So, here we go again trying to make Sen. Barrack Obama out to be an Anti-American Black Supremist.

This comes after the words of Obama’s pastor, Rev Jeremiah Wright became public in which he makes some very passionate yet inflammatory expressions about the state of America.

This is a speech that was made in 2003 and Wright is now retired, but still people are digging vigilantly for something to tear down Obama. Here is some of what Wright said:

“The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law and then wants us to sing ‘God Bless America.’ No, no, no, God damn America, that’s in the Bible for killing innocent people. God damn America for treating our citizens as less than human. God damn America for as long as she acts like she is God and she is supreme.”

What bothers me is not the fact that Rev. Wright said these things, but the fact that people are saying that this is racist hate speech and the fact that people are treating these words as if they are not true.

Everyone gets mad when a police officer tasers someone to death. Everyone is disgusted with the war in Iraq. Everyone hates when America forces itself and her democracy down the throats of other people. But when someone condemns America for her crimes, people act as though they are offended.

Nowhere in all of his speech does Rev. Wright say that he hates white people and nowhere does he say that he himself is not an American. This is a critique of our country not a denunciation.

In a sermon on America right after the 9/11 attacks Wright proclaimed:

“We bombed Hiroshima, we bombed Nagasaki, and we nuked far more than the thousands in New York and the Pentagon, and we never batted an eye.”

He goes on to say, “We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we are indignant because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back to our own front yards. America’s chickens are coming home to roost.” I do not see where in this sermon that Rev. Wright says that America deserved to attacked. I do not see where he says that the thousands of American lives that were lost in that tragedy were due payment for the massive atrocities that we committed in times past.

I simply see that he is saying do not act as though what has been done to us we have not done to others. The reverend says that we can only expect to be treated in the manner in which we treat others. No one came to America and took away our “weapons of mass destruction.” No one sent insurgents after insurgents into our country and said that we needed a new form of government.

Let me relate this to something we all can understand, grades. It is as if America made all F’s on its last report card and D’s on this one. Yes, there is improvement, but she still is not doing the best that she could.

Why is that we want to compare ourselves to other countries and say how much better we are in comparison? Why can’t we seek to be better by standards that we set against ourselves? Who cares what China is doing? Who cares about Britain? How can we base our improvement on their imperfect systems?

We can’t. We must look to ourselves and seek to become better and the only way to do that is to see the many flaws which we hide from the outside world.

Do not be offended just because an American is not worshiping the American flag. Who wants to worship flawed perfection?