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Meet Rev. James Meeks: Another bigoted "spiritual advisor" to Obama

Posted 01 Apr 2008 in 2008 election, Barack Obama, hypocrisy, intolerance, racism


First we learned of Obama’s schmoozing with terrorists.

Next, we got a taste of Rev. Jeremiah “God Damn America” Wright’s hatred.

Now, another of Obama’s close advisers comes to light, Rev. James Meeks: an Illinois state senator who also serves as the pastor of Chicago’s 22,000 member Salem Baptist Church.

Described in a 2004 Chicago Sun Times article as someone Barack Obama regularly seeks out for “spiritual counsel”, James Meeks, who will serve as an Obama delegate at the 2008 Democratic convention in Denver, is a long-time political ally to the democratic frontrunner.

When Obama ran for the U.S. Senate in 2003, he frequently campaigned at Salem Baptist Church while Rev. Meeks appeared in television ads supporting the Illinois senator’s campaign…

Since that time, not only has Meeks himself served on Obama’s exploratory committee for the presidency and been listed on the Obama’s campaign website as one of the senator’s ‘influential black supporters’, but his church choir was called on to raise their voices in praise at a rally the night Obama announced his run for the White House back in 2007.

Interestingly, the Chicago Sun Times has also reported that both Meeks and Obama share a history of substantial campaign contributions from indicted real estate magnate Tony Rezko.

So now we’ve got another hateful bigot who spews divisive venom like this from the pulpit:

“We don’t have slave masters. We got mayors. But they still the same white people who are presiding over systems where black people are not able, or to be educated.”

“You got some preachers that are house niggers. You got some elected officials that are house niggers. And rather than them trying to break this up, they gonna fight you to protect this white man.”

This is the kind of support and counsel he continually seeks from within the “black community” while hypocritically making eloquent speeches about healing racial divisions in America. It’s unclear whether Obama secretly embraces the racism of “black liberation” theology or seeks the power of black churches simply for his own political aggrandizement. Either way, I find it despicable.

Will the press give Barack Obama yet another pass for another close associate with such malignant and incendiary views? Will Obama’s supporters turn a blind eye yet again to his poor judgment of character and the possibility that the long-term embrace of such acrimony reveals his true attitude? The old saying goes, “A man is known by the company he keeps.” What does Obama’s choice of associates tell us about him?

Posted by FullMetalPatriot
12th gen. American, Constitutionalist, Harley-riding Texan, gun owner & NRA member, blogger, illustrator, Florida Gator alumnus. #TCOT

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