZkzIShIA

America doesn’t become a great nation and world leader again, without developing a culture that supports, encourages, and honors women. For now, the demise of America’s women and the imminent death of the Black woman continue its path.

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