Selected History and Economics Lessons from the Wright-TUCC Bulletins

Part of the May 5, 2008 series – “The Obamas and the TUCC Bulletins”

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Note: Some of these are repeats from previous posts, but are deserving of repetition.

Rev. Jeremiah Wright; July 17, 2005 (pictured here; opens in new window):

While you were looking the other way, Mr. Joseph C. Wilson IV, a good Republican, a man loyal to the “party,” and a man of integrity wrote an Op-Ed article for The New York Times. In his article he disputed George Bush’s administration’s claims about Sadaam Hussein’s nuclear program.

….. Because Mr. Wilson dared to tell the truth, the White House sought retribution! The Bush Administration publicly identified his wife as a CIA operative. The Bush Administration “leaked” information to identify his wife, Valerie Plane, as “an agency operative on weapons of mass destruction. In other words, they “outed” her!

Wright called for George Bush’s impeachment in that same essay.

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Rev. Jeremiah Wright; August 7, 2005 (pictured here):

….. this weekend marked the 60th anniversary of the most heinous act of terrorism since chattel slavery – the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki …..

….. most Americans have no idea as to what we did in the terrorist act committed against the Japanese people.

Hiroshima and Nagasaki were also invoked in Wright’s infamous post-9/11 “chickens come home to roost” video.

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Rev. Jeremiah Wright; November 6, 2005 (pictured here):

“Both Washington and Jefferson were owners of Africans and fathered babies by African women.”

“(Thomas Jefferson is) the man who was a pedophile and raped the 15 year-old African girl, Sally Hemmings.”

As covered in this previous post, the claims are dubious at best, scurrilous at worst. This previous post notes that Wright made his Jefferson-pedophilia claim at funeral service several weeks ago.

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Reginald Williams; November 20, 2005 — on that year’s riots in France (pictured here):

Young persons who are sick and tired of the government’s and society’s exclusive, supremacist, racist attitude toward them, are rising up and making themselves heard. It is easy to decry the riots as just troublemakers who are off on a tangent. However, when one reviews the history of how Arabs and other immigrants from North Africa have been treated since World War II, one may begin to understand the unrest a bit better.

….. It is a common occurrence for police to demand that they lower their eyes, as in the Jim Crow South, as if dark-skinned people are not even worthy to look in the eyes of white policemen who are supposed to serve and protect.

This shows us that racism is not just an American entity, but a worldwide occurrence. In fact, if names were switched, it could very well be America rather than France.

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Reginald Williams; December 17, 2006 (pictured here):

The truth of the matter is that Pat Buchanan’s ancestors did not build this country; they stole this country. It was the enslaved Africans, and Native Americans who built this country from sea to sea on their backs without the benefit of a paycheck. Moreover, they were immigrants themselves who were welcomed in, and deceived those who hosted them.

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History and economics lessons, TUCC-style, continue in the next post.