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Prometheus 6

All respect and no restraint

Eric Rush demonstrates the shallowness of his thoughts

Eric Kane Rush does the standard substitution of the word "Black" for "White" thing with Trinity United Church of Christ's statement of principles, thereby demonstrating the falsehood of the technique. I don't have to quote the output; instead, I'd like to offer a more honest substitution.

  1. Commitment to God
  2. Commitment to the our Community
  3. Commitment to the our Family
  4. Dedication to the Pursuit of Education
  5. Dedication to the Pursuit of Excellence
  6. Adherence to the our Work Ethic
  7. Commitment to Self-Discipline and Self-Respect
  8. Disavowal of the Pursuit of "Middleclassness"
  9. Pledge to make the fruits of all developing and acquired skills available to the our Community
  10. Pledge to Allocate Regularly, a Portion of Personal Resources for Strengthening and Supporting our Institutions
  11. Pledge allegiance to all our leadership who espouse and embrace the our Value System
  12. Personal commitment to embracement of the our Value System.

That IS the platform every presidential candidate is running on. Each and every one...except the middle class thing. On the other hand, seems Bushista policies disavow the middle class so even that one should be okay.

Kane also bitches about their 10-point vision.

Trinity United Church of Christ's congregation also claims to hold to a "10-point Vision" which is similarly afrocentric, or if you will, separatist.

I won't.

  1. A congregation committed to ADORATION.
  2. A congregation preaching SALVATION.
  3. A congregation actively seeking RECONCILIATION.
  4. A congregation with a non-negotiable COMMITMENT TO AFRICA.
  5. A congregation committed to BIBLICAL EDUCATION.
  6. A congregation committed to CULTURAL EDUCATION.
  7. A congregation committed to the HISTORICAL EDUCATION OF AFRICAN PEOPLE IN DIASPORA.
  8. A congregation committed to LIBERATION.
  9. A congregation committed to RESTORATION.
  10. A congregation working towards ECONOMIC PARITY.

I can think of several white televangelists that have been taking donations for wells in Africa and such that equating a commitment to Africa with separatism is just stupid.

But that's the problem with substituting word manipulation for thought. No matter how complex your reasoning you remain too shallow to be useful.

Infants Looking For Milk in All the Wrong Places

Childish garbage. Reactionary claptrap. Integrationists need to take that silly shit to the military and begin an active, rational discourse about the common humanity and decency of all people and the importance of peace. Perhaps they could get over to Camp Pendleton and convince the Corps to stop training killers and deal with folks as individuals. I doubt that they'll get much of a hearing. They could always pitch it in the Kenesset. Maybe the Chinese are ready for this talk. In any case, when they grow up they can sit at the table with grown folks...until then, those dumb bastards had best to eat their broccoli.

Who's Eric Kane?

Is that your inner-Susan Lucci fighting to get out??

they're just mad that

Trinity UCC knows who they are and where they're going. And, they're not asking permission.

Forces on the right are

Forces on the right are trying to taint institutions that Obama has been affiliated with, whether it was the "radical" Muslim school he attended as a child or his present place of worship.  What will they try to dig up next?   Campus radicalism?   

Is that your inner-Susan


Is that your inner-Susan Lucci fighting to get out??

Whut?

Who's Eric Kane?

Some dick... 

Somebody forgot...

Somebody forgot to tell Eric Kane that unless he can figure out a way to substitute blacks as the slave-masters of whites and turn American history on its head that there is no such *Just Add White* pancake or any other kind of mix to make such an abstract, decontextualized swap without calling his own "affiliation" -- an initimate, and, apparently, a long term relationship with utter stupidity -- into question.

Somebody also forgot to ask Eric Kane to produce actual evidence to prove how TUCC tenets equate to "separatism."  At least he resurrected one boogey man his white counterparts tend to overlook:  socialism.  Boo!

I am a bit puzzled though.  Kane wanted to quibble over what Vallmer Jordan's called the "value system imposed by Europeans."  In the process, instead of attacking what he called "blatantly afrocentric" (that's a bad thing, just work with him) and evidence (with no evidence or proof, mind you) of some idea or suggestion that "Africa's descendants in America" are the chosen "superior" group, all Kane did was make a backhanded argument that says Europe/America's Judeo-Christian tradition is not only "superior" but the value system Africa's descendants should "return" to:

Gravitation toward an Africanized "year-round Kwanzaa"-based pseudo-Christianity seems less of a solution than returning to the moral and social conservatism Blacks held prior to the aforementioned socialists gaining their stranglehold in the black community.

So is Obama seeking to be our first black president, or our first stealth black nationalist president? ...He belongs to a church which is blatantly afrocentric and even suggests the supremacy of Africa's descendants in America.

In other words, there's no solution in promoting values that aren't squarely founded within a European value system and, of course, no sense in even trying to return to or adhere to a value system centered around ideas drawn from Africa's descendants African culture or ideas Africa's descendants find useful and meaningful. 

Africanized is a bad thing too.  Like I said, just work with him.  He needs your help.

"A value system imposed by whites..." Is Jordan speaking of the value system that kept families together and promoted morality, industry and integrity, or the one imposed by liberal dependency pimps since the Civil Rights Movement?

See?  I told you he needs your help.  Got any glasses?  Kane just can't see or read.

From The Chicago Tribune, February 06, 2007, Column: Against Middleclassness? by Rich Lowry. "Vallmer Jordan, a church member who helped draft the precepts, said they were designed to empower the black community and counter a value system imposed by whites. 'The big question mark was racism,' he said. 'Black disempowerment was an integral part of that historical value system. It became increasingly apparent to me that we black people had not developed our own value system . . . to help us overcome all we knew we had to battle.'"

Maybe ya'll can help him make more of those strawmen.  It's obvious Jordan wasn't talking about the "value system that kept families together and promoted morality, industry and integrity."  That would be so not what Jordan referenced:  (white) America's racism and its black disempowerment by-product. 

 

Maybe ya'll can help him


Maybe ya'll can help him make more of those strawmen.

I'll pass. 

Psychological Terrorism

Eric Rush is Patty Hearst with a few more shades of melanin. He can't see the SLA in his head, but I can see the dazed, traumatized look in his photo and hear the incoherent ramblings in his disconnected essay. My recommendation, of course, is therapy.

Eric Kane or Eric Rush

Inner susan lucci? tv "character" erica kane? you tell me.

See now...I only get

See now...I only get references to CBS soap operas...

LATER: Duh. STILL didn't get it until I reloaded the page from the top instead of jumping directly to the new comments.

You STILL

slay me. hilarious.

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