Erik Rush:

“Lest I wax tedious, there are certain truths that must be “drummed home,” as it were, for people to take sufficient notice of them.

We have already witnessed the phenomenon of far-left fringe elements having been emboldened by the election of Barack Obama to the office of president of the United States, despite the fact that his inauguration is more than a month off. This is but a foretaste of what is to come as regards the advancement of radical agendas in America, apart from anything in which our new president is directly or indirectly involved.

As I have expressed previously, a chief concern vis-à-vis race relations in the wake of Obama’s election is the validation of opportunistic, self-aggrandizing activists. These interests sought further legitimacy for themselves and their brand of race politics during the Obama campaign. One of the reasons this was possible lay with Obama’s ties to Trinity United Church and its former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright.

As the reader may recall, this issue first came to light after my column “Obamination” was published in February 2007. This initially resulted in a flurry of radio and television interviews in which I overviewed the racist and militant Black Liberation Theology espoused by Rev. Wright, and that electing as president a man who was an adherent to same would be wholly unacceptable. The premise, of course, was that someone who had deep, personal ties with Wright and who had been a member of the church for 20 years could reliably be presumed to favor the doctrines taught there.

…As the discussion turned to Black Liberation Theology and its divisive tenets, Sharpton asserted that “Black Liberation Theology is rooted in the biblical expression of liberating oppressed people.”

This was a calculated lie. Black Liberation Theology is rooted in Marxism, and its references to Exodus and biblical tradition are but convenient rationalized extrapolations for public-relations purposes. BLT remains replete with some of the most hate-filled and perverted distortions of Scripture imaginable.

The point is that, on the heels of Obama’s election, we have Wright returning to the pulpit – if only as a guest pastor – and resuming his discordant, anti-American rhetoric, and Sharpton legitimizing this racist, subversive individual.

Inasmuch as America’s awareness is shaped in a great measure by the media – evidenced by Obama’s very election – the likelihood that black activists who promote the politics of division, victimization and entitlement will gain more influence within the black community and more legitimacy among Americans at large is a dark prospect indeed.”

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Jenny Hatch