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Tue, 10-14-2008 - 11:22pm
How is saying that AIDS was created (by oppressive white people) as a scourge against African Americans not hate speech?
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Tue, 10-14-2008 - 11:50pm
I haven't heard that one so I can't say. I know it has been a fairly commonly talked about conspiracy theory that AIDS was developed as a germ warfare tool. Given the US government's history of purposely infecting blacks with syphilis and not giving them the known antibiotic cure so they could study the effects of the disease, I can see why it's not such a far-fetched idea. I'd worry about him spreading that rumor to his church without further evidence of its truth but a lot of things people say in church about who can go to heaven and who can't are worrisome to me.
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Registered: 02-24-2008
Wed, 10-15-2008 - 1:09am
I'm confused what that article is supposed to show - they don't provide the context or even the exact wording used by Wright relative to his comments on AIDS. It speculates on what exactly he was talking about when he made a comment on AIDS but that's it. I'm not willing to condemn Wright as a nutball or a hateful person without trying to understand what he was referring to and why.
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Registered: 07-16-2008
Wed, 10-15-2008 - 1:16am

Sorry, you'd just said you'd never heard of it, so I googled it real fast and gave you the first link that didn't seem biased.


Here's Rev Wright explaining it at a live conference:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WAPmMYvvWs


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Registered: 02-24-2008
Wed, 10-15-2008 - 11:00am
Thanks for that!
So, even if I don't agree, I can see why Wright thinks that the US government is capable of creating a germ warfare instrument and giving it to some subset of the population (whether on purpose or by accident). As I mentioned in a previous post and as Wright mentions, the Tuskegee experiments are a stain on our history with regards to this exact issue - it's happened before. Weapons development is purposefully secretive (think of the Manhattan Project and the testing of radiation effects done on soldiers and native islander populations) and our government has a history of keeping secrets or covering up the things they don't want the public to know (as do all governments I think). The Bush administration has been particularly egregious about skewing or covering up inconvenient information. So, while I may not believe it, I can see why Wright might. I do think it's dangerous to say it as truth in a sermon but do not consider it crazy or hateful.
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Wed, 10-15-2008 - 1:29pm

I wonder how many parishioners just roll their eyes when he says something like that?

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